UKELELE STRING NOTES HOW TO
Personally, I like to arrange instrumental covers on the ukulele, and am often figuring out how to play parts that were written for guitar, which has a range of roughly 4 octaves. Having a wider range of notes to work with is especially useful for ukulele players who like to play melodies, solos, etc. With a low G-string, that same ukulele would now give you a range of 2 ⅙ octaves, from G3 to A5. On a traditional 12-fret soprano ukulele using gCEA tuning, the lowest note you can play is a C4 and the highest note is an A5, meaning you have 1 ¾ octaves to work with. In short, low G tuning allows you to play a wider range of notes than high G tuning. The main benefit to using low G tuning is the range of notes you are able to play. Even though it veers a little bit away from the traditional ukulele sound, there are several benefits to using low G tuning, and many ukulele players actually prefer it over high G tuning. A ukulele tuned to low G, on the other hand, has a bit of a warmer, mellower sound. The high G-string gives it the bright, happy sound that is generally what people associate with the instrument.
Most ukulele players would agree that high G tuning best represents the way a traditional ukulele sounds. You’ll often see the notes of high G tuning written out as “gCEA” and those of low G written as “GCEA”. To do this, the G-string is tuned an octave down from where it normally is on a high G ukulele. Since the G-string is higher in pitch than the C-string, this is known as “high G” tuning.īy contrast, low G tuning is when the G-string is lower in pitch than the C-string, so that the strings are organized from the lowest pitch on the bottom to the highest pitch on the top. Traditionally, ukuleles are tuned to the notes GCEA, with the C-string being the lowest note, and the G-string being the second-highest note despite being the bottom string (so, if the strings were organized by their pitch from lowest to highest, the order would be CEGA). Ukuleles are one of the few instruments to use a tuning method called re-entrant tuning, which means that the strings are not organized from the lowest pitch to highest pitch (like they are on a guitar or a piano, for example). When talking about low G and high G tuning, the “G” refers to the G-string on your ukulele (the 4th string the one closest to your head when you are playing). But what is it, exactly? In this article, we’re going to answer that question and more - including how low G tuning compares to traditional ukulele tuning and the benefits of using it - so that you can decide if it’s right for you.
If you’ve been playing the ukulele for a little while now - or even if you’re just looking into buying your first uke - chances are you’ve come across something called “low G tuning”.
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