About a year ago, I was at summer camp and I woke up one day and realized that I wanted to play ukulele. Really, everyone else had one, why shouldn't I? Once I finally got one, I soon remembered that the only thing I knew about the ukulele was the one song my friend taught me. At first I took one look at all the information on how to play the ukulele on the internet and was terrified! Here are some tips to people who want to learn to play the ukulele using the internet. Youtube!First of all- it can be great! Loads of amazing covers and turtorials... that all contradict each other. What I reccomend to avoid this is finding one person you really like and starting just watching tutorials by them. Some good people are:
TabsUkulele tabs are how ukulele music is written out. To the left is a simple example with the lyrics and the chords above where you start them. There are other ways ukulele music can be displayed, it is often above the piano piece for the song with an actual picture of the chords displayed. This is useful if you don't know the chords (you can reference every time you switch) or if you don't know the tune very well (if you can read staff music). There are an overwhelming amount of places to find ukulele tabs online.
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Paul Vickers
10/24/2017 09:38:27 pm
This is great! I'm not a ukulele player, but I'm a guitar player of sorts, and lots of what you wrote here reminded me of stuff I've done to try to get better at guitar. It's all good advice, whatever the instrument (I think). While I enjoy learning and practicing guitar, I too often let life get in the way of spending the time I would need to if I wanted to improve much. So I hope you don't let the same thing happen to you. You've still got lots of time to get really good at the ukulele! I don't know what kinds of songs you like, but maybe we can play together sometime when you're feeling up to it. Be well! <3
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