How to Read Ukulele Tabs for "Amazing Grace" by 21 Songs in 6 Days: Lear...

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Here's a new tutorial on how to play the melody to Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace is a beautiful sacred song that's also suitable for sing-a-longs - because almost everyone knows the words : )  We also have a lesson on how to sing and strum Amazing Grace at https://youtu.be/lGx3lriWGkE.



Amazing Grace is a Christian hymn published in 1779 by John Newton (1725–1807).  Newton learned his trade sailing with his father from 1736 to 1742. He then enlisted as a crew member on a merchant vessel. A year later he was forced to serve in the British Royal Navy, a common practice at the time. He tried to escape the Navy but was caught and flogged 96 times in front of the ship’s crew of 350.  Eventually he was able to transfer to another ship, but the  crew did not like him. They left him in West Africa with a Amos Clowe, a slave dealer. Clowe gave Newton to the African Princess Peye who abused and mistreated Newton alongside her other slaves.



In 1748 a sea captain sent by his father rescued him. One night on his voyage home to England he awoke to find the ship filling with water during a violent storm. Just as he called out to God for mercy the cargo shifted enough to stop the leak,  and he was saved from drowning.   He later wrote that his spiritual conversion began at this moment.  As he grew more committed to his religious faith he came to believe that the slave trade was wrong.  He became a prominent abolitionist and evangelical religious leader and was influential in Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1807.



Amazing Grace is in 3/4 time so the feel, or swing, of the song is  different from a song in 4/4 or Common time. When you are first learning the song, just use three downstrokes per chord for the 3  beats in each measure. When you know the song better, the down, down-up, down strumming pattern will make more sense. Here is a lesson video that will help to show and explain the strumming pattern and chords.



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