johnnysmash
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I would like to know all of the alternate ways to tune a Ukulele. My Baritone is DGBE and my Tenor is GCEA. Is there many ways as there is with guitar? Does one have to buy different string sets?
I would like to know all of the alternate ways to tune a Ukulele. My Baritone is DGBE and my Tenor is GCEA. Is there many ways as there is with guitar? Does one have to buy different string sets?
For a soprano uke, music from the early 20th century was often marked up for tuning GCEA, ADF#B or BbEbGC. On a soprano, you can use the same set of strings for all those tunings, especially if you use a lighter weight set like GHS soprano ukulele nylon strings for hawaiian D tuning, or Worth brown lightweight
An old acquaintance of mine used to play his guitar and these days plays his ukulele "upside down", that is to say, he plays a conventionally strung instrument left-handed. Certainly allows him to make a slightly "different" sound.
Try re-stringing your ukulele "back-to-front" to see if it works for you
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Two new friends from Sweden just loaned me their ukulele songbook. Most of the songs are in Swedish and they are all in D tuning.
Thanks for that. It was interesting to see an open 5 chord tuning.
I usually stick to C6 tuning, either gCEA or GCEA, but I sometimes tune my reso-uke to open C - GCEG to play slide or some Everly Brothers stuff, like Wake Up, Little Susie.
I have a flea-market Harmony soprano tuned D6 - aDF#B, because it seems to sound good up there.