davegraham
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Hello,
About a month or more ago, I posted a thread on tuning your baritone ukulele to GDAE. Now, I'm posting a thread on the Gcea tuning - but not just any Gcea tuning. As you can probably tell by the capitalization, I'm talking about low G linear tuning. This tuning, however, is what I call a double octave tuning, or super-low G tuning. What you do is take the G string, and use an E string from a nylon guitar set which would tune up to be a whole octave lower than a regular low G string. As for the other strings, any baritone set that is made for ukulele tuning will suffice. The result is pretty neat. You have a baritone in uke tuning, but with a good bottom end sound. This works really well in a rhythm capacity, but with some practice (in order to compensate for the super low G string's octave drop) you can get into some more intricate work as well. Just another post for those who may be interested, nothing more, not trying to change the uke world here. Hope you like it.
About a month or more ago, I posted a thread on tuning your baritone ukulele to GDAE. Now, I'm posting a thread on the Gcea tuning - but not just any Gcea tuning. As you can probably tell by the capitalization, I'm talking about low G linear tuning. This tuning, however, is what I call a double octave tuning, or super-low G tuning. What you do is take the G string, and use an E string from a nylon guitar set which would tune up to be a whole octave lower than a regular low G string. As for the other strings, any baritone set that is made for ukulele tuning will suffice. The result is pretty neat. You have a baritone in uke tuning, but with a good bottom end sound. This works really well in a rhythm capacity, but with some practice (in order to compensate for the super low G string's octave drop) you can get into some more intricate work as well. Just another post for those who may be interested, nothing more, not trying to change the uke world here. Hope you like it.