I've been playing a High G Tenor for just a few months and love it. My wife just gave me a Koaloha Opio Tenor for an anniversary present. It has low G. To me, the Low G string overpowers the rest of the strings on some cords. It will take a while to get used to, but I love having both.
Good point. Your ear will adapt to the low G and you'll adapt to not playing that string so hard so it blends with the rest of them. Congrats on the anniversary and the new ukulele. A wife that buys you ukuleles, she must be an amazing woman.
@@Ukelikethepros You were right on both counts. My ears are getting used to the low G and I'm liking it. My wife is an amazing woman. 49 years together and she still spoils me!
@@rkane259 Awesome, glad your getting use to the sound and the feel. 49 years is really impressive, something I'm shooting for myself but not quite halfway there. You wife sounds like a great woman.
@@bartman156. its a different string because it needs to be thicker to make the lower g sound. So if you dont have a low g string ask your local music shop
I use both. I use the low G when I need the ability to go below middle C for some melodies and runs. I use the high g when teaching ukulele since that is what most students have. High g is especially helpful when using two finger picking. It give me more melody options so I can use my thumb or my finger to play the melody while playing the chord. Much easier to hit the fourth open string with my thumb when playing a C chord rather than the G on the third fret on the second string. All a matter of taste and preference. I also find that high g provides a great two finger picking sound. High g also give a banjolele more of a banjo sound. So, what do I play the most? I guess it all depends on my mood and the sound I want to create.
I'll have to experiment more with jumping that melody around on the 1st and 4th string while playing high G. It's great that you utilize each one for their specific sounds and styles.
I love the sound of both!! Just ordered myself another Tenor to set up in a low G!! Can't wait to try it out!! Thanks for all your videos they're so helpful. Keep up the good work 👍😊
Cool videos! I like the low probably because I mainly am a guitar player. Makes it easier. Plus I can get some of those low notes you see on sheet music that you can’t get the high g. I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Wow, I was just pondering this question the other day.....How time to see this tutorial. I’ve been told I’m a natural soprano - so I guess I like the Uke with the higher G. Thanks for the lesson Terry😀
Low G vs. High G is such a great discussion. I'm a decades-old guitar player but over the last couple of years I've gotten hooked on uke and guitalele. I saw your other bit about that, too. Recently I upgraded my uke to a Kala Tenor cutaway with pickup. A beautiful instrument and with great sound. I am ready to start doing open mic nights again but this time on uke as I have only done them on guitar. The final answer for me is that you need both. Two songs in particular that I play on uke that really need the low G are James Taylor's Country Road which on guitar is played in dropped D tuning. And to keep the right sound for that song on uke, I transposed it to the key of G. It made the riffs the same on uke as guitar. To get the right sound, I need the low G. Another one is Led Zeppelin Over the Hills and Far Away. To preserve the intonation of that song I also transposed it to G. It sounds terrible with the high G. It's unplayable with high G. One final note of interest to me: these key transpositions that I did turn out to work great with the guitalele. By transposing from D to G on uke, one can play along with a guitar player playing guitalele using the fingerings one would use to play in G. So now my guitar friends can play along on things like Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here where either of us can play either part. Check it out!
Also, once I started playing with the low G, I realized it sounds more like a tiny guitar and a uke. I didn't like that I was giving up that quality of a uke's sound where there's this extra high note all the time. About that same time I learned enough uke to realize that one can do Barre chords on a uke. Now when I'm playing a strumming some with low G, I make more of the chords as Barre chords which puts their root note further up the neck. Any Barre chord where the index finger is on the 5th fret or higher makes that low G a Middle C or higher. The Barre chords with low G give a pretty good sound especially on a quality instrument and you don't have to give up that uke sound to get there.
Really appreciate this Terry, been a guitarist for a long while but only had my uke for a couple of months, high G right now but think in general I prefer the sound of the low G. Just ordered a set of Aquila's. All the best!
I have both, and like them both for different applications. Generalizing grossly here, and with the caveat that this is just my take, the low G lends itself more naturally to scalar or modal improv, maybe because I'm accustomed to instruments that don't use re-entrant tuning. However, the high g really shines for near-banjo rolls, suspended chords, and tighter voicings of altered chords, and (for lack of a better way to put it) just sounds more natural on soprano and concert ukes in particular. If I _had_ to pick one or the other I think it'd be the low G, but that call would be neither obvious nor easy.
My solid body electric uke is a high G. My acoustic/ electric is a low G. I love them both. I alternate practice days between the two, and on my Saturday class for the neighborhood kids I have both on me simultaneously.
@@Ukelikethepros all high G. I've given away most of the ukes ised in class as most of the kids are too young to buy their own and I'm not gonna ask parents to buy anything for class. Florida schools are horrible when it comes to art education, so I'm filling a gap in the system.
Ivan, that is such a great thing that your doing. Have you filled out the form to win the set of Uke Like The Pros books I give out every month? goo.gl/forms/tGQF5dnHCS6i2rzV2
@@ivanterrible7362 God bless you! I have friends who used to teach music in Florida and I feel awful for Florida's school children. :( Thank you so much for fostering a love of music in the children around you!
Nice demonstration of the differences. I plan to get a low G uke for my next purchase. There are some songs that it will work better for than the high G.
There is 1 guitar shop in my neighborhood and they didnt have low g strings, so I ordered some D' Adario strings with low G from Amazon. They came in just in time bc now I'm in quarantine with my uke lol. I like the low g sound though.
I had a tenor with low G, it was a Kala with a pickup and it was fun, but still wanted something with more resonance so I went with a Baritone, now I'm kinda realizing that I like the more traditional Uke sound and I think the High G would be best
Hey Terry, I play both high and low G ukes, as you know, now that I bought that awesome long-necked Concert KoAloha from the uke like the pros store last week with the high G. From my early perspective, my low G Tenor is more suited for blues and fingerstyle play, in general, while the high G uke is more suited to traditional strumming ukulele, Hawaiian music, etc. Love them both.
Hello Terry. As always thank you for your work. I really appreciate it. In my case (I have been learning to play ukelele for only a year and four months) I started with high G tuning and liked it a lot at the begining. However, as I was improving in my learning I started to find the hight G not that good to play Puerto Rican, African, and other afrodescendent music because I kept missing a string that can give me a bass line. So I bought another ukelele and tuned it Low G. In fact I bought also an electric uke (Godin) and tuned it low G. There are some songs where I still ocassionally use the high G, but most of the time my tuning of choice is Low G. I like tuareg and songhay music from West Africa and I have found much easier to attempt (I still can't do it right) to play that music with a Low G. I hope this comment is helpful to your survey.
Great comment, thank you for taking the time especially while traveling. You'll have to share some of the Puerto Rican and African music you are playing with me.
High G is cool for chords but if it's even a bit melodic, particularly a bassline, or arpeggiated the Low G sounds better and is so much easier to play
I've seen some people preforming that have 2 G strings, I believe that have a high and low G together- is this correct? If so how do you go about doing this? Thanks
I bought a spare set of strings for my tenor with low-g. I'm going to switch it next week. I think the sound will fit better since I like to play samba-style songs in the uke.
Terry, you're awesome with the Uke... That's a given🤗 But, tell me one thing... I play a Tenor, with a default Hi-G, and if I as well decide on a Lo-G, will I need to learn the chords another way, or the chord formations will remain the same as on Uke with the Hi-G!? (I may sound so naive to you, please forgive!) 🙂🙏
I got a Low G KoAloha from my husband for Christmas and I am trying to get used to it cause I LOVE my Tenor Low G. I would really like suggestions of songs that sound the best with the Low G. Thanks for your video.... it is making me want to keep the Low G.
I prefer low G for finger style as you can do some nice variations of 'Travis picking'. For more traditional down & up strumming I prefer high G as it gives a more traditional Ukulele sound.
Thanks for your video...! Would like to know if it's easy to replace the high-G by a low-G without any problem for the uke...! I already have a concert uke and I would like to try a tenor size with wide-neck... my wife has very sensitive hearing so, with the concert size, it's a bit aggressing for her hearing; I presume that with a tenor uke, it will be better...!
Of the 6 Ukes I own, I have three main Instruments with permanent Setups for different purposes: 1 in Standard Tuning, 1 low G and 1 for low A / D6 Tuning. Can't imagine it any other way anymore :)
I have ukelele Ovation/Applause - Blue…….as a very nre beginner, I think it is a concert with high G, but Im liking the sounds of low G and unsure whether as a beginner maybe get a Soprano with low G….🤔
Hello Terry, I'm a fairly newby ukulele player since when covid started. I have been playing on a concert ukulele with a high G.(Mitchell). I've always debated on changing the high G to a low G but haven't done so yet. What do you think? Should I just keep practicing with the high G or make the switch? (Who knows maybe one day down the road I'll go buy another Ukulele with a low G)
I only have one uke right now, I put the low G on because I like the extended range for scales and the extra depth in chords, plus as a guitar player it just makes more sense, but some songs do have a "sweeter" tropical feel with high G. If I can only have one though, it has to be low G, I mean why wouldn't you lower your G-string?
I like both of them. High G exclusively for chord playing. For much denser, sweeter, traditional harmonies. But I need Low G for versatility, mainly the extended melodic range.
James Hill has a great idea about choosing between a high G stringed 'ukulele and with a low G one. Also choosing between tabletures or standard music notations. He used a parallelism: "Is it a Vehicle or is it the Destination?" - If the 'ukulele is your destination, then use high G stringed 'ukulele. Destination here means you only want to play the 'Ukulele. So you should use high G and use tablatures. If it's a Vehicle, meaning, you want to play other musical instruments, then use a low G stringed 'ukulele. Also, use standard notations in playing if the uke is your vehicle in learning more profound music (like classical) so you could translate music you learned in the uke in other musical instruments... You have to answer, Is the 'Ukulele the Destination or It's the Vehicle?
Mine came with a high g but if I buy a concert uke (my current uke is a bit smaller) I’ll probably get one with a low g/buy new strings for it, just to try it out.
I knew I wanted the low G & useful to know its not as limiting but also because it's a low note & not so cheery sounding 😄. Currently only have a soprano. To have both sounds, next I'd like a low G tenor but without wound strings, that can eventually rust? Hoping I can get purely nylon.
Just got a ukulele and starting to get into it. I'm a long time guitar player and love nylon strings. My new uke came with the high g but just seems so different to me. I thought a low G string and didn't even realize it was a thing. LoL Looks like a wound string, will have to check out what gauge. Good video, I subscribed.
I’m a beginner, but almost the first thing I did was replace the high G on mine to a low G. I prefer a more guitar-like sound as opposed to the Hawaiian sound that’s more traditional. Truth be told, I probably would have tried guitar first, but the uke for me was just a lot less intimidating, and I feel like I’ve gotten further faster with it than I would have with a guitar.
I'm a beginner myself (concert uke)... but, I want to try a "tenor size" with low-G string and I was wandering if I find a tenor size with a high-G; would it be posible to change it to a low-G without problem for the tension. And I'll try to find one with a wide-neck...! So, your comment on replacing the G string helped me.
This is really good info. I didnt know what i got until i got here. I got a higher G. But im wondering if you can tune down or change to a thicker / thinner string to obtain that high ir low G?
Thanks for the video, I'm new to uke but I'm guessing you can just switch the strings easily enough on any given ukulele? Though you might have to file the nut. Hmmm I guess not then and it's one or the other.
I was just trying that by just tuning my high G an octave lower. Hard to get it in tune, and it doesn't stay in tune once I get it there. I guess the string is just too loose
It's over Anakin, I have the High G!
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This is a fantastic comparison, glad to know the difference. I personally like the low g sound better.
I've been playing a High G Tenor for just a few months and love it. My wife just gave me a Koaloha Opio Tenor for an anniversary present. It has low G. To me, the Low G string overpowers the rest of the strings on some cords. It will take a while to get used to, but I love having both.
Good point. Your ear will adapt to the low G and you'll adapt to not playing that string so hard so it blends with the rest of them. Congrats on the anniversary and the new ukulele. A wife that buys you ukuleles, she must be an amazing woman.
@@Ukelikethepros You were right on both counts. My ears are getting used to the low G and I'm liking it. My wife is an amazing woman. 49 years together and she still spoils me!
@@rkane259 Awesome, glad your getting use to the sound and the feel. 49 years is really impressive, something I'm shooting for myself but not quite halfway there. You wife sounds like a great woman.
Gorgeous uke :) congrats!
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this is so helpful. i really like the sound of the low-g better
Yeah it sounds closer to acoustic guitar.
This is why I play Middle G.
😂 😂😂 Or we can be like Taimane and play both high and low g on the same ukulele.
@@Ukelikethepros I need ukulele with 5 string for this
Do you need a different string for a low G or is it the same as the high G?
@@bartman156. its a different string because it needs to be thicker to make the lower g sound. So if you dont have a low g string ask your local music shop
@@bartman156. you need different string
A high g string would be to lose
If you tried to make it a low g
0:40 Low G
1:01 High G
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THANKS! But I still can't decide which kind to get . . . Hahaha.
I appreciate the range and resonance of the low g on my tenor, but I hope to have one of each at some point. Thanks for the video!
Your welcome, yes having one of each is useful. I went a long time only have a low G as well.
Hubby, a beginner, plays a High G and this tutorial has cleared things up for him, thank you.
I use both. I use the low G when I need the ability to go below middle C for some melodies and runs. I use the high g when teaching ukulele since that is what most students have. High g is especially helpful when using two finger picking. It give me more melody options so I can use my thumb or my finger to play the melody while playing the chord. Much easier to hit the fourth open string with my thumb when playing a C chord rather than the G on the third fret on the second string. All a matter of taste and preference. I also find that high g provides a great two finger picking sound. High g also give a banjolele more of a banjo sound. So, what do I play the most? I guess it all depends on my mood and the sound I want to create.
I'll have to experiment more with jumping that melody around on the 1st and 4th string while playing high G. It's great that you utilize each one for their specific sounds and styles.
I have several Ukes. I have a couple High Gs, but most have a Low G. In general I prefer a Low G.
Well before this video,I actually thought I wanted a low G, but now you’ve made me realise that I prefer the high G🤗
I love the sound of both!! Just ordered myself another Tenor to set up in a low G!! Can't wait to try it out!! Thanks for all your videos they're so helpful. Keep up the good work 👍😊
Cool videos! I like the low probably because I mainly am a guitar player. Makes it easier. Plus I can get some of those low notes you see on sheet music that you can’t get the high g. I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Wow, I was just pondering this question the other day.....How time to see this tutorial. I’ve been told I’m a natural soprano - so I guess I like the Uke with the higher G. Thanks for the lesson Terry😀
I am a new player and I have the high G but now I am longing for the low G. Thanks, Terry.
Very informative, as always! I have a high-G Concert. Now, I need a 3rd ukulele, so I can have one with a low-G set up.
Low G vs. High G is such a great discussion. I'm a decades-old guitar player but over the last couple of years I've gotten hooked on uke and guitalele. I saw your other bit about that, too. Recently I upgraded my uke to a Kala Tenor cutaway with pickup. A beautiful instrument and with great sound. I am ready to start doing open mic nights again but this time on uke as I have only done them on guitar. The final answer for me is that you need both. Two songs in particular that I play on uke that really need the low G are James Taylor's Country Road which on guitar is played in dropped D tuning. And to keep the right sound for that song on uke, I transposed it to the key of G. It made the riffs the same on uke as guitar. To get the right sound, I need the low G. Another one is Led Zeppelin Over the Hills and Far Away. To preserve the intonation of that song I also transposed it to G. It sounds terrible with the high G. It's unplayable with high G. One final note of interest to me: these key transpositions that I did turn out to work great with the guitalele. By transposing from D to G on uke, one can play along with a guitar player playing guitalele using the fingerings one would use to play in G. So now my guitar friends can play along on things like Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here where either of us can play either part. Check it out!
Also, once I started playing with the low G, I realized it sounds more like a tiny guitar and a uke. I didn't like that I was giving up that quality of a uke's sound where there's this extra high note all the time. About that same time I learned enough uke to realize that one can do Barre chords on a uke. Now when I'm playing a strumming some with low G, I make more of the chords as Barre chords which puts their root note further up the neck. Any Barre chord where the index finger is on the 5th fret or higher makes that low G a Middle C or higher. The Barre chords with low G give a pretty good sound especially on a quality instrument and you don't have to give up that uke sound to get there.
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High G for me! Love that bright sound! :)
Is it a matter of tuning the string to a high or low G, or would you require a different string altogether?
Really appreciate this Terry, been a guitarist for a long while but only had my uke for a couple of months, high G right now but think in general I prefer the sound of the low G. Just ordered a set of Aquila's. All the best!
Thanks so much!
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So would you recommend a high G or a low G for an absolute beginner? Is there a better place to start or it doesn’t make a difference?
I’m so torn. I was hoping this video would help me decide, I was wrong
Thank you! Great demonstration. I just got a Low G Concert today. Have been playing 13 months.
Hi Terry, I love my low G, not only does it sound great I think it covers my mistakes well. 😀Keep up the good work mate, love watching your videos.
Haha, I like that. I guess it covers my mistakes as well. Thanks for watching and the comment
I have both, and like them both for different applications. Generalizing grossly here, and with the caveat that this is just my take, the low G lends itself more naturally to scalar or modal improv, maybe because I'm accustomed to instruments that don't use re-entrant tuning. However, the high g really shines for near-banjo rolls, suspended chords, and tighter voicings of altered chords, and (for lack of a better way to put it) just sounds more natural on soprano and concert ukes in particular.
If I _had_ to pick one or the other I think it'd be the low G, but that call would be neither obvious nor easy.
Terry I'm a Low G Man! Just jamming in my Wonderland! Great video! 👍🏿🎸😎💃🏾🌅
We are G Men and low G men at the same time.
My solid body electric uke is a high G. My acoustic/ electric is a low G. I love them both. I alternate practice days between the two, and on my Saturday class for the neighborhood kids I have both on me simultaneously.
That is awesome and great discipline alternating. Do you find the kids in your Saturday class have mostly high or low g?
@@Ukelikethepros all high G. I've given away most of the ukes ised in class as most of the kids are too young to buy their own and I'm not gonna ask parents to buy anything for class. Florida schools are horrible when it comes to art education, so I'm filling a gap in the system.
Ivan, that is such a great thing that your doing. Have you filled out the form to win the set of Uke Like The Pros books I give out every month? goo.gl/forms/tGQF5dnHCS6i2rzV2
@@ivanterrible7362 God bless you! I have friends who used to teach music in Florida and I feel awful for Florida's school children. :( Thank you so much for fostering a love of music in the children around you!
I’ll go all the way with a low G now, this is awesome, much better sounding!
Thanks for making this video! I’m a complete novice. Now I know what kind of uke I have and what strings to order.
I just love your Ukulele playing style sir ❤️
I have high G but want to go low as well
I think you will like it, best to keep your high g and add a low g to the arsenal.
Nice demonstration of the differences. I plan to get a low G uke for my next purchase. There are some songs that it will work better for than the high G.
Agree, some stuff does sound great on high G, but you will find many uses for the low G.
Well one reason for the high G is that you can use the (high) A and the high G together to play melodies much easier.
True good point. That is something I have to work on more. What songs do you do that with?
@@Ukelikethepros I know it's been 3 years but did you ever end up messing around with melodies using the high G and A string?
Great, thanks! Sticking with high G on my tenor.
There is 1 guitar shop in my neighborhood and they didnt have low g strings, so I ordered some D' Adario strings with low G from Amazon. They came in just in time bc now I'm in quarantine with my uke lol. I like the low g sound though.
I had a tenor with low G, it was a Kala with a pickup and it was fun, but still wanted something with more resonance so I went with a Baritone, now I'm kinda realizing that I like the more traditional Uke sound and I think the High G would be best
Hey Terry, I play both high and low G ukes, as you know, now that I bought that awesome long-necked Concert KoAloha from the uke like the pros store last week with the high G. From my early perspective, my low G Tenor is more suited for blues and fingerstyle play, in general, while the high G uke is more suited to traditional strumming ukulele, Hawaiian music, etc. Love them both.
Hello Terry. As always thank you for your work. I really appreciate it. In my case (I have been learning to play ukelele for only a year and four months) I started with high G tuning and liked it a lot at the begining. However, as I was improving in my learning I started to find the hight G not that good to play Puerto Rican, African, and other afrodescendent music because I kept missing a string that can give me a bass line. So I bought another ukelele and tuned it Low G. In fact I bought also an electric uke (Godin) and tuned it low G. There are some songs where I still ocassionally use the high G, but most of the time my tuning of choice is Low G. I like tuareg and songhay music from West Africa and I have found much easier to attempt (I still can't do it right) to play that music with a Low G. I hope this comment is helpful to your survey.
Great comment, thank you for taking the time especially while traveling. You'll have to share some of the Puerto Rican and African music you are playing with me.
High G is cool for chords but if it's even a bit melodic, particularly a bassline, or arpeggiated the Low G sounds better and is so much easier to play
I've seen some people preforming that have 2 G strings, I believe that have a high and low G together- is this correct? If so how do you go about doing this?
Thanks
I bought a spare set of strings for my tenor with low-g. I'm going to switch it next week. I think the sound will fit better since I like to play samba-style songs in the uke.
I have a question. I have a concert ukelele originally tuned with the high g. Will I have any problems if I’d change it to a low g tune? Thanks
Great review! I prefer the low G. Will probably get both! Looking forward for more reviews. New subscriber.
Thank that really helped! I think i’m going to buy a low g i love to have more bass
I tune in 4ths starting with the top G, D, A, E. Makes it symmetrical.
Terry, you're awesome with the Uke... That's a given🤗 But, tell me one thing... I play a Tenor, with a default Hi-G, and if I as well decide on a Lo-G, will I need to learn the chords another way, or the chord formations will remain the same as on Uke with the Hi-G!? (I may sound so naive to you, please forgive!) 🙂🙏
The chords are the same .
I got a Low G KoAloha from my husband for Christmas and I am trying to get used to it cause I LOVE my Tenor Low G. I would really like suggestions of songs that sound the best with the Low G. Thanks for your video.... it is making me want to keep the Low G.
I prefer low G for finger style as you can do some nice variations of 'Travis picking'. For more traditional down & up strumming I prefer high G as it gives a more traditional Ukulele sound.
I have a tenor with a high g but I’m needing some new strings soon so I think ima switch it up a bit 😁
Thanks for your video...! Would like to know if it's easy to replace the high-G by a low-G without any problem for the uke...! I already have a concert uke and I would like to try a tenor size with wide-neck... my wife has very sensitive hearing so, with the concert size, it's a bit aggressing for her hearing; I presume that with a tenor uke, it will be better...!
Thanks for explaining the lower G. Have a soprano with high G.
I’ve been wondering why finger style on my high G sounds too bad and it annoyed me so bad. Thank you for the video
Your welcome glad we could help
I just started playing and my tenor came with high G but I love the sound of the low G so am going to switch. Great video, thanks!
Of the 6 Ukes I own, I have three main Instruments with permanent Setups for different purposes: 1 in Standard Tuning, 1 low G and 1 for low A / D6 Tuning. Can't imagine it any other way anymore :)
I have ukelele Ovation/Applause - Blue…….as a very nre beginner, I think it is a concert with high G, but Im liking the sounds of low G and unsure whether as a beginner maybe get a Soprano with low G….🤔
Hello Terry, I'm a fairly newby ukulele player since when covid started. I have been playing on a concert ukulele with a high G.(Mitchell). I've always debated on changing the high G to a low G but haven't done so yet. What do you think? Should I just keep practicing with the high G or make the switch?
(Who knows maybe one day down the road I'll go buy another Ukulele with a low G)
Can you post the chord progression in the example please. I was humming it all day and started playing it but one chord I can’t quite get right
Yes, but are they different instruments or can you put a low G string on any Uke? Is it up to the strings or the instrument itself?
Whats better for flamenco and rockabily
I only have one uke right now, I put the low G on because I like the extended range for scales and the extra depth in chords, plus as a guitar player it just makes more sense, but some songs do have a "sweeter" tropical feel with high G. If I can only have one though, it has to be low G, I mean why wouldn't you lower your G-string?
I like both of them. High G exclusively for chord playing. For much denser, sweeter, traditional harmonies. But I need Low G for versatility, mainly the extended melodic range.
I think you meant to say at 1:49 that more tenor ukulele are starting to come with 'low' G strings.
James Hill has a great idea about choosing between a high G stringed 'ukulele and with a low G one. Also choosing between tabletures or standard music notations. He used a parallelism: "Is it a Vehicle or is it the Destination?" - If the 'ukulele is your destination, then use high G stringed 'ukulele. Destination here means you only want to play the 'Ukulele. So you should use high G and use tablatures. If it's a Vehicle, meaning, you want to play other musical instruments, then use a low G stringed 'ukulele. Also, use standard notations in playing if the uke is your vehicle in learning more profound music (like classical) so you could translate music you learned in the uke in other musical instruments... You have to answer, Is the 'Ukulele the Destination or It's the Vehicle?
Mine came with a high g but if I buy a concert uke (my current uke is a bit smaller) I’ll probably get one with a low g/buy new strings for it, just to try it out.
Can you do a comparison with sopranos please?
I knew I wanted the low G & useful to know its not as limiting but also because it's a low note & not so cheery sounding 😄. Currently only have a soprano. To have both sounds, next I'd like a low G tenor but without wound strings, that can eventually rust? Hoping I can get purely nylon.
thank you ı want both now 😭
You are most welcome.
Mainly Low G, but now I use DGBE on my tenor uke, sounds nice.
Cool, you tune it like a Baritone Ukulele. Instertesing. Did you get baritone strings for it or just use the regular tenor ukulele strings?
@@Ukelikethepros I use aquila AQ U11 strings. These are tenor sized, but tuned DGBE.
@@patrykwisniewski3418 So do you tune it up to DGBE or down to DGBE? Basically is it higher sounding or lower sounding than tenor tuning?
It's lower sounding.
@@patrykwisniewski3418 Cool, that's what I figured buw wanted to check. Thanks.
QUESTION: Can you switch the g string on your uke? Taking the high g off and replace it with the low g?
This is no problem. every uke can be used as low or high g, just switch the g string
Where do you get a low g string from?
Traditional Style/Hula Twin Ukes 1 in low G and 1 high G, lap steel, slack key or standard guitar and wash tub bass or acoustic bass.
Very useful! Now I understand why my ukulele teacher added one more string on his ukulele 🤣
Sweet
Just got a ukulele and starting to get into it. I'm a long time guitar player and love nylon strings. My new uke came with the high g but just seems so different to me. I thought a low G string and didn't even realize it was a thing. LoL Looks like a wound string, will have to check out what gauge. Good video, I subscribed.
Please, is the low G an option only for tenor ukes, or is this also an option for concert ukes? Thank you very much.
I have a concert low g, sounds great
Can concert and Tenor ukeleles both be tuned to either high or low G?
Y la pregunta es se puede cambiar solo la cuerda de high G a low G ?
Those are beautiful ukuleles:)
I have the high G tenor (HORSE brand) ukulele. Have a good day!!! says Judy Corrette
Hello my name is Cindy and I would like to know where I can buy the low g tenor ukulele
can High G and Low G be played the same way? Like the finger position
Great vid. The high g is really needed to play banjo styles on Uke, if you get into that sound, as it acts like the high in an open G banjo tuning..
Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for watching! :)
I have one concert uke with high G, and I'm going to mount low G on electro-acoustic concert uke for more guitar-like sound.
can someone please tell me how to play the demonstrative riff at 2:53
I’m a beginner, but almost the first thing I did was replace the high G on mine to a low G. I prefer a more guitar-like sound as opposed to the Hawaiian sound that’s more traditional.
Truth be told, I probably would have tried guitar first, but the uke for me was just a lot less intimidating, and I feel like I’ve gotten further faster with it than I would have with a guitar.
I'm a beginner myself (concert uke)... but, I want to try a "tenor size" with low-G string and I was wandering if I find a tenor size with a high-G; would it be posible to change it to a low-G without problem for the tension. And I'll try to find one with a wide-neck...! So, your comment on replacing the G string helped me.
This is really good info. I didnt know what i got until i got here. I got a higher G. But im wondering if you can tune down or change to a thicker / thinner string to obtain that high ir low G?
Low G for me 😍🏆
Thanks for the video, I'm new to uke but I'm guessing you can just switch the strings easily enough on any given ukulele? Though you might have to file the nut. Hmmm I guess not then and it's one or the other.
1:59 High G tuning
3:12 Low G tuning
Can i use a D guitar sring as a low Gon a ukulele wwhithout damaging the ukulele..? Tks
can I convert my high g to low g? Is there a physical difference between the two?
You just need to replace the G string with a low G string. I recommend replacing all the strings as it'll be more consistent in tune that way.
I was just trying that by just tuning my high G an octave lower. Hard to get it in tune, and it doesn't stay in tune once I get it there. I guess the string is just too loose
@@abbyseipert3457 cool thanks it makes it more versatile
Can I use aD guitar string as Low G on Ukulele without damages o. Ukulele?
i like the high G for strumming but low G for finger picking
Why is the 4th string a lighter gauge than the 3rd and 2nd on the Tenor Ukulele.
I need a low g string set. Which do you recommend?
Is the g string only tuned lower or is it a heavier gauge g string? I like the sound of the low g and what to change my tenor ukulele properly.
For Low G you have to get a Low G string. They are thicker and heavier gauge than high G.
@@Ukelikethepros Thank you.
I have a High G and I'm really enjoying it. says Judy Corrette
What riff is at 2:33
It's the A Minor Pentatonic Scale in the Open Position. Here you go ua-cam.com/video/7vh0iwF5quE/v-deo.html