A C is a C is a C
am I wrong or isn't transposing used when you need to play a song in a particular key to fit the singer? or when you want to make it easier to play phisically.
Written music is the same for guitar and for Ukulele. The tabs will be different,(4 vs 6 strings with the notes on different frets) but the sheet music, and thus the notes (ie C# D Bb etc ) would be the same.
May just be a termiology problem here.
JT
Yes, I used the term wrong. I know the C is the C thing, but what I meant was the difference in pitch, and I may be using that wrong, too. The reason I wanted to know this is that there is a great guitar chord namer online that I want to use to find ukulele chords. Not in the traiditonal way, to see where I put my fingers to sound a certain chord, but to see the name of a pattern I am using on the board (putting the fingers down and playing a chord, but don't know what it is called). Thus, if it is a C chord on the guitar fretboard, it is going to be a F on ukulele in open position, which would be the fourth up (which is also confusing, because, yes, it is five frets up, or, rather, two and one-half steps, which is the interval between the first and fourth of the scale).
Thanks for the quick confirmation on this. Oh, and by the way, there are transposing instuments, such as the clarinet and others, that are transpiosing instruments. I once played a horn part on bass and had to bring every thing down three half steps in order to make it sound write. A C is a C is a C, tis' true, but some instruments have to transpose their written sheets to get there.
All the best,
Mike
PS, if my spelling and typing errors are worse than usual, I just got bifocals - never had them before and this is a real pain getting used to them, especially when shifting from screen to keyboard.
