Five Little Ducks – Guitar Chords, Tabs, Sheet Music for Guitar, Printable PDF

Five Little Ducks - Guitar Chords, Tabs, Sheet Music for Guitar, Printable PDF

“Five Little Ducks (Went Swimming One Day)” is a popular children’s counting song. It can serve in helping kids learn to count down from five to zero. It also introduces the concept of subtraction to them, as each little duck swims away. Similar songs are “Ten in the Bed”, “Ten Green Bottles” and “Five Little Monkeys”.

Canadian folk singer Raffi released it as a single in 1999. In Denise Fleming’s 2016 picture book 5 Little Ducks there is a reimagined version of the song.

On this page you can find Guitar Chords and Tabs followed by an Easy Guitar Sheet Music. See also our Printable PDF file for free download.

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Guitar Chords and Tabs

‘Five Little Ducks’ is an extremely easy 2-chord song in a major key. We suggest the key of D major, as both D and A chords are essential for beginners.

Besides that, the melody range that results when singing in the key of D is an octave from A to A’ (see on the Music Sheet following). This range is well suited to most children’s voice pitch. Nevertheless, you could use a capo to transpose to D#, E, F, or F# major by placing it respectively on fret I, II, III, or IV.

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Easy Guitar Sheet Music with Chords

This is a simple transcription for guitar with a plain bass line and recommended fingering. As much as the song is great for singing with kids, it is also an ideal piece for guitar beginners. It is a pleasant tune to practice the notes on the 1^st position and up to the 5^thfret, while using all four fingers of the left hand.

The upper melody line is played on the first three strings (E, B and G) and the bass line is all on open D and A strings. Don’t forget the F sharp (2^nd fret – 1^st string) and the C sharp (2^nd fret – 2^nd string)!

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Free Printable PDF with Guitar Chords, Tabs and Sheet Music

You can download for free a printable PDF file with Guitar Chords, Tabs and Sheet Music for this song. To do so, click on the button above or on the following link.

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