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Looking at a tenor lead sheet music. There is just one note in the entire song that I can’t play that is part of a 2 note chord in the entire song. The chord consists of G and that low B. Is there a simple remedy for this? I know nothing about changing keys and that sort of thing. I’m stuck with what’s in front of me.
Becky, see attached. It’s two whole notes, plucked together. I thought that was a chord because it’s more than one note…….so as written, this can’t be played on a regular ukulele without having a low G string?
kirpuff, I just tried your suggestion and it sounded just slightly off, then I tried the open C and the open E together and it sounded pretty good. So is this basically a trial and error thing when you have a lower note that goes beyond the range of the ukulele?
Oh. Remember I don’t read music, but I see what your asking now. I’m assuming the one under the staff is a B since it isnt the G. So take my answer as clueless but it’s what I’d try.
If it were me I’d try to play the B on the low G string and the G on the C sting and see how that sounded first since it’s just two notes. (4th and 7th fret) If you’re high g, then try the B on the C string and the open high g? (Or the 3rd fret E string high g if you wanted a fretted sound?
That’s probably not what you were looking for…
Guys, I think my problems are that I am tying to play off of sheet music for a tenor lead (I don’t know what a tenor lead is). Obviously as I play through it, it’s not what I anticipated. I need to find a straight Lead Sheet as a beginning point. Do you agree?
Lesson: Don’t get a free trial of Guitar Pro and try cramming a bunch of experimentation in 30 days. I am neglecting my challenge but I’m obsessed with this darn monster program. LOL
Becky, I think you came close to my solution……and see my latest comment, I am totally obsessed with standard notation (damn Andrew’s course LOL)…….and for Robin’s sake, just as obsessed as playing Zelda, the game that is, in the 80’s.
That’s what I was doing last month with the Romeo & Juliet Love Theme….total obsession, but open the PDF file that I attached to the song and the results at first glance look impressive which led me to the next song I’m doing now………UGH, time to devote to some “Jigging”.
Hi @rickeymike – my approach depends entirely on context. I assume you are playing the melody on your uke. If so, which note carries the melody? Is it the B or the G?
If it’s the G (which it normally would be, being the higher note), I like @kirpuff’s suggestion of playing a D instead of a B. A G major chord is GBD, so playing the D would be similar. Otherwise, there are a few options you could take.
1) Buy a guitar or a guitalele.
2) Use a low G uke and play 4X3X.
3) Detune your ukulele so it’s a semitone lower. It’s quite easy for me to play that interval on my Bb-tuned uke (I think it’s not technically a chord unless there are 3 notes).
4) Don’t detune your uke, but transpose the whole song up one semitone so that B becomes a C.I just wanted to add to number 4) I know you said you don’t know anything about changing keys, but in this case, you would just play everything one fret higher. That’s it.
Thanks Robin. I definitely need some face time with a musician that can teach these sort of things to me.
Your question to me: Which note carries the melody? How do I determine this? See, that’s what I mean about someone sitting down with me and teaching stuff like that.
Rickey, maybe if you give us a bit more info of in what context the two notes g and b are so we might be able to help you.
If the harmonic situation is Em you could play e-note,
but it could just as well be G major, so the d-note is missing,
or B aug so d#-note is missing,
or C#07 so the c# and b-flat are missing,
or C#ø7 so the c# and b-notes are missing
etc etc. but which of all of this is hard to tell without the rest.
Give us more info. 🙂
If you want the song to be a surprise to us all feel free to p.m. me.
I understand a bit if harmony because I play the piano.
Friendly regards, J.J.P.s. most often, but not always, the top note is the melody note.
If it doesn’t sound too empty, just leave the b out.
I see in you vids that you got good ears, so you can also just use the ears to find a nice second voice note that could fit, rather then dig into harmony books.
That might go faster and is more creative.Hi Jina, In a nutshell, that’s what I do – my “hunt and pluck” method. Basically, I’m asking what can I do when a note (low B) is out of the Ukulele range…… I used my hunk/pluck method to find a substitute note. Yes, leaving the “B” out DOES work!
Please forgive my great ignorance, but I can’t grasp what you are saying about chords, missing notes, harmonic situations, etc. etc.
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