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Berimbau Ostinato Etude Ukulele Tab
- Composer
- Playsoloist
- Year
- —
- Key
- Dm
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 96 BPM
- Difficulty
- Intermediate · ★★★
- First note
- D4
Berimbau Ostinato Etude 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.
Notes marked with a dot are folded up an octave to sit in the ukulele’s range — the app arranges them the same way.
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.
An original Playsoloist study, composed in-house as a practice piece — not a traditional tune and not implied to be one.
How to practise this on ukulele
Berimbau Ostinato Etude is in Dm 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 96 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 63 notes across 8 bars, from D3 up to A4 in 4/4 time.
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