In this post containing a short video, you’ll learn how to play the old gospel tune Down To The River To Pray on your 3-string cigar box guitar.
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In this post containing a short video, you’ll learn how to play the old gospel tune Down To The River To Pray on your 3-string cigar box guitar.
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This free One-String Diatonic Canjo tab is for Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. If you haven’t used this type of tablature before, each number indicates a fret on the fretboard of your instrument, as shown in the diagram above.
You may also wish to listen to the song while learning it, if you don’t know the tune too well.
2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 I've heard there was a secret chord 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 That David played, and it pleased the Lord 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 But you don't really care for mu-sic, do you? 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 7 It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth 4 8 8 5 8 8 9 The minor fall, the major lift 8 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 9 9 8 The baffled king compo-sing Hal-le-lu---jah 2 4 5 5 5 4 2 2 Hal-le-lu-jah, Hal-le-lu-jah, 2 4 5 5 5 4 2 3 2 1 2 1 0 Hal-le-lu-jah, Hal-le-lu-------------jah 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 Your faith was strong but you needed proof 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 You saw her bathing on the roof 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 Her beauty and the moonlight over--threw you 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 7 She tied you to a kitchen chair 4 8 8 8 5 8 8 9 She broke your throne, she cut your hair 8 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 9 9 8 8 And from your lips she drew the Hal-le-lu---jah 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 Maybe I have been here be-fore 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 I know this room, I've walked this floor 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 I used to live alone before I knew you 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 7 I've seen your flag on the marble arch 8 8 8 5 8 8 9 Love is not a victory march 8 8 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 9 9 8 8 It's a cold and it's a broken Hal-le-lu---jah
Iko Iko was first released in 1953 by Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters, under the title “Jock-A-Mo”. It wasn’t until 1965, when the Dixie Cups covered it as “Iko Iko” that it made the charts.
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In this video, Ben “C. B. Gitty” Baker demonstrates how easy it is to play the popular song “Wagon Wheel” on an American Canjo Company one-string canjo.
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