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Bourrée in E minor Ukulele Tab

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Year
1712
Key
Em
Time
4/4
Tempo
116 BPM
Difficulty
Difficult · ★★★★★
First note
E4

Bourrée in E minor 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 -

AECgFirst strainEm02Em020302Am213020Em200200AECgEm2002002Em020302Am213020AECgB720020G020Second strainG200202Am022020AECgAm102020D020G202022D000210AECgB721212B7222E7120000Am202021AECgD7000210A73202B7020200AECgAm022020B7302020Em0

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.

J.S. Bach, Suite in E minor BWV 996 (c. 1712) — archival melody adapted for ukulele — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Bourrée in E minor is in Em and opens on E4. 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 116 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 129 notes across 25 bars, from D♯3 up to B4 in 4/4 time.

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Soloist Ukulele reads this four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) under the notation and grades your take on-device, note by note — free on iPhone, no ads, no account.

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