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Capricho Árabe Ukulele Tab

Composer
Francisco Tárrega
Year
1892
Key
Dm
Time
4/4
Tempo
76 BPM
Difficulty
Difficult · ★★★★★
First note
A4

Capricho Árabe 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 -

AECgThe callA7000A7107767765A75600020A710AECgTheme in D minorDm2010Dm2000Dm00001013AECgDm00003033A733404457AECgDm88776766001A700010100AECgD712200203A710776776556002110AECgC70001Theme in F majorF33335557F55655557AECgC77787781012F875560AECgReturnDm00006065Dm00006065AECgA700050500Dm502Dm5020Dm2

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.

Francisco Tárrega (1892) — own condensed setting in standard tuning — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Capricho Árabe is in Dm and opens on A4. 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 76 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 161 notes across 24 bars, from A2 up to A5 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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