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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Guitar Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1761
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
100 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
C4

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star on guitar

The full melody, rendered as six-string guitar tab in standard tuning you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: E A D G B e (standard) · Strum: D - D -

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Lyrics

Bar 1 — Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Bar 3 — How I wonder what you are

Bar 5 — Up above the world so high

Bar 7 — Like a diamond in the sky

Bar 9 — Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Bar 11 — How I wonder what you are

Trad. French (Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, 1761) — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is in C and the tab opens on C4 — find that fret, settle your hand there, and notice how little it has to move: the arrangement is worked out with a fret-hand position economy, so consecutive notes stay under your fingers instead of leaping up and down the neck. Read the numbers, not the note names: string line plus fret is the whole instruction, and an open string costs you nothing.

Play it well under around 100 BPM with a metronome and let each note ring into the next — the tails under the numbers show you how long. When your take review marks a bar, loop just that bar until the fret-hand shift inside it feels automatic, then rejoin the line. Speed is the last thing you add, never the first. By the numbers, this setting runs 42 notes across 12 bars, from C4 up to A4 in 4/4 time.

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