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| Why No Baritone at Uke Festivals | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28th, 2009 03:28 am |
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fbrown627 Approved
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I read about all the Uke festivals and classes taking place all over the country but none have classes for baritone ukes? Why?
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28th, 2009 04:52 pm |
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UkeForever Approved 
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That's like having a ukulele class for "soprano only" or something of the sort. I see some baritones at uke festivals, and as long as you know the chords for your instrument in that tuning, you can sit in on any ukulele tutorial. Most of the technique classes apply. The only difference might be on some standard uke songs that are fingerpicked and made for the re-entrant tuning. If you're talking about a basic chords class for the baritone, I don't think there's enough business for a class dedicated to bari. But I do think it might be a good idea for the instructors of those basic chord classes to include bari uke chords as well. But how far should we go? Provide alternate chords for D tuned instruments as well?  Last edited on Sat Mar 28th, 2009 04:53 pm by UkeForever |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 02:00 am |
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Neal Approved 
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As UK said above, all the chord shapes and techniques are transferable, unfortunately, you may not be in tune, but that wouldn't prevent you from gaining insight on some good technique. Just not a lot of baritone players. What's wrong with you guys?!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 06:30 pm |
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ralphiewho Approved
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If you have any problems, simply put a capo on fret 5 and you can stay with the fingering and voice of the other ukes. Then use the same fingering for the bari, but for different chords. Learn both and you can switch between C and G keys w/o any difficulty at all (which is true for both baritones and sopranos)
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 08:43 pm |
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fbrown627 Approved
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Good Idea about the capo...I'm just concerned by "old" brain will get the chords confused...not the shapes...which is which when switching between the two instruments. However, when it comes to the part of learning fingerstyle or playing chords up the neck, the capo might get in the way. In a sense, I'd be learning two instruments at once...regular uke and Bari. Last edited on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 08:51 pm by fbrown627 |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 10:36 pm |
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Dave Alexander Approved 
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Fbrown: I tried doing that for a while, and love strumming the sopranos -- and a bari with a capo -- but I can't seem to get up the ambition to memorize the names of the "standard" uke chords. The song chord charts with diagrams are my crutch for soprano songs. As for few baritone ukes...at festivals and elsewhere...I'm doing my part. I've got three, my daughter has one... And I'm converting all small junk guitars I can get my hands on into 4-stringers. Even though the baritone is a recent entry into the uke universe...I have to tell you that the roomy fretboard and guitar style tuning is a godsend for us "lapsed guitarists." (I just used god and lapsed in the same sentence without using the word "Catholic." Cool.)
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