How to Tune Your Ukulele
When you first get your ukulele it will have brand new strings. New strings go out of tune a lot until they are stretched. Once they are stretched they stay in tune.
How long does it take for the strings to stretch? 2-3 days if you tune your uke every few hours, a week if you tune your uke once a day.
To tune your ukulele, it’s easiest to have a pitch to listen to as you turn the pegs. You can get pitches to tune to from the Online Ukulele Tuner below or from a digital tuner.
How to Tune Your Ukulele
When you first get your ukulele it will have brand new strings. New strings go out of tune a lot until they are stretched. Once they are stretched they stay in tune.
How long does it take for the strings to stretch? 2-3 days if you tune your uke every few hours, a week if you tune your uke once a day.
To tune your ukulele, it’s easiest to have a pitch to listen to as you turn the pegs. You can get pitches to tune to from the Online Ukulele Tuner below or from a digital tuner.
How to Use the Online Ukulele Tuner
The online ukulele tuner uses your device’s microphone to help you tune each string.
1. Under Select Tuning, choose Standard (GCEA) for standard ukulele tuning, for example. (You have a choice of 5 other tunings.)
2. Tap the string you want to tune: G, C, E, or A. The selected string will be highlighted, and its target note will appear above the tuning meter.
3. Tap the microphone button to start the tuner. If your browser asks for permission to use the microphone, allow it.
4. Pluck the selected string on your ukulele. The tuning meter will show whether the note is Flat or Sharp.
5. Slowly turn that string’s tuning peg and pluck the string again. Keep plucking the string and adjusting the peg until the indicator is in the center of the meter, in the green area.
6. Repeat for the other strings until G, C, E, and A are all in tune.
Always Pluck and Turn!
Be sure to pluck the string as you turn the peg to hear if the pitch of your string is getting closer to the reference pitch. This will also make sure that you do not break the string by turning the peg too tight.
Consider a Digital Tuner
You might find it hard to tune by just listening to a pitch and turning the peg. Lots of people love clip on digital tuners which tell you whether to tune up or down. Check out the last video below to see how a clip on digital tuner works. You can get a digital tuner from most music retailers
How to Tune Your Ukulele Videos
Parts of the Ukulele
Here is a video about the parts of the ukulele to help you know how to tune.
Ukulele String Numbers and Names