FromTheWayside
Well-known member
Hi Everyone -
I just have a quick song-writing question. If I wanted to write a song featuring guitar and ukulele, do I need to do any transposing? For example, if I played an open C on the guitar, and a typical C on the uke, would I be playing (approximately) the same chord?
The notes are the same:
Open-C on guitar:
E A D G B e (strings)
x 3 2 0 1 0 (fingering)
x C E G C e (resulting notes)
Open-C on a GCEA tuned uke:
g C E A
0 0 0 3
g C E c
Shouldn't these be the same? If not, did I miss something? How exactly do you get the guitar and uke to play nice together?
For the record, this question comes from this comment:
"I played it in C too. It's just that the uke is tuned like a guitar with a capo in the 5th fret, and since I play the same guitar chords it sounds in F. I never bothered to learn "new" names for the uke chords."
from this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_e20gFC8o&feature=related
I just have a quick song-writing question. If I wanted to write a song featuring guitar and ukulele, do I need to do any transposing? For example, if I played an open C on the guitar, and a typical C on the uke, would I be playing (approximately) the same chord?
The notes are the same:
Open-C on guitar:
E A D G B e (strings)
x 3 2 0 1 0 (fingering)
x C E G C e (resulting notes)
Open-C on a GCEA tuned uke:
g C E A
0 0 0 3
g C E c
Shouldn't these be the same? If not, did I miss something? How exactly do you get the guitar and uke to play nice together?
For the record, this question comes from this comment:
"I played it in C too. It's just that the uke is tuned like a guitar with a capo in the 5th fret, and since I play the same guitar chords it sounds in F. I never bothered to learn "new" names for the uke chords."
from this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_e20gFC8o&feature=related