You can tune a ukulele using a tuner, a piano, pitch pipes, or you can tune the ukulele to itself. The ukulele can be tuned using various different methods. This may mean that you have to stop and tune part-way through playing and it is very possible you may even need to re-tune more than once during a practice. If your strings are new, you may need to tune very frequently while the strings get used to being stretched. Let the note ring after you have plucked the string as this will help you to hear the note better. When you are tuning your ukulele, it helps to pluck the string with the same finger (or with your thumb) every time you check the pitch of the string so that the sound that you hear remains consistent. To remedy this, play a few chords after you have tuned with a hard strum or stretch the strings out a little at the nut to release any slack that may have built up, then check the tuning of your ukulele again. This is because when you loosen strings, leftover slack in the string often remains behind the nut and is released as you pluck and strum. If you finish tuning your ukulele by lowering the string, then your string will often fall flat quicker. Tuning from below the note also helps to systematize the process of tuning, so you eventually become more familiar with the sound of a perfectly in-tune string. This prevents string breakages and over-stretching the string. When tuning any instrument, you should always tune from below the note, up. Check out our Online Ukulele Tuner to give it a go with your ukulele!
To tune with a tuner that plays a note, you simply try to match the sound of your string to the reference note by turning the tuning peg higher or lower as needed. Once you start to become familiar with the standard pitch of the ukulele strings (or if you already feel that you have a good ear), you may like to progress on to using a tuner that plays a note. If you have a microphone for your computer, or your computer has an in-built microphone, then you can use our Chromatic Instrument Tuner. Chromatic tuners register the sound you are playing, and let you know if the note you have played is too sharp or too flat. If you are just beginning to tune your ukulele, then it is a good idea to use a chromatic tuner to start off with. Most tuners have small gears attached to them to make turning the tuner smoother and easier, although tuning set-ups on cheap models of ukulele are known to slip very easily, causing the ukulele to go out of tune. The strings of the ukulele are tightened or loosened to produce the right note by the tuners (otherwise known as tuning pegs or pegs) which are located in the head of the ukulele, with pegs either to the side or pointing backwards.
The baritone ukulele is the most differently tuned of the four types of ukulele, as it is tuned to the same pitch as the four-highest strings of the guitar, with the scientific pitch: D3-G3-B3-E4. While the high-G tenor tuning is exactly the same as the concert and soprano tuning (G4-C4-E4-A4), the low-G tuning breaks away from the standard ukulele re-entrant tuning by lowering the G-string by an octave (G3-C4-E4-A4). The tenor on the other hand has two common G-C-E-A tunings, involving either a high-G or low-G. While the standard tuning of the soprano ukulele is A4-D4-F#4-B4, it is now almost exclusively tuned down to the 'concert' tuning of G4-C4-E4-A4. However, it has become more common for the three smallest types of ukulele to all be tuned to G-C-E-A. The four main types of ukulele (soprano, concert, tenor and baritone) each have their own standard tuning.
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