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Minuet in G

Christian Petzold (long credited to J. S. Bach) · guitar tab

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One of the best-loved easy pieces for guitar: a graceful little dance in G major with a singing melody over a simple bass, from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Long credited to Bach, it is now known to be by Christian Petzold. Both halves are played twice, as marked, about two minutes. A good first piece to follow in the tab.

  • Standard tuning
  • 3/4
  • 100 BPM
  • With both repeats
  • Chord labels

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From the Mutopia Project's public-domain guitar edition, entered by Emre Akbas; the bass is repeated with the melody. Long credited to J. S. Bach (BWV Anh. 114), now attributed to Christian Petzold.

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