How to play Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

This tab has 49 notes, across the low E, A, D and G strings, open strings up to fret 3, at 63 BPM. Read it below, then play it with Lark and every note gets scored.

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63BPM at full speed
49notes
0 to 3fret range
Intermediatelevel

The tab

Each line is a string: high e on top, low E at the bottom. The number is the fret to press, and 0 means play the string open. Read left to right, one note at a time. The small numbers count the notes.

Wish You Were Here tab, 49 notes. The same tab is written out note by note in the list after it.
Read it note by note
  1. G2 low E string, fret 3
  2. A2 open A string
  3. B2 A string, fret 2
  4. D3 open D string
  5. E3 D string, fret 2
  6. B2 A string, fret 2
  7. E3 D string, fret 2
  8. G3 open G string
  9. E3 D string, fret 2
  10. D3 open D string
  11. G2 low E string, fret 3
  12. G2 low E string, fret 3
  13. A2 open A string
  14. B2 A string, fret 2
  15. D3 open D string
  16. E3 D string, fret 2
  17. B2 A string, fret 2
  18. E3 D string, fret 2
  19. G3 open G string
  20. E3 D string, fret 2
  21. D3 open D string
  22. G2 low E string, fret 3
  23. G2 low E string, fret 3
  24. A2 open A string
  25. B2 A string, fret 2
  26. D3 open D string
  27. E3 D string, fret 2
  28. B2 A string, fret 2
  29. E3 D string, fret 2
  30. D3 open D string
  31. B2 A string, fret 2
  32. A2 open A string
  33. A2 open A string
  34. G2 low E string, fret 3
  35. A2 open A string
  36. B2 A string, fret 2
  37. D3 open D string
  38. E3 D string, fret 2
  39. B2 A string, fret 2
  40. E3 D string, fret 2
  41. D3 open D string
  42. B2 A string, fret 2
  43. A2 open A string
  44. A2 open A string
  45. A2 open A string
  46. B2 A string, fret 2
  47. D3 open D string
  48. D3 open D string
  49. G2 low E string, fret 3
Plain text tab
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------0--------------------|
D|----------0--2-----2-----2--0--------------|
A|----0--2--------2--------------------0--2--|
E|-3-----------------------------3--3--------|

e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------|
G|-------------0-----------------------------|
D|-0--2-----2-----2--0--------------0--2-----|
A|-------2--------------------0--2--------2--|
E|----------------------3--3-----------------|

e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------|
D|-2--0--------------------0--2-----2--0-----|
A|-------2--0--0-----0--2--------2--------2--|
E|----------------3--------------------------|

e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|----------------------|
D|-------------0--0-----|
A|-0--0--0--2-----------|
E|-------------------3--|

Where it sits on the neck

Green rings are every place this tab uses. The solid one is played most: B2, A string, fret 2, 11 times.

Strings
Low E, A, D and Gfour strings
Frets
0 to 30 is an open string
Lowest note
G2low E string, fret 3
Highest note
G3open G string
Open strings
21of 49 notes
Tempo
63 BPM32 BPM at half speed

How to practice it

Practice mode in Lark slows the song down and loops the part you keep missing, while it listens to every note.

  1. Start slow

    Practice mode plays the click at 0.5x (32 BPM), 0.75x (47 BPM) or 1x (63 BPM). Stay at half speed until you stop missing, then step up.

  2. Loop the hard part

    Set a loop around any stretch of notes and it repeats until you have it. A good first loop: notes 8 to 11, the busiest stretch in this tab (frets 0, 2, 0, 3 across the low E, D and G strings).

  3. Play it and watch the score

    Lark listens through your mic. Every note turns green when you hit it and red when you miss, your accuracy updates as you go, and you see if you came in on the beat, late or slow.

  4. Read the coach's note

    When the song ends, the AI coach reads your run and gives you one specific thing to fix before the next one.

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