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How can I make my acoustic guitar sound like a ukulele or sound hawaiian?

March 3, 2010 by baritone ukulele  
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I’m currently trying new sounds for my band, and i want to make my guitar sound similar to anything hawaiian or like a ukulele. I can’t read music, but I can read tabs. So what I need to know are:

Tunings for a guitar to sound like a ukulele or sound hawaiian
Some tabs for hawaiian or ukulele sounding chords

Thank you very much!

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5 Responses to “How can I make my acoustic guitar sound like a ukulele or sound hawaiian?”
  1. Makron says:
    March 3, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    Actually, you need a steel guitar.
    If you cannot buy one of them, then I suggest you to simply buy a “slide”. Look at it here:
    http://www.musicroom.com/images/catalogue/fullsize/330210.jpg

    Bye.

    To begin with a really nice song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFp-DlVNtk

    BTW: this song has been covered by satriani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msq6v1zzZps :)

  2. Lester G says:
    March 3, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    You can’t make your guitar sound like a ukulele but you can use various slack key tunings to sound Hawaiian. The most common Hawaiian slack key tuning, called “taro patch,” is a G major chord but here is a list of them all:

    http://www.taropatch.net/tunings.htm

    There are lots of instructional books on playing slack key guitar. This is a good one:

    http://elderly.com/videos/items/300-DVD57.htm

    Check out the work of Keola Beamer. Good luck.

  3. Richard M says:
    March 3, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    I’m not too sure about tunings or anything.

    But what you can do, is to palm mute all of your strings, and strum whatever chords you’re playing INSTEAD of over the sound hole, strum above the 12th or 15th fret or whereabouts.

    It creates a really nice, mellow sound and that way you don’t have to rely on a certain tuning.

  4. Sarahh Smile says:
    March 3, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    You can’t really do that, but the closest you could get to it is put a capo on like, the tenth fret (or higher) and try to use mostly the bottom four strings.
    Best of luck (:

  5. Melissa says:
    March 3, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    I know that a cap on the 6th fret is same tuning as a banjo.
    hope that can help.
    lol