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We Three Kings of Orient Are Ukulele Tab

Composer
John Henry Hopkins Jr.
Year
1863
Key
Am
Time
6/8
Tempo
144 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
E4

We Three Kings of Orient Are 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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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.

John Henry Hopkins Jr., 1863 — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

We Three Kings of Orient Are is in Am 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 144 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 62 notes across 16 bars, from G3 up to G4 in 6/8 time.

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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the We Three Kings of Orient Are cross-instrument hub.

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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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