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Metallica — One (Ukulele)

An all-ukulele cover of the Metallica classic ‘One’! This was by far the most difficult cover I’ve done. It’s long, it’s intricate and devilishly fast at the end. The whole process of tabbing, learning, playing, and finally editing this monstrosity took me the better part of two weeks. I’m pretty pleased with the final result. There’s still a few bits I wish I’d played a little cleaner. Full disclosure: I actually couldn’t pull off a clean take of the main solo, no matter how hard I tried. By the time I realized this, I had already put a lot of work into the rest of the song, so I decided to record it at 80% and speed it back up in post, rather than shelve the song. A cheat, for sure, but the song sounds better for it. Plus I’ve heard that Kirk Hammet has done the same thing on a few Metallica albums, so I don’t feel too bad. Here’s an MP3 for you kids and your eye-pods and walkman-type thinga-ma-jigs: http://ukesofhazzard.com/mp3s/Hazzmax. Here’s the Guitar Pro tab of what I played: http://ukesofhazzard.com/tabs/Metalli. And a PDF version, if you don’t have GP: http://ukesofhazzard.com/tabs/Metalli. And here’s a video of the original, for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bT.

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Using Guitar Pro 6 to Create Ukulele Tablature

For years, Guitar Pro 6 has been the premium tablature creating software on the market. Now that it’s been superseded by Guitar Pro 7 we can debate over which is better, but I get the impression that much is the same between the two. The biggest advantages the Guitar Pro software has over others is its intuitive layout and fast note input. Even if it is your first time making a tab you should still be able to make a nice-looking product without too much headache.

It’s not free ($70 for GP7, significantly more for a hard copy of GP6 from Amazon – as of January 2018), but like most good programs, it’s worth the money. I once ran Powertab (a freeware tab program) like a pro and thought it was great. But now I look back and cringe at the appearance of my old Powertabs, realizing how much better Guitar Pro is at just about everything.

Because it’s great and people are using it more and more to make ukulele tabs, I decided to make up a set of video tutorials on how to use Guitar Pro 6. All these video are recorded at 1080p so you can watch in high-definition full screen mode and actually see what I’m seeing on my computer. I’m a Mac user, but don’t see any reason why the Windows version would be any different.

Guitar Pro 6 Overview & Features

In this video I talk about the layout of the program, what you can do with it, and other general aspects beyond the scope of the how-to videos below.

Setting Up an Ukulele Track

Before you can do much you have to get Guitar Pro out of guitar mode and into ukulele mode and create a blank tab. That’s what I demonstrate here.

Adding Notes to the Tablature

This is the most straightforward part of my tutorial series: how to put notes on the lines using your keypad.

How to Insert Chords Above the Tab

One of the most exciting features of GP6 is that you can make chord diagrams appear above the tab to show fingerings. It’s not as easy as it should be, but it looks nice enough that the struggle is worth it!

About the author: Brad Bordessa I’m an ‘ukulele artist from Honoka’a, Hawai’i, where I run this site from an off-grid cabin in the jungle. I’ve taught workshops internationally, made Herb Ohta Jr. laugh until he cried, and once jammed with HAPA onstage in my boardshorts. More about me

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Making Ukulele Tabs with Guitar Pro

I’ve been using Guitar Pro for almost 10 years. I think all my tabs on Uke Hunt have been made with it. I highly recommend it if you’re getting into making uke tabs.

Out of the box, it is set up for guitar so I thought I’d pass on what I’ve learnt about using Guitar Pro 6 for making ukulele tabs along with a few general tips (note: this is not at all a substitute for reading the actual manual).

Starting a Ukulele Tab

Start by going to File > New Score > Empty. (You can just cancel out of the Score Information screen for now.)

Now set up a ukulele tab by going to Track > Add… and it’ll bring up this window:

You can find the ukulele under the slightly kinky sounding “Exotic Guitars”. In the bottom left corner there are options to show slash notation (more on that later), standard notation (which I leave off most of my tabs) and tab.

Changing the Tuning

By default, the tab created is in high-g gCEA tuning. You can change that by clicking on the guitar in the far left column which brings up this picture of a bass guitar head:

If you click the drop down menu where it says “C Tuning” you get options to change to D-tuning or low-G tuning. Select which you want then click either of the Apply ticks (it makes no difference which if you haven’t started your tab yet).

There aren’t options for low-A or baritone tuning but they’re easy to create. Make low-A by selecting D-tuning. Then go to the bottom left tuner of the bass guitar and click the down arrow until the box reads A3. You can save the tuning for future use by clicking the arrow that has just appeared next to the drop down box:

Setting up baritone tuning is the same process with a lot more clicking. Start with low-G tuning then click the down arrow on each of the little tuner boxes five times to give you D3, G3, B3 and E4. Then you click the down arrow, give the tuning a name and you’ll be to use it at any point in the future.

Making Ukulele Chords

There are a couple of ways to add chord charts to the tab. By default it’ll put the chord name above the stave and show all the chords used underneath the song title, artist etc.

The first way is to find the location of the chord change on the tab then click this little Am guitar chord:

That brings up a box that lets you select or create your chord. It’s pre-populated with the notes in the tab at the position you’ve selected.

The other method uses the sidebar that pops up when you click the big C7 in the far left. You’ll see a box with a dotted outline and a plus sign. Click that and it’ll bring up the same chord maker used in the first method. Make your chords there and you can add them to the tab at any point you select.

Whichever way you create the chords they’ll end up in that sidebar. It’s a much easier way of adding the same chord at many places in the tab.

I’d recommend adding some common ukulele chords there in the sidebar. They are saved as part of the template that we’re setting up so they’ll be there for any new tab you create. Mine has all the major, minor and 7 chords (arranged in circle of fifths order so chords that are played together are close together).

By default Guitar Pro uses slash chords for the chord names. This is less than ideal for ukulele chords so I recommend going to preferences (Guitar Pro > Preferences on Mac or File > Preferences on Windows) and unchecking “Add the bass note to the chord’s name…”.

If you want your chord diagrams above the tab itself rather than all at the beginning you can change that by going to Files > Stylesheet then tick “Diagrams in the score”.

Changing the Sizes and Other Styles

I find the default sizing of ukulele tabs to be a little small. You can bump it up by going to File > Stylesheet. The option for “Global score proportions” is 6 by default. I like to set it to 8.

There are a whole heap of options in the Stylesheet. I recommend having a look through to see what’s there. There might be a few things you want to change straight away. And there’ll be others you’ll find you want to change as you make tabs.

Saving a Ukulele Template

Now you’ve done all the hard work setting the tab up you can save it to use any time you want it.

Just go to File > Save template as… then give it a name and save it in the templates folder.

Now when you go to File > New Score you’ll see your new setup there.

If this is going to be the setup you use most often then you can make it the default. Go to the preferences screen and change the “Default template” to the one you’ve just made.

Once you’ve done that you can start a new ukulele tab with your preferred settings by clicking this little button at the top left:

My Template

If you don’t want to go through that palaver here’s the template I use:

Guitar Pro Ukulele Template

To add it, unzip the file. Then open Guitar Pro and select File > Open and find it on your computer. Make any changes you like, save it as a template and set it as the default.

Changing Bar Layout

Guitar Pro does try to automatically layout the bars in your tab in a sensible way. But I always do some tweaking to get it right.

You can bring up the bar arranger by clicking on this tiny button with the blue triangle at the bottom of the window:

That gives you the options to increase or decrease the number of bars on a line and lets you adjust the width of each bar.

Better still, you can change how many bars on every line of the tab. Go to Bar > System Layout… and select the “Fixed bar count per system” radio button. I like to go with either two or three bars per line depending on the piece. If you select “Same size for all bars” then they’ll be nicely lined up through the whole tab.

Transposing to Ukulele

A big advantage of Guitar Pro is the amount of tabs for it that can be found on the web. Ultimate Guitar is a great source (you even find my pre Uke Hunt guitar tabs on there).

It’s easy to transfer tabs from guitar (or bass or whatever) to ukulele. You just copy it from the original tab and paste it into a ukulele tab.

The big problem you’ll come across is that most guitar parts will have notes that are too low to played on the ukulele. These are just turned into rests by Guitar Pro. You need to transpose the tab up into the ukulele’s range.

You can transpose any piece of tab by selecting the part you want to transpose then going to Tools > Transpose. That brings up a box with a few options. Choose how many semitones up you want to transpose it (one semitone = one fret) then OK it. You can also transpose the whole track (by selecting “All bars”) or all the instruments in the tab (“All tracks”).

There are a couple of ways you can approach transposing to ukulele. If you don’t care about what key it is in, find the lowest note in the tab and work out how much you have to transpose it upwards until it reaches the C of a ukulele (or whatever the lowest note you’ve got in the tuning you’re using).

If you want to keep it in the same key you need to transpose the track up by an octave (+12). It’s possible you’ll still have notes that are too low. In that case, transpose up another octave.

Thanks to it’s reentrant tuning, the ukulele is a tricky instrument to transpose to. There are so many ways to play the same series of notes on a ukulele. Because of that when you transpose into ukulele tuning you’re going to have to do some rearranging of notes to get it playable in a sensible way.

Slash Notation Weirdness

Guitar Pro’s slash notation (used to show strums) doesn’t play well with ukulele tab. The chord names overlap with the stems of the notes. Like this:

But slash notation looks exactly the same for guitar as it does ukulele. So make your slash notation on a guitar tab (the notes don’t matter at all) and that fixes the problem.

Preferences

It’s been a long time so I’m not sure of the defaults for Guitar Pro. But I’d highly recommend making sure of these settings:

– Back up every [] actions: I have it set to every five actions. It’s saved my arse a few times.
– Add the bass notes to the chord name…: Turn it off for ukulele chords. They’re useful for guitar slash chords but on the ukulele they’re just unnecessarily confusing.
– Play sound when editing: I find it helps me to pick up on any mistakes I make.

Tips for Exporting

I find the best way to export tabs is to go with PDFs. They’re very shareable, downloadable, don’t require any special software and can be viewed on pretty much any device. And Guitar Pro handles them very well.

It doesn’t handle images so well though. It does export lower quality png files with a grey background. That’s pretty much ideal for use on my blog (it makes them quick to download and the grey matches the background of the site). But it’s definitely not ideal for all occasions.

If you want high-quality, white-background images the best way I know of is to export a PDF. Then export the PDF as an image (I do this in Preview on the Mac: Go to File > Export… and in the Format dropdown box choose your preferred image type).

You can also export your tab as a Guitar Pro file. This is great if you’re collaborating with someone or are looking to give other people the chance to build on your tab.

Unfortunately, the file format used by GP6, .gpx, is tightly locked down. I haven’t seen any other tab software that’s able to import it. However, many can open .gp5 files. So this is the best way to share Guitar Pro files.

You can create them by going to File > Export > GP5…

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Ukulele Tabs: Download Fingerpicking PDFs

Ukulele tabs are the easiest way to learn to pick a song. With just fours lines and some numbers, anybody – even if you don’t read standard notation – can make sense of uke tablature.

Below is a large collection of free ukulele tabs for a number of different skills and styles. They are all created (and in a couple cases, vetted) by me with an eye for detail and accuracy.

If you’re specifically looking for easy tabs, follow the link for a collection of beginner-appropriate picking melodies.

Rock/Pop Ukulele Tabs:

These songs can often be found elsewhere, transcribed for guitar, but not necessarily arranged or tabbed for ukulele. My uke-specific interpretations follow.

21 Guns

Green Day (Solo Arrangement)

Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen

El Condor Pasa

Simon and Garfunkel (Lead sheet)

Europa

Carlos Santana (Lead transcription & chords)

Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue

The California Ramblers (Solo Arrangement)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John (Lead sheet)

Mack The Knife

Bobby Darin (Lead sheet)

Moondance

Van Morrison†† (Lead sheet)

Puff The Magic Dragon

Peter, Paul, and Mary (Lead sheet & solo arrangement)

Samba Pa Ti

Carlos Santana (Lead sheet)

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin (low G – Guitar parts)

Tennessee Waltz

Bonnie Raitt and Norah Jones (Lead sheet)

Victory

Eric Johnson (low G – Lead sheet)

Ukulele/Hawaiian Instrumentals:

The songs found here mostly feature ukulele as the lead instrument. As such, most tunes are from Hawaiʻi-based artists I grew up listening to and emulating.

To me, these are Hawaiian ukulele “standards,” if not by song then by style. If you want to study the Hawaiian sound, this is the section for you.

Beachwalk

Herb Ohta Jr. (Note-for-note transcription)

Body Surfing

Ohta-San (Note-for-note transcription)

Glass Ball Slack Key

Brittni Paiva/Herb Ohta Jr. (Note-for-note transcription)

Hawai’i

Ledward Kaapana Slack Key Ukulele Tribute Medley

MIDI File | Etude for Slack Key Ukulele

Little Rock Getaway

Da Ukulele Boyz (Note-for-note transcription)

Memories of You

Herb Ohta Jr.† (Solo arrangement)

Olinda Road

HAPA (Note-for-note transcription

Pahala We Go

Herb Ohta Jr. & Daniel Ho (Note-for-note transcription)

Pandanus

The Peter Moon Band (Note-for-note transcription)

Sand Castles

Herb Ohta Jr. (Note-for-note transcription/Solo arrangement)

Song For Shelly

Brad Bordessa (Note-for-note transcription)

Together

Herb Ohta Jr. (Note-for-note transcription)

Ukulele Boogie

Brittni Paiva (Note-for-note transcription)

Hawaiian:

General purpose Hawaiian songs with lyrics are filed here.

Aloha ‘Oe

Queen Lili’uokalani (Solo Arrangement)

E Ku’u Morning Dew

Eddie Kamae (Low G – Solo Arrangement)

Island Style

John Cruz (Lead sheet)

Lovely Hula Hands

Troy Fernandez (Note-for-note transcription)

Maori Brown Eyes

Palolo (Lead sheet)

Somewhere Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World

Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole (Solo Arrangement)

Jazz/Bossa:

All of Me

Frank Sinatra/Ella Fitzgerald (Solo arrangement)

Manha De Carnaval

Luiz Bonfa (Lead sheet)

Misty

Erroll Garner (Solo Arrangement)

Antonio Carlos Jobim (Lead sheet)

Reggae Ukulele Tabs:

King Without a Crown

Matisyahu (Note-for-note transcription)

One Love

Bob Marley (Lead sheet)

Soundtrack/Themes:

Jeopardy

Merv Griffin (Lead sheet)

M*A*S*H Theme

Johnny Mandel (Lead sheet)

Star Wars: Main Theme/Vader’s March

John Williams/Uke Duke (Note-for-note transcription)

Super Mario Bros.

Koji Kondo (Solo arrangement)

Folk/World:

Csardas

Brittni Paiva (Note-for-note transcription)

The Leaving of Liverpool

Traditional (Solo arrangement)

Nancy Spain

Barney Rush (Solo arrangement)

Rose of Allandale

Mary Black (Solo arrangement – low-G)

Streets of London

Ralph McTell (Solo arrangement – low-G)

Tarantella Napoletana

Ken Middleton is as effective an arranger as anybody and has a collection of free bluegrass and Celtic style tabs available. He’s also published a few eBooks of transcriptions.

Classical:

Canon in D (and C)

Johann Pachelbel (Lead sheet)

Traditional:

Amazing Grace

Melody tab and song chords

Happy Birthday

Melody tab and song chords

Oh Susanna

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

You Are My Sunshine

Christmas:

Mele Kalikimaka

Bing Crosby/Jimmy Buffett/Don Ho/Blue Hawaiians/etc… (Lead sheet)

Credits:

• † – Tab by Herb Ohta Jr.
• †† – Tab by Jeromy Renynolds
• ‡ – Tab by Glenn Reither

These ukulele tabs are in PDF format created with Guitar Pro, Powertab, or good ol’ Microsoft Word.

Ukulele tabs marked with “lead sheet” are Guitar Pro transcriptions of the melody, words (if applicable), and chords.

Fingerstyle “solo arrangement” tabs shown below include the melody interlaced with the chords, intended to be played by a single player and imply harmony and lead simultaneously.

These are my own interpretations, not necessarily a transcription of a specific performance. I try to keep them as simple as possible because I feel that it’s easier to add your own flavor than to sift through someone else’s style.

“Note-for-note transcriptions” are ukulele tabs of a specific recording and transcribed as accurately as possible.

Some of the best ukulele tabs you can find anywhere are from Dominator. We’ve been working together to create a current index for his excellent work here:

These tabs are mostly note-for-note transcriptions of epic uke songs for intermediate and advanced players.

What is an Ukulele Tab?

Tablature (or “tab” for short) is a simple system of notating music. It uses numbers on lines to represent the frets and strings of an ukulele.

The main advantage of a tab over a piece of standard music notation is that there is very little learning curve. If you can count you can play from a tab.

Each tab system is made up of four horizontal lines:

As you can see by the string names on each line, the top line represents the A-string and the bottom line represents the G-string. The C and E-strings sit between.

Numbers placed on the lines show which fret to press down and are read left to right. (“0” means open string.)

This shows the open strings being plucked one at a time from the top string down.

The above example is all played on the A-string: 3rd fret, 5th fret, 7th fret, 3rd fret.

Anytime you see numbers stacked vertically you should play them simultaneously as a chord. Here’s a C:

For much more, check out this guide to reading tab for better understanding the lines, numbers, and symbols.

Where to Find More Ukulele Tabs

Free Tabs

There are lots of user-sourced tab sites that get a ton of traffic, such as the massive ukulele-tabs.com and even massive-er ultimate-guitar.com.

While you can find almost any popular song on these sites, be aware that the quality of these tabs vary with the skill of the transcriber. Especially on Ultimate-Guitar, the star rating system can help you find the most accurate version.

That said, there are lots of really great sources of free ukulele tabs out there!

My other favorites for top-notch transcriptions are:

• Ukeeducation.org – A large collection of simple chord melodies.
• Ukulele Hunt – Al Wood does a good job covering riffs and intros/outros for a lot of pop/punk/rock songs. They usually include video examples/tutorials.

Premium Tabs

If you have some cash to spend on buying a book of uke tabs, there are more options every day.

Since licensing popular music is a huge pain in the neck for small operations, you’re probably going to find most books of mainstream tablature printed by a major publishing house. Hal Leonard has put the most effort into expanding their ukulele lineup (and includes transcriptions for Jake Shimabukuro’s latest albums), but Alfred also has some options.

Independent artists are also publishing some of their work. Daniel Ho has a couple books of tablature and Daniel Ward has Arpeggio Meditations For Ukulele.

Other Tab Articles/Resources

Here are some links to information regarding how to read tab and other related articles.

Converting guitar and high/low-G tabs to the tuning you play in – How to shift the numbers around so you can play a tab that isn’t necessarily meant for your tuning.

How to Figure Out Songs – Being able to ear out a song is a very valuable skill. Here are some tips for DIY songs.

How to Read Ukulele Tabs – Ukulele tabs aren’t hard to figure out, but you need to know what you’re looking at to make sense of them.

Blank Tab Sheets

Create your own ukulele tabs! Quickly notate the notes to a song, picking part, chord sequence, arpeggio, scale, etc…

Use the standard notation version for relating notes on the fretboard to their pitches as they appear on the staff. Great for notating fingers on tab and note duration on the staff.

About the author: Brad Bordessa I’m an ‘ukulele artist from Honoka’a, Hawai’i, where I run this site from an off-grid cabin in the jungle. I’ve taught workshops internationally, made Herb Ohta Jr. laugh until he cried, and once jammed with HAPA onstage in my boardshorts. More about me

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