Re-entrant Tuning and Scales on the Ukulele

Recently John V. asked a question on Ukulele scales.

My uke is tuned in re-entrant tuning. The cheat sheet seems to assume linear tuning?

As a household we do have a lot of Ukuleles (6 and counting!) I play Ukulele but came to it from guitar so I probably have a guitar centric view of Ukulele and like a low G tuning. Many folk prefer the high G or re-entrant tuning on the top string.

Our Cheat Sheets assume low G tuning. If you are using a Ukulele strung with a high G string then it will get confusing as the tonic and 2nd will be much higher than the 3rd.

Often the scale will simply be played on the top three strings if you want the scale to be linear. In researching this question there is a technique call Campanella that builds on the re-entrant tuning. Here is video discussing Campanella from Sam Muir Ukulele.

There is a lot of interesting stuff there but I am going to stick with my low G and keep it simple for now.

David

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