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Ukulele tabs are the easiest way to learn to pick a song. With just fours lines and some numbers, anybody – even if you don’t read standard notation – can make sense of uke tablature.

Below is a large collection of free ukulele tabs for a number of different skills and styles. They are all created (and in a couple cases, vetted) by me with an eye for detail and accuracy.

In each section, the tablature for a song is color-coded by difficulty:

Rock/Pop Ukulele Tabs:

These songs can often be found elsewhere, transcribed for guitar, but not necessarily arranged or tabbed for ukulele. My uke-specific interpretations follow.

Ukulele/Hawaiian Instrumentals:

The songs found here mostly feature ukulele as the lead instrument. As such, most tunes are from Hawaiʻi-based artists I grew up listening to and emulating.

To me, these are Hawaiian ukulele “standards,” if not by song then by style. If you want to study the Hawaiian sound, this is the section for you.

How To Play Blues Ukulele Pdf Files

Hawaiian:

General purpose Hawaiian songs with lyrics are filed here.

Jazz/Bossa:

Reggae Ukulele Tabs:

Soundtrack/Themes:

Folk/World:

Since so many of the folk songs people make ukulele tabs for are in the public domain, it’s pretty easy to find high quality, professional transcriptions. (Other genres are always at risk of being taken down on copyright grounds.)

Ken Middleton is as effective an arranger as anybody and has a collection of free bluegrass and Celtic style tabs available. He’s also published a few eBooks of transcriptions.

Classical:

Traditional:

Christmas:

Credits:

• † – Tab by Herb Ohta Jr.
• †† – Tab by Jeromy Renynolds
• ‡ – Tab by Glenn Reither

These ukulele tabs are in PDF format created with Guitar Pro, Powertab, or good ol’ Microsoft Word.

Ukulele tabs marked with “lead sheet” are Guitar Pro transcriptions of the melody, words (if applicable), and chords.

Fingerstyle “solo arrangement” tabs shown below include the melody interlaced with the chords, intended to be played by a single player and imply harmony and lead simultaneously.

These are my own interpretations, not necessarily a transcription of a specific performance. I try to keep them as simple as possible because I feel that it’s easier to add your own flavor than to sift through someone else’s style.

“Note-for-note transcriptions” are ukulele tabs of a specific recording and transcribed as accurately as possible.

What is an Ukulele Tab?

Tablature (or “tab” for short) is a simple system of notating music. It uses numbers on lines to represent the frets and strings of an ukulele.

The main advantage of a tab over a piece of standard music notation is that there is very little learning curve. If you can count you can play from a tab.

Each tab system is made up of four horizontal lines:

As you can see by the string names on each line, the top line represents the A-string and the bottom line represents the G-string. The C and E-strings sit between.

Numbers placed on the lines show which fret to press down and are read left to right. (“0” means open string.)

This shows the open strings being plucked one at a time from the top string down.

The above example is all played on the A-string: 3rd fret, 5th fret, 7th fret, 3rd fret.

Anytime you see numbers stacked vertically you should play them simultaneously as a chord. Here’s a C:

For much more, check out this guide to reading tab for better understanding the lines, numbers, and symbols.

Where to Find More Ukulele Tabs

Free Tabs

There are lots of user-sourced tab sites that get a ton of traffic, such as the massive ukulele-tabs.com and even massive-er ultimate-guitar.com.

While you can find almost any popular song on these sites, be aware that the quality of these tabs vary with the skill of the transcriber. Especially on Ultimate-Guitar, the star rating system can help you find the most accurate version.

That said, there are lots of really great sources of free ukulele tabs out there! My favorites for top-notch transcriptions are:

• Ukeeducation.org – A large collection of simple chord melodies.
• Ukulele Hunt – Al Wood does a good job covering riffs and intros/outros for a lot of pop/punk/rock songs. They usually include video examples/tutorials.

Premium Tabs

If you have some cash to spend on buying a book of uke tabs, there are more options every day.

Since licensing popular music is a huge pain in the neck for small operations, you’re probably going to find most books of mainstream tablature printed by a major publishing house. Hal Leonard has put the most effort into expanding their ukulele lineup (and includes transcriptions for Jake Shimabukuro’s latest albums), but Alfred also has some options.

Independent artists are also publishing some of their work. Daniel Ho has a couple books of tablature and Daniel Ward has Arpeggio Meditations For Ukulele.

Other Tab Articles/Resources

Here are some links to information regarding how to read tab and other related articles.

Converting guitar and high/low-G tabs to the tuning you play in – How to shift the numbers around so you can play a tab that isn’t necessarily meant for your tuning.

How to Figure Out Songs – Being able to ear out a song is a very valuable skill. Here are some tips for DIY songs.

How to Read Ukulele Tabs – Ukulele tabs aren’t hard to figure out, but you need to know what you’re looking at to make sense of them.

Blank Tab Sheets

Create your own ukulele tabs! Quickly notate the notes to a song, picking part, chord sequence, arpeggio, scale, etc…

Use the standard notation version for relating notes on the fretboard to their pitches as they appear on the staff. Great for notating fingers on tab and note duration on the staff.

Ukulele tablature (tab) is a very easy to understand and useful way of notating ukulele music.

Blues Scales

It allows you to read and notate melodies without being able to read music, and it shows you exactly where to play it on your ukulele fretboard.
The four horizontal lines represent the strings of your uke. As you can see from the colour-coding, it might seem upside down at first, but think of it as being written from your point of view! Slide your uke down from the playing position so it is flat your lap and look down at it. Now it looks the same way up!
The count along the top helps you play the notes on the correct beat. Count a regular 1, 2, 3, 4 as you tap your foot.
All that we do now to show which notes to play, is write numbers on the strings. The number indicates which fret to hold that string down at. A zero means that string is played open (with no left hand fingers holding it down). We read from left to right, and try and pluck the string in time with the count.
Remember, your right hand shouldn’t be strumming all the strings, just plucking the string indicated in the ukulele tab (try using a thumb rest stroke).
Here’s a little exercise for you to try. So you don’t end up sliding one finger around to play all the notes, try and get used to using your first finger to play notes at the first fret, your second finger for the second fret, etc.

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Of course you can also use ukulele tab to show chords, and often pieces written in ukulele tab will sometimes use single notes, and sometimes chords. To show a chord (or any notes played at the same time as each other), we just right the numbers above one another, like this:
Which is just another way of showing the familiar C chord! Here’s a little exercise to help you get used to playing two notes at a time.
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Ukulele tab is a great way of learning more songs, melodies in particular. It’s actually quite logical, and not as scary as it first seems!

TIPS

• Get used to using your 1st finger for fret 1, 2nd for fret 2, etc. It will be hard using your 3rd and 4th fingers to begin with, but it will really help you when you play more complicated tunes later.

• Try to keep an even tempo, even if it means going very, very slowly in the beginning! A metronome is a great tool to help you stay in time.

• Don’t be frightened of ukulele tablature. It might look like traditional written music, but it is much easier to learn to read.

• Download our FREE Reading Ukulele Tablature and Extra Pieces PDFs for more things to play. Simply fill in the form in the green box for instant access (you’ll also receive 9 other useful ukulele PDFs!)

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