Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Guitar Tune

Learn how to play this timeless children’s classic in three different ways with an easy to read Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab.

If you have or are near children, particularly the little ones, this lesson is for you because today it’s time to learn some “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” guitar chords and tab!

This song is as fun as it is mandatory; the little ones love it when they hear a song that they know.

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Using horizontal lines as strings and numbers on those lines to represent the fret you should play, tablature gives us the guidance we need to start picking away at songs and their melodies.

The strings are “upside-down”, meaning that the high sounding E is the highest line on your tablature. A zero (0) means you play the string open without any fingers on any frets.

If you would like to delve a little deeper into how to read tabs, check out this helpful lesson: How to Read Guitar Tabs

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A much more efficient way to play this Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab is by finding the same melody notes across different strings.

The great thing about playing this version of the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab is that you don’t need to slide your hand up and down the neck of the guitar.

The downside is that tablature does not tell you which fingers to use, only which frets to play. For this tab, you can use the same finger as the fret number, but not all tab operates on the first three or four frets of the guitar.

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This version of the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab contains the same notes as the other two versions. Similarly, it moves across the strings, but it does not use the open strings.

Pro-Tip: The great thing about tablature that does not involve open strings is that you can change the key with some math.

You can move the melody elsewhere on the same strings, keep the mathematical distance between the frets the same, and play the same melody!

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You can find easy versions and other versions of this twinkle twinkle little star guitar chords in these three helpful and detailed lessons below: 4 Easy Ways to Play the G Chord on Guitar Easy Ways to Play the C Guitar Chord 3 Easy Ways to Play the D Chord on Guitar

There are several ways to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar chords. This is a very simple version, suitable for absolute beginners.

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With either the simple or the more complex chord progression, you’ll have the song memorised with some repetition, which children love. Play it until you know it, and then play it some more!

For more complex strumming patterns you can use to play along to this Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab, check out this great article with a video lesson. Strumming Patterns: 5 Essential Patterns

Try playing this version with your thumb picking all strings on the D, A, and low E strings. Use your index finger to pick the G string, the second finger for the B string, and the third finger for the high E string.

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So far, we’ve focused on playing the current Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab in the key of G, with the G, C, and D chords.

If you would like some guidance on how to use a capo to find a specific key for your song, please refer to this excellent lesson:

In the folk tradition, try mixing and matching versions of this Twinkle Twinkle Little Star guitar tab by singing through once, playing once through with just the melody, strumming and singing through another time, and switching back and forth until you have a two-minute version of the song.

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