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De Colores Ukulele Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- C
- Time
- 6/8
- Tempo
- 152 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- G4
De Colores 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.
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. Spanish folk song — public domain.
How to practise this on ukulele
De Colores 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 152 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 101 notes across 23 bars, from D4 up to C5 in 6/8 time.
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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the De Colores cross-instrument hub.
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