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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: guitar chords and tab for beginners

France, 1761

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

by Traditional

Tempo
96beats per minute
Count
4beats in each bar
Key
C majorthe home note
Level
1 of 3easiest
Bar 1:1 of 12Tap play to turn sound on
Key C major
0
Higher or lower, to match a voice.
Tempo96beats per minute right now

Level 1. Strum one chord per beat. Start here.

Chord names above, strum arrows below. Down arrow = strum down toward the floor, up arrow = back up.

010203040506070809101112CFCFCG7CCFCG7CFCG7CFCFCG7C↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑
Where your fingers go● press here · the number is which finger
EADGBeopen12345678910111232010

Hold this chord

C×321EADGBe

Coming up: F

Numbers are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.

Space bar plays and pauses. Left and right arrows jump a bar.

The chords

The chords in Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

3 chords, all open shapes: C, F, G7. 4 beats in each bar, 96 beats per minute, in C major.

About the song

The tune is a French folk song from 1761 that Mozart later wrote variations on. Every note is a quarter note on the beat, which makes it the best first melody there is: nothing to count, just one note per tap of the foot.

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