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Jamaican traditional; as printed by Walter Jekyll in “Jamaican Song and Story”, 1907, No. 121. Public domain.

4 strings · C4–A5 · G–C–E–A with the high, re-entrant G: soprano, concert and tenor ukuleles.

Tap a string, or tap a chord and drag across them to strum. On a keyboard the letters on the strings are the ones to press — Q, W, E and R are the four strings, A first; 1 to 7 hold the chords of the key, Space strums, and 0 lets go.

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Linstead Market — Ukulele Tab

Linstead Market, written out for the ukulele as easy melody tab with the string and fret for every note and set up above on the Standard, an octave higher. Press Play to hear it, Practice to learn it one note at a time — the ukulele waits for you — or Play along to keep time with it.

  • Notes58, 7 pitches
  • RangeB4–A5
  • Key hereC major
  • Tempo190 bpm · about 30 s
  • LevelIntermediate

Can a ukulele play Linstead Market?

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.

  • Standard↕ Plays, movedPlayed an octave higher: C major, B4–A5 · loaded above
  • Low G✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, B3–A4 · load it
  • Baritone✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, B3–A4 · load it

Linstead Market: ukulele 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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Linstead Market — ukulele tab (Standard) · tonalics.com

Linstead Market ukulele tab as text

The same notes as tablature: one line per string, the A string 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.

A|-7-10-10-10-7-8-10-12--12-10-10-8--7-5-7-8-|
E|-------------------------------------------|
C|-------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------|

A|-10---7---8-7-5---3---2--3-5-7-5-3---7-10-10-|
E|---------------------------------------------|
C|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|

A|-10-7-8-10-12--12-10-10-8--7-5-7-8-10---7---|
E|--------------------------------------------|
C|--------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------|

A|-8-7-5-7-5-3-2--3-5-7-5-3---|
E|----------------------------|
C|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|

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 7 notes it uses

Lowest to highest, with how many times each is played. Learn these 7 and you can play the whole tune.

  • 2A×2
  • 3A×6
  • 5A×9
  • 7A×15
  • 8A×8
  • 10A×14
  • 12A×4

What to expect on a ukulele

  • It runs from B4 to A5, a minor seventh, using 7 different notes. Its top note is the highest this instrument has.
  • 88% of its moves are a step or a repeated note. The widest is a major third, C5 to E5, at note 29.
  • The highest note is at fret 12, so the hand has to leave first position for it.
  • It is played on 1 string (A), and 0 notes are an open string.
  • The picking hand changes string 0 times.

About the tune

A Jamaican folk song about a market woman who carries her ackee to Linstead on a Saturday night and sells none of it. The tab follows the earliest printed version, No. 121 in Walter Jekyll’s Jamaican Song and Story of 1907.

Jamaican traditional; as printed by Walter Jekyll in “Jamaican Song and Story”, 1907, No. 121. Public domain. More about Linstead Market →

Linstead Market on other instruments

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

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