Any tip/advice for a ukelele beginner?
I am trying to learn how to play Uke and I never knew that my fingers are this fat and dull XD! It is quite difficult than I thought, especially strumming..
31-35, F
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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
My recommendation is to find a good online course and go through it, there's probably a ton of free stuff on youtube. Find one person and stick with their method. Don't jump around until you're feeling cocky.
My personal recommendation is to focus on chord shapes. Start with the key of C and learn C, Am, F, and G.
Move from F to G will be the hardest but once you get that, you'll be a superstar.
These are easy chords and you will learn how to hold them and switch between them. Put on a metronome (just google metronome) and start slow and strum four times before switching.
Like this:
https://voca.ro/7dfKJTUGcG0
And with that, you can start singing "Let it Be" to the chords!
My personal recommendation is to focus on chord shapes. Start with the key of C and learn C, Am, F, and G.
Move from F to G will be the hardest but once you get that, you'll be a superstar.
These are easy chords and you will learn how to hold them and switch between them. Put on a metronome (just google metronome) and start slow and strum four times before switching.
Like this:
https://voca.ro/7dfKJTUGcG0
And with that, you can start singing "Let it Be" to the chords!
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@CountScrofula wow what a kind comment :-) let it be will be the song I will start practicing next week!!
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@jellyfishman Good luck! I just started learning banjo so I'm all in "learning how to play instruments" mode lol.
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@CountScrofula benjo! What made you choose the instrument? Is it similar to uke?
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@jellyfishman I play in a band where there's a guitar, mandolin, and bass. Our banjo player moved and I had been playing banjolele (ukulele/banjo hybrid but played like a uke).
But really the band needed another full banjo player and so I just got one for my birthday.
It's actually a very different instrument. I've been playing guitar forever and ukulele is a lot like guitar. But banjo is its own creature entirely. So much fun though.
But really the band needed another full banjo player and so I just got one for my birthday.
It's actually a very different instrument. I've been playing guitar forever and ukulele is a lot like guitar. But banjo is its own creature entirely. So much fun though.
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@CountScrofula wow you are very musical..!!! So cool that you can play multiple instruments.. I really wish i could do that too.. hopefully when in 40 i might be able to do that..!!
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@jellyfishman Once you learn one you can pick up others. Guitar is very differ net from banjo but still helps enormously. I only played trombnone and guitar for most of my life but with the band I've been learning as many new instruments as I can!
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@CountScrofula are you like a professional musician or is it your hobby? Once i learn how to play uke somehwhat fine, i also want to learn piano and maybe beatmaking too someday..
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@jellyfishman Just a hobbiest. I went into a serious jazz program for trombone and then realized that I do not want to practice trombone four hours a day. All of us in the band have jobs and other lives and it's really just something we do for fun.
I'll advertise our soundcloud from a demo we cut though, lol. Even though our lineup is totally different now.
https://soundcloud.com/ramshacklefancy
I'll advertise our soundcloud from a demo we cut though, lol. Even though our lineup is totally different now.
https://soundcloud.com/ramshacklefancy
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@CountScrofula i will totally check out the soundcloud channel..! I wanna hear how benjo and trombone sound.. XD..
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@jellyfishman "St James Infirmary" is the best example of trombanjo.
jellyfishman · 31-35, F
@CountScrofula I am listening to the first song on the channel In Life Degeneracy~ and I really like it..!!!!! It kinda feels like a festival song to me and the lady has a sweet voice...!! Now its time for me to listen to Infirmary..