Night Garden (a minor blues) — Jazz Guitar for Beginners: Free Sheet Music, TAB and Chords

Night Garden (a minor blues) DG original

A slow minor blues in A, built on the minor pentatonic scale. Free jazz guitar sheet music with TAB and chord boxes. Press Play to hear it on a guitar, with the chords strummed behind it, then turn off the tune and play it yourself.

Key A minor (blues)

Time 4/4

Tempo Slow swing, crotchet = 96

Chords Am7, Dm7, F7, E7

The chords

Learn these first. The dots are where your fingers go, numbered 1 (index) to 4 (little finger); an open circle means play that string open, and × means don’t play it.

Am7

A minor seventh · A C E G x02010

Dm7

D minor seventh · D F A C xx0211

F seventh · F A C E♭ xx1211

E seventh · E G♯ B D 020100

The music

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Play counts you in with one bar of clicks. Chords only leaves the tune to you; Tune only leaves the strumming to you. Click any note to start from there.

Swipe the music sideways to see the whole line.

About this tune

A slow minor blues that we wrote for this page. The form is the same twelve bars, but the chords are minor sevenths, and bars 9 and 10 bring in F7 to E7, a dark, sliding move that many minor blues use. The tune comes almost entirely from the A minor pentatonic scale (A, C, D, E, G), with a passing E♭ for colour.

How to practise it

Learn Am7, Dm7, F7 and E7. Am7 is easier than Am: two fingers.
Strum the form with Chords only and Loop: four bars Am7, two Dm7, two Am7, then F7, E7, Am7, Am7.
Learn the tune. The E♭ in bar 1 is the B string, 4th fret: use your little finger, and slide or pull off to D.
Improvise: learn the A minor pentatonic scale in first position and play over the loop. Start with just three notes, A, C and D, and make short phrases with space between them.

About the tune

We wrote this tune for these pages, so it’s free to play, record and share.

The minor blues is the same twelve-bar form as the ordinary blues, played with minor chords. Jazz musicians took it up in the 1950s and 60s, and it became a standard jam-session form alongside the major blues.

Where the tune comes from

We wrote Night Garden (a minor blues) for this course, so you won’t find it anywhere else. It’s free to play, teach, record and share.

Quick facts

Tune: Digital Greenhouse, 2026
Key: A minor (blues)
Time signature: 4/4
Length: 12 bars
Tempo: Slow swing, crotchet = 96
Chords: Am7, Dm7, F7, E7
What it teaches: The minor blues, and the minor pentatonic scale
Place in the course: Tune 7 of 10 (The blues)

Questions and answers

Which chords are in Night Garden (a minor blues)?

Am7, Dm7, F7, E7. The chord boxes above show where to put your fingers, and each has a Hear it button.

Is Night Garden (a minor blues) free to use?

Night Garden (a minor blues) is an original tune written by Digital Greenhouse for these pages. You’re welcome to play it, teach it, record it and share it.

How do I read the TAB under the music?

The six lines are the guitar’s strings, the high E string on top. A number is the fret to press (0 means play the string open). The music above it shows the rhythm, and is written an octave higher than the guitar sounds, as all guitar music is.

How fast should I play it?

Slowly at first. Press Slower to hear it at 70% of the speed, and only speed up when it feels easy. The full tempo is Slow swing, a crotchet (quarter note) = 96.

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