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Frère Jacques ocarina tabs

Played in G, it climbs into the high notes up to high E.

Level
Intermediate
Time
4/4
Tempo
110 beats a minute
Length
8 bars
Notes
DGABhigh Chigh Dhigh E

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.

GABGGABG

The rest of Frère Jacques 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: French round, 18th century

Where it sits on the learning path

It is the song of the unit “High D and E”.