As you play a note on your instrument, adjust the pitch until the tuner indicates the note is in tune. You will be asked to allow access to your device’s microphone so the tuner can hear what you play. To tune your instrument, click the green microphone button.

Most tuners are “chromatic tuners” and detect all 12 distinct notes. Over time, the strings loosen, and the instruments need to be tuned to maintain optimal sound. It's most common to use a tuner for string instruments such as guitars and violins. The tuner indicates whether the note is too high, too low, or in tune, helping musicians tune their instruments easily.

If you’re not, please support us on Patreon so you can get access to all our upcoming online tutorials and challenges.A tuner is a device that detects a note’s pitch when played on a musical instrument, and compares it to the desired pitch. If you’re in London, UK, you’ll learn this in our courses. Get a free ukulele chord chart (and help with how to read it) from here.ĭo you want 6 basic strum patterns to get you going? See more here. How to play the E chord, on the ukulele here. Here’s a video to show you how I play Bb: Is This The Way To Amarillo (in the key change) Give some of these songs a try to help you practice: There are a lot of songs with Bb in them in the Ukulele Wednesdays Songbook. I find this tricky to do if all your fingers go straight on, as when you put the second and third fingers down, the index lifts up. You need the index finger to press down on both the E and the A strings in the first fret, whilst your middle finger is on its tip on the C string in the second fret and the ring finger is on the G string in the third fret. I find it easiest to play Bb by twisting my index finger towards the headstock. If it were a full barre, you’d cover all 4 strings with 1 finger.) Back to the tips: (That means that one finger covers 2 strings.

Now we’ve got that out of the way, I want to share how I play this when it is half barre chord. In some keys, you might call it A# but in others, you might call it Bb but as far as your fingers (and now your brain) are concerned, they are exactly the same thing. They are “enharmonic”. In modern musical notation and tuning, an enharmonic equivalent is a note, interval, chord or key signature that is equivalent to some other note, interval, chord or key signature but “spelled”, or named differently. You do the same thing with your fingers for both chords.

A# (A sharp) and Bb (said B flat, not ‘bee bee’) are exactly the same thing.

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