Follow these links to go to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 of this lesson.

Keeping on with our “Auld Lang Syne” tutorial, we’re going to be looking at the next eight bars in this lesson. Up to this point, we’ve been breaking things up into two-bar chunks, but we’re going to be looking at four bars at a time, now. I’ve got the next eight bars for you here.

In these next eight bars, the chords are pretty much exactly the same as they were in the first half of the song that you’ve already learned. The fingerings on your picking hand are a bit different, though.

Something I really recommend for this portion of this song is to go over and download the song TAB if you haven’t done so already. When the fingerings get a bit more detailed, having something to look at on paper makes a huge, huge difference! It’ll certainly make things much easier for you, so download it, take a look at it, and then come back to this lesson so I can walk you through it.

For bars 9-12, the chords and fingerings are the exact same as they were in the first part of the song, so nothing new you need to learn there. For bars 13-16, there is a slight change in the F chord you’re playing. Mainly, you need to make sure not to barre that first finger!

Something a little fun here – in the last bar, you’re going to slide into the 17th bar with your little finger. It just serves as that little anacrusis, or pickup note, that we had at the very beginning of the song.

TAB and Notes

Download the TAB for Auld Lang Syne here.