Ukulele Tabs.

TAB is short for tablature. Instead of telling you which notes to play, it shows you where to put your fingers. Four lines stand for the four strings, and the numbers tell you which fret to hold down. If you want the whole thing explained properly, read our guide to how to read ukulele tabs.

Each number is a fret. A 3 means hold down the third fret on that string and pick it. A 0 means play the string open, without holding anything down.

The lines match the strings as you look down at the ukulele while you play. The bottom line is the G string and the top line is the A string, so from bottom to top they run G, C, E and A.

No. Tabs need no music theory at all. If you know roughly how the song goes, you can follow the numbers and play along.

Chords tell you which shapes to strum. Tabs tell you which individual notes to pick, so they can capture riffs, melodies and fingerpicking that a chord sheet cannot.

The common ones are h for a hammer-on, p for a pull-off, a slash for a slide and a tilde for vibrato. They tell you how to move between notes rather than which notes to play.

Yes. Once you know that the lines are strings and the numbers are frets, most people are reading tabs within a few minutes. If you are starting out, our guide walks through it with examples.

Every tab on this site carries a difficulty rating: beginner, intermediate, advanced or challenging. Start at your level and work up from there.

Yes. Plenty of the tabs here include hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and vibrato, which are the marks that bring an arrangement to life.

Yes. Every tab is free and you do not need an account to use one. If the song you want is missing, you can request it.