Complete Ukulele Beginner Course 202

1. Introduction: Hello, play, friends, and welcome to my beginner play course Part two. Before taking this class, make sure to complete the beginner play course Part one. You can also find this course on my snsre profile. In this course, we will first of all repeat a few chords from the previous course, and then you will learn five new starmy patterns in the three, four time signature this time. I will teach you three new chords, and I will also teach you how to sing and play four new songs. I'm looking forward to seeing you inside this class, have fun. And if you have any questions while taking this course, feel free to send a message to me. I'm looking forward to seeing you inside by. 2. Chord C : To place C major, you can either place your third or your fourth finger on the third fret of the first string. Okay. 3. Chord F : To play F major, you have to place your first finger on the first fret of the second string, and your second finger goes on the second fret of the fourth string. Okay. 4. Chord G7 : To play G seven, you have to place your third finger on the second fret of the first string. The third finger goes on the first fret of the second string, and the second finger goes on the third string, second fret. 5. Oh Susanna - Demo: I come from the live production on time. Don't wait to do this. By 2 says store to see 00. 00, 00 to rise to the forum going to do is yes. By 4 to see. 6. Oh Susanna - Chords & Strumming: In this lesson, I would like to show you the courts and the strumming pattern that you will need to play Osama. So first of all, let's have a look at the codes. We have three altogether, and these quotes are C-Major with the third finger, F-major seconds and first finger. And G7, second, first third finger. If you want to practice any of these courts separately, then please go back to the court section of this course where I teach this course. The strumming pattern that we'll be using is pattern number 5, which goes down, down, up, down, down, up. In other words, 1, 2, and 3, 4 end. And we use this pattern throughout the whole song. So now I would like to guide you through the whole song. We start with the C major chord and we play 1234. Second measure, 1, 2 and 3, 4 end. Third measure, 1, 2, and 3, fault and change to G7. Make sure you slide the third finger on the first string, 1, 2, 3, 4. And now we have a second line and we go to C major back. Again, slide with your third finger. 1234 and, and again, 1234. And now we have two courts within one measure. We play one to end on the C 34 and on the G7. And then for the last measure of the second line, we come back to see you again, 1, 2, and 3 for that. So let's do the second line again. We have two measures of C, 12341234. And now to courts within a measure 1234 and back to C 123. And why you play the C code? You can already prepared a second first finger for the F-Major course. So now we've approached the third line where we started in F, 12341234. And prepare your finger for the seahorse 1234. And now slide your third finger on the string and coming to the G7 position, 1234. And now we've approached the last line, which is similar to line number two. We have the same holes and we come to see 12341234. And now again, to cause we're going to measure 12 and change 34. And now in the last measure we play 123. So as this is the last measure of a song, I finish on the three because I like finishing on a downstroke to make clear that the song is over. So the last measure is 123. And stop. In the next lesson I have played on for you that you can use to practice all this code changes and looking forward to see you there. Bye. 7. Oh Susanna - Playalong: one two and three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three three four one two three four one two three four two three four one two three four one two three four one two three 8. Oh Susanna - Tips on Singing: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on seeing. The first important thing is that we find our starting note, the first node that we're going to see. And we could do this by playing the C major chord and by listening to the whole course. Or you can play the open third string, which is the string cd. And sing that note, this is the first node to node C, I. Secondly, we need to know that this song starts with a so-called upbeats. This means that we start playing the ukulele, adds the word KM. So we don't play the ukulele right from the beginning, but we join in on the car. So this is what it sounds like. Hi. And then we start playing our strumming pattern. But when we see are high, we don't play the ukulele. So this is the upbeat parts of the song. Now let's have a look at all the core changes. I've underlined the words and syllables for you in one of your PDF documents where the chord changes take place, I think this makes it a lot easier to know where we have to change the course. So now I would like to guide you through the song. Again, we start in C, C major off and I'll see you at speeds from and with my dad joe. By the first change to G7 is on the birds need go in ongoing. We come back to see go away from this. Yeah. By Sue said for more on four, we go to G7 for to see, I don't see, we come back to C major. So a quick change to G-Major, to G7. I played again from the beginning. From that with my dad joe on my the I go into this. Yeah. So sad for to see. Now on oh, we go to f, c 0, o want, and I won't. We come back to see, Won't you cry for me? On b, we go to G7. My play the whole lining up for you. Who sat for long to cry for me, for I go in and ongoing we come back to summation. We are last line now, go into Louisiana with my banjo on and on. We go to G7 on my knee, the v would come back to C again. So this was our lesson on how to play and see, Oh Susannah, I hope you enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. Bye. 9. Chord G : To play G major, you have to place your second finger on the second fret of the first string, the third finger on the third fret of the second string, and the first finger on the second fret of the third string. 10. Chord Change C - G: In this lesson, you're going to learn the code change between C major and G major. Let's have a closer look at how the fingers move when we change from C major to G major. C major is played with a third finger, what you can do is preparing your second finger while playing a measure of the C major. This is what this would look like. One, two, three, four, and then change to G. You could notice that I was preparing my second finger and this simplifies the core change to G major because we only need to focus on two fingers instead of all three of them. Again, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, Back to C one. The change from G major to C won't be a big problem, I guess, because we only need to move one finger, so we make a quick movement with our third finger from the second to the first string. But the change to G major is a bit more difficult. Preparing the second finger while you play the C major will simplify the whole movement. You can also try to play the C coord with your fourth finger. For those of you who like to do that, you could use your fourth finger and then all your other three fingers will be free and ready to prepare in the air. When I play the coord with finger number four, I go one to two two, three, four, the second finger is already prepared, and then you change. One, two, three, four. Now the good thing is when you go back from G to C, your fourth finger is free to move and you can already put it in its position. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. This might be an interesting fingering for those of you who have really small hands because you can really move together your fingers and keep them in a really tight close position. Okay. When you are able to play this core change fluently, then you can also try more challenging strumming pattern. Let's try out pattern number seven. And this goes one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one. Have on practicing and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. 11. Chord D7: To play D seven, you have to place your second finger on the second fret of string number two and your first finger on the second fret of string number four. 12. Chord Change G - D7: In this lesson, you're going to learn the core change between G major and D seven. Let's get straight into the core change. We have G major, and we change to D seven. I do the movement with the left hand a few times. We see that the first and the second finger move together. Make sure you keep them in the same shape all the time. Okay. Okay. And this will allow to feel you that this movement is like if only one finger was doing it. We keep them together. It's also good if they touch. Then it feels like one finger is doing the movement, and this simplifies the change a lot. When we have G, the third finger is obviously added. When we go to D seven, we lift the third finger and we make sure that finger one and two go together and remain in the same shape. You see that I don't change the shape of these two fingers. They just go together back and forth. Let's include pattern number one now. We go one, two, three, four, change together, one, two, three, four and back, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and back. One, two, three, four. So that's already a bit of an advanced change. I recommend practicing also the pressure relaxation exercise for this code change. You can pressure, relaxation, quick change, pressure, relax, change, pressure, relax, change. When you change the codes, you are also relaxed. Because, first of all, you need to arrive in your final position, the D seven position in this case, and then you press relax, arrive at the G position, press, relax. Change, press, relax, change, press, relax, change. Okay. If you want to you can also try any of the other strumming patterns that you've learned so far to practice that code change. For example, let's have a look at pattern number three. We go one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one. Enjoy your practice, and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. Bye. Okay. 13. Midnight Special - Demo: When you wake up in the morning. Here the Ting do ring. You go marching to the table. See the same dance. Let the midnight spas Shine a light on me. Let the midnight Splash shine a light on me. 14. Midnight Special - Chords & Strumming: Okay. In this lesson, I would like to teach you the chords and the stroming pattern that you will need to play the song midnight special. First of all, let's start with the calls. We have three chords together, and these calls are C major. Third finger, G major, first and second finger and D seven, and second finger. The strumming pattern that we will be using is pattern number six, which goes one, two, and three, four. Again, one, two, three, four, or down, down up. Now let's go through the song, and we start at the first measure with the C major. We play one, two, and three, four, again, one, two, and three four. While playing the second measure, you can actually prepare a second finger for the G major position. This will make the chord change a bit easier. Then we go third measure to G major. One, two, three, four, again, one, two, and three, four. Now, D seven, small movement with first and second finger. One, two, three, four, again, one, two, three, four, back to, small movement back. One, two, and three, four, one, two, and three, four. Quick change to C, One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and prepare the second finger. One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and change to D seven, small movement. One, two, and three, four, and one, two, three, four, and change back to G. One, two, and three, four, and one. So when we approach the last measure, we just play a downstroke on the one, we don't play the full measure. Because I always say it's good to finish on a downstroke because then it will be clear that a song is over. In the next video, I have a playlong for you that you can use to practice all these core changes. See you there. 15. Midnight Special - Playalong: One, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, and three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one. 16. Midnight Special - Tips on Singing: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on singing. First of all, it's important for us to find our starting note, the first note that we're going to sing. In this case, we do this by playing the G major chord. Don't play the C chord, which is the first chord of the song, play the G chord instead, and try to find your starting note by listening to the chord. If you want to play the single note, it would be The note play by the second finger in the G code. So you play the first string with the second finger on the second threat. Which is a note B, by the way, well. And you can find your starting note from there. Now let's have a look at all the chord changes. Before we do that, I have to mention one thing, and this is that this song, a midnight special starts with a so called upbeat. This means that we don't play the uclele right away, but we sing an incomplete measure and then join with the ukulele later. Let me show you what I mean. Again, I play the G chord to find my starting note. Then I, Well, you wake up in the morning and we start playing our strumming pattern on the word morning. The first part is without any ukd play. Let me show this again to you. Well, you wake up in the. Then on the word morning, you join in with the pattern and with the first measure with the C. Okay. So now let's have a closer look at all the code changes. And as always, I recommend underlining the words and syllables where the code changes take place. I've done this for you in one of your practice documents. You can go ahead and print this out if you want to. Now let me take you through the whole song. Well, you wake up in the morning Here the D. Ring. On the word ring, we change to G major. Ring. You go marching to the table. And on table, we go to D seven. Table. Here the same On thing, we come back to G major. Let the midnight special on the word special, we go to C major. Special shine a light on me on me, we go to G. M. Let the midnight special. Again, on the next word special, we go to D seven. Special Shine light me on me, we come back again to G. In the last measure, as I mentioned in a previous lesson, we don't play the full measure. We finish on the downstroke on the one to finish the song. M. This was our lesson on how to play midnight special. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. Bye. Okay. 17. Yankee Doodle - Demo: Yankee do went to town. So feather in his cap and call an key do keep up. And the music and the step and with the girls 18. Yankee Doodle - Chords & Strumming: Okay. In this lesson, I would like to show you the chords and the strumming pattern that you will need to play the song. Let's have a look at the calls, first of all. We have three chords in this song, and these calls are G major, D seven and C major. If you need to practice any of these calls, and please go back to the call sections of this course. The strumming pattern that we'll be using to play Yank Doodle is pattern number six, which goes down for those of you who like to count one, two, and three, four. Okay. Now let's go through the song. I will guide you through each chord change. We start in G major, and we go one, two, three, four. Now, second measure, one, two, and three, four. Here we have two chords within one measure and we actually have this case three times in that song, and it's always the G chord and the D seven. The change to D seven always takes place on the third beat on the three. I play this again. One, two, and three four. Now we are in the third measure. We change back to G. One, two, and three, four. Now again, one, two, and three, four. Now we come to the second line, G major. One, two, and three, four, and C, one, two, and three, four, D seven, one, two, and three, four, and G again. One, two, and three, four. Now we have the third line. Okay. Two measures of C. One, two, and three, four, one, two, three, four. Maybe you can see it while I was playing the C major chord, I was already preparing the second finger on the first string. This will make the change to G major a little bit easier. Let me show this again. One, two, and three. Four, one, two, three, four, and one we have the change to G. One, two, three, four. We only have two more fingers to move. One, two, and three, four. And the same in the last line, we have C again. One, two, and three, four. You see that I'm already preparing the second finger. Second measure of C. One, two, and three, four. Now, change. One, two. Change again. Three, four. One, two, three, four, one. I'm adding another downstroke on the one, we play the last measure, which is one, two, three, four, and then we do one. You can see this on the board. It's an extra downstroke on the G major. I usually do this at the end of the song to make clear that the song is over. In the next lesson, I have a playlong for you that you can use to practice all the chord changes. He and I'm looking forward to seeing you there. 19. Yankee Doodle - Playalong: One, two, and three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four and one, two, and three, four and one, two, and three, one, two, three, four, one, two, and three, f two and three, four, and one, two, three, four, and one, two, and three, f one, two, three, four and one, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three. And 20. Yankee Doodle - Tips on Singingg: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on singing. The first important thing is to find our starting note, the first note that we're going to sing. We have two possibilities to do that. The first one would be to play the G major chord. Yankee we can find our starting note by listening to the whole Yankee. Or you can play the open four, the individual fourth string. Yankee. This is the note G. The next thing is that we have to know where the code changes take place. My basic recommendation as always, is to underline the words and syllables where you have to change the codes and I've actually done this for you in one of your PDF documents. Let me guide you through the whole song, and I will show you where you have to change the course. Let's start from the beginning in G major. Yankee to to to. On town, we have the first change to D seven. To On riding back to G. Ride On knee from the word poke, we go to D seven again. C. Stack and stuck, we come back to G again. Stuther in. On the word in, we go to C. I his hat and called on called, we go to D seven. Call on the rope from Macon, we come back to G again. Yankee. On the word Yankee, we come to the C chord. This is a place a note that is actually quite difficult to hit. I will show you the second half again. We do a C major court. The note that we will have to sing is the note. Ya do. If you want to practice the second part individually, this is how you can start. Play either the C major chord or the individual single open second string. And you can practice the second half of the song. That's a note. Keep it up. Change to G. Yang on the next Yankee. Y Mind on mi we come back to C. My step with on with we come back to G again with gs On girls, we could do D seven. G hand on hand, we come back to G again. And then we finish on the G code. Okay. So this was our lesson on how to play Yankee Doodle. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again in one of the next lessons, fine. Okay. 21. 3/4 Strumming Pattern 1: In this lesson, you're going to learn your first strumming pattern that is written in a 34 times imager, which means that we only have three beats per measure and not four as we had in the previous streaming lessons. So pattern number one is fairly easy. It only consists of downs and it sounds like this. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, and so on. I guess this is not a problem for you. You can try one thing and that is to make a little accent on the one. So this would sound like 123123, One 23, One 23. I'm exaggerating a little bit now to show this to you. But I think it's important to practice that once in a while because practicing the accent on the one will get you into a grades 3, 4 time signature feeling. Because this is kind of a difference between a 3 4 time signature and a 4 4 time signature, except for the one beat. But it's also the accent on the one. So we have 123123. So this is how we play a 3, 4 time signature strumming pattern. And you can also try this with the patterns that you're going to learn in the future. Of course, we can also practice our challenge exercises with the 3 4 time signature strumming patterns. So let's try the accounting the eighth notes because we've already counted the coordinates, 123123123123. And so have fun practicing and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. 22. 3/4 Strumming Pattern 2: Strumming pattern number two only consists of eight floats, and it sounds like this. 123123123123. So you are already familiar with that movement. But now as we either 3, 4 time signature, we only count to three. That's it again. 123123123, then 123. And now in that case we only have one challenge exercise if you want to do it. To count quarter notes while playing the pattern 123123123123. So F and practicing, and it's useful again, Bye. 23. 3/4 Strumming Pattern 3: Pattern three consists of quarter notes and eighth notes, and it sounds like this. One, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three, and one, two, three. Now let's get straight into the challenger exercises because I guess you are already familiar with the movement from other strumming patterns. We count quarter notes while playing the pattern. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. Now let's count eight notes while playing the pattern. One and two, and three and one and two, and three and one and two, and three and one and two, and three. Have been practicing, and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. Bye. 24. 3/4 Strumming Pattern 4: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to play strumming pattern number four. So let's get straight into it. We play down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down. Or if we count what we are playing, it would be one, two, and three, one, two, and three. One, two, and three. One, two, and three. And you can join in with me if you want to, I play it a few times again. One, two, and three. One, two, and one, two, and three. One, two, and three. Now it's time for our challenge exercises. First of all, I count quarter notes while playing the pattern. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. Now I count eight notes while playing the pattern. One and two, and three and one and two, and three and one and two, and three and one and two, and three. Enjoy your practice, and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. Bye. 25. 3/4 Strumming Pattern 5: Pattern number five is a pretty common strumming pattern in a three, four time signature because there are many songs that can be played with this strumming pattern. Make sure to practice it well enough. Here is how it sounds. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down down. Now let's try to count while we play. One, two, and three and one, two, and three and one, two, and three and one, two, and three and one, two, and three. Now you can try our two challenge exercises. So first of all, I count quarter notes while playing the pattern. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. And now I count eight notes while playing the pattern. One and two, and three and one and two, and three and one and two, and three and one and two, and three. He on practicing, and I'll see you soon again. 26. Chord C7: To place C seven, you need to place your first finger on the first fret of the first string. Okay. 27. Chord Change F - C7: In this lesson, I'll show you the chord change from F major to C seven. To change from F major to C seven, you only need to make a small movement with your first finger. If you play the F major chord, your first finger needs to jump from the second to the first string. It's a pretty small movement. The same time, you need to lift your second finger. If you go back from C seven to F major, you can prepare the second finger while playing the C seven course. You only need to make a small movement then. Going from F to C seven is a small jump with your first finger. While you play the C seven, you prepare the second finger, and then you go back to F major. C7f major. Okay. And when your left hand is comfortable with that movement, you can add some strumming. Just start with easy downstrokes, one, two, three, four, one, two, prepare the second finger, four, one, two, three, four, again, one, two, prepare the second finger, f one, two three, four. When you've mastered the core change, then you can try with a more difficult drawing pattern, for example, pattern number six in the four four time signature. This would be one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, have fun practicing and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again. 28. Clementine - Demo: I I cap for 40 and daughter time. All my starving. All my starving for my. You are stand forever. Dreadful 29. Clementine - Chords & Strumming: In this lesson, I'd like to show you the calls and the stroming pattern that we need to play plan time. We have two calls in this song and these calls are F major with your second and first finger and C seven with your first finger. Pretty easy calls. This stramingattern that I'll be using is pattern number four in the three four time signature, and this pattern goes one, two, and three or in other words, do, down. Of course, you can feel free to take any other stra pattern in the three four time signature if you want to. So let's go through the song and through the core changes. We don't have one core change in this case. So we start in F major, and we go one, two, and three, one, two, and three, one, two, and three. Change to C seven, small chump with your index finger, one, two, and three, one, two, and three. Before changing back to the F major, you can prepare your second finger. So you only have to make a small movement. We go back to F, one, two, and three back to C seven, one, two, and three and f again, one, two, and three, stay f, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, and three change, one, two, and three. You see that I keep my second finger prepared because we only have these two calls in that song. The second finger remains in the F major position. C seven again, one, two, and one, two, and three, One, two three, one, two, and three, one, two, and three, one. In the end of the song, I add another down stroke to make it clear that the song is over. Whenever we have a three, four time signature, it's good to finish on the one. Not just on the downstroke, I will finish on the one, so I add an extra downstroke. I play a full last measure. We go one, two, and one, and add this extra downstroke, to make it clear that the song is over. In the next lesson I have a play on for you that you can use to practice this chore change. I'm looking forward to seeing you there. Okay. 30. Clementine - Playalong: One, two, and three. One, two, three, one, two, and three, one, two, three, one, two, and three, one, two, and three, one, two, and three. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, and one, two, and three, one, two, three, one, two, and three, one, two, and one. 31. Clementine - Tips on Singing: In this lesson, I would like to give you some tips on seeing. The first important thing is that we know our starting note, the first note that we're going to see, and we can find this note by listening to the whole court to less major court in this case. In the Or you can also play the individual second string, which is the notes F in this case because the first finger is in the F major position, first fret in the we can find the starting not by in to the individual string. Then we have to know that this song starts with an upbeat. This means we don't start playing the le right away, but we join in on the word can. The first two nodes are sung without the cla in We just sing them and the culled strung pattern joins in on the cam. Now, it's important to know where the core changes take place. I always recommend underlining the words and syllables where you have to change the goals, and I've already done this for you in one of your PDF documents, check this out if you want to. Now, I would like to guide you through the whole song, and let's have a closer look at all the core changes. We start in in in the form. On the mine, we have the first change to C seven. In well to 9149 On the nine from 14 nine, we come back to again. Nine and his on daughter, we change to C seven. Doug On the time from Clement T, we come back to gain. Tear. Again, on the time from Clement time, we change this time to C seven, Dar Clementine. You will stand onverver from forever, we go back to F. Dreadful sorry on the sorry to C seven. Sorry. Again, last change on the time from Clementine traunt on the one of the next measure. So this was our lesson on how to play Clement Time. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to seeing you soon again in one of my next videos. Okay. 32. Class Project: Now it's time to introduce the class project. The project will be to choose one of the songs that you've learned in this course and to record yourself playing that song. Those of you who will upload the recording will get a personalized individual feedback from me, and I'll give you some tips on what I can do to improve your play even further. I'm looking forward to seeing all of your beautiful recordings and listening to them, have fun creating them and enjoy. 33. Thank you!: Okay. Finally, I would like to say a big thank you for taking this class. So if you enjoy the class and if you want to get more ucla classes, then please follow me here on Skillshare and then it will be updated when I publish a new Ukule class. So I hope to see you soon again in one of my future lay courses and goodbye. Okay.