How To Play the Star Wars Theme On Guitar

Some songs will live forever. Some songs even lived “long ago in a galaxy far, far away“. Such is the case with the Star Wars theme! I recently had a private lesson request on how to play the melody to this classic movie theme so here is a quick video and the tab. I have included the notes along with the tab so even piano and other instrumentalists who stop by GuitarTeacher.com can learn it as well.

To keep this  simple, I transposed the song from its original key of Bb to the more friendly key of G. If you want to play along with the movie as it starts, simply move every note up a minor third (three frets). You could also move the entire melody up an octave for true authenticity. Doing so is a good reading exercise as the guitar sounds an octave lower than written (you knew that, right?). Watch the timing as this song switches often from straight eighth notes to eighth note triplets.

Here is a quick video:

And the sheet music:

Star Wars Theme

GuitarTeacher.com private lessons members can get a PDF of this for offline study.