Canon in D Ukulele Tab

Composer: Johann Pachelbel
Year: 1680
Key: D
Time: 4/4
Tempo: 72 BPM
Difficulty: Easy · ★★
First note: F♯4

Canon in D on ukulele

The phrase Soloist Ukulele’s lesson teaches — an excerpt of the melody, not the full-length arrangement — rendered as four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) you can read on screen or print for the stand, free.

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

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.

Johann Pachelbel, c. 1680 — public domain, simplified setting.

How to practise this on ukulele

Canon in D is in D and opens on F♯4. 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 72 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 25 notes across 13 bars, from E3 up to F♯4 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 5 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Canon in D cross-instrument hub.

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