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Happy Birthday to You Ukulele Tab

Composer
Mildred and Patty Hill
Year
1893
Key
G
Time
3/4
Tempo
90 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D4

Happy Birthday to You 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 - D

AECg22G020D7222D7020G022G540AECgC2033GD7200G0

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.

Lyrics

Bar 1 — Happy birthday to you

Bar 3 — Happy birthday to you

Bar 5 — Happy birthday, dear [name]

Bar 7 — Happy birthday to you

Mildred & Patty Hill, 1893 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Happy Birthday to You is in G and opens on D4. 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 90 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 9 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 5 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Happy Birthday to You cross-instrument hub.

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Play Happy Birthday to You — and hear every note graded.

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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