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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Ukulele Tab

Composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Year
1840
Key
D
Time
4/4
Tempo
104 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
A4

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 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

AECgD0221DA72220DA70000D202D0221AECgDA72220A70001A7D120D0002GA70220AECgD0002GA70220G2220G020AECgA7D02002GD202G2220G020AECgA7D02002GD202

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.

Felix Mendelssohn, 1840; words Charles Wesley — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is in D 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 104 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 76 notes across 20 bars, from A3 up to B4 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Hark! The Herald Angels Sing cross-instrument hub.

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Play Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — 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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