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Yankee Doodle Ukulele Tab

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

Yankee Doodle 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 D DU

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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.

Lyrics

Bar 1 — Yankee Doodle went to town

Bar 2 — a-riding on a pony

Bar 3 — stuck a feather in his cap

Bar 4 — and called it macaroni

Bar 5 — Yankee Doodle, keep it up

Bar 6 — Yankee Doodle dandy

Bar 7 — mind the music and the step

Bar 8 — and with the girls be handy

Trad. American, 18th c. — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Yankee Doodle is in G 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 57 notes across 8 bars, from B3 up to C5 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

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

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