Yankee Doodle

how to play Yankee doodle on solo guitar, left-hand, finger-style illustration. This technique is actually simpler than you might think! It involves alternating the thumb and first finger on adjacent strings and like any technique, the way to get it under your hand is verrrrrrry slooooooowly

The tune of “Yankee Doodle” is thought to be much older than the lyrics, being well known across western Europe, including England, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain. The melody of the song may have originated from an Irish tune “All the way to Galway”, in which the second strain is identical to Yankee Doodle. There are rumors that the earliest words of “Yankee Doodle” came from a Middle Dutch harvest song which is thought to have followed the same tune, supposedly dating back as far as 15th-century Holland. It supposedly contained mostly nonsense words in English and Dutch: “Yanker, didel, doodle down, Diddle, dudel, lanther, Yanke viver, voover vown, Botermilk und tanther.Farm laborers in Holland were paid “as much buttermilk (Botermelk) as they could drink, and a tenth (tanther) of the grain”.

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