Home on the Range
Free Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music
Home on the Range free guitar tabs will open up a new world of chords to your student.
Have you been stuck on the "three main chords?" Branch out to some secondary and "borrowed" chords, major and minor!
First, a look at the "basic" Home On the Range" chord progression:
This is a SIMPLE arrangement, with the I, IV, and V chords. Just G, C, and D7.
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The primary chords in the key of G are easy for a beginner (they can even use "baby" chords such as are found on this page, Guitar Chords Chart for Beginners if necessary).
Not only that, but the melody is not too hard to figure out with the guitar tabs. The only tricky element is that finger 4; nobody is fond of it, but using it is necessary to nip that "curled pinky finger" habit in the bud!
Okay, now we're going to look at an arrangement that uses SECONDARY chords. These are chords other than the I, IV, and V (1, 4, & 5).
These chords could be the ii, iii, or vi chords (2, 3, or 6 chords), or they could be borrowed from another key entirely.
Please scroll down the page for the free downloadable printable PDFs.
Am I speaking a foreign language to you? If so, please look at the page "Guitar Song Chords" to gain a feeling for the chord "families" - which chords naturally tend to go together.
Wow. Just look at all the chords used. This arrangement is VERY BEAUTIFUL. Chords G, G7, C, Cm, A7, D, D7, B, and Em.
However, to my amazement, a couple of my students COMPLAINED that the chords were really hard.
Well, isn't that the point of guitar lessons? To learn new things?
I didn't feel sorry for them.
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Notice that I have altered the melody just a bit in measure 21, in the second arrangement.
This "A" note in the melody also works just fine in the first arrangement, but it seems to suit the melancholy flavor of the B chord nicely, as it moves into the E minor chord.
For your students who persevere with this song, I suggest using it as finger-picking practice. Here's what I like:
Pinch Thumb & Middle finger, then Index, Ring, Index, Middle, Index. T&M, I, R, I, M, I. A total of 6 beats.
This pattern seems to suit the sentimentality of this sweet old song very well!
The guitar download links:
Download Home On the Range free guitar tabs, easy chords
Download Home On the Range with fancy secondary chords
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Matt:
THIS SITE IS AMAZING!!
I've been teaching guitar for about 5 years now, and I've only just found your website! (I could really have used it 5 years ago) :-)
I teach at primary schools every week day for about 4 hours, so the beginner tabs you have are ideal. Thank you so much for your hard work getting these on the web, you have made many children very happy!!
Cheryl:
AMAZING site!
Helps me a lot as a music teacher too. I'm a violin and piano teacher, and I think this is an incredible site!
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Hi, I'm Dana! (Say that like "Anna".) I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.
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