

Moving the D an octave higher retains the same musical intervals, but makes the baritone sound more like a traditional ukulele. Therefore the tuning notes become D4, G3, B3, E4 To address this, you can ‘re-entrant’ the standard baritone tuning by moving the 4th string (the D) an octave higher. The problem with the above is you take away some of the characteristic sound of the ukulele. Step 3: Tune the open 1st string to the 5th fret of the 2nd string Step 2: Tune the open 2nd string to the 4th fret of the 3rd string Tune the open 3rd string to the 5th fret of the D string. Step 1: Grab a tuner (even a guitar tuner will do) and tune the open D string as the starting pitch.

If you want to tune the ukulele to itself (known as relative tuning) here’s how you do it: All chords in standard G (D-G-B-E), the most commonly used Ukulele tuning. It’s worth remembering that, as the baritone ukulele has a longer scale length than its siblings, you need a baritone string set that has extra-long ukulele strings needed for this size of uke. Thomas Balinger Baritone Ukulele Chords 700 chords for baritone ukulele from the most basic chords you’ll encounter daily and the chords used less frequently (and harder to play) to more exotic special chords you may never need at all. Below you can see where they appear on the piano. These non-reentrant notes are: D3, G3, B3, and E4 (from low to high). With the baritone, the tuning is more conventional and the strings are tuned in order from high to low, as you’d find on most stringed instruments such as the guitar. What is a ukulele chord X, XM, Xmaj: major Xm, Xmin: minor Xaug, X+: augmentend Xdim, X: diminished X7, Xdom7: dominant 7th Xm7, Xmin7: minor 7th Xmaj7, XM7: major 7th Xaug7, X+7: augmented 7th Xdim7, X7: diminished 7th Xm7b5, Xmin7dim5: half-diminished 7th XmMaj7, XmM7, Xminmaj7: minor-major 7th. This is partly what gives the uke its characteristic sound. What does re-entrant mean? This is where the strings don’t go from high to low in the conventional sense, and the 4th string (the open G) is higher in pitch than both the 2nd and 3rd strings.
