Beginner Ukulele Tuning

Heres a summary of a few methods for tuning your ukulele.

Design workshop. All the other notes stay the same so its tuning is gcea. Its still a popular instrument today though most people refer to it by its nickname the uke. The dgbe tuning which is sometimes referred to as chicago tuning is more popular on some of the larger ukuleles and is the most common tuning on the baritone ukulele.

Ukulele tuners are by far the most convenient way to tune for beginners and are definitely the most accurate. With the aid of a chromatic tuner you can quickly identify if you are sharp or flat that is to say too high or too low in pitch relative to the desired note. Today most of the books and videos you will find use g4 c4 e4 a4 as the standard ukulele tuning.

How to tune a ukulele with a piano. However learning ukulele still takes time. How to tune a ukulele ukulele tuning video gcea duration.

The fastest and easiest way to tune is to use a chromatic tuner which i show you how to use in the video above. If you want to try this tuning. Using a low g tuning for your ukulele.

Ukulele is getting popular and music enthusiasts are finding many reasons to play and learn ukulelebut many people are opting for it because of its ease to learn it. This tuning matches up exactly with the top 4 strings of the guitar. How to tune your ukulele in the late 1800s the ukulele was considered the national instrument of the kingdom of hawaii by queen lydia liliuokalani.

Using an online tuner tuning using an online ukulele tuner is fairly simple. This is certainly true until you have trained your ears a little. Knowing how to tune a ukulele with a tuner will vary depending on which model of tuner you have but there are some similarities and constants which most models tend to.

A chromatic tuner is a device that detects the pitch of a note as you pluck a string of the ukulele. The chords you play are exactly the same as gcea high g tuning but give you quite a different sound to the traditional ukulele tuning. A beginners guide to tuning a ukulele steve titford.

Beginner tuning the ukulele one of the most important aspects of any instrument is keeping it in tune. Unsubscribe from steve titford. In a low g tuning you replace the high thin g string by a low fat g string.

The fours behind the letters represent the octave that you will find on the piano. In a very short time you can learn to play simple tunes.