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Make the jump from ukulele to guitar
Make the jump from ukulele to guitar





If you do a lot of lead type stuff, you can do it all, but you just have to translate your bends into slides because of the nylon strings. E shaped barre chords have the root on the D (4th) string and A or G shaped barre chords have the root on the G (3rd) string. You don't have to transpose to a different key in your head to play regular guitar notes, chords, shapes, and neck locations. the D string is lower than the G string in pitch, not higher). It's tuned just like the bottom 4 strings of a guitar, DGBe, not re-entrant (i.e. It's called a baritone, and is larger, but still very small compared to a regular guitar. If you do a lot of playing on the bottom 4 strings of your guitar and often leave the bass notes for the bass or piano player, there's a uke your you. A & G shaped barre chords (which are only different semantically on a 4 string uke) will have the root on the 3rd string. Very often on uke you end up playing inversions because the root of the chord is not on the 3rd string (the bass note), but if you're playing with a bass, guitar, or piano player (or along with a recording) they are likely hitting the bass note for you. This also means that all your guitar barre chord shapes work as well. For the chords you demonstrated C shape becomes F, D becomes G, G becomes C, Em becomes Am.

make the jump from ukulele to guitar

So the chord shapes are all the same, they just become the chord a 4th higher. the 4th string plays the highest note on open strings), the uke is tuned to the same intervals as the bottom (location-wise) strings of a guitar, just up a 4th or 5 frets. The chords on the ukulele are a lot less mysterious to guitar players once you realize that, barring the complication of the re-entrant tuning (i.e. I don't have a specific question, but I just wanted to prattle on a bit about uke tuning and uke chords. Thanks for doing some uke lessons! The uke is a great instrument.







Make the jump from ukulele to guitar