How To Tune Your Ukulele
How To Tune Your Ukulele
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The ukulele is a great instrument to learn. The basics are really easy to pick up. It's particularly suited to young children, with its diminutive size, and will teach a number of skills that translate to other instruments, particularly the guitar. To get you started on your journey, here are ten tips that will kick start your ukulele playing.
Play slow, very slow. Imagine you're a snail and the strings are the road and play it as slow as you can. You will get the correct rhythm, you won't make mistakes that later on would be very difficult to address and try to increase the speed gradually over time, even if Ukulele for sale in uk now it doesn't sound very good.
Y: Yard fun: Go to your yard (or a park) and have some fun. Have someone hide peanuts in their shells for you to find. Play tag. Play hide and go seek. Run around the perimeter of the yard as fast as you can. Now skip around the perimeter of the house. Rake up a pile of leaves and bury yourself. Try to use all the space in the yard for fun activities.
There is also a need for beginners to play more 'jazzy' chords. Often they are too intimidated to tackle these chords. However, they can often be easier to play than the standard chords. So, in this article I'll be going through a number of chords that use only one finger to play them and even two chords that require no fingers at all.
The A7 chord is another standard Ukulele chord that can be played using just one finger. You need to place your index finger (or pointer if you prefer) on the first fret of the C string (the second string down). The A7 chord makes for a great substitute for the A chord in songs that are in the key of D.
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These fingerings will help you as you play in many ways. With one finger taking care of one fret each you will not have to look at your fingers as much as you will feel your way around on the fretboard better.
Once you are comfortable with holding the instrument, high in your arms, and plucking the strings with your thumb or felt ukuleles pick, you are able to take lessons and learn how to really play the instrument and make some good music.