How to Play Auld Lang Syne on the 6 Hole Ocarina

About Auld Lang Syne

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Most people meet this song once a year, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, often unsure what the Scots title means. It runs close to “old long since,” or the days gone by. Robert Burns set the words down in 1788 and said he took them from an old man’s singing, so the piece sits somewhere between a folk survival and Burns’s own hand. The melody is an old Scottish air.

For the ocarina it is a friendly first tune. The range is just over an octave, from low C to the D above, and the phrases rise and fall in gentle steps with only a couple of wider jumps to watch for.

Auld Lang Syne Lyrics

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, For days of auld lang syne.

Auld Lang Syne Ocarina Tab

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