PlaysoloistStringsUkuleleSongsWhen the Saints Go Marching In
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When the Saints Go Marching In Ukulele Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- C
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- C4
When the Saints Go Marching In 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.
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 — Oh, when the saints
Bar 3 — oh, when the saints
Bar 5 — oh, when the saints go marching in
Bar 9 — Oh Lord, I want to be in that number
Bar 13 — when the saints go marching in
Trad. American gospel — public domain.
How to practise this on ukulele
When the Saints Go Marching In is in C and opens on C4. 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 120 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 35 notes across 16 bars, from C4 up to G4 in 4/4 time.
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The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the When the Saints Go Marching In cross-instrument hub.
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