Tenor Ukulele Tuning - A Tips Guide For First-Timers

Tenor Ukulele Tuning - A Tips Guide For First-Timers

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This series of articles will give you a few chords that you can use on a huge number of songs to get your playing off the ground so you can start playing with confidence. In this first part we'll be tackling the C chord.

Once you've decided you enjoy the ukulele, get a nice one. Almost everyone starts of playing on a very cheap ukulele. These ukes are fine for deciding if playing the ukulele is for you. But once you're into it, get yourself a decent quality Ukulele for sale in uk. It'll be easier to play, sound better (so you'll be more pleased with the way you sound), and will give you more impetus to practice.

Fsus2 is a very jazzy sounding chord, so you have to be quite careful how you use it. It is played by putting your index finger on the first fret of the E string. The best way to use it is to switch between F and Fsus2 whilst playing. This is a trick that Zack Condon of Beirut often uses.

C: Crazy crawling: Spread out kitchen chairs and try crawling under and around them. Get a stopwatch and try Ukulele to beat your time. If you are too big to crawl under chairs, try crawling under the table instead!

Learn to read Ukulele tab. Tablature is a method of showing how to play melodies on the Ukulele as well as chords. It's easy to understand - much easier than standard music notation. There is plenty of ukulele tab available on the net and it's a lot of fun to play. Search for 'how to read ukulele tab' on Google and you'll find some helpful articles.

Another reason is that you can keep your hand Ukulele for sale in the same position as you only need to move your fingers and not your left hand. This will help you a lot when you start to play more difficult melodies.

M: Muddy Movements: It's easy to just walk across a room. How would you move if the ground was covered with thick, wet mud? What if you had to walk through Jell-O? Try moving through a room of pretend peanut butter. Now move as if you had glowing lava under your feet!

Once you are comfortable with holding the instrument, high in your arms, and plucking the strings with your thumb or felt pick, you are able to take lessons and learn how to really play the instrument and make some good music.