Do you ever get to that point where you’ve been playing through the first part of a song and then suddenly you hit a sticking point? Your timing has been bang on but you just can’t make the next chord change in time. It happens to everyone. Here’s the quickest way to speed up...
but in the tenth measure, we will switch back to a IV7 chord. In the eleventh measure, we will go back to a I7 chord, and then on the 3rd beat of the last measure, we will switch to the V7 chord.
Guitar licks in E best translate to the key of A major (three sharps) on the ukulele. That’s because the uke is tuned like the top four strings of a guitar, but pitched a perfect fourth, or five frets, higher. In other words, a guitar’s E chord shape is a uke’s A chord. ...
Stretching your fingers is a good place to start. After that, maybe run some scales or chord changes to get your fingers going. Here are someukulele warmupsI’ve put together for you. Use Your Ears: Transcribe songs to train your ears. Being able to know what’s going on in the music...
Al’s teaching is very clear and well illustrated, and I would rec any of his work. I have Chord Progressions too; I will be working through that for awhile as well, there is just so much great information and there’s enough in each lesson to keep me interested and moving forward ra...
Popular in Hawaiian music, in slack-key tuning, if you just strum the strings as open strings, you’re strumming a C major chord, which makes this a very open tuning. The top g-string can be tuned either in reentrant or linear tuning, meaning you can either tune it to the “G” no...
Before we begin, one small thing to note. There are lots of possible approaches to slide uke, but the most pressing is making the decision to retune or not to retune. It’s possible to play slide either way. Old-school slide players usually tune to an open chord, partly because you ge...
All you need to do is quickly repeat steps 2-5 to bring everything back into tune. If you continue to have trouble with the strings slipping out of tune, check the section onwhy won’t my uke stay in tune? Play! That’s it! go forth and play music on your freshly tuned uke!
Because of when I learned uke and (finally) felt comfortable performing in front of a storytime audience, I’ve only done two in-person ukulele outreach storytimes (30 minutes). Everything else has been virtual — which means I’ve had the ability to tape a chord sheet above the computer...
D tuning (A-D-F#-B) This alternate tuning used to be perhaps the most common one to tune your uke to. However, today it’s one of the more common alternate uke tunings. How the D tuning differs from the standard uke tuning is that it has been tuned up a whole step. If you tun...