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Ukulele Nomenclature & Assorted Lingo
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Saturday 22 May 2004
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If you want to be a cool ukulele player, you definitely have to learn how to talk the talk! Because we ukulelists are a little different, the strings are numbered from the bottom up, if you are holding the uke in a normal playing position (this is the numbered the same way as the guitar, actually). So, the first string is actually the one closest to the floor, and the fourth string is the one closest to your nose (assuming your nose is where it should be). Each string also has a letter name, taken from the musical note that sounds when you play that string with no finger pressing down on it. The letter names, from the 1st to 4th strings, are: G, C, E, A (maybe "George Clooney Eats Acorns" will help you remember?).
This diagram should make it all clear:
We also have a confusing little system for telling you where to place your fingers. We will say things like "put your finger on the 1st fret", when what we really mean is put your finger immediately beside the fret, using proper finger position. If you put it *right* on the fret, you would be touching the vibrating part of the string, and you would produce a sort of muffled, "dampened" sound, instead of a nice clear ringing one.
Like the strings, the fingers also have numbers for easy reference. The index is finger 1, the middle finger is 2, the ring finger is 3 and the little pinky finger is 4, like so:
So, putting all the essential information in the above picture into words, we would say the third finger is on the third fret of the 1st string (or "A" string).
Got it ???
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