Give Me Your Hand
Slightly Easier Variation of Classic Tag
- Key
- G Major
- Style
- Barbershop
Sheet music
Four-part mixer
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Credits & notes
Arranged by
Lou Perry
Learning tracks
Al Landry
Lyrics
Give me your hand to hold in mine, and I will give you my heart (my heart).
Source notes
One of the best tags ever written, because it's fairly easy to teach and sing, even though it's long (the bari is the only difficult part). This version has Bass/Bari starting in unison, simplifying the bass part, and creating a cascading spread at the beginning. (I also like to include the optional bari octave jump on "mine".) From Bob Landrys Little Black Book of Tags. Notated in "number system" format, with X=Do and 2, 3, 4, etc denoting position in the major scale. An underline pushes the note up a 1/2, no flats. A dash indicates a held note. A slash indicates direction of the next note when further than 1/2 octave. No sight-reading necessary.