This might mean that the strings aren’t exactly right. On these occasions, you’ll have to tune the ukulele to itself. Sometimes, you’ll have nothing but your ukulele. Even if you’re both out, so long as you’re out by the same amount, it’ll sound right.įor standard, re-entrant tuning, you can find the tuning notes here:
If you’re playing with other instruments, you have to make sure you are in tune with them. This video should help you find middle C. The C string of the ukulele corresponds to the middle-C of the piano. Dead simple and they break down a lot less often than fancy digital tuners. They work like a harmonica and a have on hole for each note of the ukulele. In order to tune their ukuleles, our forefathers had to toot on an ancient whistles known as pitch pipes. In days of yore, when dragons roamed the earth, there was no such thing as computers, intertubes and digital tuners. You can find out more about them here: ukulele tuners. One or two either way doesn’t matter much.įor tuning away from the computer, you can use a ukulele tuner. The readings should be this for standard tuning:ĭon’t worry about being bang on 00.0.
UKELELE NOTES DOWNLOAD
If you’re tuning at your computer, you can download the AP Tuner free and it will tell you the pitch of each string as you play it. If you don’t trust your ear to tune the uke (or you want to check you’ve got it right), you can use a tuner. You can recreate this tuning on a C-tuned uke with less hassle by putting a capo on the first fret. The standard ukulele C-tuning tuned up half a step (one fret). It’s particularly useful for playing in uke unfriendly keys like B and E which often crop up in guitar-based songs. The standard C-tuning with each string tuned down half a step (one fret). It is possible to buy strings for baritone ukulele that allow you to play in re-entrant tuning with a high-D The baritone ukulele strings are usually tuned the same as the top four strings as the guitar: with the strings going from low to high. The G string can be either low or high (in this case, it’s high). This produces a C chord when all the strings are played open. The A string is tuned down a whole step to G. The tuning is most often used in the slack-key style of playing (from Hawaii). Off the top of my head, I can’t remember it being used anywhere else. It’s used extensively by James Hill and Chalmers Doane. Should probably be called the ‘Canadian tuning’. Watch this video of Carl Ray Villaverde to hear how effective it can be.
This tuning is most often used on tenor ukuleles. It offers a greater choice of base notes which can fill out the sound when you are playing solo ukulele. This tuning (with the g string an octave lower than in standard tuning) is becoming more popular – particularly with Hawaiian players. Nowadays, the only place I really see it used often is with Formby acolytes. Most of the old song sheets from the ukulele heyday are in D-tuning. Sometimes referred to as standard tuning. So I thought I’d knock together tuning notes for some more out of the way tunings. Almost all the ukulele tuning notes online seem to be for standard tuning.
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