It is best to tune a ukulele with an electronic tuner or a tuning app on your phone, but sometimes neither is available and we still want to get reasonably in-tune chords from the instrument. One solution is what I call "relative tuning" - I could not think of a better term - where we compare the pitch of the strings with one another and adjust their tension, and therefore their pitch, accordingly:
I had never had the opportunity to try a maple ukulele before, so I was particularly excited to pick up the tenor-size Kai KT-90. The instrument is beautiful, just as it looks in the photos. The maple grai…
C minor is the second chord in our series where barre technique is effectively required. We touched on the subject with D major, but here it becomes much more important. We will learn two C-minor fingering…
For a long time I have had the thought that it would be worth arranging something by Tamás Cseh — and making a video about it — because his guitar-and-vocal format, even though many songs later add further…