uku·le·leˌyü-kə-ˈlā-lē ˌü- variantsor less commonlyukelele :a small guitar of Portuguese origin popularized in Hawaii in the 1880s and strung typically with four strings Illustration ofukulele Examples ofukulelein a Sentence ...
Ukulele Allsorts Blog This site started off as a way to keep track of all my ukulele-related stuff on the web – plus some actual uke-action that did not fit in anywhere else. Then I added my non-uke stuff too. I registered “Ukelear Radiation” as a band name and started adding m...
Before we look at the standard ukulele tuning, we’ll have to get familiar with the strings of a ukulele and their names. Luckily there are only four of them, so they’re easy to remember. The strings of a ukulele are, starting from the one closest to you when holding the instrument:...
Rate this: Tagged with:festival,ukulele Posted inStrum on The Tyne Song sheets: chord names in-line or above the line? Posted onJune 19, 2018byLiz Panton (Ukulele Allsorts)—3 Comments Some “off the top of my head” thoughts on this, prompted by discussions with Jim Carey, of “Jim’...
typically has 12-15 frets, while the other sizes (concert, tenor and baritone) have 15-20 frets. The number of frets determines the number of notes that the ukulele has. The number of frets multiplied by the number of strings, four, equals the total number of notes on your specific ...
The Guitalele and the U-tar have six strings laid out like a guitar, not in pairs. They are tuned like guitars capoed at the fifth fret: ADGCEA. They are really short-scale guitars and, despite the names, not ukuleles. Bass ukuleles are tuned like guitar basses at the same pitch:...
It’s tuned down lower than the other sizes to D-G-B-E baritone tuning, which is equivalent to the tuning of the bottom four strings of a guitar. This is going to produce a significantly deeper sound. The Kala KA-BG Baritone Ukulele –the biggest ukulele size...
The concert ukulele is standard-tuned to the same re-entrant tuning in the same octave as the soprano (G4, C4, E3, and A4). Like the soprano, the concert uke is also most commonly outfitted with nylon polymer strings, which maintains the continuity of sound between these two types of ...
Use your thumb or fingers to pluck the strings in a downward motion, moving your hand from the top of the strings to the bottom. This is called a downstrum. You can also pluck the strings in an upward motion, moving your hand from the bottom of the strings to the top. This is ...
(unless you are playing left-handed, in which case the hand names are reversed). The right hand is known as the picking or strumming hand, and is used to strum or pick the strings. The fingers on both the ukulele hand and the strumming/picking hand have different names to differentiate ...