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Natural, Sharp and Flat Notes of the `Ukulele Fingerboard - D Tuning • Updated: 02 Jan 2005
The D Tuning comes in two versions where string four is either tuned to the "A", a major second below string one or low "A" where string fours is a perfect fifth below string three. The D tuning with a low A is the same as the thin four strings of a standard tuned guitar with a capo at fret (7).

Learning the `Ukulele Fingerboard (Finally!!!) • Updated: 20 Oct 2021
Most players struggle with learning the names of the notes of the ukulele fingerboard. There doesn't seem to a pattern and notes repeat. There is an easy way and "it's easier that you think." Most players know the names of the open strings for their favorite tuning.

Which Way Is Up? - Up, Down, Ascending, Descending, etc... • Updated: 17 Oct 2011
What is up, down, higher, lower, top, bottom, ascending, descending on a guitar? Up, down, higher, lower, top, bottom, ascending, descending should refer to musical pitch and not to direction as we know it. Up and higher refers to the raising of musical pitch. Down and lower refer to the lowering of musical pitch. Top refers to the upper note of a chord voicing or musical phrase and bottom refers to the lowest note.

Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Open Strings • Updated: 18 Mar 2020
There is nothing that returns more value for your investment when learning a fretted musical instrument like the ukulele than really, and I mean really knowing the names of the notes of the fingerboard. This is not the same as learning to read music - but simply knowing the name of any note on the fingerboard - intuitively, second-nature. At a minimum you need to know the open strings to tune the ukulele. In C tuning they are G C E A.

Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Fret (2) • Updated: 18 Feb 2013
There is nothing that returns more value when learning a fretted musical instrument like the ukulele than really, and I mean really knowing the names of the notes of the fingerboard. This is not the same as learning to read music but simply knowing the name of any note on the fingerboard.b

Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Fret (5) • Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Nothing when learning a fretted musical instrument like the ukulele returns more value than really, and I mean really knowing the names of the notes of the ukulele fingerboard. This is not the same as learning to read music — but simply knowing the name of any note on the fingerboard.

Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Fret (7) • Updated: 18 Feb 2013
There is nothing that returns more value when learning a fretted musical instrument like the ukulele than really, and I mean really knowing the names of the notes of the fingerboard. This is not the same as learning to read music — but simply knowing the name of any note on the fingerboard.
Fret (7) is a <em>Key</em> fret. From the key and secondary key frets, adjacent frets can be memorized relative to that fret.

Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Fret (10) • Updated: 13 Feb 2013
There is nothing that returns more value when learning a fretted musical instrument like the ukulele than really, and I mean really knowing the names of the notes of the fingerboard. This is not the same as learning to read music — but simply knowing the name of any note on the fingerboard.
Fret (10) is a <em>Secondary Key</em> fret. From the key and secondary key frets, adjacent frets can be memorized relative to that fret.