The Complete What Ukulele Players Really Want to Know by Barry Maz

Author:Barry Maz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: music, how to, guide, beginners, tuition, uke, ukulele, ukelele, banjolele, chords
Publisher: Barry Maz

CHAPTER 30 . BASIC THEORY PT1 – NOTES

From this point on in the book are one or two more chapters dealing with the same subject and they represent some of the absolute basics that I think it would be helpful for a beginner to try to understand. Firstly then, let’s take a look at the notes on a ukulele.

As you will probably know by now, the strings on a standard tuned ukulele are tuned to G,C,E and A (with the G on the string nearest the ceiling, and A on the string nearest the floor). If the strings are plucked without touching the neck, these are the notes that will ring, as the strings are being played in what is called ‘open’.

But of course, the neck of your ukulele is covered with frets to allow you to change the notes. When you fret a string on the ukulele you shorten the length, which in turn changes the way it vibrates and makes it ring a sound that is higher in pitch. The frets on a ukulele are spaced precisely such that playing a single string and ascending up the neck of the instrument one fret at a time will raise the note that is played by a ‘half step’ in musical terms (the equivalent of moving to the next key on a piano keyboard). Knowing this, and that moving up each fret moves you up a half step in the scale, by knowing the notes your open strings are tuned to, you should be able to work out any note on the whole of the ukulele fingerboard.

So how do we work up the note scale? Well, as you probably know, major notes in music are named as A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. It does however get a little more complicated as we have sharps and flats, and these represent intermediate notes between some of these major notes.

The sequence actually runs like this:

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