- Rangeoctave
- Notes16, 6 different
- ScalePentatonic
- Length hereabout 17 s
About Amazing Grace
The words are John Newton’s, written in England in the 1770s; the tune they are sung to is an American folk melody called “New Britain”, joined to them by William Walker in his shape-note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1835.
The melody is pentatonic — five notes, no fourth and no seventh — which is why it sits so easily on bagpipes, on a harmonica and on any instrument tuned to a five-note scale. The tab here is the first half of the verse.
Play Amazing Grace on your instrument
25 of the 27 playable instruments here have every note it needs. 25 play it where the library writes it; the rest move it to another key or octave, and each page says which. Every page has the instrument itself, with the song loaded, above the notes.
- Kalimba tabs
- Piano letter notes
- Mbira tabs
- Guzheng tabs
- Oud notes
- Violin notes
- Cello notes
- Erhu notes
- Dulcimer tab
- Xylophone letter notes
- Marimba letter notes
- Glockenspiel letter notes
- Steel Drum letter notes
- Harmonica tabs
- Trumpet notes
- Clarinet notes
- Saxophone notes
- Flute notes
- Recorder notes
- Tuba notes
- Euphonium notes
- Trombone notes
- Accordion letter notes
- Harp letter notes
- Lyre tabs
Instruments that cannot play it
- Handpan — it would need G3, which it does not have in any size or key here.
- Ocarina — it would need G5, which it does not have in any size or key here.
Amazing Grace letter notes
This is the first half of the verse. Written in C major, from G4 to G5, with each note’s number in the scale under it — the form that transfers to any instrument. A dash holds a note another beat, an underline is half a beat, and each line is one phrase.
Amazing Grace — letter notes · tonalics.com
Where these notes come from
Traditional; "New Britain" melody, published 1835. Public domain. The first half of the verse.
No lyrics are printed on this page or any other here: these pages are about a melody and how to play it.