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Ode to Joy

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Portrait of Beethoven, composer of the Ninth Symphony; public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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The choral finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1824), setting Schiller's poem An die Freude.

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Numbers are frets and 0 is an open string. Standard tuning (E A D G B E). Each group of six lines is one system; read left to right, one column at a time. This is a multi-section arrangement of the public-domain melody.

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[Theme]
e|0---0---1---3---|3---1---0-------|----------------|0---------------|
B|----------------|------------3---|1---1---3-------|--------3---3---|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Theme repeated]
e|0---0---1---3---|3---1---0-------|----------------|0---------------|
B|----------------|------------3---|1---1---3-------|--------3---1---|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Bridge]
e|----0-------0---|----0---1---0---|----0---1---0---|----------------|
B|3-------3---1---|3-----------3---|3-----------3---|1---3-----------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|------------0---|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Final phrase]
e|0---0---1---3---|3---1---0-------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|------------3---|1---1---3-------|3---1---1-------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|