Drunken Sailor ocarina tabs
In D dorian: fast repeated notes, then a climb to high D.
- Level
- Easy
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 110 beats a minute
- Length
- 16 bars
The tabs
Read from left to right, as sheet music. Each note sits on the staff, with a picture of the ocarina under it: terracotta holes are covered, and the two small circles are the thumb holes. The note’s name is under the picture. A hollow head is a long note and a filled one a short one; a dot makes a note half as long again. For every fingering in detail, see the fingering chart.
Plays the tune at the ocarina’s own pitch.
The rest of Drunken Sailor is in the app
Ocarina Quest plays the whole song with you, listens while you play and shows which notes were off.
Coming soon to Google Play
About this song
Origin: Sea shanty, 19th century
Where it sits on the learning path
You can play this after the unit “High D and E” of the app’s course.