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Camptown Races Ukulele Tab

Composer
Stephen Foster
Year
1850
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
120 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
G4

Camptown Races 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 DU DU

AECgVerseC0000C000G702G702C0000AECgC0002G70202C0ChorusC0000C3AECgF0030CG700C0000C0002G70202AECgC0

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.

Stephen Foster, 1850 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Camptown Races is in C and opens on G4. 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 120 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 48 notes across 16 bars, from C4 up to C5 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Camptown Races cross-instrument hub.

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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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