Happy birthday is a tune that I'm sure everybody knows. So it should be fairly easy for you to pick it up. Let's talk through it before playing it. Once again, I've written the chords above the melody for those who'd like to strum along. We have no key signature, which means that we're in the key of C, and we'll be using the C major scale to play the melody. Tom's signature is three, four, and the tempo is 95 beats per minute.

Remember that when you set the tempo on your metronome, you're also going to want to select a meter of three four, instead of four four. As an old Lang zine, we have a leading bar with the melody starting on the last beat of the bar. The subdivision of this beat is a dotted eighth note followed by a 16th. Note. As you can see, this phrasing of a dotted eighth note followed by a 16th note is repeated every other bar Next, let's check out the lowest and highest notes of the melody to get an idea of the boundaries we'll be playing with them. The lowest note is the note G on the stave, which as you know well by the stage is played on the open G string.

The highest note of the song is the note G on the space above the stage. This is played on the third fret of your high E string. So the melody of the song has a range of an octave between the lower and higher g notes. Without further ado, let's have a listen to Happy Birthday in the key of C. Next, you're going to want to download the PDF for Happy birthday. And learn how to play it on your fretboard. Remember the four steps to learning a new melody that we discussed for all length zone and you shouldn't have any problems at all.