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Amazing Grace Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
—
Key
G
Time
3/4
Tempo
84 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D4

Amazing Grace on ukulele

The full melody, rendered as four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: g C E A (re-entrant High G) · Strum: D - DU

AECgG2GC020G20D00G22GC020GD20AECgG5GC57G770D00G22GC020GD20AECgG0

Arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G (gCEA) ukulele. On Low G, Baritone or D tuning the app re-fingers the same melody live. Left-handed? The app can mirror the whole tab.

Lyrics

Bar 1 — Amazing grace, how sweet the sound

Bar 5 — that saved a wretch like me

Bar 9 — I once was lost, but now am found

Bar 12 — was blind, but now I see

Traditional American melody “New Britain”; hymn words by John Newton, 1779 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Amazing Grace is in G and opens on D4. This tab is arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G ukulele: the fourth string (the top of the written tab, marked g) is tuned above the two strings under it, which is why a melody can dip onto the open g and come out sounding high — that's the instrument's signature, not a misprint. If you play Low G, the app re-fingers the same melody for your tuning live.

Pick the melody with alternating thumb and index, or the index alone on slower pieces, and keep your fretting fingers curled so open strings ring clear. Set the metronome under around 84 BPM, watch the tab rather than your hands, and loop the bar your take review grades worst until it comes back clean twice in a row. By the numbers, this setting runs 31 notes across 15 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 10 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Amazing Grace cross-instrument hub.

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