Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on Guitar — Tab, Chords & Play Online

Notes42, 6 pitches
RangeG3–E4
Key hereG major
Tempo100 bpm · about 29 s
LevelEasy

Can a guitar play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?

Yes — every one on this page plays it. The check is made note by note against what each one can actually sound. Where the tune does not fit as the library writes it, another key or octave is tried, and the table says which; where nothing fits, it names the notes that are missing.

Acoustic✓ Plays as writtenIn G major, G3–E4 · loaded above
Classical✓ Plays as writtenIn G major, G3–E4 · load it

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: guitar tab

The large line is the fret — 0 is the open string; the small line under it is the string it is on. A dash holds the note another beat, an underline is half a beat, and a dot beside a note makes it half as long again. Each line is one phrase.

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star — guitar tab (Acoustic) · tonalics.com

0G0G3B3B0High E0High E3B–

1B1B0B0B2G2G0G–

3B3B1B1B0B0B2G–

0G0G3B3B0High E0High E3B–

1B1B0B0B2G2G0G–

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab as text

The same notes as tablature: one line per string, the thin high E on top, and each number the fret to press on that line — 0 is the open string. Read it left to right, one note at a time.

e|---------0-0-------------------------------|
B|-----3-3-----3--1-1-0-0--------3-3-1-1-0-0-|
G|-0-0--------------------2-2-0--------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|

e|---------------------------0-0--------------|
B|----3-3-1-1-0-0--------3-3-----3--1-1-0-0---|
G|-2--------------2--0-0--------------------2-|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|

e|------|
B|------|
G|-2-0--|
D|------|
A|------|
E|------|

Are there chords for it?

Not on this page. The chords here are chosen by rule — the three chords of the key — and they are only offered where that rule can be checked against a published harmonisation and agrees with it on most bars. This melody has no barred score in its sources to hang chords on. The tab above is the whole tune.

The 6 notes it uses

Lowest to highest, with how many times each is played. Learn these 6 and you can play the whole tune.

0G×6
2G×6
0B×8
1B×8
3B×10
0High E×4

What to expect on a guitar

It runs from G3 to E4, a major sixth, using 6 different notes. That leaves 15 semitones unused below and 12 above.
90% of its moves are a step or a repeated note. The widest is a fifth, G3 to D4, at note 3.
The whole tune sits in first position: nothing above the 3rd fret, one finger per fret.
It is played on 3 strings (G, B and High E), and 18 notes are an open string.
The picking hand changes string 12 times.

About the tune

The melody is French: “Ah! vous dirai-je, maman”, first published in Paris in 1761. Mozart wrote a set of twelve piano variations on it in the early 1780s, and in English it has carried three different rhymes — this one, the alphabet song and Baa Baa Black Sheep all share the tune.

Traditional — melody is "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman", published 1761. Public domain. More about Twinkle Twinkle Little Star →

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on other instruments

The same melody, in each instrument’s own notation. It is not offered for the guzheng, which does not have the notes.

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