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The Twelve Days of Christmas Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1780
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
100 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
G4

The Twelve Days of Christmas 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

AECgC00C000020DmG7201201FG7001002AECgC000C000020DmG7201201FG7001002AECgC0

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.

Trad. English, 1780 — public domain (first-verse pattern).

How to practise this on ukulele

The Twelve Days of Christmas is in C and opens on G4. 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 42 notes across 9 bars, from G3 up to A4 in 4/4 time.

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

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Play The Twelve Days of Christmas — 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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