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Sweet-Strum Backing Study Ukulele Tab

Composer
Playsoloist
Year
Key
Em
Time
4/4
Tempo
66 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
B4

Sweet-Strum Backing Study 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 - - - U - - -

AECgEm7Em77A99A11Em1099A97Em70Em7

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.

An original Playsoloist study, composed in-house as a practice piece — not a traditional tune and not implied to be one.

How to practise this on ukulele

Sweet-Strum Backing Study is in Em and opens on B4. 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 66 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 14 notes across 8 bars, from A4 up to G5 in 4/4 time.

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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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