If you only ever learn to play one song on you 3-string cigar box guitar, it might as well be this one…
Here’s the tablature…
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Category: Rock & Pop
Somewhere Over the Rainbow – 3-string Open G GDG – Tablature for Cigar Box Guitars
Somewhere Over the Rainbow is one of the most beautiful and best known American songs. It was made famous by Judy Garland singing it in the film The Wizard of Oz, as has been covered many times since. First published in 1939, the music was composed by Harold Arlen and the words were written by E. Y. Harburg.
It is usually played slowly and plaintively (the way Judy Garland sang it), but people have also done it faster over the years (Glenn does it both ways in the video below). More info about the history of the song can be found in the Wiki article here.
This version of it has been arranged and tabbed by Glenn Watt. Glenn provides two versions of the tablature, a simpler “melody only” version and then the full version with melody and chord accompaniment.
You can view the printable tablature sheets by clicking the images below. You can also watch the video below where Glenn shows you how he plays the song, starting with a slower version and then speeding up into a more jazzy version on his 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to Open G “GDG”.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Tablature for 3-string Cigar Box Guitar
The tablature in the PDF link below will show you exactly how to play the melody and chords for the classic song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow“, made famous by Judy Garland in the movie “The Wizard of Oz”. This song was written in 1939 and has been recorded by many artists over the years, and now you can play it too! This tablature is arranged for 3-string Open G “GDG” tuning.
Click on the image above to download the printable PDF document.
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If you need some help with this style of tablature, here’s a video where Glenn Watt shows you how to read it.
Summer of 69 – Video and TAB lesson
Glenn Watt shows you how to play Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69” on cigar box guitar using his one finger technique. He has also handwritten the song out in TAB format (posted below the video).
