Day 8

Here's today's tabs.

Guitar:
|------------------------------------------------------0-1-2-3-4-|
|-------------------------------------------0-1-2-3-4------------|
|----------------------------------0-1-2-3-----------------------|
|-----------------------0-1-2-3-4--------------------------------|
|------------0-1-2-3-4-------------------------------------------|
|-0-1-2-3-4------------------------------------------------------|

Ukulele:
|------------------------------------------------------0-1-2-3-4-|
|-------------------------------------------0-1-2-3-4------------|
|----------------------------------0-1-2-3-----------------------|
|-----------------------0-1-2-3-4--------------------------------|

Bass:
|----------------------------------0-1-2-3-----------------------|
|-----------------------0-1-2-3-4--------------------------------|
|------------0-1-2-3-4-------------------------------------------|

|-0-1-2-3-4------------------------------------------------------|

Play it forward. Play it in reverse. Strum it up, down, alternating. You know the drill by now.

Optional Music Theory Lesson:
Wondering why those bolded bits are different than their neighboring strings?.
Here's the thing: guitars are tuned weirdly.
That's not entirely true, but we're going to pretend it's a full answer.

(And I know I said no music theory, but here's a tiny bit. Notes have names. ABCDEFG. After G comes A again. That A is higher than the previous A, but it's still the same note. Play an open string, then play your 12th fret on that string, and you'll hear it. It's the same, except higher. Those notes are an octave apart. That's the word to remember. Octave: same note name, but higher or lower in pitch. Music lesson done.)

Guitars are tuned EADGBe*
If you've tuned your guitar or ukulele to itself, you know what I mean. Fret your low E string at the fifth fret, it plays an A. It plays the same A as your A string.
Fifth fret on A is D, same as your D string.
Fifth fret on D is the same as your G string
Fifth fret on G is C. Not the same as your B string. Fourth fret on your G is B.
Fifth fret on your B is e. We're back where we started.

Your ukulele, same thing. If you've got a concert or a soprano, it's going to be harder to hear because of the high G string, but
Ukulele's are tuned gCEA.
Fifth fret on the high g is an octave above your C string.
Fourth fret on your C string is E
Fifth fret on your E is A

Ukuleles can also be tuned GCEA if you're playing low G like on a tenor, and GDBE if you're playing baritone. The intervals between the strings are the same, so you can use the ukulele tabs when you're playing baritone.

And here's why I like bass best:
4-string bass is tuned EADG
Fifth fret on E is A
Fifth fret on A is D
Fifth fret on D is G
Nothing funky. Fifth fret. That's all.**

And that's why the guitar and ukulele tab have that funky bit in the middle, but the bass doesn't. If you played that string like you played the others, you'd have a note that repeats.

What you're playing is called a chromatic scale. It's a good ear exercise. It's also just a great finger exercise, and good for teaching you about that tricky B string.

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* E means low E, e means high E. G is low G, g is high G
**If you're thinking boy howdy, I'd like to learn music theory on a stringed instrument, bass is the way to go. Intervals are obvious and consistent. Arpeggios and scales make patterns you can move to any point on the neck and still have it work. On the other hand, you're going to have to learn it on a different blog.