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. There are lots of user-sourced tab sites that get a ton of traffic, such as the massive and even massive-er.
Where to Find More Ukulele Tabs Free Tabs Here’s a C:įor much more, check out this guide to reading tab for better understanding the lines, numbers, and symbols. The above example is all played on the A-string: 3rd fret, 5th fret, 7th fret, 3rd fret.Īnytime you see numbers stacked vertically you should play them simultaneously as a chord. This shows the open strings being plucked one at a time from the top string down. Numbers placed on the lines show which fret to press down and are read left to right. All the best in your playing! If you’d like to learn the major section of Spanish Romance please go to UD#83.Think of it as rolling the uke out and down flat on your lap.
Here is the video:Īnd here is the tablature for the full version of the minor section: The tab for the full version of the Spanish Romance minor section is below. I’m still a little excited about that discovery! I’m sure I am not the only one to have tried this but I was pretty happy to stumble upon it. I play through the simple version, then I tune my G string string up to an A note and play the full version.
I am playing a uke with a low G string but the arrangement works for low and high G. Here is a video of me playing through Spanish Romance on the ukulele. Just like in the guitar version!” It worked really well. “What if we tune the G string on the uke (4th string) up to an A note? We will be able to use it to play the roots. While he was playing it I started thinking, “Gee, I sure am missing those root notes!” Suddenly an idea hit me. He knew that he could play everything as it was written on the top three strings. He was working from the classical guitar tab. I made a very exciting discovery a few weeks ago!Ī student of mine was learning Spanish Romance on his uke. This is a shame because those notes are the root notes of the chords and help to “ground” the piece musically. Did you notice that some notes got left out in our the ukulele version? Yes, we had to leave out the notes on the 6th and 5th string of the guitar version. Notice that the tablature for the first three strings is identical to the guitar version! Cool, eh? Here is the tablature: Below, you will find the tablature for Spanish Romance on the UKULELE.
The key is changed but it still sounds like Spanish Romance. These notes we can transfer onto the uke directly. You may have noticed that there are no notes on the 4th string in this piece, but plenty of notes on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings. Here is the GUITAR tab for Spanish Romance: Take a close look at the notes on the top four strings. Let’s take a look at the GUITAR tablature for Spanish Romance to see if there there is anything we can play directly on the ukulele. This is handy to know because it means some guitar music can be played, “as is,” on the uke. We learned that the four strings of the ukulele have the same tonal relationship as the top four strings of the guitar. Last newsletter, we talked about how ukuleles and guitars are related. To learn the the major section please go to UD#83.įirst let’s listen to the piece on guitar to hear how it sounds: The full piece has two sections: a minor section and a major section. I’d like to teach you a uke version today. An adult beginner! One of the pieces that I remember him practicing is Spanish Romance, which is one of the best known classical guitar pieces in the world. My dad was around 30 years old when he started playing guitar. UD# 80 Gorgeous Classical Piece: Spanish Romanceįrom Ukulele in the Dark with Guido Heistek