Harry Potter – Hedwig’s Theme (Tab)


Harry Potter – Hedwigs Theme (Tab)

I’ve done a whole load of tabs of John Williams tunes (Star Wars, Cantina Band, Olympic Fanfare, Indiana Jones). Yet I wouldn’t be able to pick him out of a line up and I regularly get him mixed up with the guitarist of the same name.

This arrangement does miss out a lot of the original. If you can recreate all the swirling strings, you’re a way better player than me. But I have included the two main sections of the piece. The first is a slow waltz and the second a rapid 4/4. The other arrangements I’ve seen miss out the second part – not sure why since it’s much more fun to play. And it’s fairly straight forward – mostly just moving the minor chord shape up and down. The tricky part is the speed so start slowly until you’ve got it under your fingers then build up speed. To give it a bit of variation, I play the first half of this section strumming with my thumb and the second half with my fingers (all down strums in both cases).

6 Comments

  1. vatsal November 18th, 2009 11:00 pm

    wow, yet another awesome tab… Like a lot of them, it’s an intimidating one. But seriously, keep it up.

  2. Mcnilly November 20th, 2009 7:36 pm

    Awesome Tab :) seriously nice arrangement, especially the second part sounds lovely on the Uke

  3. Woodshed November 21st, 2009 11:35 am

    vatsal: Thanks very much.

    Mcnilly: And the second part is very fun to play.

  4. villa February 1st, 2010 4:37 am

    wow this is not as hard as it sounds. really great tab. thank you so much

  5. anonynomnom March 17th, 2010 12:45 am

    Wow, I was wondering about what you were talking about when you said the second part is fun, but now I know!

    Lovely tab by the way woodshed!

  6. Woodshed March 18th, 2010 9:48 pm

    anonynomnom: Thanks very much.

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