![]() The D hangs underneath the stave, and the C is on a line drawn underneath it. On the uke, there are two notes that fall below this: C and D. If you’re not familiar with the word ‘egbdf’, there are plenty of mnemonics to remember it such as Every Good Boy Deserves Football (or any other f-word you think a boy might enjoy). The notes that fall in between the lines spell “FACE” from bottom to top. ![]() ![]() Whether the stems of the notes go up or down doesn’t make any difference at all. Here are the notes as they compare to the tab Each time you shift up a position, you go up to the next white key on the piano (C,D,E,F,G,A,B etc.) The dots can appear on the lines or between them. Notes are indicated by the position of the dots: the higher up the stave a dot is, the higher the note. Like tab, there are a bunch of horizontal lines (known as a stave), but that’s where the similarity ends. So I’m just going over how musical notation indicates pitch. There are certain similarities with tab such as rhythms and repeats (there’s a full guide to reading ukulele tab here). I thought I’d knock together a short post in the hope of making all those squiggles and splatters a little more decipherable. For some reason, there are a few ukulele books that use only standard notation (such as the Jumpin’ Jim books and some of the Ukulele Masters series). Compared to tabs, reading standard notation is a complete pain in the arse.
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