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So my recent ukulele post talked all about my nephew and his ukulele. Actually, it was more about missing my guitar while I was on vacation, but my nephew got me thinking about ukuleles.

The thing that I forgot to mention about ukuleles… and I am really out of my element here because I have never strummed a ukulele a single time… is that there are different sizes. From looking at Musician’s Friend, there is a regular uke, a tenor uke, a concert uke, and a soprano uke. And from prior experience with musical instruments, there are probably some others that I don’t know about yet.

So this is the cool thing in terms of me missing my guitar… from what my nephew says, the tenor ukulele (which is a bit bigger than a regular uke) is sorta like playing the first four strings on a guitar. They are the same notes on a guitar. So if this is correct, I am wondering if the chord patterns are the same - as long as you only use chords from the first four strings (ie, such as the f chord or the d chord).

If that was the case (and I don’t know if it is, but it seems like the odds are pretty good), then I could have just run out and gotten a tenor ukulele at the beginning of me vacation, and it would have sorta been like playing the guitar. I know, a really messed up notion… but such is the mental state I am in.

My more serious guess is that getting that ukulele would have been an entirely different experience, and I would have found it valuable in its own right.