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bellamira Approved 
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Help! Will some one please direct me to a site, or inform me as to the method of transposing typical guitar chords to uke chords that would be played on a GCEA tuning. Seems that most of the music I really like is contemporary, and found on a number of the guitar chord sites, and seldomly found on a ukulele site. appreciate your help and direction. Mark in Portland Spank that Uke!
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gbu Approved 
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I think you just take a guitar chord and transpose up a 4th. For example, guitar D7 is ukulele G7. Of course you lose two strings, so you may need to make sure you haven't lost anything vital (that is, that 1 3 5 are represented if it's a simple chord, plus 7, 9, 11, 13, or whatever, if it's not). If you want the chord, say, D on the ukulele, just go up a 5th (or down a 4th, it's the same) to get the equivalent guitar chord. So the D chord for the ukulele is the same shape as the A chord for the guitar. Hope this made sense, and didn't entirely miss what you were asking for!
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blkknt3 Approved
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Howzit Mark. Normally you don't need to transpose chords to be played on the uke. Guitars are tured to open E and ukes to open C. If you played G as an example on both instruments, the tones would match. I tend to use both the guitar and my ukes when learning new music. "Jus Press" K3
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Pauline Leland Approved 
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Mark, You still may want to transpose to make the chords fit your vocal range. Or to play an easier set of chords,  Tiki King has a nice transposing wheel on his site. http://www.tikiking.com/tools.html is the page that explains and points you to the wheel for printing, cutting out, and fastening. Very slick. If you're a bit of a computer geek, Gerard E. Dallal wrote a couple of transposing programs. Go here, http://world.std.com/~gdallal/ukepix.htm for downloads. Pauline
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UkeForever Approved 
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What's the problem? The same chord name still applies. If it is Gmaj7, you play it one way on the guitar and 0222 on the uke. No transposition required. If you're trying to transpose chord tablature, there is one easy solution: buy a baritone uke and make the same shapes, omitting the E and A strings (your uke won't have 'em anyway). If you are transposing pop music to another key, it's easy. Write the major scale of the key you are in, say, G: G A B C D E F# Now, give those notes a numeric value: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII Let's say the progression is G, Am, D--I, IIm, V Now, say you want to transpose to C--look at the C-scale C D E F G A B ; find I, IIm and V Those same chords in C would be C, Dm, G. This is why many jazz musicians will speak in numbers--if you've watched Lyle Ritz play with Bill Tapia, you will hear Bill say something like "This one's I, IV, V, etc..." and then Lyle says "What key?" Or they will indicate a standard blues progression ("12-bar in E") As long as the musicians know the scale, they can play the same progression in any key of their choosing. Last edited on Wed May 25th, 2005 09:06 pm by UkeForever ____________________ Don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya. John Rockwell's Crazy Songs 
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gbu Approved
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I think we've all answered different questions, so hopefully yours got covered! In case this isn't the case, I recommend two books: Edly's Music Theory for Practical People (for general information about transposing, chords and stuff) and Understanding Ukulele Chords for a general guide to chords on the ukulele... Anyway, a ukulele is just a guitar with the bass strings removed and capoed at the 5th fret. If you're not playing with someone else, just play the song as is (dropping the two bass strings), and it'll work fine. If it has to be the same key, you could put a ukulele capo on the 7th fret (I think this is right, but I haven't checked it; anyway, however many frets it takes to go up a 5th) and you'll be in the same key, with the same shapes. With ukuleles and guitars you should never have to do any real *work* to transpose  .
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Lucy Approved
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Hello I'm pretty new to all this and I'd like to play songs on my uke (GCEA) with my dad who plays the guitar - does one of us need to transpose so we can play together? And if so, how do we do it. Cheers
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HowlinHobbit Approved 
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Lucy wrote:I'm pretty new to all this and I'd like to play songs on my uke (GCEA) with my dad who plays the guitar - does one of us need to transpose so we can play together? Nope. I believe UF covered this but I'll reiterate. If the song calls for a G chord your dad will play 320003 and you'll play 0232 and both of you will be playing a G chord and harmony will reign. I cover this topic in my "Cheater Theory" document. It's a freebie on my website (http://www.howlinhobbit.com). Go to the ukulele page and download it. You might want to wait about a week as version 2 is about to come out with the typos and funky chord corrected and a couple new chord forms added to the chords part. Howlin' Hobbit (http://www.howlinhobbit.com) Got Uke? Snake Suspenderz (http://www.snakesuspenderz.com) Hot Jass, Hokum and Novelty Music... with a bite!
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JohnB Approved 
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Here's a crazy idea, as long as you're not playing along with a guitar player. Just use the guitar tablature as it is and ignore the 5th & 6th strings in the guitar tablature. So what if the chords names are incorrect? just try it, ignoring the chord names too. It will automatically transpose that way. I have found with some songs that if I do that I end up playing the song in the key that the original artist wrote/recorded it and/or the song is easier to sing. If you like the way the song sounds that way, then take the time to figure out the actual chords you are playing on the uke at that point. I own Baritone and Soprano Ukuleles, with these what I call auto-transposing can be lots of fun. As long as you know the chord patterns/tabs. I move from one instrument to the other, Soprano->Baritone, Baritone->Soprano using the same chord patterns. This way I find the key I like, then I bother to figure out what chords I'm playing. Then to take it a step futher, say if I ended up on the Soprano, the crazy-man I am, would go back to the Baritone using the new chords. Now, to keep going, I might use those Baritone chord patterns on the Soprano to change the key again, and again, and again... get it? it just keeps going...
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