How to sing and play at the same time: The ULTIMATE guide for beginners

1. Introduction: Hello, I'm a learner and musician, producer and senior from Mexico City. I fell in love with music and started singing and playing 20 years ago. In that time, I have experimented with a lot of fiscal jump from classic rock. And they ask for font, loose experimental music. And I've learned a lot from it. Sure, since the very beginning, I was amazed by how my favorite artists and seniors could convey such powerful messages and generate instant connections with their audiences using the instruments and their voices. And that's exactly what I want to share with you in this class. So you can learn my time-tested methods to approach singing and playing. Learning how to break down and some you want him small steps so you can master it. How to overcome the most usual obstacles that people face when trying to sing and play. How to apply simple but effective coordination strategies and how to develop your own personal interpretation of some of this with practical examples and hands-on exercises that will make it easier for you to build up your confidence and express yourself the way you want with me in this class is perfect for beginners on the instrument who wants to accompany themselves with quotes while singing along. All you need is to voice your instrument and any kind of device to record herself. In the first part, we will review the framework that we're going to use to break down songs into small steps so you can practice in bed. And we will apply this framework to do concrete sums. You can master it and then apply it in your own. In the second part of the class, I will go over the different options that you have to develop your own interpretation of a Son. And in the third part of the class, we will review extra tips and strategies that you can use when you encounter difficulties along the way. For this class project, you will record yourself singing and playing your own personal take on any song you like. He could be anything from 30 s to the full length of the track with audio and video are just. So while we're waiting for, are you ready to sing and play? Let's start. 2. Learn to listen: So let's start discussing the first step in our framework so you can break down the sung and start singing and playing at the same time. The first step, it's listening. And I know it's the most obvious step in the world, but you don't want to skip it. It's really important for you to learn how to listen to the sounds with really specific purposes in mind. So you can learn it quickly and really know the sun. Okay, you need to know the sung by heart. By heart, I don't mean just all lyrics but the whole sum, all the elements that are happening. And the sun at the same time, the rhythm, the patterns, the axons, the structure of that. You need to know it really well. So it's easier for you once you start practicing with your instrument and your voice. Okay, so for this, you will listen to the song 8-10 times. And each couple of times, you will focus in different aspects of the sun. The first couple of times you will focus only on the structure. Intro, the verse and chorus. How many times each one of these parts, it's playing across the sun. In the next couple of times, you will focus on the rhythm, the accents, the poles, the different patterns that are present in the different instruments. Now, each sound has a very distinct rhythmic pattern that repeats over time. So you will hear this general pattern and probably the patterns that are happening in the different instruments. And the last couple of times, you will focus only in the chord changes. If you can. Just listen to the song and identify when the courts are changing, That's awesome. That's great. But if you don't, don't worry, that's completely okay. Maybe just need a little more practice. If you have problems hearing the chord changes, I will recommend for you to look for our live session of the song, or maybe a cover version of the sun. So you can actually see them incisions playing the song. And what are they playing in their instruments. So you can start matching what you see with what you hear. And with this, you can find more easily chord changes. Okay, so now it's time to apply this first step to an actual example. And do remember that we discussed that we're going to use to actual some examples to go over the whole framework so you can practice it. So we're going to apply this first step, listening to a specific son and he's going to be, let it be by The Beatles are really, really popular song. Probably you know it. And I'm going to do a demonstration so you can apply this first step of listening. First, listening for the structure, then for the rhythm, and then for the color changes. 3. Example song #1 Demo: In terms of the night, when thinking about their child. We'll see you. Then. Welcome to the meal. Hello. 4. Mastering the chords: Now that you have listened to the song 8-10 times and you know it really well. We can move on to the second step of the framework, which is alerting the courts of the song in your instrument. Now, if you happen to play guitar, ukulele, or any keyword-based instrument. I got you covered. And we have accurate courts charts for these instruments for the two songs that we will be reviewing in this class as part of the practice of the framework. So you can go ahead and look for those, for those charts because they will be really useful. Now. Now, if you happen to play any other kinds of instruments, and this time, it's really easy for you too. Find the court's online, but a word of advice for anytime that you are looking online for the courts of any song, this one or any other sung for any instrument. We really careful with the version that you choose, because sometimes the versions are in a different key or they have slight changes of the courts that don't sound right with the sun. So just be really careful and listen very well to how the chords sound with a song while you're playing along. And be sure that they really match well. Now that you have the courts, are, you know, how the position in your insulin looks. We can go ahead and try to play along with the sun, but with long notes like this. This is what I will recommend to do after the position. To play, just the chord changes as they appear while the sun is played with long notes. Once you have that covered, I would recommend advancing to a basic rhythm like this. And then you can play the more complex version of the rhythm that the song has. In this case, it's a really easy to play some. And the full version of the rhythm, for some, it's just eight nodes. And that's it. So when you start playing and singing, I will recommend you choose easy to play songs with easy rhythms. So you struggled so much while singing and playing. Now, if you have trouble changing the chord shapes in your instrument, I will recommend just to practice that, that alone in a different, different space, in different practice space. It just like that. Practice. The chord changes. The Coursera Nadar difficult to play. Or the change from one to another, is played like that. Several times, as fast as you can, a little faster every time without losing precision. Then after you feel more comfortable with those changes and you can join everything together and keep going. Okay? So if you don't have any idea how to play the chords in your instrument or the viewer. Very, very new to your instrument. I have a special section for you in the third part of this class that you can look for. And there you can find the step-by-step explanation of how to play this specific course for these songs in your instrument, for equally guitar or keyboard-based instructors. Okay? So if you didn't have any idea and go there, but if you have the basic knowledge and you can practice with what you have with the courts I provided and hearing the song, then you're good to go and to start practicing this step. 5. Feel the melody: For the third step, we are going to go back to listening, but this time we will focus only on the points, on the pitch changes and the different phrases not form across the whole song. I know that we're doing a lot of listening here, but believe me, when I say, this is going to save you from a lot of troll and you start practicing both skills at the same time. The deeper you know, these basic elements, it's going to be easier for you when you sing and play at the same time. So this is what you're going to do. You're going to listen to the song 8-10 times again. But there's two purposes. Listening for the pitch changes and listening for the phrases and the brakes. If we apply this to our example sung or let it be for the first verse, you will be something like this. Listening for the pitch. When a firm itself and times of trouble, see what I'm doing with my hat. I'm mapping out what's happening with each single syllable and the slight changes in the notes. If I'm going up or if I'm going down or if I have a jump. So you need to know this. So you know exactly what to do with your voice. Once you reach each point in the sun. Then when you are done with this, you will listen to the song another five or four times and listen just for the phrases and when the phrases, and so you know exactly when to breathe, e.g. here, and let it be when a firm itself in times of trouble. And that's it. That's the first phrase. And then I need to breathe again. You need to map out this because this way you will plan ahead and know exactly how much air do you need. For the next phrase, you don't want to run out of air at the middle of a sentence because it sounds really weird. So you need to plan ahead and know exactly how much error do you need in order to sync the next phrase? That's it. Summarizing, you need to listen for the pitch changes and then always and again, I don't listen for the phrases, the brakes and when to break. You can do this by going back to my previous demonstration. Or if you are tired already of my beautiful voice, you can go ahead and look for the original version of the sun or maybe another cover version. But listen for these things, That's it. That's our third step. 6. Test your automation: For the next step, you will test the automation of your courts in order to sing and play. It's really, really important that you'd be proficient with your course, our automation. You need to be able to play your instrument app. There's something else that involves talking at the same time. Take your instrument, playing the chords. The first option to test your optimization is to talk to talk about ideas I do. Having anything happening in your head. Thinking about license, That's fine. It doesn't have to be bitter in camps for me. Or you can open a book in front of you and read aloud what's in the book. Or you can call a friend that it's okay with you playing in the back, your instrument while you are chatting. Or you can recite the words in the lyrics. You don't have to sing it. You will just need to cite them to read them out loud. So any of these options work, they are completely fine. And that way, you know that your automation to go and you can move to the next step if you can't do this. So you need to go back and work again in your course materials. Chances are that you are not ready yet to move to the next step. 7. Master the lyrics: The next step is learning the lyrics of the song by heart. Remember that automation is key when we're trying to sing and play. At the same time, we our core automation ready and our lyrics automation ray. So we can focus on what's important, the interpretation and the coordination of both skills. So what I will recommend for you to write down the lyrics by hand, try 1015, maybe 20 times, something like that. And you will see that you will learn the lyrics a lot faster because that way you are pushing yourself to process the lyrics in a deeper way while you're trying to write it down. Learned to memorize them at the same time. So go ahead and learn the lyrics by heart. 8. Time to sing along: The next step is free to sing along with the actual recording of the song. In this case, you can use my own demonstration or you can look for the original version of the song and singing along with it. But very important, record yourself while you are singing it. Because after that, you will listen to it critically and evaluate your performance or the problems that you see, all the legal issues, the little parts that are obtained, then you can correct them in a better way. I know that this could be really embarrassing. Everyone hates their voice and the recording, but it's a critical step for you to improve your performance with your books. So you go ahead and sing along other, the actual recording of the sun. 9. Anchoring, anchoring, anchoring: Now that you know the lyrics and the courts of the song by heart, it's time for us to start matching them together and combining them. And we're going to do that by anchoring the courts of the song. We specific syllables in which they hit when they change. Okay, so you'll need your lyric sheet and a pen or a pencil and start listening to the sun. And when the courts changes, write them down exactly over the syllable that it corresponds. In this example of a b, we have something like this already done for you. It's already mapped out. When a syllable fine, you have a little see myself into. We have a G over time, the times of trouble. Over the mother. We have the a minor chord and then come to me other occur from CMS, we have the F chord. So you need to do this for the whole Sun. You need to map the song out with the courts are specific syllables, and this will help you a lot while you're trying to sing and play. 10. Mute those chords and sing: So far we have practiced individually singing and playing apart from each other. Now it's time for us to take our instrument under voices and move on to the first exercise that we're going to do with both at the same time. So take your instrument, whichever that is. And you will play moot courts. What's done? Something like this? For a string based instruments, we will just put our hands here. Under this trimming, this marking the pulse. For keyboard based instruments, I will recommend just putting your fingers over the keys, touching them on that without pressing, just marking the pulse, something like this. Just multiples. And then start sending your son. I've done a cell and times of trouble accounts to me speaking. Let it be e.g. in the sample sum that we are reviewing. So with this step, you will be able to multiples the follow a constant pulse in the sun and sing at the same time. Okay, So that's your first exercise. Practice it and when you're ready, move on to the next one. 11. The long chords: Now that you can sink and multiples of the sum in your instrument at the same time, we are ready to take things to the next level. With this new exercise. You will take your instrument and we will wait long. Courts or just a chord changes while we're singing like this. And challenges, trouble. Recount to me. That's it. See, I'm just playing the chord, let it ring and singing until the next chord cups. Now, if you see your screen, you can see that I made a little extra tool for you. Visual representation at diagram that represents the three different parts of what's happening right now in the song that represented this exercise. Let me explain it really quickly because we will use this diagram as well for then next exercises. Here, you can find three different parts with three different colors. At the top, we have the lyrics with black lines below, and they represent the length of each syllable. At the bottom we have red lines that represent the length of each chord. In this specific exercise. In the middle, you have along the lines, vertical blue lines that represent the different pulses, the four pulses that each bar has in this song. The long ones are the first time. It's the first pulse of a group of 412-34-1234 and again and again, okay. So it's a butler for tax. So looking at this representation, you can see what's happening in every single time of the sun, both in the lyrics and in the instrument for this specific exercise. Okay, so, but in the end, use what works for you. If it's easier for you, just to listen to the sound and the guide yourself, just using your ears and what you hear, That's perfect. But if you are having a hard time organizing those sounds in your head and how they are structured and times and what's happening with every single one in each time, then maybe this diagram will help you a lot. So choose what works best for you and try to sing one play long courts for just the core changes at the same time with this example sung that we have. 12. Chopping chord rhythm in half: Let's move on to the next exercise in which we are cutting the length of each chord by health the previous exercise, each chord lasted for four times, like this, 234-23-4234. This time, each core will last for two times and then we will play it again, like this. 2424234. So we are playing its core first and the third time. So it will sound something like this when we add the voice. Said. To me. Now, look at the visual representation that I'm showing in the screen so you can see exactly how it looks like this specific exercise. And I'm going to ask you to follow me in my demonstration of the first two purposes of our example. So take your instrument, you ready? Why? To recount to me by a man's name? Okay. And that's it. And you need to follow up to the next part of this same rhythm. 13. Putting all together: Song #1: We have come to the last part of the first example. We're ready because this is where the good stuff happens. This is where we combine everything that we have learned so far and we play the actual version of the song with the actual rhythm in the courts and our instruments. So take your instrument. We will play it like this. Remember the poles first? We will play exactly like that in our instrument. The rhythm that we are following, It's exactly the poles. Okay, so we're playing four times at each bar. This you see the diagram that I'm showing in the screen. You will see that there are no more red lines, red horizontal lines at the bottom, because now the vertical lines are red because the poles, it's now exactly the rhythm that we're playing here. In orange. We're playing the first two versus I will demonstrate them and I want you to play along and C along with me, those two first verses of the song. Ready? When a recount. If you could do that, then you are ready to play the entire song. And I recommend you to play and sing along with me. And the full demonstration that I made right at the beginning of the class. And that's it, follow it, practice. And then you have your first some that you can sing and play at the same time. 14. Intro to song #2 : If you have come this far, first of all, let me say, congratulations because you have accomplished something amazing already. Now you can sing and play a whole song by herself. And even if you need to polish it a little bit more before singing it in front of family or friends. It doesn't matter, it is still great. Now let's go over the second sum that will be reviewing as part of the class. It is, I can help falling in love with you. My Elvis are very popular, sung, probably know it. At this time. We will change things up a little bit. In the next video, you will find my whole demonstration of the song and with the help of a special document that we have. And that is called an ultimate checklist to sing and play any song you can find in the files that you download it from the class. You will go through steps one to seven of that checklist by herself. And with my demonstration, It's nothing different from what we have done before in the first sum, it's the exact same, it's the same steps. So now you will do it by yourself. And when you're done with that, we will see each other and the video after that for step number eight, and we will tackle that together. 15. Song #2 Demo: Hello. The daily. Hi. Today we tell them to London. Hi, lever for them to do. So. I'm going to change. Great. 16. Mute those chords and sing 2: Now that you have completed steps number one to seven for our second example, some of I can't help falling in love with you. It's time to go, right to step number eight, which is playing moot court or marketing the polls with moot courts while you are singing. Remember that for string-based instruments, we will mark the pause or play moot courts like this with a strumming without actually playing any chord. Because muting the strings. And for keyboard instruments, we will just touch the keys without actually pressing them and just marketing the poles, making this movement to mark the poles. And that's it. Now for this song, we have an interesting time measure is one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three. One-two-three, one-two-three. And you probably noticed before while you were listening to the song many times. So here, the pulse, It's in time, one of these three time count that I'm doing, it's one-two-three, one-two-three. One-two-three. There It's supposed. So take your instrument, we will sing together and play together. That first two verses of the song. You're ready. 1234, loaded for. You. Now. Continue doing that for the rest of the song. And if you need a little help, you can guide yourself with my demonstration are always looking for the original version or a cover version of the song. 17. The long chords 2: Now it's time to play. The chord changes while we're singing. Do remember this from the first sum. It's where we played the lungs. Let them ring out until the outcomes. For this song, it will sound like this. Now, let's try it together. Take your instrument and be ready. Here we go. Only. Rolling hills. Now. Continue playing. The chord changes over the whole song. 18. Chopping chord rhythm in half 2: Let's advance to the next exercise to play. I can help pulling love with you. This time, we will cut the length of the rhythm that we are playing with the chords. By. Instead of doing that, we will play it like this. You're playing exactly over the pulse of the song. Now, let's try. Three. We now continue with the rest of the summer. 19. Putting all together: Song #2: Now let's go to the final exercise so you can play and sing this song at the same time. This is where things get interesting. And mainly because of the different elements that are playing at the same time. They are really opposite elements. On one hand, we have what's happening here in the instrument. It's kind of obesity or weigh them all the time. 123. On the other hand, we have the voice which is playing long, long notes, something like that. And it's convenient for us that the voice aids, mainly heating. When the chord changes, the courts are changing. So that's, that's useful for us because it makes things easier. Now, let's try to play it slowly. That will be my first recommendation. Let's try playing it and singing it slowly, very slowly. And then we'll buy a little speeding up. Add my second recommendation. And it's really important as well. It's focusing, really, really focusing on the posts. Remember to three to three to three and this time number one. Because that is the thing that helps to bind two elements together, the instrument and the voice. So if you focus really well and this pause able keep you grounded for the rest of the song. So let's just type practicing this really slowly. We'll go over the first verse, second verse, the course, and it will be really slow. So here's the pulse. 1234. Are they the same? The cops count them too. 20. Second part of the class: Create your own take: He restarts. And the second part of the class in which we will discuss and learn about all the different options that we have while creating our own particular take on any sung. We'll go over changing the mood, changing the tempo, changing the rhythm, the courts, the rhythm of the melody, and even the notes in the melody to produce our own personal. Take, an interpretation of a song. 21. Changing the mood: Let's start talking about the selection of a mood or a specific emotion for your own personal interpretation of a sunk. Now, every single song in the world has a specific emotion that it conveys. It's up to you to select if you want to niche down even more and make a really specific choice. And that it's related to nap, original emotion or to change it a lot and go completely the other way with that choice that you have. Now, let's start with the first example with the first option inside this mood selecting phase. And this first option, you can leach down to our real specific unrelated emotion to the original one. E.g. if we have seltzer just like that in general terms as Samsung, you know that there's a wide variety of emotions that are related to that word sac. It can be depressed, it can be lonely, it can be longing, it can be colleague, can be nostalgic. There are wide range of specific emotions, so you reach down and select one of those specific emotions, then you will have a different result than the original one. Very different if you really focus on convey that specific emotion. Now, on the other hand, we have the other option that it's changing it completely going the other way. E.g. we have a happy song. We can easily transform it to Tajik sun, especially if that song reminds us the good old times. I don't know we have with somebody or no happier times or happy times. And now we remember them happily. But also in Atmos Tajik way, that will be an option. Or we can go the other way around, selecting a really sad song and changing the mood, changing the tempo, and make it really upbeat. And that also works in some occasions. So it's up to you what you choose with this mode, in this mode selecting face. And it really depends on what's resonating with you. That is the most important aspect that you select. An emotion or a mood that resonates personally with you. 22. Changing the rhythm: Our next option to make an interpretation more original or more unique. It's changing the rhythm of the courts. We can do that in three different ways. We can make it simpler. We can make it more complex, or we can play with our pages. Now, for the first way, if we want to make it simpler, Let's imagine that we have a more complex kind of busy rhythm like this one. I can change it just by focusing on the most accent that strokes are the most accented notes. So instead of this, I will have something like this. And I can make it simpler. If I take just two nodes from that new rhythm, makes something like this. Or like this. A simple rhythm. Now, if my rhythm, it's too simple or can it boring like this one? I mean, nothing wrong with that. If we want to give it a little more movement, we can add some nodes between the nodes that we already have. We can have something like this. Too fancy. With that. I can give it more movement, or maybe even more, more complex. And now, the final way, or pages, arpeggios is when you play a chord, but note by note, something like this. Chord position here. But I'm playing every single node individually. So it's a completely different sound. There. You have three different options to change the rhythm of your song and make it more personal, more unique. 23. Changing the tempo: Another option that we have, or making a distinctive version of a song that already exists is changing the tempo or changing the speed at which we are playing. That. So we can split up or we can slow it down. And it could be really fun. So try it and see what works. Maybe a, you discover a new sound that you really like, or maybe he just doesn't work at all. So just try it and see what happens. And then choose. 24. Change the length of the syllables: Another way to make an interesting interpretation, it's to play with the length of the syllables in the sun. We can basically make them longer or we can make them shorter. But this strategy has some advantages. The first one is that it creates a sense of expectation in the audience because they don't know exactly what will happen next. They don't know how we will resolve a specific syllable or a specific word. As we are creating different twists around the sun, it becomes more interesting for the audience because it's different from the original version. And the last advantage, It's a really big one that we can really convince the audience with this, that we have made the song our own as we present a more personal, more intimate version of the song. Now, let's see how this will sound like in real life. Let's say example of maybe and see what happens if I change the length. Some of the syllables here. And channel of trouble. Me. Let's see. Just with those small changes, it changes, they're feeling completely. Now it feels like a more intimate or personal version of the song, maybe more reflective. I came alone in my room and thinking about all the memories that come to me with that sunk. Okay, now it's time for you to try and see which different feelings or nuances you can convey while trying to change the length of the syllables in the sun. 25. Change the notes in the melody: Now let's review another option that we have, which is changing the notes in the melody. And I don't mean any radical change or something like that, just with a few notes here and there, we can get a more unique version of the song. Now, let's try it and see what happens when we apply it to an actual example. Let's say I can help, uh, following up with you. And what I will be thinking about, why sink, It's like this. When the song or when their voice usually goes up. In some places, I will try to go down. And when the song, It's usually going down. I will go up and see what happens in some places. I guess I can help. Maybe. For him. It was subtle, but you probably you could hear it in some places. I did some different nodes that you can have your own personal version of the sun. It's some slight checks. So now you go and try it and see the different options in the notes you have and what works best for you. 26. Third part of the class: Common problems and chords tutorials: In this next third part of the class, you can find some extra appendices that solve many of the common questions and troubles that people has, all trying to sing and play at the same time. From how to play the basic chords that we used for the example sums to extra tips, tricks, and strategies to help you in your process. 27. Common problem #1: What do I do if my mouth keeps mimicking the same rhythm that I'm playing in my instrument is a really common ones. So don't worry if you have it. Here are my pieces of advice to solve it. The first one is that you might want to simplify the rhythm that we are playing. Usually people run into this problem when they are trying to play complex rhythms before they already tried to simplify it just by playing the accents, the main accents of the rhythm in your instrument. And then slowly start building up, start adding some extra notes until you get the actual version. Obviously, at the same time while you simplify the written. Now, the next piece of advice is look for a live performance of the song that you're trying to play. And this is because sometimes the artists are playing and singing at slightly different version or in a different way than maybe you are trying to play. So see what is actually happening on the plate and see the difference they match, or maybe they are doing something different. And that gives you a hint of what to do to played and sang it better. The next piece of advice is forget about the lyrics and just hum the melody of the song while you play. This way, you are eliminating one of the elements that might be distracting you. Then you can focus only in the coordination part of singing and playing. That way, you can improve your coordination and sing and play at the same time, and then you can add the lyrics. The next piece of advice is that you might want to, to take some time just to do some extra exercises, some extra coordination exercises in your instrument and your voice, e.g. you can use something like this. You can start with a simple rhythm. Here's like this. Marketing the pulse with your mouth or when your voice the same, pap, pap, pap, pap. And then doubling the rhythm in your voice. That marking the pulse. Triple it. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. And then with four nodes. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but and then switch it and do the pulse with your voice and the different rhythms way the instrument. But there are some exercises that you can do to improve your coordination. Then the last piece of advice is a really important one. Tried to break down the sum or the difficult parts into small bags. So you can really analyze what's happening there. The real like we did in our diagrams that I showed you, what's happening in each single time. Maybe you are analyzing it and understanding better what's happening with the rhythm or the, the courts and the rhythm of the voice in the specific times that you are having trouble with. You can perform it better because you understand better what's happening and you can slow it down. Practice just the coordination. And then slowly start to speed up until you get to the actual rhythm. And then plate with a whole song. 28. Common problem #2: I feel like this, It's impossible for me coordination. It's so hard, I don't know what to do. This is a really common one. So don't worry, you're not alone. And I have several pieces of advice for you. The first one, just breathe. I know it's really obvious, really simple, really cliche, but it also works when you're feeling like this. Just stop, stop your practice with your instrument aside for awhile. Maybe even stand up, walk for a bit in your space or in your house if you can. Take some deep breaths. And then when you're feeling more calm, go back to practice. We need to do as much as we can to really enjoy or practice time and avoid any negative associations with it. Because it is all time. It's time that we are choosing to spend making music and that's great. So we need to try to enjoy it as much as we can. So love it off. If you made some mistakes, take some deep breaths, and then get back to practice. My next piece of advice. If you're feeling especially angry, especially frustrated that day, you cannot take it anymore and you want to throw away your instrument and never come back to it. Please don't just stop it. Stop it completely. Call it a day. Go to sleep and try again the next day. Even take a day off if you need it, but don't quit. Just try again the next day. Sometimes the brain just needs some rest before processing new information and new skills. It has happened to me countless times that I was getting really angry at a passage that I was studying. Really, really angry. And just stop it. Clear day, go to bed, Try it again the next day. And then after a couple of tries, I could do it. I have it now. And that was my brain just needing some rest. The next piece of advice, this is a really big one and often overlooked by many musicians, even friends of mine, even professional musicians. You know, everyone that I know of in our looks, this many pieces, many small pieces of practice are a lot better than big chunk practice. Why is this? Because the way our brain works. When we are doing repetitive tasks over and over and over again. Our brain loses focus. So it's fair for us to just scatter around our day. Just small bites of practice for ten to 15 min each time than spending a couple of hours or three or 4 h practicing the same thing over and over again. So just scatter around your day. Small bites of practice and keep things interesting by practicing different passages of the semester. Practicing every time, you will see faster results with that metal. And my last piece of advice, the most important one, it has happened to every single artist and musician. Okay, everyone is having, or everyone has had, at some point coordination problems. Everyone has a struggle with that. So just keep practicing until you feel comfortable enough and you will get there. I promise if you keep practicing and focusing on the right things, you will get there. Okay, so just don't give up and keep going. 29. Let it be: Ukulele chord tutorial: To play Lady be in the EU, clearly, we will need only four different courts. The first one is this. It's a C major chord. We need our ring finger right here at the first string. Third fret, 123. All districts are second position, G major chord. We need our index finger right here on the third string, second fret, and our ring finger right here on there. Second string, third fret. So we have so far our last finger, the middle finger is going to be here on the second fret of the first string. It's gonna be a little bit hidden below the other two fingers. We have this here, this here, and this right below here. This can be a little trickier. Precision. Cast is our, our finger right there and have very small space. So my recommendation would be to press just with the tip of your finger so you can form a good arc. So you're not accidentally pressing other strings below. Something like this. From a good park. Do what works best, fit them in that small space. Then we are a minor chord. You just need a middle finger. Here in the fourth string, second fret string, you're going to press the last chord that we need. It's an F chord. For this one, you need your index finger right here in the second string. First fret. And your meal. Middle finger right here on the fourth string, second fret. It's an easy transition from this E minor, F. Just one finger difference. And that's it. Those are our four chords that we need for Lady B now to play the births. This is the progression that we start with a C to a G minor, F. Go back to a C minor, F to C. Now, for the course, we need an a minor, then a, G, F, a, C. And we repeat the same sign. And then we end with a C. That's it for the course. Those are the main two parts that you need to play. Let it be in equilibrium. 30. I can't help: Ukulele chord tutorial: To play icon help fall in love with you in the ukulele, we need eight different courts, but half of them, you already know from the first song that we reviewed from Lady B. So the four chords that you already know here, hearing this song that we need, the car, C major, G major, a minor, and major. The new chords that you need for the sum r, E minor. You have this inexperience. First string, second fret. Middle finger here connects. Second string, third fret. Ring finger, right here and there. For fret of the third string. Like that, It's a nice arrangement of the fingers. It fits easily equally. Then you have a B seven chord. It's gonna be like this, just same position. Imagine that you take the same exact position and you just take it one string up. This is the E minor and this is the B seven. Now we have a chord in minor seven. We just need our index finger right here on the third string. First. Pointless tricks. And then the last chord that we need, D minor, it's going to look like this. Three fingers. For middle finger. Here in the fourth string, second fret. The ring finger right below the third string, second fret, right here, and the index finger here in the second string, first fret. So you have here is this here, this, and this one here. Okay? So press with the tip of the finger. Format. Good luck. Those fingers will fit right there. Those are the eight positions that we need for this are now in diverse. We have this chord progression. Starts with a C, Then go to E minor, a minor, then to an F, to C, then to g. We go to an F, G, a minor, F, C, G. And that's diverse. Now for the course, we all start E minor chord and we go to a beat seventh. Then again in minor seven. Then again minor seven. It's three times the same. And then we go to E minor, seven, D minor. And then those are the main two parts of AI can help falling in love with you. And just with that, you can play basically the whole song. 31. Let it be: Guitar chord tutoria: To play the guitar, we use need four different chords. The first one is the C major chord. For this one, we need index finger right here in the second string. First spread. Then the middle finger here in the fall string, string, second fret, and the ring finger in the fifth string, third fret. So we have this finger here, one here, and this, this inner sphere right here. Remember to press the strings with a tip of your fingers and make a good arc. So you are not obstructing any suffering from something like this. So strength and form a good arc. Now we have second chord, G major chord. For this one, we leave our middle finger right here at the top. String, third fret. And then we have our index finger right here on the fifth string, second fret. And our ring finger, right down here, all the way down here in the first string, third fret. So these two fingers are in their third fret. First string on the old one in the sixth string, and this one, that fifth string. Next, we have our a minor chord. For this one, we're going to press here in the second string, index finger, first fret. Then we have our ring finger here in that third string, second fret, and our middle finger here in the fourth string, second fret as well. This is a precision. Remember to press just with the tip and form a good arc. Our last call is this f, f for a bar chord. And you could have two different positions for this. This is a simplified position of the core in which you press is two strings with this index finger. And press the third string with this middle finger in there. Second fret, like this, and you use played only way with the right hand on the plate. These three strings, strings that you are pressing, forget about basins. Or if you are playing may help position and you press all six strings with this index finger. That's the bar. Man. You press the string second, threatened the middle finger. Then this fourth string, third fret with the pinky finger. And fifth string in there. We read fear, just like this. You have this earth with the bar. Looks like this. This is a hardcore, especially for beginners, so don't worry if it takes a while to sound good. So focus on the position. Doesn't matter if it doesn't sound perfect. The first time you are playing. Or the second term here, maybe the first few months of you playing, it's completely normal. So don't worry. Now, we have for the chord progression, this restart it. A C to a G, to an a minor. Again to a C, G, F. That's for diverse. And for the chorus, We need a minor. G, F, C. We repeated, see, GI, F, C. And that's it. That's the course. Do you see these two main parts to play? Let it be an ag. 32. I can't help: Guitar chord tutorial: To play icon help falling in love with you. We need eight different courts. The good news are that we already know for those courts from the previous sum from Lady Be the courts that we already know. Our major. G major, E minor, F major. Now, the new courts that we need are the minor seventh. Seventh minor. How do we play this new course? The first one, this is the E minor chord. We're going to play it like this. Our middle finger goes to the fifth string, second fret, and our ring finger goes right below the fourth string, second fret. That's it. Completely. Strings, we can strum all springs, and that's our E minor chord. We move to be seven chord. This is a little more complex chord. Maybe you can see exactly what's happening in my hand. What is happening. It's this. I'm using my middle finger to play the fifth string. Second fret. My ring finger on the fourth string, third string, second fret. And my pinky finger is on the first string, second fret. The last one, my index finger on the fourth string, first fret. You just played from the fifth string and below, you ignore the sixth string. If you want a simplified version of this course, you can play this half of the position but also works. Also sounds really well. You can play it like this. You put your index finger in their fourth string. First fret, your middle finger goes. And the third string, second fret. And your ring finger goes to your first string, second fret. Next chord, an eighth, seventh chord. Sounds like this. You need your middle finger in the fourth string, second fret, and your ring finger in the second string, second fret, two fingers. And you can play tricks. You can spend our last D minor chord. For this. You will need your index finger here in the first string. First fret, your ring finger in the second string, third fret, and your middle finger in the third string, second fret. Just like this. Those are the eight courts that we need. Now. To play. The first, first, we need a C minor, E minor, F, C, G. And we go to an F, G, E minor, F. Let's see, G and C. Now for the course, we need E minor, B7. Again, E minor seven. Again, E minor seven. We go back to D minor seven, D minor, G major. And that's it. That's our course. And just read that verse and the chorus. You can play basically the whole song. 33. Let it be: Piano chord tutorial: To play Lady B and the piano, we're going to need four different courts, only four chords. Let's start with a C, C major chord. Here. We are going to play them with these. There are thumb, index finger, and our ring finger. All of the positions that we're going to play are exactly the same. With fingers that we're going to play them. This is the C major, G major chord. Exact same finger position. And now starting with a G, G major chord, then we need a minor chord. Exact same finger position but starting C, D, E, and then F major. Exact same position with the fingers. F, a, C. Note. Now for the verse, this sun, you're going to have this C to a G. Then an F. You go back to a C, G, F. Again. Now for the course, we start with an E minor chord and a G, and an F. And back again. And we repeat the C to G with C. And that's it, That's it for let it be just with those two sections, you can play the whole song. 34. I can't help: Piano chord tutorial: To play icon, help pull in love with you in the piano. We need eight different courts. The good news are that four of those courts, we already know from the first song that we reviewed from Lady B. Those courts are major, minor, G-Major. The new courts that we need are minor. Let's start with that in mind. Then. We'd be major. Spent to look different. B, D-sharp here in this black key, F sharp. Then we need an a major chord. A minor chord. This note, natural, C-sharp, right? So we need an C-sharp. That's an E major chord. And the last one, a D minor chord, which is right here. And now to play the birth of AI can help from Europe with you. We need this chord progression. Then we go to then an F. Now we go to an F, G, a, that go back to C, then a G to C. Now, for the chorus, I can help formula with you. We start with an E minor and go to a B major. He did this three times. And I know my B major go back to E minor. And then we go and we go to D minor. And we finished. We at. With that, we have the two main parts of AI can help follow up with you. And we can play the whole song. 35. Class Project: For this class project, you will record yourself singing and playing your own personal take on any song you like. It could be anything from 30 s to the full length of the track. With audio and video or audio, you will apply the framework and strategies you'll learn through the class to make unique interpretation. 36. Last thoughts: I really hope that this class has helped you to develop new skills, to express yourself in new ways, to gain more confidence in your performance and your abilities. And of course, to make more music. If you feel that you have gained any value from this class, I would really appreciate if you take the time and leave a review and recommend the class to anyone who you think might find it helpful. Thanks a lot, keep learning, keep making music, and have an awesome day.