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Jingle Bells Ukulele Tab

Composer
James Lord Pierpont
Year
1857
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
110 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
E4

Jingle Bells 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

AECgC000C000C0002C0F1111AECgC10000G70220G720C000C000AECgC0002C0F1111C10000G70012AECgC0

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 — Jingle bells, jingle bells

Bar 3 — jingle all the way!

Bar 5 — Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh — hey!

Bar 9 — Jingle bells, jingle bells

Bar 11 — jingle all the way!

Bar 13 — Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!

James Lord Pierpont, 1857 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Jingle Bells is in C and opens on E4. 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 110 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 51 notes across 16 bars, from C4 up to G4 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Jingle Bells cross-instrument hub.

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