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Las Mañanitas Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
—
Key
G
Time
3/4
Tempo
100 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D4

Las Mañanitas 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

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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 — Estas son las mañanitas

Bar 4 — que cantaba el rey David

Bar 6 — hoy por ser tu cumpleaños

Bar 8 — te las cantamos a ti

Bar 10 — Despierta, mi bien, despierta

Bar 12 — mira que ya amaneció

Bar 14 — ya los pajarillos cantan

Bar 16 — la luna ya se metió

Trad. Mexican birthday serenade — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Las Mañanitas 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 100 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 60 notes across 17 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Las Mañanitas cross-instrument hub.

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