Learn How to Play Ukulele (for beginners)

1. Welcome & Introduction: Hello and welcome to this class where you will learn how to play this amazing instrument called an ukulele. My name is Mike and I made this class for you to give you a great foundation for playing this beautiful instrument. You can start as a complete beginner and in only one week or two of taking this class, be able to play chords and chord progressions to any of your favorite songs and twos. In time, if you keep up practicing, you will be able to play chords and rhythms on your ukulele while you sing at the same time. And with even more practice, you will even be able to add emotional expression and variation into your report. So let's have a look at the course overview. So you will learn all the basics playing the ukulele. You will explore playing techniques and adding variation and expression in your performances. You will get practical tips, exercises, and examples. And you will learn how to play songs and tunes on your ukulele. In short, you will get many years of joy from playing these amazing instrument, which is why I now welcome you to an amazing adventure in music. So let's start your journey on the ukulele. Right now. 2. 7 Reasons why the Ukulele is so Amazing: This instrument is beautiful in so many ways, but let me give you my top seven reasons why the ukulele is so amazing. And I hope that this will give you a spark of motivation and inspiration to truly learn how to play these great instrument. Number one, E, C to learn. So the ukulele is one of the more instruments you can learn how to play, because it only has four strings compared to the guitar, which has six strings. That makes the code patterns easier to find and learn. Also, the strings are soft because there are nylon strings and the frets are closer compared to, again, a guitar, for example, which makes it easier to reach for any size fingers. So kids, adults and older generations. Anyone can learn how to play the ukulele number to light and portable. So the ukulele is an extremely light instrument. It practically weighs nothing. And it's of course, a very small instruments, one of the smaller string instruments. In fact, that makes it easy to carry around and bring anywhere you go, really. And also very light and comfortable to hold for every one. Number three, minimal effort. And by this I mean that it is very physically EC2 play this instrument because of how light it is uncomfortable to hold, because of the soft and light strings, nylon strings, very easy to press those down to create the melody notes and the course. And also because the frets are so close together, there are really no for stretches like you've seen on guitar. So it's easy on your fingers and your wrists. So physically, it's minimal effort to play the ukulele. Number four, perfect for backing. By this, I mean that it Ukulele really excels at playing the accompaniment, meaning the courts and rhythms. Let the backing to your track. This also means that it's superb for playing the chord to whatever song you want to play. Number five, soft and quiet. And this can be a great advantage if you live in an apartment like myself and you have neighbors that are annoyed with high noises for playing. Most instruments are very loud, whereas the ukulele is very, very quiet and soft as an instrument. This is good for your neighbors, but also it is good because then you can carry the lyrics and sing the song on top of the courts. As I said, it's perfect for backing. If I play this on a guitar, for example, which is much louder, you really have to put more strength and power into your voice if you sing along. And it's easy that your voice gets drowned out by the guitar when you strum the course on that. Whereas on the other allele, since it's soft and quiet, it's much easier to sing along as well. Number six, very affordable. I would say that the ukulele is even one of the most affordable instruments you can get. I got this tenor ukulele for something like 60 or 70 US dollars. But you can in fact get the soprano or concert ukulele for way below 50 US dollars and get a good instrument. I would say that you should avoid the absolute cheapest instruments you can find online on marketplaces like Amazon or eBay. But as long as you get your ukulele from a music store or online music store, I think you will get a good one for a very cheap price. Number seven, fun and friendly. I would say the ukulele is one of the happiest and the friendliest instruments you can have them play. It sounds so sweet and upbeat. It's great for bringing along two parties to friends on the beach by the campfire like you do on a guitar and just playing some chords and stop playing together. Super fun and super friendly instrument. So now we have seven great reasons to learn how to play the ukulele. I wish you good luck and great fun on your journey. Learning how to play these amazing instrument. 3. 5 Ukulele Types: There are actually several sizes and variations of the ukulele. However, I would say that 99% of all ukuleles will be one of the first three main types, soprano concert. And ten are regularly. My specific one is a ten hour. What's great for you is that all these three variations have the exact same tunings of the strings, which means all loads and chords will be the same on all these three main variations of the ukulele. The difference is this size. Soprano is the smallest ukulele, the concert in the middle. The tenor, this one that I have is the largest one out of these three. Now, even though these three types play exactly the same meaning, all chord shapes, frets and tunings and nodes will be the same. The size difference is still important because it changes both the color of the sound. The bigger the ukulele body is. Length. The factor, if you can say that the tone and color will be, it will be deeper and richer in tone. But also, and even more importantly, I would say, is that the distance between the French threats will change. The smallest, like the soprano ukulele, will have the shortest distance between the frets and the tenor. Out of these three will have the biggest, like this one. I personally have chosen to play the tenor ukulele because I felt the soprano and even the concert was a bit too tight for my fingers when playing both melodies and shapes. So for most adult, hence, you will struggle with chords on the smallest soprano Ukulele. So be aware of that when you choose your instrument, the concert is the in-between. So that could be a good starting point. But I would recommend trying out different shapes and variations of the ukulele in an actual music store. Soprano concert, or ten or so, those were the three main types of ukuleles. Let's move on to the baritone ukulele. I don't have one to show you, but it's basically a completely different instrument because it is tuned differently from these first three main types. In fact, it is actually tune exactly the same as the four highest strings on a guitar. And that makes, of course, the tone and range a lot lower compared to any of these three main types of weaker learners. And finally, the base ukulele is certainly in a different league and please more like a miniature electric bass. So in this class, you will learn how to play one of the three classic types of ukuleles. Soprano, the smallest Concert, medium-sized. Tanner, this one I have, which is the Lord is one out of these three. You should of course choose which one of these three suits you the best, depending on the size of your hands and fingers and how far you can stretch, and what you feel most comfortable playing. 4. Ukulele Complete Overview: Now let's do a complete overview of this instrument and how it works. First, all string instruments, including the ukulele. It works by having strings of different length, thickness, and tension. Then you create the sound on the instrument by making the strings vibrate. On an ukulele. You do this by either plucking the strings or strumming the strings. The vibration of those strings is then amplified by the whole low instrument body. You can see from the hole here it is hollow body. This acts like a resonance or echo chamber for the sound and thus amplifies the toll lower notes on any string instruments, or created by longer strings and less tension. And the higher pitches and nodes are created with shorter strings and higher tension. You change the tension on the string by tuning it. And you do this by turning the tuning peg here for the particular string. So you loosen it to go down in pitch, loosen the tension. And you tighten it to create hypertension. To go up in pitch. You change the notes on any string by pressing your finger against the string. So that is pushed against one of the frets on the neck. As you go higher up on the neck. Here, higher and higher notes, right? You are basically shortening the string by doing this and therefore playing higher notes. Alright, that is how the ukulele works. Now, let's go through all the main parts of the ukulele, the body. So the body of the ukulele is shaped in a similar way like an acoustic guitar, but smaller. Obviously, it is hollow, like your books and has a sound hole here right below the strings, which acts as an acoustic amplifier. The purpose of the body is to create a resonance chamber that will increase the volume, depth and sustain the vibrating strings. The neck. This long part of the instrument, which the strings go over and allows you to press down the fingers on the strings or to the Nicaea, the frets on the neck Change which notes are played. This is called the neck, the strings. So you have four strings on the organelle it, and each one has a different root note for the open string. An open string is the note that is played when you pluck or thrombus rings without pressing down a finger on it. The nodes for the ukulele, at least the three main types, or G, C, E, and a. G is the closest to your chin here. And then C and the tuners. So the tuners are up here and each string has its own tuning peg, which you use to either tightened to tune the pitched up. So if I play again here, you can hear the pitch go crops up when I turn it in one way and you lose the tension to chip to the pitch down. That is the tuners, the frets. So the ukulele is like a guitar. String instrument. This means that you have a fret board below the strings on the neck here, which you press down the strings against in order to change which note is played. You can see these tiny small bores here, metal bars. And those tiny bars creates a precise contact point for the strings when you press them down. So if I press down the third string, Fred tear on the final string. Even if I press in the middle, the string will actually have a contact point here on the actual fret, this tiny ball. So when you play any string on your ukulele, you want to have your fingers as close to these fret. You're gonna replace with third is close to it as possible, but not on top of it if you want to get the cleanest sounds. So if I play it here, close, but if I get on top, you're muting the sound. If you play to four, it might be easy on one string, but when you play chords and play too far, you might get this. Also muted sound because you don't press it down enough so you want to keep it close to the fret, but not on top of it. The nut. This is actually the first contact point of the strings, which basically acts like fret numbers, zeros. So all these threads here, the metal bars, the first space here is one, the x is 23. But this thick little bar here is actually pretty much fret numbers. Cro, Because if you plug in open string without pressing down a finger, what presses the string is the nuts here that creates the open string sound. This saddle. So opposite of the first contact point is the final contact point down here. This other bar here is called the saddle. And the distance between the nut up here and the saddle is essentially the length of each open string. So if I plug here the first ray or any string, it is the contact point between here and here. Since you don't use any fingers, that is the open string, the length of that. So it only changes from the tension of the tuning peg, the bridge. So this cerebral, this bar is the final contact point, but this entire thick thing that holds everything together is basically the bridge on the lower end of the instrument. This is the place where you attach new strings when you need to replace them. As you see, they go over the saddle and into a hole below here. And then you need to do a little note here to tie them in place. On the opposite side, of course, is you tie them into the tuning pegs. And that's basically a complete overview of the alleles. So let's move on to the next lesson now. 5. Tuning the Strings: Now it's time to learn how you get your ukulele strings in tune. But first, let me give you an important lesson about strings and tuning. Which is that all strings on all string instruments go out of tune over time. And if you've just got your instrument or you put on new strings, it can take many days before those strings settle and they can hold the tuning. But in any case, tuning strings is something you will have to get used to doing. Orphan. You should tune the strings every time you pick up your ukulele for practicing or for playing songs. And even within a session, you should check and retune whenever you hear that it starts to sound out of tune any of the strings. Alright, now let's learn how to tune your daily. One. Tuning to. The first thing you need is a tuner device, which basically is a tool for recognizing the frequency pitch of any sound. Like for example, a string vibrating off duplicate. There are Tune or devices you can use, such as this one that you clip on to your ukulele, then when you pluck a note, I don't even have a battery in this, so I can show you, but it will show if it's too high or low in pitch and which note you play. But I personally use and recommend you to use an app for your smartphone, since you always have this with you and hopefully some battery left. Turn on the tuner to first I have an app called tuner light. There are several free and paid apps for smartphones. Place it in front of you, so I keep it here on the desk so you can clearly see it. The display. And then number two, you want to start by checking your strings. So check what tuning your ukulele strings it should be in the standard ukulele tuning. Is G4, the first string closest to chin, C4, e for an A4. This tuning is basically used on all soprano and concert ukuleles and even many tenor or gorillas like this one. And it is what creates that classic, bright and sparkly uplifting ukelele sound, because the string closest to your chamber is high in pitch, and then it goes down and then up again. So for reference C4, this second string from the top is the same note as middle C on a piano keyboard. So if we take a look at the piano keyboard and middle C here, c4 is this node that is the second string from the top closest to your chin on your local area. So the string closest to your chin with standard ukulele tuning, high GI tuning. The first string here from the top will be G4 than the second string from your chain, C4, a4. So when you strum all the open strings, these are the nodes you are actually playing. So as you can see and hear, that makes the ukulele a high range instrument. However, some ten or ukuleles may have what is called a low GI tuning, where the G string here, the one closest to you, is thicker and tune to G3 instead of G4. So first check the specifications of your ukulele strings you have on it. In almost all cases, it will resume. J4, C44, A4, which is the standard unit, step three, pluck and two. So you start with a string closest to your string. String. Pluck it while you watch the tuner. Let's see if you can see this at the same time. And watch this little line which shows which note is played. So D4, and it's, I don't know if you can see it's pretty much perfect in tune, of course I need to be silent. You pluck it and shake the tuning. If it's too sharp, meaning too high in pitch, or two, flat, meaning too low in pitch. So if you have an ukulele with the standard tuning on your strings, you should have this string to deform when you pluck that string so that it vibrates. If it's too flat or sharp, you start tuning it. Then tune, it sustains. You simply check this tuning peg is this one here. And when you can go, tighten it to get go up and patrons are losing it to go down in pitch. I recommend that you turn the tuner while the string is resonating and start with the peaches, slightly too low, meaning slightly flat, a bit below the note. So G in this case. And then pluck and tune it upward in steps like that. So I start here, I now do flat a bit higher. And you want to be in what I call the green zone, which is where the string is in tune. And that could be anywhere from around minus $0.10 to plus ten. And sense of a tone. Usually like this app, they have these small arrows to the left and right side, which is the green zone, so to say. Then number four is to check and retune because once you tune all the four strings to start with, first, check that g. Then you go through each one again quickly, just because when you tune strings, you're changing the tension of the neck and the instrument and the other strings, maybe out of tune again, especially with new strings, or if the instrument is new. So I always go back and recheck and retune if needed. So you go through bit higher titer. Usually in most cases, when strings go out of tune, they go to flat, meaning they lower the pitch so they lose a bit of the tension. Okay, so now we checked and retune. Finally, I also recommend that as a final step. Each time you tune your uncle Nella is to play a simple code to make sure it really sounds nice and in tune. Because your ears will pick up very quickly if you play a chord and it's out of tune. So let's play the easiest chord and most common chord on the ukulele. Press your ring finger with your left hand on the third fret here on the highest string. And then strum all strings downward with your thumb of your right hand over the sound hole here starting from the stream closest to you, the G string, and then download words like this and let the nose ring out. Again. Did it sound nice? If it sounds nice, UCLA is now in tune and you just played your first chord, which is C major on your ukulele. Alright? Now that your data is in tune, you are ready to start practicing and playing your instrument. So I'll see you in the next lesson. My friends. 6. Holding the Ukulele: Welcome back my friends. So in this lesson, I'm going to quickly demonstrate and show you how to hold your ukulele. Now, remember, of course, how you personally like to hold it depends on what you feel is most comfortable to you. But I'm going to give you some pointers to get started. So first, grab the neck of your ukulele with your left hand. Of course, this is if you're right-handed like me, then take your right hand and place it on the bottom of the body so that your lower risks here, it leans against the lower part of the body. And let's see if I can back up so you can see it. Push it against your chest like this. If you have a longer ukulele, you might even lean it on your leg. Otherwise, just push it against your lower chest here, place your logo or your arm like so, so that your fingers are above the hole. And then simply, even if you release your left hand, it will be comfortable like this. You can use your fingers to stabilize it like so. And then just start playing like this. Just find a position on your body, which is where your ukulele feels comfortable so that you have good Reach and overview, visual overview of the fridge and strings, as well as being able to strum and play like so. Because you are going to use your wrist and hand like this since your rest of your hand will be there for stabilizing and keeping the hook ukulele in place against your body like this. So this is how it will look like when you strum or when you pluck, you are using your wrist and hand and fingers. So that is how I hold the ukulele. Try it out, Feel what is comfortable, comfortable to you. And then let's move on to the next lesson. My friends. 7. Learn How to Strum: Just like on a guitar, one of the main ways to play your ukulele is by strumming the strings in order to play chords. So let's learn about that in this lesson. So first, you need to choose a chord with your left hand. So let's use the C major chord for all these examples, use the ring finger on your left hand. Put it on the third fret here. On the highest string to a string, so the string furthest away. Okay, so let's learn first about downstrokes because it can either Strom in a downwards direction or an upwards direction. And when you strum down, it is called downstrokes and you do this with your thumb. So after you chose and the core here with your left hand. So C major, you simply take your thumb stopped by pressing it on the closest string. So the G string closest to your chin, and let it run over all strings in a downward motion. Just push it downwards like this. And then you can speed it up to create a more of a strum like that. Then upstroke. So when you strum in an upwards direction, it is called upstrokes. And instead of using the back of your thumb, which creates a horseshoe harsher sound like and feel strange. I recommend that you use your index and middle finger are basically your entire hand just going up words. Instead. You hit the strings with your flesh of your fingers. That sounds better and will feel more natural. So down, with your thumb, up, you basically just take your entire hand. It will hit the strings going upwards with your middle finger and index finger. Doesn't really matter which strings, as long as it's not the back, use the nail or sound. So downwards, the downstrokes upwards will naturally be these longer fingers. One of the fingers. Okay, Next, let's learn about strumming rhythm. So the way you create rhythm width strumming on your ukulele is to combine down and upstrokes, as well as pauses. You don't strum. Basically, you create a pattern of upstrokes, downstrokes and pulses, which creates the strumming pattern, that is the rhythm, something like this. Okay, So let's finish off with a practice session. So I want you to strum in 44. And it sounds complicated, but it's really the easiest rhythm you can use in music. So what I want you to do now is strong, both downstrokes. So let's do this chord, the C major chord, and upstrokes and practice doing alternating downstrokes, upstrokes and if 44 rhythms, meaning you count 12341234 and so on. And keep things slow as far as the tempo goals and strum on every beat so you can even use your foot to stomp belong 1234, do it slowly, 1234. And then you switch directions for each strum like this. One. Stamp your foot at the same time to keep the groove of the rhythm, the palace calendar if you want to. Because a major part of playing the ukulele will be first playing the chords, but also the rhythm to create the performance and groove and playing style in your performances. So practice this at various tempos. Start slow, count it out. Remember to go to switch direction for each beat down. And then when you're ready, we can move on to the next lesson. 8. Fretting the Strings: Now, what is really important that you learn as soon as possible on your ukulele journey is to fret the strings correctly. This is something many beginners struggle with. The correct way is to use your fingertips to press down on the strings on the specific threat. So for example, if you take a C major chord, the third fret on the a string, I mean, you can play it like this. An angle. And it sounds fine. But what you should do is to angle it your fingers so they point almost straight down. It doesn't really matter on this specific core. But when you play, for example, a G chord like this, you will learn about the core later. If it quite correctly, it should look like this from the top. If you angle the fingers too much down like this, your wrist and fingers, it's way too easy to actually accidentally touch other strings like this. If I play each string slowly, okay, sounds good until the highest rank. Because that finger, since it angles down like this, it touches the highest ring, which mutes. And the second aspect is to, when you fret the strings. And you already learned about this earlier, but fretted, like you take your finger and you push it as close to the actual fret board. So this is the, this entire space here between here is the third fret. In this case, you can put it up here or here. But as you can here, you lose pressing power the further you are from the actual line, this board, the fret bar, but you don't want to be on top, because immutable strings, you want to be as close as you can On top of that threat. And it becomes more obvious if you play as drum corps where you press down many friends like let's say an F major chord. If you are too far away like this, you lose the processing power of your fingers. You want to press with a straight angle down and as close to the fret as possible. In this case, the second fret, hello straight as possible. And you can try it. Clean note, open, ring, and so on. To create the cleanest sounding chords and notes. So again, fingertips. So that means you need to angle the fingers. So if you haven't like so angle the joints of your fingers so the fingertips are pointing almost straight down or at least as close to it as possible, depending on the chord. And second is to press as close to the fret board as possible in this space of each fret you are playing, but not on top of it. Alright, so that is how you fret the strings correctly on your Google LA. Let's move on to the next lesson now. 9. Notes on Ukulele: Nodes on the ukulele. Alright, so for this lesson, I'm actually going to demonstrate is on a piano keyboard, even if we are talking about nodes on the ukulele. Because learning anything about music theory, even the most basic stuff, like the nodes in music is much easier to see on a piano keyboard. So let's move on to the piano keyboard and I'll teach you the concepts of nodes on ukelele. Music is based on 12 nodes, consisting of seven main nodes which are named a to G. So a, you can see BCD. And then it starts over. And you can see this pattern all over the keyboard from the lowest day here to the highest see up here, those seven nodes are repeated, then you have five extra nodes because as you learned, there are 12 nodes music and those five extra nodes are called accidentals. And you can see these as these black keys on a piano keyboard. So this is what I mean, It's way easier to see this and demonstrate this on a piano keyboard because the accidentals are indeed different colors of the case. So you have here between C and D, you have this lucky in DNA in-between nodes. All these 12 nodes repeat both up and down in range is what, in what is called octaves. So if I play this C here, middle C is the exact same node. That is why it has the same names as this. Note an octave apart. It's a double or half in frequency when you go up or down in optics. So it is the same node only sounding pyre or sounding. And the same goes for any node in music. So the nodes in-between these accidentals, the black case, can be named in two ways. Either they are called sharps or flats. A sharp node is labeled by referencing the node below and going up. So if I have d here, if we take this note here, referencing the dean, that will be called D sharp, it flat node is labeled by referencing the node above and going down. So if I had the E and use this as the reference, this notice now called E flat. So the only difference between flats and shops in music is simply the reference node. They are named author. So this node can be called either a D sharp or flat. And that goes for all the black keys. They are named from the white key to the left or right of it, the code, or the same as C sharp major chord. Like this. You can even see up here, it says C sharp or D flat. It is the same core. So if you see C-sharp major or D flat major, it's the exact same notes, the exact same sound with two different names. And this goes for all course. Let's start with the root node on a black key, accidental notes. Okay, So now of course, only on an ukulele don't have any black keys that you clearly show where the sharps and flats are. But you still need to know all these accidentals, the black keys, the five accidentals can be named in two ways. So you have this one which can be called either C sharp or D flat. This one which is either D sharp or E flat. This one either F sharp or G flat. This one either G sharp or a flat. And finally, this one, a sharp or B flat. And you can remember the difference between sharps and flats by thinking of a flat tire goes down, the cord goes down. So if you have B and it's flat, goes down, and you can think of sharps as a peak, a sharp peak. So you take something and going up. And here's some good news. I have actually created these complete ukulele fingering short for you, which displays the nodes of the ukulele fretboard. You can use it for reference for playing all the notes of each fret and each string. In time, you will even learn how to find all the nodes of the entire fretboard without using the fingering short. And this will be great for finding and learning new codes, for adding color to codes for creating variations and so on. Please notice that I have chosen to not add the note names for the accidental nodes in this fingering short, meaning the sharps and flats, the black keys on a piano keyboard, because adding them would clutter and make a mess of the fingering short. And it is also much easier to learn the fret board if you only focus on learning how to find the seven main nodes of music, then to find any sharp or flat, you simply play the fret just below or above one of the main notes from a to G. So for example, on the highest a string, you find on the third fret, a, C. On the fifth fret you have a D. So naturally in-between, you find either, you can call it C sharp if you learned from this third fret, or D flat, if you name it from the fifth fret. So go ahead and print it out, save it to your computer. It's a PDF in a full format. And use this as a learning reference. When you play any codes, notes, and Fred's on your ukulele. 10. Fretboard Dots: Fretboard dots. So if you check the fret board of your ukulele, you can see that there are dots on different places on the neck. They are actually there for you as a visual reference so that you can quickly see which fret you are own without having to count all the way from the nuts, from the starting position like 12345 and so on. In most cases, you will have these dots on Fred number 571012 and sometimes even 50. And since 12 is the number of nodes in music, as he already learned, notes on your ukulele, actually starts over at Fred number 12 right here. Meaning that the 12th fret on any of the strings is the exact same node as the open string. So it is a perfect octave above double the frequency, meaning the same node, but higher up in range. So you can test this yourself by plucking an open string. Let's say the high a string, the string furthest away from you. Then pressing at Fred number 12 on that string and pluck again. You can hear that it is an octave above, and you can do this for all the strings. So let me quickly demonstrate this on a piano keyboard to make it even more clear for you. So the string closest to you on a standard tuning ukulele is this one, G4. On a low GI ukulele, it snowed D3, but it doesn't really matter. The same principle applies. So if you pluck the open string in the open G string before, and then you press down on Fred 12, you are playing the same note, G, G4, G5, and the pole. And this goes for all the strings. You pluck the next Open Street, which is C, press down on the 12th fret on the E string that you're playing this C5. Next one, 12th fret is this e. And then EA, open string, 12th fret is this. And if you continue, let's say on, let's say on the 12th fret here, then it simply starts over and it goes up one note for each Fred, Fred non-disease trait and others. And then it starts over like this, C-sharp, D. And so on. Exactly the same as down here, C, C sharp, D, E, and so on. And that means that the 13th fret above these dots here is the same as the first fret, an octave apart. So you really only need to learn the nodes up to the 12th fret. So when you play your ukulele, make sure that you use the fret board dots as a visual reference and guide. It will be an advantage for you for quickly finding which number you are own on your ukuleles. So let's say you want to play the seventh fret on the third string. Let's see, we have a doped here, which is five, then that next dot, the second-order is 71012. Okay, so the seven and you Fred, that can play. All right, so now you have learned that the advantage and power of the fretboard dots on your ukulele. 11. Chords on the Ukulele: Playing chords on UGA. So a chord in music is basically a pattern of nodes that played together create a specific harmonic foundation which has a certain sound, color, and emotion. And the two most common types of chords in music, or one, major chords, which sounds happy and uplifting. For example, C major. And two minor chords which sound sad and emotional, like for example, a minor. All cores and music are named from what root node it is based on, followed by what code type it is. For example, if you start on the root node C and you add the nodes E and G, you form a C major chord like this. If you fret the third Fred here on the high E string, that is a C major chord. And it doesn't matter if you double sum of the nodes in the code or even change the order, they don't have to be like C, E, and G. If it's E, G, and C, It's still a C major chord. So for example, in the case of this, there's only three nodes making up the C major chord, but you have four strings on Ukulele. So the first string is g, That was part of the C major. And then you have C. And then instead of the high, you fret this third fret to add a c here. So you actually have two Cs, one G and one. This means you can actually play the C major chord in different shapes on your ukulele or any string instrument and even a piano. Because you are simply putting together the notes C, E, and G in different shapes. So let me demonstrate this on a piano keyboard to make it more clear for you. So if I play a C major chord, it's the nodes C and G. You can see it says here, I'm Club playing C major. If I move this, see, for example, that up an octave to this, see Still C major. If I move this E here, for example, down an octave, it's still a C major. If I move it up an octave, It's still, see me yours. It doesn't really matter which octave you play one of these notes. And then also, if you play any of the nodes more than once, WE it up, for example, we see up here still see major or the G up here still see major. As long as you use the nodes C and G, note labels. So a standard major chord will always be labeled as the root node without any extension to the name. So when you, for example, see a C in the chord progression to a song, you know that that code is a C Major, even though it only says, See, the root node and a standard minor chord will be labeled with the character M as an extension to the root node or sometimes mean. So if you see C and the lower letter M or C, Min, those are both referring to a C minor chord. Now, if you see a chord progression for his song that goes C, G, D, M, G, and C. That means you are going to play the chords C major, G major, a minor, D minor, G major, and C major. So now you have learned the basics of what codes or in music, how this shape the emotion and how we should think about it in the way that you shape the pattern of nodes you play on your ukulele or any other instrument to create a pattern of nodes. That is the actual cord. 12. Learning Chords on Your Ukulele: The learning codes on your Ukulele. So the best way to learn how to play any chord on your alkalinity is by using code shorts, which is basically an illustration of the ukulele fret board, at least the first few threads. And then you can clearly see a dot on each string and fret where you should press down a finger for playing that chord. If this string should be played open, sometimes it doesn't say anything. Sometimes it has above the nut here. So if for example a minor, you have the second fret on the first ring, the first fret on the second string. And then it can have dots on the two final strings, showing that you should play them. And sometimes they don't have the dots. But that simply means you should still play them. And if the string, it should not be played at all as part of that code. Some course you only use the top three strings here. No playing this, for example, or any other string that should be muted, then it will show as an x on that string on the caudate short. Sometimes there is also a line instead of dots, which tells you to put that finger across two or more strings, even a full bore, basically creating and you nut on your instrument. This is called a bar chord. And it might be just the lower, the highest two strings here. Or three strings, or all four strings. So in this case, you should not use your fingertip obviously, but rather angle down the entire finger to create basically a bowl out of your finger. Ukulele codes with numbers. So instead of using code shots which are images or illustrations to play any chord, another way is to describe a chord on ukulele without using any visual image to illustrate it, but instead use fret numbers. So you already learned that the tuning of your ukulele strings or G, C and a, and you know how to count frets. Cro being the open string, meaning that you don't press down a fret. And one being the first red, second being the second fret, and so on. So knowing this, you can label a code by simply writing the fret numbers for each string starting with the G string. So the closest to you and going up on your ukulele. For example, a C major chord can be described like this. Cro, meaning opens ring closest to you. Just ring 0 again, 0 again. And then three, meaning you fret the third fret here with your finger on the highest ring. So altogether, this creates the shape of a C major chord 0003. Finally, on some cool shots, and especially those that have course playing above the fifth fret. You may have a number which you can use as a reference for finding the shape to play that chord. So for example, let's take the C major chord here, is easy to see when you start from the nuts here, the first five frets, but sometimes they can show a number like the number three here. So you can more quickly find the third fret and find a position with your finger to play that chord. Later in this course, I will give you a printable coded shot with all the main minor and major chords in all keys, so you can learn how to play them on your own. But I also want to give you my top recommendations for tools to use. So what I like to use is my smartphone and find any chord app to display the courts on ukulele. I have one called chord aid, but there's many ones to choose from. However, my favorite to four chords on ukulele or any string instrument is a website called chords dot cc. So let me show you on my computer now how it looks. So it's called dot cc, and it basically displays chord shapes for any code you want. First you choose the instruments. So they have lots of string instruments, seem to choose ukulele, standard tuning. So GCA, choose the root node, so we'll say C and then major. And here you can see all the various shapes to play this chord, C major in all of these shapes, starting with the most common ones. So the first one is to play open string, open string, open string and mute the final a string. The main way is to use open, open, open. So zeros, zeros 03 to play the C major chord, but you can find, for example d and then choose, may record minor augmented, all these variations and core types and all these incredibly many ways to learn them. But don't let this overwhelm you. The only thing you really need to play, basically any song is to play the major chords in any key and then minor chords. But in any case, I recommend that you save this website called CC in your web browser and use as a reference. Alright, so now let's move on to the next lesson. My friends. 13. Your First 3 Chords: Welcome back my ukulele friends. So now it's time for you to learn your first three chords on ukulele. And these three are actually some of the most common chords on this instrument. And in fact, if you learn only these three chords, you will still be able to play a lot of different songs. The course or C Major, F major, and G major. So please look here at the code shot to the side of me, and let's learn to play these chords starting with C major. You already learned this in fact, so it's 0003, meaning you don't fret the first string. The next one. Also CRO, open, open, and then on the final string, the high a string, you take your ring finger and place it on the third fret. Remember as close to this fretboard as possible, but not on top of it. And try to angle your finger downwards and not like this is good practice to start learning how to fret the strings properly at the beginning, and then you just run down with them. Okay? That is c 0003. You can stop by strumming, down strokes, upstroke, rhythm. You want. Just let your wrist go up and down. In any pattern you want. Code number two is F major. So look at the core chart and the pattern is to CRO, one, CRO. So you are going to fret the first fret. You have the third string here, the E string, and then the G string and the string closest to your chin, you're going to fret number to the fret number two. So the best way to place your fingers is your index finger on the first fret, third string, like so. And your middle finger on the second fret of the G string, the closest string to you like this. Okay? And again, don't pay it like that. Angle then downwards and then strum with your thumb down. F-major 2010. Practice that for awhile just to get a feel for the vibe and emotion of an F-Major chord. A good practice is actually what I do. Now. I just have a melody you can even seeing if you want to just strumming one chord, just get into the habit of feeling that particular sound and vibe of that chord without changing the code. Okay, so that's the second C Major. F major. F major is 02010. Finally, the third core course you will learn now is G major chord pattern for that is 0 to three to 0 on the first string, open D string. Then the next ring fread to read to you. Then Fred three. I recommend you skip this middle finger. Save that for the final string and place your index finger on fret two on the second string, like so. Your ring finger on Fred, three on the third string. This one here, like so. And then your middle finger at the top string, second fret, like so. You see like that, they're there and they're, remember, angled your fingers downwards. And that is a G major chord close to the fret line, but not on top. If I play it on top, it needs to sound but close to it and press down with pointed fingers downwards and then just run downwards like so. And then you can strum that for a while as well. Congratulations, you've just learned your first three chords on ukulele. In the next lesson, we are going to practice changing between chords because that is something that will take a lot of practice, but I am sure you will do it and then you will be able to start practicing songs as well. 14. Changing Chords: So one of the most tricky aspects of playing an ukulele for beginners is learning how to change between. This is because if you've never played an instrument, you are simply not use to shaping and aiming your fingers in these unusual positions for playing the chords. What I always recommend is that you learn and practice all code changes you do for each new code you learn slowly and focused as you can. Don't worry about keeping the timing and rhythm when you start learning to change between any two cords, make sure to instead, be as focused as you can on what you're actually doing when you place your fingers on the strings and the frets. So start by placing your fingers correctly, one by one until you created the full chord pattern. Then strum the cord, then start over with your fingers one-by-one to shape the next chord and so on. So for example, if you go in between an F major chord, you check the code pattern and the court short and C. Alright, so I'm going to have the first fret, third string. Let's place your index finger there and then you look at the core pattern, okay, until you placed all your fingers, play the F made it. Then when you are going to go to the next one, when you practice this in the beginning. Move one finger at a time. So release and then okay, so G for example, this one, this one, and this one. When you start to build your muscle memory in your fingers for where they are placed for shaping the specific chords. You can try changing chords by lifting and putting down all fingers at the same time instead of one by one, like this, going from failure to so I'm now shifting or fingers at 11 movement. Like so. That will take time before you learn. But what I want you to do now is practiced changing between the three core to all learn. So C Major, F major, and G major. And remember, slow and steady with focus. That's how you build your muscle memory. So first you build the muscle memory, it to learn where you should place your fingers on which, which strings and friends to play each chord. So let's say C major first here, you know, 0003. You use your ring finger to place on the third fret on the final string. You want to. So used to playing this that you don't really need to think about it. You just, you can, in the end, you will not even have to look down here. You will feel, okay. Now you're playing a C major chord and then learn the next one, the F major. So first fret, third string, second fret, first string, and the other two strings open is if you want to practice your fingers and muscle memory, so you learn them and then you can start practice. Change in between. So C major, let's go to F major. You can look like this. K first fret, third string, second fret, first string. Try it again, go back and forth. Go back and forth like this. Without a metronome, know, stomping your foot to the beat, just practice going between these three chords. Let's try C to G. Now. G-major is second fret, second string, third fret, third string, second fret, fourth string. Okay, the major, let's try go back to C minor. C major. You have all these three core shots. Let's do it again. Move. You can move your, for example here, your ring finger up a string and then place the other two fingers on the second fret strings. Like so. So do it slowly and with focus. Really look at what you're doing. Look down here and then move that finger and those two placed on second fret. And then you can practice going from C to F. So you need to move like this. Release that ring finger. Place your index finger here and your middle finger there on the first string. Jump back to the C major, like so. Jump to the je, jump from G to F. Simply your practice exercise for this lesson is to shift and change between those three cores from anyone to the next. So C to F to G, in any order, make sure you angle your fingers down, pointing down, Fred them as close to the fret as possible. And really be aware of how you place each finger so that it is most comfortable. And when you change slowly and with focus. So when you feel ready after you have exercised, simply build your muscle memory for how to play each chord and how to go between them. Even if it's super slow, you can start to increase the speed. Perhaps start with spam. And between the Strom is when you don't bend your fingers. I'm not moving across any of the strings. That's when you will have time to shift the fingers here on the frets to go to the next chord before your handbook to that. So this is the same for guitar in a friend and screens when you all go to shift, when your fingers are in the post position when you are not strumming any of the strings. So exercise. Now those three chords shift between them, any order. And then when you feel ready, start to strum, pattern. Very slow, very slow. Let's go to see. Let's go to the F-Major. Three for c. Let's do g three. And you can go even slower if you feel that you like to do that. Because changing chords, transition between course is one of the most difficult parts as a beginner. But with practice, you will get through it and then we will start to learn how to play songs. 15. Chord Rhythm: The great thing about playing chords on any instrument, including the ukulele, is that you have complete creative freedom in how you shape the rhythm of the codes. As long as you do the code changes at the correct places. What do I mean by this? Well, simply as long as you switch the codes where you are supposed to in the song. According to the chord progression and code shortfall that song. You can choose how to strum those chords in any rhythm you want. From the most simple, which is basically two from each chord, ones, and let it ring until you change chords in the song that I'm bad, undone and burner and burner, and so on. All the way to any type of rhythmic pattern of a strumming the course, you can do a simple four for strumming. So basically, you can count it like this. And then you can choose downstrokes. Upstrokes, and the pauses to shape the rhythm of how you strum. So anything really? Of course, as a beginner, you should lean towards the EC, mode of rhythmic playing for the course, at least at first. Especially if you've just started learning a new tune. Keep it as simple as possible and only advance with the creating more rhythmic patterns when you feel comfortable. I actually recommend a good starting point is to do the 44 type of beat. So simply down, up and down and change the horse until you feel ready to add whatever rhythmic pattern you want. Alright, so that is cool rhythm and your creative freedom to shape the patterns of how we strum. As you want. 16. Playing Your First Song: So now it's time for you to learn how to play your first song on the ukulele. You have already learned to play three chords, C Major, F major, and G major. So now let's use those to play your first song. And to keep things simple for you. We will only play the chorus of the song, and I will put up the lyrics and chords to the side of me. Because this is a common method for learning songs on the gorilla where you have the lyrics and then you see the cords on top of the words where you should change the chord. This means that you can still choose what rhythmic pattern you use to strum each code until the next chord. So keep it very simple as you start learning the song, I will play it for you now so you can see it. You are my sunshine. By Johnny Cash. And it goes like this, please. Okay, so that was a little too high in range for me for singing, but you should not try to sing at first, only play the chords for the chord progression. And Friday, you can hum the melody if you want you just to keep it in timing and change the code as is EUR my shine. Now, whatever you want, I only sunshine, You make me happy. That's when you change the chord. So on. Congratulations, you have just learned how to play your first song on your ukulele. If you want to, you can also start practicing creating different color patterns. From each chord to the song, the chord progression. And in time you can even start trying to sing along, SIT as detailed as you strum the chords on your local area. Now, when you have practiced this song, let's learn some more chords so you can play even more songs on your ukulele. 17. Learn 6 Chords and Play Any Song: I have great news for you because even though there are many hundreds of chords and variations in music, you really only need to learn a few of them to be able to play any song practically on your ukulele. Why is this? Well, because basically all songs are written in either a major key or a minor key. Songs in a major key or uplifting and upbeat songs in a minor key or emotional and sad. But here's the kicker. You can always transpose is song up or down in key. Transposing, song simply means that you move all the notes and chords down or up in an equal measurement. So the song will still sound the same. Only the notes and chords will be in a different position, and therefore, it will simply sound lower or higher in range. Furthermore, the C major key, so the C major scale and a minor key both have the exact same notes, which are the white keys on a piano keyboard. But they have a different root node, meaning starting node and root cause. So the starting code, in the case of C Major, obviously, that is C or C major chord. And then the case on the a minor key, that is the root node a or the a minor chord. Now let me quickly demonstrate this in practice. So if I play these notes, okay, So those are the first few notes of the melody from The Lord of the Rings, The shy theme. Well, check what I play here. I don't know if you can see. I can play that by simply playing the same shapes, going in the same frets further up or down. So if I go up, again, it's the same melody, it's the same song, only transpose up or down. I can go down instead here. So this is the melody. You transpose it up and down. So in this case, 2.5 steps down from here. So that means as well if you have stepped up to one full tone, so let's say the starting code would be D major. So when you transpose it down to half steps like this, that will be C major as distorting cord. This is practically what do you do if you have a song written in D major? If you want to use all of these six cores, it transpose those chords down to C major. So what does all this mean for you? Well, basically that you only really need to learn six main basic chords in music that make up both the C major key and the a minor key. And then you will be able to play pretty much any song in the world you want to learn on your ukulele. Alright, so let's learn these six main chords now. First, C major. You already learned this one, but let's go through them. From C to a. C major is CRO, open string, open Ghana 000, and the third fret on the final string. So put your index finger here on the a string and then strum. That is C major. The next one, Let's move up to the next note here. Think about the notes on a piano keyboard, the white keys. If you start on C, The next one will be D, and that is D minor. So the way you play this, the pattern is two to one CRO, So you have a 0 of the open high string. Then you can place your index finger on the first fret here, on the second string from the top. And then your other two fingers, middle finger and ring finger on these second fret on the a string 12, like this. D minor. Let's learn That's really learned. Try to play for a while if you want, you can have long field. The emotional, sad vibe from the minor chords and the uplifting happy vibe of the major chords. Chord number three is E minor. So here you have first strain causes to your shame the G string is open. Then you have 432. So I recommend that you start from the highest string, two, and then with your index finger and middle finger, third fret, third string from the top and ring finger for threat seconds, ring from the top, like this. Okay. And that is E minor 0. Four, 32. Also emotional. Mind. That for a while really makes sure that you Fred them pointing downwards with your finger close to the fret bars but not on them. And getting to divide the minor, Let's move on. If major, the pattern is 201 CRO. So we can start here on the first first fret. You are going to fret is the second fret on the G string. I recommend you use a middle finger for that. Then you have CRO, meaning over-constrained. Second string. C string on the E string, it's the one. You have your index finger here. That's why I recommend on the first fret, on the third string, and then an O ring how a string, and then you get the F-Major chord, right? And then you have another major chord which is G major. The pattern is CRO 232. So the way you shape this is open G string here. And then the second fret on the second string. And the third fret on the third string, and the second fret on the final string. Right? That is a G major. Use to the tone and unemotional this. And finally, the sixth and final call you really need to learn on Europa Lila is a minor, and it's incredible, simple chord. It's simply fret, the second fret on the first string and that string. I recommend you use your middle finger. And then open strings all throughout. And you have a minor. So it's like F-major. Very also add this thread, but you own the first fret on the third string. So go in between these two chords are really easy, F major. And then you just release your index finger from the third string on the first fret, you have a minor. So I want you now to practice all these six basic, fundamental course on your ukulele. And then you simply need when you go online and find songs to play, to really transpose them. Or use an app to transpose the chord progression if they are in any other key so that they are either, if it's a minor sad, emotional song to a minor, if it's an uplifting, upbeat song to see major. Now, I also want to recommend my favorite website for finding chord progressions to any song. It's called ultimate guitar. I will include a link so you can see the web address. But if you find a chord progression, it doesn't matter that it's for good tore the chords you can play on piano, ukulele or any instruments. So let's take this song you already learned, You Are My Sunshine. You can see the chord is D, G, a, and so on here, major chords. Well, D, It's an uplifting song in D major. Here it's an include a transpose function. So if I click this minus one, it goes from D to C sharp. And then another time, now it's in C major and you have C Major, F major, G major for the course here. So good luck practicing the six basic fundamental chords on your ukulele. 18. Ukulele Chord Chart: Hello again, my ukulele friends. I have some great news for you because if you look to the side of me here, you see that I have actually created a complete code shot as a gift for you. And you can print it out and use it as reference and have it always available when you practice and learn to play any song. And as you can see, you have all major chords and all minor chords in all keys. So starting from a, for example. So playing a major role, then also a but minor. And then going to B flat major, B flat minor, B minor, C, C minor, all the way up to a flat or a flat minor. And of course, when it says be fat, that could also be called a sharp, but you already learned about that previously in this course. So these are basically all the 12 notes of music, all the keys in all major chords and all minor chords on the ukulele. So print it out and start practicing these chords one-by-one until you can play them all. And that way, you will pretty much be able to play any song you want in any key, meaning that you can actually play along to a specific song with the, Regardless if it's a pop song, rock song, classic, traditional songs, anything you want on your ukulele without having to transpose this on first. Alright, that's it for now. So in the next video, we will start learning how to play specific songs on your ukulele. 19. Tips for Learning Songs on Ukulele: In this lesson, I'm going to give you my top five tips for learning how to play any song on your ukulele. Tip number one is to check all the chords of the song. So what I mean by this is you go through the code shot for the particular song. I'm mostly using ultimate guitar.com. It's my favorite resource for learning how to play any song, not only on ukulele, bass, guitar, of course. So in the top of that, you can actually even click ukulele here. I'm showing you the website here. And you see a chord shot just display in which courts are going to be used in the song. Tip number two is to simplify codes. If you want to. For example, stick to only major and minor chords in the beginning if you prefer. So let's say you have a difficulty playing this B7, B7. You can just play a B major chord, A7. You can just play an a major chord if that is what you are used to. So all these seven chords and stuff, you don't really need to play them. But if you want to just use the code short, so check all the chords first, simplify if you want, and then more importantly, firms spouse if needed. So you can easily do this this way. I really love ultimate guitar.com because when you find the song and you check here, this is Elvis Presley, can't help falling in love. And you can see it's going C, E minor, a minor. That's good already, but let's say it was like this, D sharp, a sharp, G sharp. It's pretty difficult to play those cores as a beginner. So just use this transpose feature to go like this until you find a better key for the song. For using codes are used to playing. So now we have C, E minor and so on. So that way it can become easier to learn the song first. And then when you feel comfortable later on, you can go back and transpose it back to the original key if you want to play along to the actual song, the key they use in the song. So transpose if needed. And tip number four is to, before you start playing, practice all chords one-by-one. So that means you simply, you can either check these like the lyrics with the chords on top, or even better is to go through the entire chord sword like okay, which chord? Which courts or am I going to place? Okay, so we have a scene. Then we have a G major and a minor. And you just go through them like that one by one. So you really get familiar with what codes are refused used in the song before you start to actually try to play it. Now, with all those preparations, 12 for my tip number five is to actually play the song but in E C mode first, just like if you play a video game, you start with the tutorial, which is super easy, bit too easy. But that's how we want to start. Because otherwise you get stuck, annoyed, frustrated, and you want to actually learn this song. So in this case, some of the ways you can do the easy mode is first do it extremely slowly. Don't even put a metronome will just start to play the next. And then you go through each core like this. Don't even try sampling pattern, so just go through it. You can hum along to the melody to make sure you're actually pointing the right chord so they sound good. You can, even if you want to skip some courts, like, let's say C, skip E minor and go to a manner that works sometimes, especially if the courts are very close together like this. So I skipped the minor, went directly to a minor. As I said, it can work to simplify that way. So easy mode, slow, super slow, no code pattern, just, I recommend just doing one, downstroke, bam, bam. And then through the next call. Super easy mold, slow tempo, extremely slow. Rhythmic pattern for the strumming. Just focus on the chord changes. Skip course if you need to in the beginning. And once you get into the mood of it, you can start to practice it with a metronome. So a beat or stomping your foot lightest. Super slow, again, slip slow tempo. You can start to include some upstrokes and create a very simple pattern. Basically, you want to do this as a progression stored in it's super easy mode. Think like your tutorial in a video game or software, then up the levels as you progress when you learn the song. And in the end, you will eventually be able to play a strumming pattern, and so on. And even if the core in the correct key of the original song, if you want to as well. Alright, so those are my top five tips for learning any song on your own. Don't just jump in and try to play it. Do it properly with some preparations. And you will thank yourself for doing that. 20. Happy Birthday: In this lesson, you are going to learn how to play probably the most common song in the entire world. Happy Birthday. So let's start with the first step, which is to check what courts are we going to use in this zone. So as you can see on the screen now, we are going to play G major. Then you have D major and then go through here with another D, G, and then C major, G, D, and G. Okay, so we only have three chords, G major, D major, and C major. So let's bring up the code shot. I hope you have already printed it out. Otherwise, it's also on screen here. Let's check the code one-by-one and play them to see what courts are going to play and how to Fred to this string is properly first you have the G major. So find that on the chart. Okay, so it's there at the bottom, see a row, open string, second fret, third fret on the third string, second fret. So CR2032, that's the G major, super common chord. Then we have D major, and I'm going to show you the main way to play this, which is actually, you can see it on the chart here. A full bore with your index finger here on the second fret, like this, you press down as close to the fret as possible. And then all the way over here, on the fifth fret, that's the D major. That is a very tricky code for beginners. We are actually going to apply what you already learned, which is to simplify a chord, you have another way of playing it, which looks like this. If you only fret the middle two strings, strings on the second fret. And you see the x here, which means that you are not supposed to play this spring, only the three higher strings, then you get a D major chord because this is D F-sharp and this is a constraint. So only those three. I promised you that will be easier for a beginner to play. At. The, the difficult part is not accidentally strumming the G string. So a tip I have for you is if you just lightly play the thumb on top of the string to mute it, just lightly touch it on top like this. If I now try to stop it, it's muted. Now it doesn't really matter as much if I accidentally Strom it with my thumb here. But you should of course, try to aim for almost rami, the highest district. So that's the main. So we have G major, then D major, and then C major, which is the easiest quarter play aminoglycoside because you own this fret, the third fret on the fourth string. So check the chart again. You have see there to the left, C major. Okay? Now you know what cold spray you have even applied an alteration of variation of playing the d. So you have all the course now play them through G, C. And then you can start to practice it just at a slow tempo. Easier strumming pattern. Remember easing own first, and then try to play it at a very slow tempo. I will, I will play now to demonstrate it. And you can play it at an even lower temperature. You don't have to sing along as you play in the beginning. But eventually I hope you will learn that too. So let's do Happy birthday. It sounds like this. Happy day, day. B day. Okay. So I named you David in this case, just exchange the name for the one you are celebrating. So that is the first song you can learn out to play on your ukulele. Happy birthday. 21. Amazing Grace: So the next song you are going to learn how to play on your ukulele is Amazing Grace. So let's start with step one, going through the chords. So we have G major seven, that is optional, but we'll get to that. We have a C major, G, G, D major, and let's say g, G7, C, G, E minor, D, and G. So G, G7, c, d, that's four. And then let's see E minor, that's fine. First g, Let's check the code shot. G major will see it at the bottom there. Zero to Three, two, like this. Okay. Now, let's go through all courts one-by-one. G7, as you see, the parenthesis means it is optional. But it sounds very lovely because you get this gray like that. The code pattern for that, if I bring it up, is like this. So it's 0 to 12. So the common G chord is 232. Basically you're removing this third string from the third to the second red. Obviously you need to shift your fingers so G, 0 to three to two, G7, 0 to one. And since you have this ring of thing, you're playing the third string here. But in this case with a G7, you need to push your index finger on the third string, your middle finger on the second string, and your ring finger on the highest. That is optional, but I really recommend that you practice learning it at least later on. Then we have the simplest code on the third fret on the fourth string. Check the call short. If you are in any doubt, then let's see g, g seven, then we have E minor and new code here. So you check the third row there in the middle you see E minor CRO, and then you get these little, little line going upwards from the final top string on the second fret with your index finger and your middle finger on the third fret, third string, and your ring finger on the fourth fret, fourth strain, you see that it's 0432 minor. And I'm actually going to do something interesting here because he already learned in the previous song that, well, check the code shot again here. So the main way to play the D minor, D major chord is the full bore. Your finger across the, all the strings of the second fret and then your pinky all the way up here on the fifth fret on the highest rank. Very tricky corner. So you learned how you can do an optional weight, which is just using the two middle strings on the second fret. But don't strum the highest or the lowest ring here. String closest to the G string. You can mute it with your thumb. But in this song lesson, you're actually going to learn yet another variation of D-major, which is to fret All the top three strings closest to you by doing our tastes. Index finger, second fret on the first string, and then just continuing downwards like this. The tricky part is, I have a tenor ukulele, which is the biggest of the standard nucleolus edge, still very tight here. So you might want to change the order of your fingers. You can start, for example, with your middle finger here if you want to, just like you have a different order on some other three spring course, but you need to have them very close together. I don't know if you can see it. So that means that this in this case, if you play it like so, like so putting the index finger on the first string, since it's so tight, it will be very far back. You're already to learn in this course that you should in most cases, if you can hear your fingers fret as close to the actual fret board as possible, but not on top. That's impossible on some courts, which means you need to really learn how to fret harder, push down harder. Really make sure you angle your fingers downwards. And then just push forward. That way you get clean sounding chord in any case. So let's go through them. You have the GI tract called the G7. You already learn that. But let's check it again. Like this. Very beautiful chord. I love it, so try to use it at least when you practice this song. Otherwise, you just continue with a G. When it says D7, yes, play the G. Always do that. On anytime it says seven after a major chord, just played it. National Marine Corps and his case g, If it says G, M seven minor seven just by G minor, then you had the C here. Then you had the E minor again. You already learned it. You can see it on the courts out there. So CRO, for the three to a bit tricky. So make sure you're all fully focus of what you do with your fingers, pointing them down close to the bone. You have the E minor. Then for the D, I recommend trying this new variation, which is all strings on the second fret except the open high string. Okay? So let me just play this through. I will play it slowly and you can play along if you want to. But when you practice, remember starting easy mode, easy strumming patterns, super slow until you get it and then you can progress from there. Hi. Hi. I'm blind. 22. Hallelujah: Hello again. In this lesson, you are going to learn how to play a beautiful song called hallelujah on your nuclei. Let's start by going through the course first. So we have a C, check the code shot. I hope you have printed it out. You will use it a lot when you practice and learn how to play any song. So simple code, third fret here on the third, fourth string. Then you have an a minor, which is second fret on the first string. You can see when we have an F, second fret on first ring, first fret, third string, f and g. Cro 232. Let's see, let's see. So C, a minor, F, G. Those are all the chords except one new core that you will learn now, which is E seven. Of course, as you'll learn when it says E and it has a seven, you can always shift it out to an E major chord. In this case, if it had been E, M, E minor seven, you could have play the E minor, but it sounds beautiful with the seven chord. So let's learn how to play that. I created this chart for you here. So you have one to CRO, to place your index finger on. First ring, first fret, then your middle finger on the second fret, second string, then open string, and then finally, your ring finger on the fourth string here on the second fret. Might be difficult to playing it. And those are all the course. So let's go back to the code shot again and try to practice each chord, C major, a minor. Play along with me really cool shots. That you have an F major, G major. And again, the new one, which is E seven. Okay? So once you get used to playing those calls, you can practice just transitioning between them according to the chord progression of the song without any rhythm. That can be the second step. So going through the course, playing them one-by-one. Now. Then try to play it in AC mode. You don't have to sing along. In fact, as a beginner, you should probably just humming along or something super-simple called plaque pattern in place slowly. So I will play it now. You can play along if you want to. But then when you practice Easy mode, super slow. Now before you start practicing this song, I want to give you another tip here, which is to start any song you learn by strangling the first cohort of the chord progression. Just commuting to fight until one of the key and scale and a chord progression. Then you can start to practice humming or singing. Alright, here we go. Yeah. 23. Congratulations - Now Keep Playing: Congratulations, you have now learned all the essentials you need to play the Ukulele. So you learn the basics of how the instrument, Burke's, all the essentials of chords and nodes. You got a chord chart, a fretboard note short. You'll learn all the basic techniques for tuning, strumming, and even playing specific songs. But you can now continue your journey. And I highly recommend that you practice on a consistent basis, even if it's just 1015 minutes a day, that will be super beneficial for improving and progressing on this instrument. One of my favorite ways is to use either an app or the website, ultimate guitar.com. Even though it's named that you simply only have the lyrics for songs, any song you want to learn with the chords on top. And you can even pick ukulele here on the website to see how your shape these chords or use the courts ought you already downloaded from this course? Let's say you want to play this, I'm yours. Search for that track and you find it here. You can choose a good code shot. And then you can see the chords, practice them, go through all the steps for learning a new song, and then simply start playing, well, you're done. And so on for any song you want to learn. So I wish you good luck and great fun for your continued journey and adventure on the ukulele.