Ukulele sheet music

Tuning decides everything

Soprano, concert and tenor ukuleles are normally tuned GCEA, and the overwhelming majority of published material assumes it. The baritone is tuned DGBE — the top four strings of a guitar — so its chord shapes are entirely different and a standard chart will produce the wrong chords.

Within GCEA there is a further split. High G (re-entrant) tuning puts the fourth string above the third, which is the characteristic ukulele sound. Low G tunes it an octave down for a wider range. Chord charts work either way; fingerstyle tab often does not, because it relies on which octave that string sounds in.