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Danny Boy Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1913
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
72 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
B4

Danny Boy 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

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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.

Trad. Irish (Londonderry Air), words F. Weatherly 1913 — public domain. Melody is the traditional Irish air 'Londonderry Air' (public domain); teach/render the air only. F. Weatherly's 1913 lyric is also public domain (US pre-1929; life+70 expired 1999) but is not required for the melody lesson.

How to practise this on ukulele

Danny Boy is in C and opens on B4. 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 90 notes across 17 bars, from A3 up to E5 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 8 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Danny Boy cross-instrument hub.

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