However, fingerpicking like this can feel weird to some players, mainly in that, this method doesn’t use our thumb to pluck the lowest string. Because we are instandard re-entrant tuning, the lowest string on the ukulele is the second to top string. Some people (myself included) find t...
“Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers is a good song for fingerpicking practice and learning minor chords. Don’t let the moody and sad lyrics fool you, this song is a lot of fun to play, whether you’re using chords or playing the melody. Somebody That I Used to Know– Gotye (fe...
Easy One-String Fingerpicking “You Are My Sunshine” Play-Along In this video, I fingerpick the song “You Are My Sunshine” on just one-string of the ukulele – the bottom A-string. When it comes to playing this song, you will need to make sure you knowhow to read ukulele tab. ...
Like many of Sheeran’s songs, this one has a pulled back verse that builds into a dramatic chorus and then pulls back again for the next verse. You can experiment with single strumming or fingerpicking on the verses to leave room for a more intense chorus when you get there. Click here...
Ukulele players have a number of nice cover versions of “Blackbird” to choose from. The song lends itself just as well to fingerpicking on the ukulele as it does on the guitar, making it an excellent choice for a uke cover. The song is actually fairly simple harmonically, so it is rel...
Now some beginners may have trouble with barring the F chord , however that’s ok because for this song it sounds ok to play the F as XX3211 , the C as X32010 and the G as 320001 . It can be played with fingerpicking or for beginners with a very simple strum and sounds best wh...
Once again, the song has a barre chord thrown in there to mix things up, so make sure to learn the F major chord well before diving deeper into this one. “I Will Follow You into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie If you’re up to learning fingerpicking, give this song a try. ...
The reason that this song is on the list is the C–G/B–Am movement (capo at the 3rd fret) that is very guitaristic. It appears in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man” and Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”. It’s also a great tune to begin developing your fingerpicking technique....
His fourth albumBroken English(released in January) is a modern folk commentary on our tenuous American life–written before the pandemic. Though performed on guitar, the songs were written on the banjo. “With the fingerpicking, flat-picking style I play there’s sort of the bones of the me...
I figured it was high time that I got around to doing a Nirvana tutorial on the ukulele and this seemed like as good a starting point as any. This is probably the easiest song to play that I’ve recorded to date so if you’re a complete newbie then this is a pretty good starting ...