American Pie
by Don McLean
🎤 Pop
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
The gentle strummed intro from Don McLean's 1971 epic about the day the music died. The G-Am-C progression with simple arpeggios builds into one of the most famous opening verses in music.
e|--3---------3---------0---------0-----------|
B|----0---------0---------1---------1---------|
G|------0---------0---------2---------2-------|
D|--------0---------0---------2---------2----|
A|--2---------2---------0---------0----------|
E|--3---------3---------------------------------|
e|--0---------0---------0---------0-----------|
B|----1---------1---------1---------1---------|
G|------0---------0---------0---------0-------|
D|--------2---------2---------2---------2----|
A|--3---------3---------3---------3----------|
E|--------------------------------------------|