The ukulele has made a bit of a resurgence the past few years in popular music. And why not? I mean, it’s fun, quirky, and let’s face it…cute.
While you won’t ever truly get the sound of a ukulele without getting a ukulele, you can get in the ballpark by applying these 5 tips to your guitar playing.
A soprano ukulele uses a G C E A tuning…the same as the top 4 strings of a guitar with a capo on the 5th fret. Usually the G is tuned up an octave. A capo on the 5th fret is a great starting point for getting the ukulele sound on guitar.
How To Tune A Ukulele For Beginners: A Step By Step Guide
Ukuleles are tuned to an open C6 chord (5th, root, 3rd, 6th), and uke players often rely on 6th chords in their playing. Try subbing 6th chords in place of major chords.
As a guitarist, it’s easy to get stuck on root position chord voicings. Most guitarists have no problem finding chords with root notes on the low E and A strings, but it gets trickier when those strings are off limits. To get a more authentic ukulele sound, you’ll want to get comfortable playing inversions of chords where the 3rd, 5th, 6th or 7th is the lowest note in the voicing.
Ukuleles are nylon or gut string instruments. You’ll get a more authentic sound from your nylon string guitar than from a steel string.
Ukulele Tuning Tips
There you have it! Give these 5 tips a go and see how closely you can mimic the sound and character of a ukulele with your guitar. Let me know how it goes for you!
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This is the second post in a series called Rutbusters. Check out the first post if you haven't already. The idea for this second rutbuster is super...It’s actually pretty easy, but before we get to it let’s take a look at the main differences between a guitar and a ukulele that we’ll have to contend with.
Aside from the size difference, the most obvious difference is the fact that a guitar has 6 strings and a ukulele has 4. That’s a relatively easy fix, the harder part to deal with is the fact that those strings are tuned differently.
The steps in the chromatic scale correspond to your fretboard. Starting with the E note, how many steps does it take us to work our way up to the A note from our ukulele? Give yourself a pat on the back if you said 5.
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Now let’s try the same approach with our B note. How many steps to make it an E? You can feel pretty smug now if you answered 5 again.
This means that if we place a capo at fret 5 on our guitar we have now essentially turned our guitar into a ukulele by shifting all of the notes 5 steps up the chromatic scale.
If you don’t have a capo to hand it is possible to create a makeshift capo with an elastic band and a pencil. The pencil presses against the fretboard and the elastic band holds it in place. Take a look at the video if you want a little help with this.
How To Tune Your Ukulele?
Those that know ukuleles well will no doubt be asking about re-entrant tuning right now. If you don’t already know what re-entrant tuning is, it simple means that the strings on a ukulele aren’t quite as linear as they are on a guitar.
On a guitar, the thickest string is at the top and they get thinner as you move toward the bottom string. On a re-entrant tuned ukulele, this is not the case. The thickest string isn’t the one at the top, it’s the next one down.
If you’re just planning on strumming a few chords then you’re good to go, just make sure you’re not strumming those top two strings as you’re playing.
Ukulele Vs. Guitar: What's The Difference?
Where it gets a little different is fingerpicking. Some arrangements will work fine, with others the low G may sound a little out of place. Sometimes you can get away with omitting those notes. Or you can check out some arrangements specifically for low G ukulele.
If you find working around the top two strings without accidentally strumming them a little difficult, you can mute them by adding something underneath those strings to deaden the sound.
And that’s it, you’ve turned your guitar into a makeshift ukulele. Now you have no excuse for not learning a few ukulele songs.This article was co-authored by staff writer, Dan Hickey. Dan Hickey is a Writer and Humorist based in Chicago, Illinois. He has published pieces on a variety of online satire sites and has been a member of the team since 2022. A former teaching artist at a community music school, Dan enjoys helping people learn new skills they never thought they could master. He graduated with a BM in Clarinet Performance from DePauw University in 2015 and an MM from DePaul University in 2017.
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We all know the sound—you grab your ukulele from its case and give it a strum only to find that it sounds…horribly out of tune. Time to tune those strings! The idea of tuning an instrument might sound intimidating if you don’t have a music background, but with some knowledge of the strings and the right tools, tuning is a breeze. In this article, we’ll review what all of the strings and tuning pegs on your ukulele do, then show you how to tune them with tuners, a keyboard, and even by ear. Let’s rock!
This article was co-authored by staff writer, Dan Hickey. Dan Hickey is a Writer and Humorist based in Chicago, Illinois. He has published pieces on a variety of online satire sites and has been a member of the team since 2022. A former teaching artist at a community music school, Dan enjoys helping people learn new skills they never thought they could master. He graduated with a BM in Clarinet Performance from DePauw University in 2015 and an MM from DePaul University in 2017. This article has been viewed 822, 893 times.
To tune a ukulele, hold your instrument with the fret board pointing up. The lower left of the 4 pegs tunes the G string, the peg above tunes the C string, the upper right peg tunes the E string, and the peg below tunes the A string. To find the correct pitch for tuning, use a reference instrument, such as a piano, or an electric tuner. Tighten the strings to raise the pitch, and loosen the strings to lower the pitch. To learn about correct hand placement, keep reading!For guitarists a good basis for understanding ukulele tuning is the fact that the uke's four strings are directly related to the top four strings of the guitar as if fretted at the 5th fret. That makes it G C E A from lowest pitch guitar string to highest pitch in order.
Ukulele Tuning: How To Tune A Ukulele
The C on the 5th fret of the guitar's G (3rd) string is the same register as the Middle C of a piano. Middle C can usually be found in the middle of the keyboard nearest the makers name or logo mark. (For us geeks that's C4 or the C that is 261.6Hz)
Simply put a re-entrant tuning is when the strings or courses of strings don’t follow in order from highest to lowest pitch or lowest to highest pitch without interruption. Banjos, ukulele tuning and charrangos are classic examples of this type of break in tuning. The tuning does not normally ascend or descend all in order of pitch.
Whatever order we put the letters in as long as the pitches don't go from low to high or visa versa without some interruption we have
Tuning Your Guitar
. Look very closely at the photo. You may be able to see the 4th string (the one on the left) is smaller. That is because it is in the standard re-entrant tuning with the 4th or G string of a gauge that can be pitched/tuned one octave higher. So this is a C6 high 4 tuning short for GCEA with the 4th string G one octave higher in a re-entrant tuning. I think C6 high 4 is less of a mouthful!
As far as tuning interval structure when we talk about the C6 tuning the notes that the strings are tuned to (in order from closest to your chin to closet to your feet) are G C E A. That is actually a C6 chord. The A string is considered string One and the G string is string Four regardless of the the octave that the G string inhabits. So in both re-entrant and linear tuning the letter order is the same.
The D6 ukulele tunings would comprise the letters (notes) of the D major 6 Chord i.e. DF#AB (or Root 3rd 5th 6th) in
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