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Für Elise: guitar chords and tab for beginners
Germany, 1810
Für Elise
by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Tempo
- 120beats per minute
- Count
- 3beats in each bar
- Key
- A minorthe home note
- Level
- 1 of 3easiest
Level 1. Strum one chord per beat. Start here.
Chord names above, strum arrows below. Down arrow = strum down toward the floor, up arrow = back up.
Hold this chord
Numbers are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Space bar plays and pauses. Left and right arrows jump a bar.
The chords
The chords in Für Elise
2 chords, all open shapes: Am, E. 3 beats in each bar, 120 beats per minute, in A minor.
About the song
Beethoven wrote this little piano piece in 1810 and it was not published until forty years after he died. The opening two-note wobble is known everywhere. Played an octave down it fits the first four frets, and the left hand only ever needs two fingers at a time.
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