Amazing Grace

This is an online fiddle lesson for the tune "Amazing Grace."

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Genre: Gospel
Skill Level: Beginner
Key of C and G

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NOTE: If multiple videos and MP3s are loading at once, this page will get slow! I recommend that you refresh the page each time you open a new video or MP3. Video #1: Here is a video of me performing the fiddle tune "Amazing Grace." I play through the 'C' tablature (two stanzas), then sing the first stanza in the key of C. The song then modulates to the key of 'G.' I then play through the 'G' tablature (two stanzas), then the 'G with ornamentation' tablature. All total, I play three stanzas in 'C' and three stanzas in 'G.'

"Amazing Grace" is a beautiful Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725–1807), published in 1779. With the message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world. Newton wrote the words from personal experience. Newton was nurtured by a Christian mother who taught him the Bible at an early age, but he was raised in his father's image after she died of tuberculosis when Newton was 7. At age 11, Newton went on his first of six sea-voyages with the merchant navy captain, and his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (forced into service involuntarily) into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his conversion to Christianity. (wikipedia.org)

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound 
that saved a wretch like me! 
I once was lost, but now am found; 
was blind, but now I see. 

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, 
and grace my fears relieved; 
how precious did that grace appear 
the hour I first believed. 

Through many dangers, toils, and snares, 
I have already come; 
'tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, 
and grace will lead me home. 

The Lord has promised good to me, 
his word my hope secures; 
he will my shield and portion be, 
as long as life endures. 

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, 
and mortal life shall cease, 
I shall possess, within the veil, 
a life of joy and peace. 

When we've been there ten thousand years, 
bright shining as the sun, 
we've no less days to sing God's praise 
than when we first begun.