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Silent Night Ukulele Tab

Composer
Franz Xaver Gruber
Year
1818
Key
G
Time
3/4
Tempo
90 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D4

Silent Night 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

AECgG202G2G202G2D700D72G00G2AECgC00C020G202G2C00C020G202AECgG2D700D7302G0G2G022D7200G0

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.

Lyrics

Bar 1 — Silent night, holy night

Bar 5 — All is calm, all is bright

Bar 9 — Round yon virgin mother and child

Bar 13 — Holy infant, so tender and mild

Bar 17 — Sleep in heavenly peace

Bar 20 — sleep in heavenly peace

Franz Xaver Gruber, 1818 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Silent Night 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 46 notes across 23 bars, from G3 up to C5 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 Silent Night cross-instrument hub.

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