This is a simple way to check your tuning and to tune your ukulele. With this method you have to get at least one of your strings in tune (preferably the low G string), because from that string you will tune the rest of your strings using that as a reference. If you don't have access to a tuning fork, keyboard, or other tuning device, then that's fine. You can get one string as close as you can by ear and then tune the rest of the ukulele to it. The ukulele will be in tune with it's self and will sound just fine, even if every string is a little sharp or flat. Just make sure if your playing with someone that your in tune with them.

Open Strings - Down below I will talk about playing Open Strings. To play an Open String means to play a string without fretting anything. So that's why it's called Open.

Use the picture as a reference, Assuming now that your 4th String(G string) is in tune....

• Fret the 5th fret on the 4th String(G String), If your ukulele is in tune or close, then if you pluck the fretted 4th string(G String) and the open 3rd String(C String), they should sound pretty close. Tune the pegs on your 3rd string(C string) until they match the 4th String(G String).
• Now that the 3rd String(C String) is in tune we can now tune the 2nd String(E String) to it. Fret the 4th fret on the 3rd string(C string) and play that string and the open 2nd String(E String), and then turn the pegs on the 2nd String(E String) till they match.
• Same process again, fret the 5th fret on the 2nd String(E String), and tune the open 1st String(A String) to the fretted 2nd String(E String).

Your ukulele should now be in tune.

Ukulele Tab to check tuning

This tab shows you quickly what frets and string to play to check your tuning.

A:--------0---:
E:-----0--5---:
C:--0--4------:
G:--5---------:

You can also you this free Online Ukulele Tuner to check the tuning on your Uke!

Congratulations on tuning your ukulele!

Comments on this page

Guest1 [17-02-2010 13:28]   im just useless i just cant do it help pppppplllleeeaasssee Guest [05-01-2010 04:28]   Dang i cant tune it! Every time i try it it doesnt work.I got my ukelele 2 ago and i know a couple of songs but i dont know how to tune it! This site is a great help. But i gotta find an easier way for tuning it =[ Moyo [30-12-2009 13:42]   I have just got my ukulele on christmas day. I have been trying to tune it even since. i have tried using my piano, my ear and online tuners but they don't seem to work for me. This way is spot on and is great. Jess [22-12-2009 13:31]   Great site and the Online Turner is excellent. My uke is a little beat-up, but it's a 50 year old Martin. Sweet sound! Guest [04-12-2009 00:50]   all this "wrong" and "right" business is just silly. technical poindexterity doesn't always help someone who is already feeling lost. the chart is both wrong and right. tuning in different octaves may be more difficult for a beginner though, so the first "correction" could be helpful to a newbie.

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