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Oh! Susanna: guitar chords and tab for beginners

United States, 1848

Oh! Susanna

by Stephen Foster

Tempo
112beats per minute
Count
4beats in each bar
Key
C majorthe home note
Level
1 of 3easiest
Bar 1:1 of 9Tap play to turn sound on
Key C major
0
Higher or lower, to match a voice.
Tempo112beats per minute right now

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.

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Where your fingers go● press here · the number is which finger
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Hold this chord

C×321EADGBe

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 Oh! Susanna

2 chords, all open shapes: C, G7. 4 beats in each bar, 112 beats per minute, in C major.

About the song

Stephen Foster’s first hit, from 1848, and one of the most recorded American songs. The verse needs just two chords, C and G7, and the tune runs up and down five notes like a scale exercise that happens to be a song.

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