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My friend asked me a question I'd also like to know the answer to, having to do with music theory. Here it is: They say that if a guitar has a Capo on the 5th fret, it's got the GCEA tuning on strings 1 - 4. But, if there's no Capo on the guitar, and the guitar tab says to play a C chord can you tell me what chord the Uke plays, if you want to play along with a guitarist playing from those guitar tabs? I thought I already knew but found out I don't, so thanks to anyone who can help sort out my brain on this.
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Will Approved 
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ezmember wrote:
You should play the same chord on the uke as the chord played on the guitar. Without a capo, the chord shapes on a guitar will be different than on a uke; for notation to be useful to both the guitar player and uke player, what should be followed are the chord names used in the song or tune, not the tabulature nor chord diagrams.
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Charlie Approved 
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As will said, you just need to play your uke in the key of C as the patterns are different, Play your C chord as 0003 It will look like the guitar is playing the key of F to you as the guitar would have to capo to the 5th fret to look like a ukulele chord. Hope this helps some for you as I know it can be confusing at times. Charlie 
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ezmember Approved
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Is it safe to say that if the guitar tab says play "D" the Uke should play "A"? And if the guitar tab says play "G" the uke should play "C", etc? (I'm looking at both guitar and uke chord charts. In other words, the guitar chord is 5 notes 'down' from the uke chord, which would be why capoing at the 5th fret would bring the guitar chord 'up' 5 notes to uke tuning?
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Will Approved
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ezmember wrote:
A guitar is "5 notes down" from a uke by default, because it has a longer scale length. A capo can only shorten the length of a string, not lengthen it; the string pitch can only go up, not down. Anytime a capo is used on a guitar, the string length shortens, and the guitar plays in a higher voice. When capoed at the 5th fret, the guitar's tuning changes from EADGBE up to ADGCEA, with the 4 highest strings corresponding to the tuning of a low-G tuned ukulele. Confusion is caused by trying to follow or transpose chord diagrams that were written for another instrument. You need to know the chord shape without looking at a diagram, and just play each chord as written; do not try to imitate the guitarist's fingering, and ignore the guitarist's chord shape diagrams. The problem is that the tab written for guitar was not designed for an instrument with a different tuning. It would be as if you were trying to play off of a baritone uke tab. The chord shapes for guitar are different than the chord shapes for the uke, for the same chord names. When playing the uke with a guitarist, it would be better to just ignore any guitar-based chord finger diagrams and just follow the chord names of the song you are playing. Play the same chord names (not necessarily the same chord shapes) that the guitarist is playing. Trying to transpose chord names in your head, on the fly, is unnecessary. Last edited on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 09:21 pm by Will ____________________ Will http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/297/ Loose Change & Friends http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/245/ http://loosechangeandfriends.com The Earth Tones http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/337/ A Bunch Of Coconuts http://abunchofcoconuts.com |
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Charlie Approved
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NO, If the guitar chord says play D, You would play D also on the ukulele but don't look at his chord, but look at the chord position for the ukulele. Get you a chart for ukulele and look at it and play a C chord and then look at a guitar chart and you will see that they are different but sound the same. to play togather you have to play the same chords on any instrument, But they will fret different. If some one plays a trumpet or a piano or any other instrument and you play with them you have to play in the same key they do. I hope this helps clear up for you Charlie
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Charlie Approved
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I believe Will has explained it better than I can, But maybe to gather you can get what we are trying to explain to you. Good luck and it will come to you and thanks for asking these questions Charlie
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