![]() ![]() You can however also tune your baritone ukulele to gCEA of course. It’s common for larger ukuleles and gives you the same root notes as the bottom four strings of the guitar. Baritone GCEAīaritone ukuleles are typically tuned as d-G-B-E, also called G-tuning. You will find this slide tuning works best on concert, tenor, or baritone ukuleles as the soprano may be a bit small. This unique slide tuning will allow you to play some great slide blues for the ukulele. On the ukulele you are only moving up one and a half steps to Bb so it shouldn’t be too big a deal. If you go too far up in tuning you may break the string or damage the instrument. In this tuning you are moving the A up to a Bb, so be careful.Whenever you are experimenting with an alternate tuning, always slowly tune anything UP. ![]() Just lightly touch all the strings and play your slide ukulele. The key is that your slide covers all the strings and that you don’t press the slide all the way down to the frets. If you want, you can turn the ukulele on its side and play it like a mini lap steel. You want to make sure you use a slide that isn’t too heavy. The seventh chord is the hallmark of blues, so with a slide ukulele tuning you can play some slide blues on the ukulele. However, it can be done on a ukulele as well! Instead of G-C-E-A change the A to Bb (or A#), that gives you G-C-E-Bb which is a C7. When I say slide tuning, you probably immediately think of lap steels and guitars for using slide playing. This tuning also works great on many other instruments, especially the guitar. This tuning works best while playing in the key of C and with C scales. By moving it two positions up and fretting 2222 you have a D chord. ![]() Of course this means that all your normal chord positions are different, if you strum all the strings without any frets down you already have a C chord. Strumming the open strings give you a ukulele slack key tuning of G-C-E-G. To create it you tune the A string down one whole step to G. Since the ukulele is tuned five steps higher than the guitar, that turns into C taropatch. There are different version of the slack-key tuning, but the most commonly used one is open G or taro patch. It originated in Hawaii and is a method of taking certain strings and detuning or slacking them. While more limited, the ukulele can successfully be used to play in a slack key style and is relatively easy to learn. Slack key guitar (ki ho’alu) is a traditional Hawaiian way of tuning and playing the guitar. The most famous use of this tuning is by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (also known as Iz) in the song “Over The Rainbow.” Slack-Key Tuning for Ukulele You need a specific lowG string to replace the first string. This can not be achieved with the standard gCEA strings that probably came with the ukulele. Occasionally some players prefer to tune the first G note to a lower G. On a typical ukulele, the C string will produce the lowest sounding pitch or note. It’s not really an alternate tuning sensu stricto, it’s more a varying method to tune gCEA. I’ve briefly touched on this tuning in the tuning. Once your G-string has been tuned up to A you can tune the other three strings up utilizing G-string reference notes. You can tune your ukulele to ADF#B from gCEA by utilizing your A-string to tune your G-string to A. On the other hand though, playing the E chord is much easier on D-tuned ukuleles. While it produces a very nice ukulele sound, it’s mainly being replaced by gCEA as it’s easier to learn. You will probably run into this tuning for the soprano on the off chance that you dive into playing conventional Hawaiian music. It is believed that it makes the ukulele sound more Hawaiian and sweeter. ![]() It’s still typically used to see soprano ukuleles tuned as ADF#B, but concert or tenor ukuleles can be tuned to it as well. With this tuning each string is tuned one tone or a whole step higher than C-tuning. Any music sheet for ukulele from the 1920s and 1930s will probably use D-tuning which is A-D-F#-B (la – re – fa# – si). While this is an “alternate tuning” nowadays, years ago this was the standard ukulele tuning. Nothing stops you from experimenting on your own of course! D-Tuning for Ukulele Read on for a good overview of the main alternative tunings. Different players use different alternative tunings for their ukuleles to add either a different vibe to their playing style, experiment or because it’s easier. Tunings have changed over time and a lot of variety exists. While this is the standard ukulele tuning, it is by far the only one possible. On the other hand, LowG tuning is noted as G3 C4 E4 A4 as the G note is tuned one octave lower. It’s noted down either as gCEA or G4 C4 E4 A4. This tuning can be called different names: C-tuning, standard tuning, HighG tuning or re-entrant tuning. ![]()
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