One-Take Tutorial -- DGBE Baritone tips for GCEA-Brained Ukulele Players
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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February 2, 2022
Thanks for watching! One-Take Tutorials are casual "workshop" videos filmed live and unedited. I'll put timestamps down below so you can skip around to the parts that interest you most. Feel free to leave suggestions for songs/topics you'd like to see me teach next. Would you like me to make a One-Take Tutorial on how to transpose or how to find the right key for your voice, for example?
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00:00 An awkward moment
00:20 What even is this video?
01:15 What kind of player is this tutorial for?
01:28 High G/Low G/Baritone
02:57 Shapes vs. Chords
03:23 Playing Solo and "Automatic Transposition"
06:07 Playing with other people
08:05 The musical alphabet
09:17 The "Count up 4" rule to find your shape in GCEA "language" and related chart
Errata: at 11:09 I say "just remember it's a Bb, not a C" but what I meant to say was "just remember it's a Bb, not a B." Sorry!
11:39 Example of a mnemonic device to memorize this shape transposition
14:24 Working from a GCEA shape to find out what chord I'm playing on my DGBE baritone: "Count up 5" or read the chart backward.
15:35 Demo and review with "The 59th Street Bridge Song"
Errata: at 17:14 I say the alphabet wrong and get confused. Enjoy!
19:53 In conclusion
20:54 An awkward moment
Bonus: how about these rhyming rules of thumb I just thought of?
** Count Up 4 to Join the Corps -- this is your rule if you're playing with a mostly GCEA group and they don't have any baritone chord sheets for you. Count up 4 to find the GCEA shape you should play. Be sure to add the 7/m/sus/etc. if there is one. If they're all playing C, you need to count C D E F and play the GCEA "F shape" to play a true DGBE C chord.
** Count Up 5 to Keep Truth Alive -- this is your rule if you're playing a GCEA shape that you know but you don't know what the Baritone equivalent is. If you're playing the GCEA G shape, you can count G A B C D and know you are actually playing a DGBE D chord.
Clear as mud? :) 
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One more tip if you don’t have time to do the mental math and you’re in a uke group as the lone baritone player, with no baritone song sheets - you can, in a pinch, put a capo on your 5th fret, which would allow you to play it as if it were a GCEA uke! Just think of that capo as the new nut, or “zero fret” and adjust from there.
Thank you!
You are one of the few teachers out there who addresses the difference in what standard, i .e CGEA tuned, SHAPES you play on a baritone to match some one playing a standard uke vs. answering the question of what KEY you are in on either instrument. Well done!
Thanks for the comment. I'm glad you found that useful!
This was very helpful.
This was very helpful and reassuring because I like both my baritone and spano uke and want to sound right when playing with the regular ukes
Thank you SO much. I've been playing sopranos -GCEA and I've just bought a baritone. This is really helpful. All best.
Thanks so much for the feedback! Enjoy your baritone!
Great tutorial, lovely baritone - and I love your cardigan as well!
I don't suppose you knit it yourself?
(Ravelry link?)
Fantastic tutorial Jenny, loved it! I don’t have a baritone, but it was fascinating to see how to relate the chords on the two instruments. Also, your Kanilea sounds out of this world - such a rich, warm tone. Your clear and cheerful style makes this a very watchable tutorial. Many thanks!
Thanks so much, Mo! I really appreciate it. And yes, I’m loving the tone on this baritone!
Good explanations... not only in this video.
Thanks for all the nice work.
I will also no longer speak of my "guitar",
but of a "low g baritone ukulele with 2 additional strings"
and clamp the capo in the fifth fret from time to time...
😀
Haha! Enjoy your super-baritone! Thanks for the comments!
Great tutorial and explanation. I had a baritone for a short bit from Bonanza. I love the sound and how playable/ comfortable it is. But I could not get how to play it. I gave it to my youngest and he says it is his favorite and go to uke. He can play along with other uke players. Sometime I would like to get another baritone as love the rich sound and practice how you teach it here. Thank you !
Thanks! I’m glad your youngest is enjoying it and I hope you get a chance to try it again!
I really liked your video. It was was full of great information. I am comfortable with GCEA chord shapes and got a baritone to try something different. My problem with the baritone so far is.... It seems that most of the lessons I've found online for the baritone are strumming and I don't sing. It's hard for me to find any baritone fingerstyle music.
Thanks, Allen! You can use non-baritone fingerstyle arrangements if you are playing solo and okay with them being in a different key. You’ll want to use ones written for Low G unless you have a High D baritone. Last night I was playing through a chord melody book by Spencer Gay on my baritone. It was written for low G tuning but sounded great. I see he has a fingerstyle book, too, among others. Find them here, free: www.ukeeducation.org/
You could have included when you were introducing the five steps up about the circle of fifths
This is true! Here's a simple one, for folks reading this comment later: www.gotaukulele.com/2012/02/theory-circle-of-fifths.html
I have a baritone uke strung for gcea (low g).
Yep, folks can choose to buck tradition and get strings that allow baritone ukes to be strung GCEA. So this video would be entirely unnecessary for anyone sticking with that tuning.😉
whack a set of GCEA strings on your baritone… problem solved
Ha! True - unless if one prefers DGBE sound. But some are happy with GCEA on baritone. I actually just found an octave lower GCEA string set that I’m excited to try. 🙂