UkeLad
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Any help on this folks?
I just can't work it out.
I just can't work it out.
I'm not there yet, for sure! I'm still trying to figure-out how to play a uke not tuned in C.
I feel your pain - I'm tuned in D (A, D, F#, B) and it's a right pain - OK for When I'm Cleaning Windows, Sitting On The Top Of Blackpool Tower, Chinese Laundry Blues and a few others, but generally everything else is in C
Hey - do like George did. Get three ukes, tune them in C, D and F.
You can now play in six open keys; problem solved.
I've got a few ukes (9 I think) but I don't think it's a particularly big deal to tune up or down a bit to suit a song.
If I'm just practising I just play whatever feels comfortable without really worring about what key it's in. That only really matters if you're singing or playing along with someone/something.
Incidentally Window Cleaner is never playing in D tuning. It's below C - B or B flat I think it was.
(...except of course in the movie version which is in G but that's another story)
I need to more music theory I guess. Still having a time with playing instruments tuned differently. One would think after 10 months I would be further along than I am but my teacher knows nothing (me). I tried a teacher recommended by local music store. He can play the heck out of a blues guitar (by ear) but knows nothing about a Ukulele. That was a total waste of $. I've got the strokes down, at speed, and continue to work on putting it all together. Getting close at it.