Tuesday, June 12, 2018

A New Ukulele Direction

I'm going to try to tab a song. I don't know if I have the patience. I can already tell it's harder than I thought. And I'm using sheet music. Real tabbers do it by ear.

I'm working on a fingerstyle arrangement in Db. That means it has five flats and I'm not really used to that key. I'm going to use my baritone so I can do a straight tab and not have to transpose. I'll transpose it later. Maybe.

One of the things I never thought about was how to treat accidentals. If the note is flated by the key signature does the sharp accidental just raise the note a half step to make it a natural or does it make the note sharp?

Well, don't run away to look it up. I already did. The accidentals don't build on each other. If there's a sharp in front of a G in a Db song you play a G sharp, not a G natural.

So now I know that.

Small steps.

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