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Ukulele C 6 tuning Play ⓘ. Tuning with the "my dog has fleas" mnemonic. Play ⓘ Chart of common soprano ukulele chords. One of the most common tunings for the standard or soprano ukulele is C 6 tuning: G 4 –C 4 –E 4 –A 4, which is often remembered by the notes in the "My dog has fleas" jingle (see sidebar). [51]
It is similar in shape and tuning to the ukulele, but their character and playing technique are vastly different. It is tuned in a similar fashion to the traditional D tuning of the ukulele, but the A and B are an octave lower. Consequently, the same fingering can be used to shape the chords, but it produces a different inversion of each chord. [1]
Chord inversion is especially simple in major-thirds tuning. Chords are inverted simply by raising one or two notes by three strings. The raised notes are played with the same finger as the original notes. Thus, major and minor chords are played on two frets in M3 tuning even when they are inverted.
More movable chord-shapes. In all guitar tunings, the higher-octave version of a chord can be found by translating a chord by twelve frets higher along the fretboard. [6] In every regular tuning, for example in all-fourths tuning, chords and intervals can be moved also diagonally. For all-fourths tuning, all twelve major chords (in the first
Since standard tuning is most commonly used, expositions of guitar chords emphasize the implementation of musical chords on guitars with standard tuning. The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments.
A variety of tunings are used for the four string tenor guitar, including a relatively small number of re-entrant tunings. One example of a re-entrant tuning for tenor guitar is D 4 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4 with strings 3–1 as for the normal 6-string guitar, but string 4 tuned to D an octave above the 4th string of the 6 string guitar.
Slack-key guitar#Techniques and tunings lists just the note names, which is adequate for the context. Ukulele#Sizes gives tunings in Helmholtz notation, which is then used consistently in the following section on tunings. Six-string alto guitar gives a list of string pitches including F♯.
Other tunings include: D A B E – Portuguese ancient tuning, made popular by Júlio Pereira, reentrant with A being the lowest pitch [4] G G B D [5] A A C ♯ E; D G B E – used for solo parts in Brazil; G D A E – mandolin tuning; G C E A – ‘cavacolele’ tuning, the same as the soprano/tenor ukulele [6]