Ukulele chord finder
Drop a track and get the chords with a ukulele shape for each one, in standard GCEA tuning.
What re-entrant tuning changes
Standard ukulele tuning is re-entrant: the G string is above the C, not below it, so a uke never states a low root the way a guitar does. That does not stop chord detection, because pitch classes are what matter and octave placement is discarded. It does mean a solo ukulele recording gives weaker root evidence than a guitar, and the analyser leans more on the rest of the arrangement.
The instrument also has a narrow, bright range that sits high in the analysis band. Ukulele parts under a full mix can be swamped by anything with a bigger low end. If you are transcribing a uke part from a band recording, an intro or a break will read better than a full chorus.
Reading the shapes
Shapes are given for standard GCEA tuning, open positions where a common one exists and movable shapes otherwise. Baritone ukulele is tuned DGBE and uses guitar shapes for the top four strings; the chord names on the timeline are still correct, but the diagrams here will not match.
Questions
- Does this work for baritone ukulele?
- The chord names do, since they describe the music rather than the instrument. The diagrams assume standard GCEA tuning, so a baritone player should read the names and use their own shapes.
- Can I use it on my own recording?
- Yes, and a clean solo recording of your own playing is one of the easiest things for it to read. Record, drop the file in, and check the timeline against what you played.