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How to Tune the Ukelele, page 4
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Wednesday 01 March 2006
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Relative Tuning
In order to use a relative tuning method, you must have at least one of your strings in tune with a reliable external source, as discussed above. If you are camping way out in the backwoods somewhere and don't have access to such a source, you can still tune your ukulele this way but it may or may not be in tune with other instruments.
There are four steps in this common relative tuning method, one step for each string:
- Tune your third string, the C string, to an enternal source such as a pitch pipe, tuning fork, guitar, piano etc.. Remember to loosen the string you are about to tune so the note goes below the correct pitch, and then slowly rise it up to the correct pitch in order to pick up any unwanted slack in the string. Remember to do this for all of your strings. If you don't have an external source available, just tune this string to what you remember the C string sounding like, or just leave it as it is.
- Tune the second string, the E string, to the C string (the string you just tuned!). To do this, play the note on the 4th fret of the C string (another E), and turn the tuning head for the second string until it sounds like this note.
- Next, we skip over to that high fourth string (the G string) to the second string, the one we just tuned. Do this by playing the note on the 3rd fret of the second string (another G) and matching the sound of the fourth string to it.
- Finally we go back to the first string, tune the 4th string the one we just did. For this, play the note on the second fret of the 4th string, and match the sound of the first string to it.
And here you have it! After you've done all this, strum a chord, preferably the first chord in the next song you are about to play. It should be sounding pretty good. Is something sounds a bit off, you can tweak one or two of the strings to get it just right!
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