My first question : How is the ukulele tuned in the video?

Hi all,

I started ukulele 3 months ago and have a lot of fun. I learned with a beginner's book little melodies and stuff, then began to learn chords with this youtube user :

http://www.youtube.com/user/ukeclases

In one of his vids, he teaches how to play the melody, fingerpicking, and chords of the song : Manel - En la que el Bernat se't troba

It's a Catalan song and the chords are pretty easy, it's F C Gm F C and ukulele is tuned in C in the teaching.

I found a video of a live version of this song and the only thing I can tell is that the A string is really lower than a C tuned ukulele :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2kbCzuoVZE :drool:

Does someone recognize the tuning?

And here is a question that refers to the first one : How do you recognize the tuning of a ukulele if no one tells you? Only with experience or is there a trick?

Thanks,

LeMoine

is it possible he's playing the C chord without the A string and a regular C tuning?

LeMoine said:

How do you recognize the tuning of a ukulele if no one tells you? Only with experience or is there a trick?

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If you know exactly (!) which chord is played you could look at the fingering and derive whether it is GCEA or ADF#B tuning. E.g. if you know a C is played and only one finger is used (0003) the uke is tuned GCEA. If you see 3211, it is tuned ADFB.
This does not necessarily work when you have tabs from somewhere and a video from somewhere else - the player in the video might use different tabs or a transposed version.....