manfromtexas
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I’m really interested in learning to read music and would love to approach it with my ukulele. However, I play Low G exclusively and from what I’ve gathered early on it seems like that might pose a problem. There are tons of classical ukulele books out there and other kinds of sheet music books out there for ukulele but it seems like nearly all of them are for high G. If a song has been arranged for high G ukulele then it seems to me that it’s not going to even have any notes below middle C in it. Plus you have to figure out how to either substitute in that low G string for the high G notes or figure different ways of playing those high G notes on the top 3 strings. That might be a good brain teaser exercise, but also might be kind of a pain if you’re just starting out and just taking your first baby steps.
On the other hand if you take a piece of music that’s been arranged for guitar or piano it’s likely going to include notes below even the Low G scale so there’s a similar problem there.
I play guitar too, so I’ve thought well maybe I’m better off just learning to read music on guitar, and then I can take that knowledge and apply it to the ukulele. Maybe I just need to get over my low G obsession, put a high G on one of my ukes and dive into some of those books that were written and arranged for it.
I don’t know – do you all have any thoughts or suggestions?
On the other hand if you take a piece of music that’s been arranged for guitar or piano it’s likely going to include notes below even the Low G scale so there’s a similar problem there.
I play guitar too, so I’ve thought well maybe I’m better off just learning to read music on guitar, and then I can take that knowledge and apply it to the ukulele. Maybe I just need to get over my low G obsession, put a high G on one of my ukes and dive into some of those books that were written and arranged for it.
I don’t know – do you all have any thoughts or suggestions?