I do lots with multiple types of fretted instruments and when I open my select dialog box up, I have to keep them for baritone, ukulele, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and a couple other weird tunings. Be aware that every time you update Finale, all those deleted guitar chords will be back. ![]() If you're working in ukulele exclusively, you can delete all the guitar shapes and "edit" the chords that are there until you create the ones you want for ukulele. When you add a chord in your score, if you want anything other than standard guitar tuning chord diagrams, you'll need to double click on the chord diagram, then in the chord definition dialog box click "select," and you'll find all the possible shapes Finale thinks would work for the given chord - and many of them will be wrong - but your ukulele chords should be there. Loading your chord library should add those diagrams into the options of pre-made chord charts, but it will most likely put them after the guitar chords. (Sorry, sour grapes here.) Maybe they just want us to be experts in all non-guitar fretboard shapes and to prove it over and over. I'm not sure if Finale knows there are any other fretted instruments other than guitar on this planet. The chord charts it defaults to will always be aggressively guitar-ish even if you only use four strings. Hi Florence: You aren't missing anything. They just can't (won't?) understand reentrant tuning since it's not on their guitar, and they've already cashed the check. For those of you newer to ukulele arrangements, that fourth High G string is really only used for strumming, but I continue to see guitar arrangers (being published by prominent music publishing houses) using the ukulele's high fourth string as a replacement for notes that should be appearing on the second string. ![]() I hope they catch on soon.įYI: I always use "Low G" tuning for my ukulele tablature so when you drag and drop from a line of standard notation, it won't put notes on the fourth string (unless of course you have notes below Middle C, which you shouldn't if your band is using High G ukuleles). I use the same blank over and over because Finale is just not prepared for a world where ukulele and tablature are a thing. Make sure the instrument box says Ukulele and then click "Edit Instruments"Īt the bottom, the string pitches for High G ukulele are Then (these are Macintosh directions):īottom right, next to Notation style: Tablature, click "Settings" To fix:Īdd a ukulele tablature to your score. Ukulele tab is a great way of learning more songs, melodies in particular.Band: Some iterations of Finale had the tuning wrong for ukulele. Which is just another way of showing the familiar C chord! Here’s a little exercise to help you get used to playing two notes at a time. To show a chord (or any notes played at the same time as each other), we just right the numbers above one another, like this: Of course you can also use ukulele tab to show chords, and often pieces written in ukulele tab will sometimes use single notes, and sometimes chords. So you don’t end up sliding one finger around to play all the notes, try and get used to using your first finger to play notes at the first fret, your second finger for the second fret, etc. Remember, your right hand shouldn’t be strumming all the strings, just plucking the string indicated in the ukulele tab (try using a thumb rest stroke). We read from left to right, and try and pluck the string in time with the count. A zero means that string is played open (with no left hand fingers holding it down). The number indicates which fret to hold that string down at. Count a regular 1, 2, 3, 4 as you tap your foot.Īll that we do now to show which notes to play, is write numbers on the strings. The count along the top helps you play the notes on the correct beat. ![]() As you can see from the colour-coding, it might seem upside down at first, but think of it as being written from your point of view! Slide your uke down from the playing position so it is flat your lap and look down at it. The four horizontal lines represent the strings of your uke. It allows you to read and notate melodies without being able to read music, and it shows you exactly where to play it on your ukulele fretboard. Ukulele tablature (tab) is a very easy to understand and useful way of notating ukulele music.
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