Mar/25/09
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Baritone Ukulele Hunt

A typical day in the Uke Hunt inbox:

Email: Hi, do you have any baritone ukulele tabs?
Me: No, sorry. But Tab-U-Learn has a load.

Email: Do your ebooks cover the baritone ukulele?
Me: No, sorry.

Email: How come you don’t do baritone tabs?
Me: I’m not really a baritone guy.

Email: Do you do baritone chords?
Me: Nope.

Email: I want to buy a baritone ukulele. Which should I get?
Me: Dunno.

Email: Do you have any tabs for the baritone ukulele?
Me: Oh for the love of crisps. FINE.

Baritone Ukulele Hunt

I’m sure there are hundreds of people better suited to a baritone site than me. But, since there’s only Tab-U-Learn doing it, I thought I’d give it a go. It won’t be updated anywhere near as often as Uke Hunt – just when the mood strikes me.

And because I didn’t want the others to feel left out:

Soprano Ukulele
Concert Ukulele
Tenor Ukulele

There’s not going to be much there to interest you (no tabs and chords). It’s mainly aimed at newbies. And an excuse for me to spread my tentacles across the internet. (I said tentacles).

11 Comments

  1. robgonzo March 25th, 2009 8:46 pm

    Learn to transpose is what I say.

  2. Woodshed March 25th, 2009 8:51 pm

    robgonzo: Eh?

  3. zym March 25th, 2009 9:19 pm

    The internet calling Al…

    stop making ukulele websites

    :)

  4. phi March 25th, 2009 9:25 pm

    Now i do feel left out. Where’s Pineapple Ukulele Hunt? ;)

  5. Cardboardfrog March 25th, 2009 11:06 pm

    how convenient i am just about to buy one from theukuleleshop.co.uk in their sale!
    good work ’shed

  6. Paul March 25th, 2009 11:10 pm

    The great Dr Uke site has plenty of baritone chords, for those that way inclined. Personally, I’ll be sticking with the compact and bijou sizes; even a tenor seems like a monstrous carbuncle in comparison.

  7. Gary March 26th, 2009 7:22 am

    Hi Alistair, I use a high Dgbe tuning on my Baritone, then play it as normal. I play alone, so doesn’t matter what key I play.
    Excellent work from the site that has everything. Is your middle name Acme? :-)
    Cheers, Gary

  8. Woodshed March 26th, 2009 8:23 pm

    zym: But I only have… erm… seven?

    phi: It’s next on the list ;)

    cbf: Damn it. You really shouldn’t have mentioned that. More money down the drain.

    Paul: Thanks. I prefer the smaller sizes in general as well.

    Gary: Thanks!

  9. robgonzo March 26th, 2009 9:40 pm

    I was reffering to people clamoring for special music for baritone. When a Baritone player sees a G chord he plays a shape that a uke player would call a C. So, If you know uke chords already, then just transpose the music up a 5th. and play the chords you know.

  10. Woodshed March 28th, 2009 10:36 am

    robgonzo: You could probably say the same for ukulele tabs – just transpose from guitar.

  11. Rich May 13th, 2009 11:21 pm

    Funny thing about tabs: they’re best when they’re instrument independent. I mean the chord over the word says “G”. Just make your “G” shape already! Sure, it’s convenient to have the chord shape printed on the page and all, but now you have to make a new tab for each instrument that might be playing along. Where’s my piano tab? My clarinet tab? Bagpipes?

    I’ve been teaching myself to play the Bari Uke, and I just use guitar chord charts (removing two strings!) to play. I gave my wife a Tenor, and she put chord shapes on index cards. Shuffle up and deal! Now she doesn’t need the cards so much, but when she did, she found the chord shapes just fine not printed on the page.

    So here are some business opportunities for you: Ukulele chords on index cards, and bagpipe tabs!

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