Reading a lot of threads here makes me glad that I played the guitar long before I played the ukulele.
One thing the uke literature seems to lack that is available for guitar, is much instructional material for picking patterns. There is a lot of instruction on strumming for uke, and there is a lot of tab. But i'm really glad I learned a lot of picking patterns on the guitar that I've adapted for the uke.
Another advantage of playing guitar is that guitar players use capos a lot more than uke players. There is a real incentive on guitar to learn how to transpose because it is so common to adjust keys using a capo. You can do this on a uke, but I don't because there just isn't that much room on the fingerboard. The transposition skills are very useful.
This might not be the guitar but more the influence of the internet. When I learned to play guitar as a teenager, my friends and I would get together and play. We did not have chord sheets written out. We'd know what key the song was in and we'd figure it out. So when you learned guitar you learned what chords were commonly used in what keys and what the relative changes were when you changed keys. We all played to some degree by ear. This seems to be a missing skill in the uke world. I've gotten lazier myself and rely too much on what is written out.
One thing the uke literature seems to lack that is available for guitar, is much instructional material for picking patterns. There is a lot of instruction on strumming for uke, and there is a lot of tab. But i'm really glad I learned a lot of picking patterns on the guitar that I've adapted for the uke.
Another advantage of playing guitar is that guitar players use capos a lot more than uke players. There is a real incentive on guitar to learn how to transpose because it is so common to adjust keys using a capo. You can do this on a uke, but I don't because there just isn't that much room on the fingerboard. The transposition skills are very useful.
This might not be the guitar but more the influence of the internet. When I learned to play guitar as a teenager, my friends and I would get together and play. We did not have chord sheets written out. We'd know what key the song was in and we'd figure it out. So when you learned guitar you learned what chords were commonly used in what keys and what the relative changes were when you changed keys. We all played to some degree by ear. This seems to be a missing skill in the uke world. I've gotten lazier myself and rely too much on what is written out.