Mamma Mia (ABBA) Guitar Lesson with TAB

In this guitar lesson, we look at TAB for how you could play this tune in a band, with or without keyboards!

Mamma Mia | TAB

Let’s go through all sections of this guaranteed party anthem so you can play it with your band, some of these parts I’ve designed myself, some are just transcribed.

Intro

I love the intro, it’s so simple! All we do is move from the 5th to the #5, putting the new note an 8th early, like this:

Following the awesome D – Daug play executed by strings on the original recording, we get an actual guitar lick, ensure the pull-offs are smooth.

Verse

The next section is the the verse. Here we don’t have much to go on so I added some chord stabs and doubled the keys part, taking a few hits out.

If you play everything in the intro and what you see here in the verse, you could play this with just bass and drums!

Chorus

The chorus is another empty part which, if you have an ambitious keyboard payer could just leave to them, or you could play this:

Experiment with playing this using just your fingers or with pick. If you don’t have keyboards on the gig, this will work nicely as a breakdown section.

Tag

The chorus tag is the release after all that tension and breakdown malarkey.

I’ve opted for big sweeping rhythms here rather than transcribe the lead lines. Again, this means you can play it without keyboards or just add more power to the arrangement.

Middle 8

There’s a looped version of the chorus towards the end of the song, although the chords are slightly different. I’ve kept the last idea, only adjusting the chords, notice how it doesn’t change on the 4+ of bar two anymore. It’s also a C/G, not a G6.