The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army easy guitar tab
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Quick answer
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army is available as a readable guitar tab with tuning, chord, tempo, and practice notes. Use the static tab for reference and the interactive player for looping and timing.
- Tuning: eBGDAE
- Focus: single-note tab practice
- Tempo: 124 BPM
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army guitar tab
e|----------------------------- B|----------------------------- G|----------------------------- D|----------------------------- A|-7--7--10--7--5--3--2-------- E|-----------------------------
Practice notes
Start slower than the recording. Pick one short phrase, loop it cleanly, then connect the next phrase. If the frets feel too far apart, play only the first two notes until your hand relaxes.
If the tab uses slides, hammer-ons, or higher frets, learn the plain note order first. Add the technique after the notes are automatic.
How to read this tab
String lines
The letter at the left tells you which string the notes live on. Read the tab from left to right.
Fret numbers
A number tells you which fret to press. A 0 means play the open string.
Timing
The spacing gives a rough clue, but your ear and the player are better for rhythm.
How slowly to start
The full speed here is about 124 BPM, but do not start there. Set a metronome to roughly 75 BPM — around 60% — and only move up in steps of five once you can play it three times in a row without a mistake. Speed you cannot control is not speed, it is noise.
When one part keeps going wrong
Do not restart The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army from the top every time you fumble. Loop only the two beats that break, ten times, then put them back into the phrase. Restarting from the beginning mostly rehearses the part you can already play, which is why the hard bit never improves.
Making it stick
Five minutes a day beats forty minutes on a Sunday. A tab like this is muscle memory, and muscle memory is built by frequency, not duration. Play it once at the start of every practice session as a warm-up and it will be automatic within a couple of weeks.