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1. Welcome to UKULELE CONTROL!: Hi, there. Are you looking for a CPU cores to learn to play the ukulele? Then I have good news for you because this is ukulele control, a course packed with all the stuff you need to know if you want to play the ukulele. We got to talk about the instrument, the strings, how to tune your instrument, strumming patterns, many basic course you need to know if you want to play songs. And in the end, we're going to play some original songs. So you can directly dive into playing the ukulele. My name is Philip and I'm a professional cetra from Germany and I would definitely love to go on that journey with you to become a better or a good ukulele player and have so much fun with this instrument. The course is structured in a very logical way. So we start with the basic things, the instruments, talking about the instruments. So if you're advanced, maybe that's not that interesting or new to you, but definitely interesting is the work on rhythm we're going to talk about. And of course, all the basic chords you need to know for all the songs that are out there. If you want to play pop songs or evergreens or your favorite songs. At the end of the course, we're going to dive into four great songs that we're going to work on. So typical ukulele songs, easy to play, but pretty cool. So you will definitely enjoy that and you have your first songs by hand and know how to do that, how to work on new songs to get to your target. If you want to jump in-between the videos, it's no problem. You can do that by having a look on those big capital letters because that's where a new part begins. That's very important to know for you. And of course, you have the possibility to increase or decrease the temple within this course by using the video function within this course. Pretty cool feature as I think. So if that sounds great to you, I would definitely love to be your teacher for the next few hours. So maybe we see each other within the first video section. Here we go.
2. Ukulele Demo: You can see the the canal. Like for me. That's where fans transpose. Rainbow. That is the radio. Both birds. No. Cry. No. No. No. Baby. Is she is. C. Now let's now.
3. Who is this Marius: Maybe you've noticed there are two instructors in this course and maybe you have to ask yourself, who is this Mario's. And I'm going to answer that question for you. But first of all, if you want to dive straight into the topic, feel free to just skip that lesson and just start learning. But for now, I am going to tell you some stuff about myself. My name is Mario's, and to cut it off to one sentence, My work is mostly everything you don't see. So a big part of my work is to meet the instructors. You will see 99 percent of the time in this course. So don't worry, this is the only video I'm in front of the camera. But so I meeting this instructors you will see in this course and we are filming the course you are going to see. And I'm checking the cameras, I'm checking the lighting and checking the audio so every microphone is working just fine. So that's a big part of my of my work. So I am kind of the technical guy. And the second part, which is a quite big part, at least a much bigger part as the first one is to cut all of those videos you are going to see. So maybe you have already recognized there is some, some text flying in at some point in this course or some zoom ins or to have a fluent transition between those videos. And that's my work. So big part of my work is to just sit on my laptop and cutting those videos. So that's basically it. That's my part of the job and that's why my name is in this course as an instructor. And for now, just have fun learning and have fun watching those videos. I'm super happy you are in this course.
4. The Instrument: So let's get started with your instrument, your acually, there are several sizes, so you have a tenor ukulele is soprano ukulele or a constant ukulele. I, for myself, I'm using for this course a concert Ukulele because it's a bigger size, so it's easier to play. It has more frets and everything, but let's, first of all have a quick look on the things that all of those eucalyptus have in common. Well, this part of the ukulele is called, yeah, it's the body because it's the bigger size. It's the part where the resonance is built. And this is your resonance whole and that is where your strumming hand is placed. So you usually play with your hand in a position like that and not back here where the bridge is placed. You try to focus in a way above the resonance whole, or you go a little bit, a little bit further on top of the fret board, and that's the next thing. This thing is called the neck, the whole thing. And your form is placed behind the neck and on top of the neck of the fret board. It's called fretboard because you have a little bored placed on the NAG. And there you have those little tiny, Yeah, In a way you could call it strings or lines or whatever you want. Those are called the fret nuts, and they separate each thread from another. You start counting over here. So this is thread one, thread two, fret, three, and so on. The fretboard is for your fretting hand. And you usually place for the ukulele. One finger to finger, three fingers up to four fingers on the fretboard in a specific position. So you can build chords over here, maybe like like this for instance. What we talked about, the body, the resonance hall, the neck with a fretboard and the frets. And you, please keep in mind that you start counting over here. So it's 1, 2, 3, and so on. The last part on your ukulele is Euro head and on your head you have those mechanics. Those mechanics are very important if you have a look on the strings, because you have four strings on the ukulele, which are in a way strung or placed on top of the head within the mechanics, it's wound around here and the other side, the opposite side is wound around here on the bridge part. So those two parts are important for your string. That string is, In a way a strong and you have some, some tension on it. And if you want to increase the tension, you use those mechanics and you start to increase the tension by turning it or you decrease the tension by turning that. And that's what we call tuning the ukulele. So let's move on to the next video where we talk about the strings specifically and we will have a look on tuning your Ukulele. So let's move on.
5. The Strings: Before we can start to tune your instrument, we first of all have to talk about the strings itself. The specific thing about the ukulele is, instead of a guitar or bass guitar or violin, that we have four strings, but they're not like on those instruments that I talked about from bottom to top or the other way around. Because if you have a closer look, you can see that the first string directly in front of your face is a thin one and then you have a figure one. So we have a high string on top of the strings, and then we have the lowest string, the middle string. And the string down here is the highest string. So we go from third highest string, first, second, and the fourth. It's a bit weird, but that brings us to the COO position to play lots of courts and many things. What is not that easy to play is picking because usually if you come from a guitar like I, for instance do, and you're used to have the low notes and the high note separated from each other. So this is a bit confusing and a workaround, but if you want to tune your ukulele, you have to know the names of the strings and we have numbers to count them through. So a bit confusing is that we start counting down here. Why is that? Well, if you would have a look on your ukulele, you would place the ukulele like that. So like you would take a picture of the fretboard and of the ukulele itself. Then if you would place that on a sheet, on a piece of paper, you usually would start counting on top. So I would say it's 1234. And if you turn the ukulele back into the position that you play, the first string is logically down here, so please keep that in mind. If you want to use numbers, you would count like 1234 and some tuners for a ukulele give you the name and the number. The names are G string or, or. Let's, let's do it the other way round like a discounted. So you have the a string, first string, then you have the E string, second string, then you have to see string. And for the fourth string is the G string. So a, E, C, G. Very confusing is that if you go on the internet and you dial in like standard tuning for ukulele, you will find that the opposite way around. So Vicki of using we start counting from down here, but it is always called the GCH uni. And this is the standard tuning for all the eucalyptus, or no matter if you play soprano ukulele or a tenor ukulele or a constant ukulele. You use this tuning G, C, E. And why is it so important to have that in mind? Well, it's not only for tuning, of course, if you use a tuner, we will talk about that in a second. It is very important to know the names of the strings, each one by itself. But if we want to talk about how to play ukulele, you also have to know what I'm talking about. So if I will, for instance, show you the new courts that we're going to talk about. And I need to give you an a way, a placement. And that's when I will start talking about the G string of the a string or the string. So please make sure that you will learn those names and those numbers. So it's from down here, 1, 2, 3, 4. And we usually say it's the other way around. We start saying it is the standard tuning by GCA. Keep that in mind and let's move on to the next video where we talk about tuning the ukulele.
6. Tuning your guitar: Now let's move one step further to playing ukulele. By tuning your ukulele, you have several options to do that. Maybe you go to a music shop and buy a tuner. There will be a final idea, maybe by a chromatic tuner, because a chromatic tuner is able to, to hear in a way, all strings are all notes that are possible. So you definitely continually Lily by that. If you have a pickup system like I have in my ukulele, this little, little tiny case on top of this. There is a battery in here and I have a little display and a tuner built in. So there is already tuna in my ukulele. And if I press the button, then it will light up. And I have a tuner which will tell me what note I am playing in if I'm too low or too high. Very useful. If you do not have something like that, then the easiest way would be to use your smart phone or tablet because they're in your smartphones and tablets are microphones built in and that's all we need to tune the ukulele. So you just play string. The microphone will pick up the node and you can use a tuner app. You will find that on your app store and I will just move over to my app for a second, just to give you an idea how that works. So here we go with switch over to my app. I'm using clear tune on on my iPhone. But if you do not have an iPhone, no problem. You can use any tuna alveoli. And there you have a display and you have a, another display on top. And you can see what I'm talking he that it's jumping around and that's exactly what I do. So I will lay down my smart phone in front of my ukulele so the microphone can pick up the node and then I would start to play the first note, which should be a G. So I'm just playing the G string. And now as you can see, It's a bit too low, so I'm starting to increase the tension. You first of all have to have a look at web mechanic you must use for the G string. So just follow the string on top where your mechanic is, where the string is trial. And I bring up the note to the middle. So if it's green and in the middle, everything's fine. Then I'm moving on to the C string. Too low as well. So bringing that up, that's a second. And usually it should be the second mechanic. Maybe you don't have four in a row like I do. Maybe you have 22 at each side. It depends. So I'm bringing that up, increasing attention. You can hear it as well that it's getting higher. Now I'm in the middle, everything's fine. The next string was correct, the E string, so that's a bit too high. So let's bring that down a little bit. You do not have to be 100% perfect because if you play loud or something like that, then you give more, more power on your string and then it will rise up. So somewhere around that middle spot is perfect. I would prefer to be a bit under it. If it's too high, then it usually starts to two sounds. Teach you very fast. Yeah, that's nice to see. A, G, C and E is fine. Last string was the a string Perfect. So that's way too deep. So we're bringing up a string as well. Okay, so one more checkup gene. That's okay. C looks okay. You could use a little more. Therefore Sumatra and the a string. And if you finish like that, I would suggest that you always play the strings or together by themselves. Because this is the typical sound a ukulele does without using any fretting hand. And if you play that after you tune to ukulele every time, you will, in a way, stay in that mode and you will get used to it. So you can pick up a ukulele at anytime after two or three month, I don't know. Checked by year if everything's fine or maybe you can even detect which string is not an issue and that's very useful. So now you know how to tune your ukulele by using a tuner or just simply an app within your smartphone. Let's move on to the next thing.
7. The Metronome: Another thing that's very useful for learning ukulele, and I really prefer to work with that as early as possible is the metronome. The metronome is this little tiny thing that you can find on many pianos, which are usually the old ones. Collect clack, clack, clack, those painterly things that are used by piano teachers. Of course, you do not need that thing. You can use a digital version as well. You can go to your music shop around the corner and buy a metronome there. What is it used for? Well, it's the pulse of the music. So if you want to get a good rhythm feeling a good sparing partner for training, for rehearsing your patterns, your rhythmic self. A metronome is definitely very, very useful. It same thing here, like with a, with a tuner. You can use your smartphone as well. And I will show you just a second, a version that I usually use. Just give me a second. I will bring up the app. So here we go. I'm using the app metronome, simple as that. So just pick up your smartphone and go to your app store, whether you're using Android or iOS. And I just bring up the, the pro metronome, looks like this. And if you have a closer look, you have several things happening here. You have a, a little tiny wheel in the middle of the thing. So you can see on topic and bring up the tempo. Or you can bring down the Temple. Of course, you can dial in some notes if you want to. You have a play button in the middle so you can just stop by hitting the play button and the metronome starts playing. We have a look on that. And you can see it's handling around like the old version. But you have 44 beats that you can hear, and you have a high note and three low notes, so you get the one. So it would count like one too, 341234. Then you press the Stop button. You can do it the loudest way you can increase it. That's pretty cool. That increased the tempo. You can dial in other counting systems like 44, you can use 34 or 24 or 6 eighth. Very, very useful. And you have a tap tempo function That's very cool. So if you want to play a song and you do not know how fast that is, just start a song, listen to it and tap on the tap tempo function. Then it says keep tapping. And it says, Oh, are you around like 98 when I was playing right now and then you have the tempo of the song. If you stop play, pressing the Play button again, you have the tempo of the song that you like to pray, which is very cool. So you can try to play directly the original tempo or you can decrease it from there. Now you know that it's 98 and style by, I don't know, 68 or something like that to get into the rhythm or into the tempo that you want to have. So very useful, very cool. Just a suggestion. You do not necessarily need that app. You can use whatever you want, but very useful if you want to play rhythms and you want to have a good rhythm. So you can work with a metronome to keep the rhythm all the time and to get good at rhythmic play.
8. Drumbeat (with the drumcomputer): Another cool feature we sometimes use with an ukulele control is instead of the metronome, a drum computer. Why is that? Well, if you only would use a metronome, it would sound like that. You have some sound like clack, clack, and that's the metronome that we use within here. But sometimes it's a little bit more playful too a way use a real drumming sound. So we have something like a real acoustic drum set and then it would sound like that. Okay, so we have more information and what is it that we use? Well, it's a app called DM one. It looks like this. So we have several patterns and here you can, you can play around with that, like hitting some things or taken them away again. So you can build your own beat in here. You do not necessarily need to know how that works. You can really work around with it. The M1, it is called on the iOS Store, but I think it is like 12 or 13 Euro usually. Um, so just have a look what it's, what it's actually, what it costs actually. But you can use any other drum computers. Well, it's just the idea that if you know the temple, maybe by using your metronome at which is by the way, free. For free it usually you have the possibility to dial in the same tempo here. And then you can start building a beat, which is much more fun to play too, then just using the metronome. And within the course we will have several examples or songs where we use a, a drumbeat to make it more easy or more playful and more fun. But sometimes we only use just a metronome because it's clearer or more easy for you to focus on the things that you are dealing with. So just go to your App Store, have a look or dial in drum computer and have a look. What is there for you. Have a listen. Sometimes you can choose different sounds, different styles like electronic beat sounds or acoustic beats and drum sounds. Just play around with that and it's very, very useful and very fun. And maybe you can be creative with that as well.
9. Your strumming hand: First of all, let's talk about your strumming hand and I'm using the term strumming. And because we do not want to talk about left-handers, are right-handers within this course. Same with the fretting hand at, at the end as well. So no matter if you're right-handed or left-handed, strumming hand means the hand that you use over your body, over your residence hall. And that's what we're going to have a look on, Read Now. You place your hand like around the ukuleles so you laid on top of the body. Sometimes you hold it like that. I'm I'm putting it on my on my lag right now because it's much more easy. But if you play like in standing, then you usually press the ukulele onto your chest in a way onto your stomach. And you place your hand almost on top of the resonance hall. That's a good idea if you want to become loud or if you play like standing up, you're playing over here. Well, the strumming hand has two functions. You can strum down-strokes, which means you starting from the G string down to the a string. And you really have a quick movement, so it's not. You can do that of course. But usually strumming means a fast move through all four strings. The other way around would be the upstroke. The other way around. So you can see downstroke mean starting from you down there. Upstroke mean starting from down here up to your face. Now how do you use it? In a way, how can you make it sound? Well, there are two sounds possible. One sound is the more low sound or more tidy sound when he used the skin off your thumb for a downstroke? It's not that crispy, not that much of treble or presence. If you want to have it more attacked, you use, for instance, the nail of your index finger? Yeah, The difference with my thumb, inside. With a nail or my index finger. You get more attack, more power other way round the same thing. If you want to have that little towns used the skin of your index finger for upstrokes or the nail of your thumb for upstrokes. So you could put your fingers together like holding a pig. And you could use a pig for, for sure as well, then you have your possibility to have it more with attack and using two nails for downstrokes and abstracts. And even if you hold your ukulele up like that, or you can be a little bit more easy on that. You do not necessarily need to put those fingers together all the time. It's definitely okay if you open it up a bit or I'm playing a lot of times with an open hand, so I'm using my finger separately from my thumb. And you can do that. Anyway. You want to do it? It's very easy in a way. Last thing about this strumming hand is that we have a logical thing. We have to look unwell. Please keep in mind. And I would say that a lot of times when we talk about strumming patterns, if you do a downstroke and you want to do another downstroke, again, you have to go up here without hitting the strings, go back in your position and do the next downstroke. And that means if you play like 12341234, by using those, those down-strokes, you in a way do eight movements. What I'm talking about, well, have a close look, replay like. And every time you go up to the next downbeat to the next downstroke, you, in a way, make an upstroke without hitting the string you playing. If we wanted to pack in upstrokes, which means eighth notes in that part because we count 1234 and we place those other four nodes with in-between. You have the idea of the logical way of when to use a downstroke or when to use an abstract. So in playing 12345, 678123. Now have a look on my hand when I do the quarter notes and have a look on the eighth notes, maybe you see a difference but I don't think so because 1234123, I see that my hand moves the same, moving all the time. And that's a good hint for the first time in this course. A very, very specific and good hint for keeping rhythm, keeping your, your movement and make it as automatic as possible. And it brings you an idea of when to use downstrokes or when to use abstract. So if all the time we have 1, 2, 3, or 4, we usually necessarily in a way play a downstroke. If we have those countings in-between, you can count like 12345678. You can play like oil count like 1234 and which I would prefer because then you have the, the idea of 1, 2, 3, 4 is downstroke and countings are abstract sets. And 234. And now you can start to play around with doing two quarter notes would mean one or 2 eighth notes. Three end. And one-quarter again for 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Or you can do 2 eighth notes, one quarter, 2 eighth notes, one quartile. 3434. Getting the idea. That is the logical way of thinking about your strumming hand. So summary, downstrokes are either with your nail or with the skin of the thumb. And strokes are same thing. The other way around. With the name of your thumb or the insight skin of your index finger. We can do downstrokes or we can do upstrokes. Downstrokes are usually played on the big beating parts points like 1, 2, 3, and 4. And the upstrokes are usually used for the ends in between. So with that said, let's move on to a little topic, little bit talking about rhythm, specifically.
10. Pyramid of Rhythm: Now, before we really get into playing, we definitely have to talk about rhythm. Again. I know we already talked about drum computers and Metronome, but rhythm is a bit complicated and of course, do not need to learn how to read notes for playing ukulele or how to, or for playing with me or using this course. But we have a thing that's called the rhythm pyramid and that's a thing I will show you a quick, can have a quick look. You see the, the good thing is you have this as a PDF for download within this course or within the selection. So feel free to download that as well. The good thing about here is you have a tempo and we have a bar. That bar is, how can I describe educate? You could use it or or have a picture of a a a pizza. Okay. So if you have a pack of pizza, then that would be one bar. And if you open that their pack, you have one pizza within there, a whole pizza. And if you want to divide rhythm, then we usually have different signs. Of course those are nodes. And I just said a few seconds ago that you do not need to learn how to read notes. That says exactly. That's right. The thing is, notes tell you two things, how long they are and where to play them. We do not need notes for giving us an idea of where to play them or how to play them back. We sometimes need notes and you will find lots of notes within the course for riding down the patterns and knowing how to count patterns. Well, of course, within this course, I always will play the pattern for you so you can always slow down the tempo. Have a close listen and just try to imitate the sound that I do and imitate the rhythm that I do. But if you want to dig deeper into it, this is what we're talking about. Now let's have a look on those those lines over here. Well, this is the whole note, okay, whole know, because it's a whole bar, a whole pizza itself. These are half notes. We have two of them in one bar, means you have like with a pizza, one big pizza cut into two exact same sized paces. So these are half pizzas, half notes. Then we get quarter note. So same thing here. You have two friends coming over. You just wanted to start to eat your pizza, divided it into two halves. Now, they bring to friends with them, and now you have to cut the pizza into four quarters. It is still one big pizza, but you divided it into four pizza, pizza slices. And now we can play that on. You have like eight slices of pizza is 16 slices of pizza. You know how that works? You start with one pizza, it's still in one pack and it's still one big pizzas. But we started we started cutting like two parts, four parts to more cats, make it eight parts. Then you start counting again and we have 16 parts, 32 parts, and so on and so on. The idea behind that is we get shorter notes, smaller slices of pizza for more people, but we're still within one bar. And as you can see, we increase the amount of blackness with each node. So this is just a circle in a way, this is a circle with a, with a line. This is a full circle. And now we have those little bars with in-between those notes and two bars and then we can three Vos and so on and so on. So this is how we make short notes and that means more information faster playing come more complicated rhythms. So if I would just play, this one would be whole bar. I would play those notes. It would be I would play two times and they're filling up the whole space. Those notes would be like these would be still the same amount of time, but eight nodes and those would be, and so on and so on. I think you get the idea. Now of course, you can mix those up, which means if you have a whole note, there's no more space, you cannot bring something in here, but if you, Let's say start with a half note, then you still have half of the pizza pack empty. And now you could maybe fill in two of those notes or one of those and two of those, or two of those and four of those. Or you can do one of those, two of those, four of those, two of those. So you can start to play around with it. And of course, there are still more complicated ways to mix those notes app you can take each of those nodes separately so you can get an idea that it's starting to get very confusing. If you're bringing just like 1 eighth note, then you could put in here 1 fourth, one-quarter that you could do 1 eighth note again. And it's starting to get very, very confusing but very cool sounding. Just one more thing about that. Down here on your sheet, you have rest notes. Of course they are not really notes because you do not hear anything bad. Just to get that said, rests are very important as well because they bring in some spiciness in your playing. For instance, if you only play quarter notes, it would sound like. But maybe it's more interesting if you bring it in little, little rests. Of course they are not a quarter notes anymore. That could be eighth note, eighth rest. So you have like no rest, note, rest, no less. That's bringing in more coolness in your playing. And especially when you're playing ukulele rest notes are very, very, very important. So have a closer look on that sheet on those different notes, different counting lengths on those rests. And let's move onto the next video.
11. Your fretting hand: Did you learn a lot already? If it is, so maybe you could leave us a little comment and a five-star rating. We would totally love that. Thanks a lot. Now let's talk about your fretting hand. I'm using the term fretting hand all the time because I'm used to the discussion that there are left-handers and right-handers and we do not want to talk about a problem within here. So your fretting hand means the, the hand you use on your ukulele, whether you're left-handed or right-handed for building chords. Well, why do we need to talk about that in specific? Well, and there are some little things that we have to talk about. First of all, we talked about your strings and we talked about the frets. And we talked about that those frets are numbered from over here. So we start like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on and so on. You're fretting hand is used in usually a specific way. You put your thumb in back of the neck. So you have like the power or the antagonists and the back of the neck. And then you have p53, four fingers left. Those four fingers are numbered again, so we have index finger is the first finger, middle finger is number 2. Second finger, ring finger is number three, and your pinky is number 4. And now I can give you an idea of how to find the specific place for each finger on your fretboard. If we, for instance, want to talk about how to build a chord. And usually it's a bit like a map to the right position. I will first of all start with the strings. For instance, if I say on your C string, then you know we're talking about the C string. You put your first finger now. And you know, we talk about your index finger on the second fret. And now you know C String. Want to second fret. Put your finger there. That's it. Now you have a roadmap to the specific position that I want you to put your finger on and where to build a specific court. How do you play now? How do you use your threading finger in that position? Well, usually if you have one thing that you tried to be just straight on the string, not do it flat like this because then you may be a push on other strings as well or you are too flat and we cannot hear the string below. So you always try to make it round in a way. So we have a round position and you really try to hit the node or hit the string with the front part of your finger? Yeah. Okay. It round like that. That's the right position to place the fingers. And then you really try to be within the fret. So please do not try to put the finger near the nut or on the nap because then it can increase and be a wrong note or it can do something like this cracked up sound. So please be in-between those two nuts on the second fret in this case. And then we have a clear sound if you really press on the string with the most amount of tension needed. Okay, so that's the right way to play on that. And if we want to do some chords, the thing is that sometimes we have same court, same fret numbers for many fingers. So for instance, we have a call that looks like this, or a call that looks like this. And the problem is that we really have to organize our fingers, but please always keep in mind for your fretting hand that you really tried to be round so we can make sure that the next string is running free, is sounding free and not muted because you have a, a flat finger. And please try. Even if you have several fingers in the same Freda, please try to keep them within the fret nuts. So there is no disturbing sound like You're in a way accidentally hitting the wrong fret. That's very important now, little summary, thumb in the back of the neck, we give numbers to the fret so I can give you a roadmap to the right position. We give numbers to the fingers as well, starting with your index finger, 1234. And so I can give you an idea of what string to use, what neck, what, sorry, what fret you should use and what finger to use. And that's the definite way to build up courts. And that's where we move on to now.
12. ALL BASIC CHORDS: Now that we know how to use our fretting hands and our strumming hand. Let's get into detail. Let's have a look on our courts. And we start with a group of courts. We start about. We are about to start to learn all the basic course that are useful and that are important for playing your courts. Before I start to talk about a specific thing, why we take these courts, let's first of all have a look on your sheet that you can find within this section to download as a PDF. We have a sheet over here and then we have some pictures on, and those are called chord diagrams. You can always find the name of the court on top of each of those, then you have like a cutout of your fretboard. So if, if we, if we have a look, it's the same thing here, so it's cut out, but of course you have to see it like this. Okay, so it's the first three frets of your ukulele. You can see for strings, this down here would be this the G string. This would be the a string, as I talked about earlier. So it's like taking a picture on the front part of the top part of your fretboard. Those nuts, nuts, Fred nuts are built in here. So we have counting like 123 first 3 strings. If we put a little number down here, maybe those are other threats on your ukulele. Then you have some other things here you can see this black dot. That means you put your finger on. Let's have a look at the, a string. Third fret. That's it. And then we have like three circles that are not filled out. That means those strings are open strings, so you just jumped through all the four strings. Now, let's have a closer look on the second over here, that's called the D chord. It looks a bit different. You have, so you have your four strings, like G string down here, a string over here. We have an open string which is the G and the a string. Then we have three of those circles of those fingers put onto your 12 second fret. Now, yeah, you know that you have to put three fingers on those strings on the second fret. Now, with that said, you have all the basic chords on one sheet so you know how to play them and can focus on learning them. So little summary, you have the name, you have a cut out of your fretboard, like usually the first three strings, sometimes like over here we have 1234 strings. Then you can see the black dots are fingers placed on a specific string, on a specific threat. And those, and the open circles are just a little reminder of that you should play the string open here. And if you use this sheet as a glossary or as a, as a overview, you can use it for the first songs and you can always come back to here and have a look if you still do not know how to play a quarter, if you forgot how to play chord, you can find it on this sheet of your basic courts.
13. Short introduction on basic chords: Could you please do me a favor? Maybe you could spend a little time on rating this course if you enjoy it. We would totally appreciate your five-star rating and a little common. Thank you a lot. Now just a little introduction to basic chords. What are they and how do we use them? Well, basic courts is me meant. You use those courts for almost all the songs are, they are the basis. And if you think of your music experience or your music teaching lessons in school, you may be a know the C major scale and we're talking, usually we talk about the piano and we have white keys and black keys. And that's a bit meant by basic courts. So the white keys are on natural tones like C, E, F, G, a, B. And then it goes on again, C, D, E, and so on and so on. Those are natural tones. And on those natural tones you can build up cords. If you bring three notes together, like a, a house, you could say you have the first floor, second floor, and the roof. Then those three notes build a core together. And if you take specific notes, you get a major chord built on one natural node, and then we call it the root node, or you get a minor chord. Same thing here. The root node is the name giver in a way. So if we take a C on the piano and we play the, the key for E and G and play them at the same time. That would build a C major chord. If we play see the black key underneath e, which is called E flat and G, that would be a C minor chord. So the basic chords are major and minor chords only build on those natural tones. We have one, yeah, one specific coordinate here, which is called F sharp minor with the basic course for ukulele, which is just because it's very easy to play, very useful because we use it in combination with other course. And that's another thing why the basic courts are so familiar or like a chord family. And I would suggest to learn them, first of all by heart, because if you get through many, many, many songs with an ukulele control and by yourself, you will get to know that some courts are like a family. Some courts are always used together, while others don't disappear, don't appear. So that brings family parts or groups of basic courts within the basic courts has to do with major scales in a way or music theory in a way because if you write a song, you use for the melody and for everything that happens a specific scale. And now all things that are used, courts as well, pick out nodes out of that scale, bring them together to major or minor chords. And that's why there is only a group of seven notes that built that major scale that leads to seven chords you could use within a song without getting into other major scales, which sometimes sounds creepy or is too complicated and not find it easy, pop songs or evergreens or rock songs or whatever. So with that said, the basic courts are all the courts you necessarily need to know to play mainly all songs there are. And of course, we will have another part within this course where I will show you some tricks. If there is a situation where they ask you for a code that you cannot find on that sheet. And of course, you can play more than three nodes because we have four strings. So there is a way of building up more cool courts, but we talk about that later on. So let's dig into the courts and I will show you all the basic courts step by step within the next videos.
14. Chord: C (C Major): Now your first chord is the C Corps. It's quite easy. And please, if you did not already download the PDF with a basic course and have a look and please try to learn them by heart because you need to get into thing that's just giving you a lead sheet is just giving you a name like C and you have to know where to put your fingers. Well, if you have a look and please seven in mind that it's the picture is like that. You're having a spot on your ukulele on the first fret, then you only need one finger. And this is in that case, the third thing, finger because we're on the third fret and you put it on the third fret of the a string. The rest is open. That's C major, nice sounding chord. So only third finger on the third fret of the GCE, a string. That's C major.
15. Chord: Cm (C Minor): Although it's the same root note, a C, the C minor chord looks in a way totally different. We had C major with a third finger on the third fret of the a string. And now if you have a look, we need two more fingers. Well, let's put the middle finger on the third fret of the E string, one above, and the first finger on the third fret of the C string, one above as well. So all of those are in the third fret of the G string is open. You see that with a little open circle down there. So that's C minor. C major, C minor altogether in the third fret.
16. Chord: D (D Major): The next core is the d family and the D major chord. Well, we need three fingers in one bar. Again, we start with the index finger on the G string, second fret. Then you put your middle finger on the second fret of the C string and the ring finger underneath in the second fret on the pardon, on the E string. Second fret, second fret, second fret of the a string is open, and that's the D major chord.
17. Chord: Dm (D Minor): The D minor chord is a bit confusing because we need to turn around some things, although it's just one note that is different. So if we have the D major chord already set, now, this finger needs to move down one fret, which is impossible because we cannot do it like that. So let's build it up again. We start this sand with the middle finger on the second fret of the G string. The ring finger goes up from the D major chord, coming on the second fret of the C string. And your index finger is now on the first fret of the E string. Second fret, G string, second fret, C string, first fret, E string, and the string is already just strung open. That's D minor. D major. D minor. Turning around those fingers. Good job.
18. Chord: E (E Major): The E major chord is a bit stronger, orbit harder to play because we have four bars that we need. Good thing about that as the ukulele is very small. So even with smaller hands than I have, it's, it should be easy to learn to play E major. We start with our first finger on the first fret on the G string. Then you use your pinky on the fourth fret of the C string. And then we need the middle finger on the second fret of the, a string. New to us is that the string is open, okay? So please make sure that your pink is not flat like that. So we cannot hear the E string. It really should be round and make sure that you have a good sounding E. So first fret, G string, index finger, fourth fret, C string, pinky. The E string is open, please make sure. And the middle fingers on the second fret of the a string. This is the E major chord.
19. Chord: Em (E Minor): Now the E minor chord is totally different. Again, we have to bring all things up new. So let's start down on the a string with your first finger on the second fret. And now we build some, some stairs and away. So we use the second thing on the third fret of the E string and your ring finger on the fourth fret of D, C string. See that? So first finger, second finger, forefinger. Like some stairs build up. The G string is open. This is E minor.
20. Chord: F (F Major): The F-Major chord is quite easy. We start with the middle finger on the second fret on the G string. And then we play the first finger on the first fret of the E string. So here again, one string is opened, the E string, sorry, the C string in-between. So make sure that your middle finger is round enough and same goes for the index finger. We want to hear the a string freely down here, so make sure that everything is nicely round and stays away from the other string. So second finger, second fret, G string, nothing on the C string, open. First finger, first fret on the E string, and a string is open again, that's F major.
21. Chord: Fm (F Minor): F-minor total new chord. In a way, we put our first finger on the first fret on the G string, the middle finger on the first, first fret on the E string. And your pinkie goes down here on the third fret of the a string. Okay, So first finger, G string, first finger, first fret on the E string. And pinky on the third fret of the a string. That's F minor.
22. Chord: F#m (F#minor): Now little exotic within the basic chords, but very handy for if we play in keys like a major or a major, F sharp minor, it looks like a hashtag, but it is a sign. We use music to increase the notes or correctly read, it would mean f increased half a step minor. So the easiest way would be to bring up that courts have hepa, that doesn't work. I'm sorry for that. So let's learn it as a new court, as a basic chord, F sharp minor, we start with the middle finger on the second fret of the G string. First finger on the first fret on the C string. And your ring finger, third finger on the second fret of the E string. Second fret, G string, first Fred, C string, second fret, E string. The a is open again, so we have F sharp minor. Nice color as well.
23. Chord: G (G Major): G-major, quite useful. We start to build an app from down to the top. Second finger on the second fret on the a string. Third finger on the third fret of the E string, and first finger on the second fret of the C string. Second finger, a string, second fret, third fret with the third finger on the E string. Second fret with a first finger on the C string. The gene, as it sounds like for the G major, is open, of course. So this is G major.
24. Chord: Gm (G Minor): G minor needs a little work around if you come from, it's a new courts. So let's build an app from the beginning. We start with the second finger on the second fret of the C string. Ring finger on the third fret of the E string. And your first finger on the first fret of the a string. Second finger, C string, third finger on the third fret of the E string, and first finger on the first fret of the a string. The G is already open again because it's G minor.
25. Chord: A (A Major): A major looks like F in a way and that's a good way to keep that in mind and to make it more easy. But don't be confused and make sure that you do not play an a instead of an F or the other way around. We start with the middle finger on the second fret of the G string, and then the first finger and the first fret on the C string. The other two strings are open, so it's just two fingers. Second fret of the G string, first fret on the C string, that's a major.
26. Chord: Am (A Minor): Now, a minor is one of my favorites because it's just one finger in one fret, cuckoo number. So we just bring the second finger on the second fret of the G string, like with an a major chord, and we leave away first finger. So that's all three open strings and only our second finger on the second fret of the G string. A minor. Very nice chord.
28. Chord: Bm (B Minor): The good thing about puree cards is that if we have a record like B major, then the way to be Meyer is not that long because it's usually just taken away one finger or bringing in something like that. So we build it up as a new core. But please, have you been major in mind? I will talk about that just in a second. So we have the first finger, like a Barea, all over the second fret, pushing down four nodes at the same time. And then we bring the ring finger on the fourth fret on the G string. And as you remember, B major was with the middle finger on the third fret on the E string. Now we leave that away. So it's just those two nodes. That's B minor first finger, second fret, Barea, third finger on the fourth fret on the C string. That's B minor.
29. How to read strumming patterns: Now we want to play music and we want to play patterns. But before we really talk about how to get into purlins, we already talked about rhythm power in mind. Let's have a first and close look on how patterns look with an ukulele control. I have an example sheet over here. And that brings you a lot of information. So we have, usually we have a song name. Now it's just an example song. In this case, you have for tuning over here, we have the temple which you can dial into your metronome or into your drum computer, that would be BPM. That's the initial way we would talk about it or we counted It's like BPM for one quarter note is 55, so that means 55 beats per minute. That's what bpm means. Then we have the counting way. So that's 44 or 34, or 68. And then we have nodes you can find within your rhythm pyramid and we have bar. So those are the endings of the bar. So this is the first bar, anthesis, the second bar. Okay? On top of that we have the chords written down. So this is a C chord, this is an a minor chord. And then we have those notes that you can find whether you with the environment and, and you could start reading, but very important, and that's a thing that you might want to read. And if we have a look on our patterns, then of course you will find many, many PDFs with downloads to all the patterns we use within here. And this is the most important information for you if you want to start reading it or keeping it in mind. This little, little thing here means downstroke. And this little v, It looks a bit like a V means upstroke. So that would be a pattern like this is like down, down, up, down, up, down. Because we have those signs down, down, up, down, up, down. And if you remember when we talked about rhythm paramount and your strumming hand, downstroke to the next downstroke means automatically you're doing an upstroke without hitting the strings, so you're playing down. And that means it is known as longer down because we do not do an upstroke, move down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, up dell. And that's the easy thing about reading those strumming pattern. So you really can't see where to play with your right and left and went to play with a strumming hand. Okay, how to play, what direction to play, and of course, your information how long those nodes are. But most of the time it's very logical or you just have a close Listen onto my playing. So just a little summary again. You have the song name, you have your tuning just to make that sure because sometimes if you use other things, maybe there isn't information that he ukuleles tuned Another way, of course, you can use other tunings if you want to. We do not do that with an ukulele control because it's not necessary. You have the temple, usually that's the original tempo of the song. And you can take that as notice and in a way, bring down the wall and the temple. If you start practicing, you have to weigh. It is counted like 44342468. We have the information on the length of the notes within a bar and a how many bars there are. We have the information on what chords are used within the bar and onward position. We will talk about that later. And most important for you, we have the direction which you play, so downstroke or absorbed. With that said, let's start with our first pattern and get into playing ukulele.
30. Training Beat (Explanation and how to use): Is the ukulele already your best friend? Where grade? Maybe you can take a little time and leave us a five-star rating and a little common. We would love that. Thanks a lot. Now that you know, all the basic chords there is a way or in a way, a suggestion for you to practice those. Very, very cool because we talked about rhythm, we talked about strumming, and we talked about your court's already now you still are learning those cores and you still have to practice those. And before we go into real songs, I want to make a suggestion that is called the training bees. My suggestion would be, if you want to become a good ukulele player, please learn those basic chords as good as possible. And not only learn those chords, because what I oftentimes see this, my students, they just learn a chord like G. Okay, I know that right now. This is a minor. Wonderful. This is C. Wonderful. But the problem is that you afterwards, once you make those changes, sound smoothly, nicely. And you, not only to know those courts by heart, you want to move through them as easy as possible with an a song, which means you're using a pattern. So the problem is you need real music to practice those. Now there are two ways. One way would be, you take example songs. We move on to that just within a few minutes. But I want to make your suggestion to use this training beat because if we have this training beat running, you can do whatever you want to do. And it's a pretty nice and easy bead. We have the drum machine, we have a, a slow rhythm in a way, what do we use? We use 60 usually, so let's start over here. Sorry, there was one wrong. It's like, yeah. Yeah, the metronome. We have the beat. And as you can here within the beat, there is already a rhythm within its Puente, tak, tak, tak, tak. Now, if you have a look on the PDF that's attached to this video, you will find the pattern for exactly that training beat and now you can download that. And with the next video, we will give you a blank video weighed only have that beat. And you can download it as an MP3. And that's pretty QB QC can put it into a W. Kubernetes are able to him or Studio One, or logic or whatever you can use, whatever you have or GarageBand on an iPad or the Mac. And you can increase or decrease the temple so you can build your own training pattern and now you can decide what to do. So let's say, I know all the chords by hot already, but I want to become better at changing them. Now I put together groups like I want to let say. I start with C and I take a minor and I bring in the beat, and I use that beat, which means you playing down, down, down. And now I define that I will play one pattern for C. And then I want to switch over to a minor to work and make progress on changing, changing basic chords. But the thing that I find so important for you, for all of those students are there is that please make sure that you're not practicing like that. That's what I oftentimes see and hear when I'm working with students because you will get used to that. You always have a little, little, little rest in between those bars. And that's not good for your rhythm, it's not good for playing with other musicians as well. So please make sure that you do not do that and use the pattern, be training, beak color, whatever you want instead, because then you're forced to keep the rhythm. Rhythm were treated with the same. Now as I said, I wanted to play one bar C, one bar, a minor. I have to do that. And back again, a minor. So before you start practicing and just want to give you an idea of how to use that. Because that's pretty easy, bad, you get better because you really have to jump in-between C and E minor C. So you, you're training the changes of C and a minor in both directions. Now if you get good at that, you can use new code. So let's say C, a minor, F, and G. Then you start with a training video, started the MP3 answer C with a pattern, a minor, we practice them before. So now why do we do that with an ukulele control? Well, of course there's a whole section with examples, songs, but as the word example says, it's just an example. You have the freedom to bring together whatever you want. Whatever yeah, run through. Of course you want to decide that's your thing. And you can check out what sounds cool, what doesn't sound that Cooper, Please have a mind. The better you are within your basic chords in changing them, the easier it is for you to learn a new pattern and play a new song because the cords won't change that much. As you will see, many cards are played all the time. Some chords are seldomly used, but the pattern changes. And the good thing about that training is instead of learning like C minor and believe that you do get away from that. Oh, I'm just changing chords you get more into, I'm forced to play the rhythm throughout all the time, played through and through and through and through. And after that, you can concentrate on the courts as well. Last thing, if you play a rhythm that as I said before, you can download the MP3, you can slow it down or you can use the video function within this course. Um, but please have in mind one very important sentence. It's always rhythm before changes. So if you are too slow to get to the next chord, please do not built in one quarter note or something like that to get a, a space to, to get to the next core. The rhythm is the rhythm and the bar is the bar. If your pizza pack is full, it is full. There's only one pizza within that package, okay? So a bar is a bond, that means you have beads. And if you also slow, he let them go. Bring the fingers at the end or or take your time, but please do not stop your strumming hand. That's very important. Write it down, printed on a shirt, riding on a piece of paper and bring it on top of your bad or something like that or under your pillow. I don't know. Rhythm before core changes. That's very important to get good at ukulele and get a great rhythm feeling. So everybody likes you playing and wants to play with you. Keep them in mind. Now, let's move on to the video where you can find your training beat and bring in all the costs that you want and work on their practice that before you move on to the next part of the next chapter, See you there.
32. FIRST SONG EXAMPLES: Now before we come to our first song examples where we bring together beat strumming patterns and chords in specific changes, specific structures. And let's first of all talk about how the works. You will find within the next videos, every time, one video where I will explain how it works, how the pattern works, how you count the pattern, what directions you have to play, and what temporary you have to play. And we talk about the chords. Again. Of course I think, or I suggest that you, first of all, learn your chords by heart. So if you see this video and he did not practice on those courts, no problem, you can move on. You get into the videos. But if I show a chord that you do not know, maybe you should jump back to the courts or use your basic chord sheets to, please always have in mind how the chord functions and worse. And you can find sheets like that to download for all the songs where you have the strumming pattern to read it, the courts to read. So you will find all the musical information on those sheets. And I would say, yeah, with that said, let's start with the first song example. Enjoy.
33. Song Example 1: C (Pattern and Explanation): Congratulations, we start with our first song. Well, it's not that spectacular. We only have a pattern and for the first section, just one chord. We start with a C chord, but within a minute we start to play music together. So let's have a quick look on your sheet. There is sets, song, sample one. See, you have temporal 60 BPM and then you have a little pattern that you may be already know from your training base. It's down, down, down, down, down. Please remember that it's a logical structure so you really have to move in a smooth and automatic way down. With that said, let's jump into it and let's play that together with a beat.
34. Song Example 1: C: So here we go with our first Tong. It works like that. I will give a beat. And then I will count us in. You know, your pattern, please get to your C called 121234. Down, down, down, down, down, down. It should work easily because you only have to concentrate on your strumming hand. Please make sure that you keep the tension on the C chord, that it does not start to sound crabbing, okay. For mom to adds a mouse. You can repeat that as often as you like. And if you want to, we have an MP3 for that. So you could download that and increase or decrease the temple without any issues within the pitch. And you can use the video function as well if you want to make it faster and tried to, to get to a point where you can see how it works and dad works in dry.
35. Song Example 2: C and Am (Pattern and Explanation): New song, new changes, new paradigms. So here's sang example number two, where we use the C chord and a minor. Now that's the change that we have to keep in mind. It's in a way easy because it's just two fingers jumping around. But please have a minded, we have C for one bar. Then we need to change to the ER, to the a minor and back to the C chord again. Now let's have a look on the pattern. It's almost the same as within a training bead. You have just two more eighth notes on the two. So we play down, down, down. So for short notes and had more time together. Down, down, down. Exactly in 10, we jump over to a minor. So over here, same pattern here. Mozart. One more time. Great. And now keep in mind we have one bar, so we play very slowly, see changing to a minor. And the answer is C minor. And so on and so on. So you really have to focus on your rhythm. My suggestion would be work on that rhythm part first of all, because then you can concentrate on jumping around here. You have to count, but of course, I will help you and can, you can listen to my playing as well so you know where you are. I would say, let's move on to the video and get into playing Sonic sample two.
36. Song Example 2: C and Am: Now he is sung example to move directly to the a minor. Okay, So this is our beat, our counters in. Here we go, 121234 and a minor, C, a minor. Heap algorithm. C, a minor, and so on. Form 2 times c gives you more times. Last time. Good job.
37. Song Example 3: C and G (Pattern and Explanation): The next song uses different changes and another pattern as well. So we start again with the C chord, but now we tried to change over to G, which is a little complicated. But sounds great. The pattern is a easier pattern again, but we take from the last song, the first eighth note, not the second eighth. And so we play like one or two long notes in the answer. And in directions that means down, down, down, down, down, down, down together with me. Down. Exactly. And then we move over to G, which is a bit more complicated, but we have those too long notes or you answer, it should be quite easy. We start with C down to around change over, changed back to G. Now please work on that and make sure that you know how to change and how it's the smartest way of changing from CTG. And then we see each other within the next video where we play that together with the training.
38. Song Example 3: C and G: Now here's a beat down town. That's the same exact way. Now, let's start on the C chord, one bar per card, okay? So he would go, I would count again 1, 2, and 3 for n towns down. Change, change, change, change. Back again to see concentrator yourself, C to G. Former times, C times seen last time. And that's great job.
39. Song Example 4: Em and Am (Pattern and Explanation): So here we go with the next example. In example number four is E minor and E minor. Okay? So the change to a minus quite easy, but back to E is a big complicated. Maybe you first practice that we decrease the temperature gas just 55 beats per minute. But we have a lot of eighth notes and we have a little problem because we have some syncope over here because we start to play down. And that means we have a quarter note for the first time on an upstroke. So we, in a way, brings some confusion within here because that means we go down without hitting the strings. So down because it's 2 eighth notes where we don't hear the second one down. Sometimes it helps if you have this downbeat because it's the strongest part of hubby. If you go down without hitting the strings, but he hit the, the lower part of ukulele. I will demonstrate that for you. See that same with the a minor together with me. It is the same idea of being in a row, being in a automatic way, automatic playing. But please work on that first of all, and let's move on to the video where we tried to play that together with the bait.
40. Song Example 4: Em and Am: Now let's give it a try with the beat. This is our tempo here that dad, dad, dad. With that crash, we have like to remind you by ear that there is this upstroke. Okay, So here we go, son with E minor, our counter zoom, ready? It goes like 121234 and a minor. E minor, again. A minor. If you get lost trying to hold that rhythm and play the courts afterwards. Tell me stuff. One movement. Tyson, usually four times more. Three times, two times. Last time. Great job.
41. Song Example 5: C, Am, F und G (Pattern and Explanation): Are you getting better and better day by day? Well, if so, please take a little time and leave us a five-star rating and a little common. We would love that. Thank you so much. Now to make it more realistic, we move back to a pet and we had before, It's this down with a too long notes in the end because more realistic means more chords. And now we have four cores within one part. Complicated because you always have to keep in mind where you are. So we have four chords that we move through. And if you are on the last court, you start again from the beginning. So that's a bit confusing. The four chords are same. Then we move to a minor. Then we move to F, which is pretty cool because you can leave the middle finger on its position and just put the index finger on the first fret of the E string, and then you have f. So from E minor to F, that's quite a cool chain. And in the end, not that Qu, we have to switch over completely to the G major chord. Okay, So C minor, F major, G major, and the pattern is down, down, down, down to a minor, and afterwards to G. And maybe you can hear already it sounds very typical with those four chords in different changes or different directions. You can play many, many, many songs like no woman or cry or letter B and so on and so on. So pretty good to know, pretty good to work on that. And let's move on to the video where we can try to play that together with a beat.
42. Song Example 5: C, Am, F und G: So here's a beat. It's 60 BPM, so it's a bit faster. Okay? And we go on, we're, if we're going to dive in beat was he can hear it already. It's like down, down, down, down, and we go, C is set. Our counters in our count lines 121234, m, a minor, F, G, C. A minor. F to G. See a minor, F to G to C. A minor, C, and G. And so on. A minor. Now far more time. So again, we start with sweet two more times. And the now. And within a song we have an ending. It's like see, great, great, great, Great job. Let's move on to the next and last Sony example.
43. Song Example 6: G, D, Em and C (Pattern and Explanation): Some example number 6 is with four courts as well, and it's a typical change or typical group of chords. Again, we have G major, D major. Then we move on to E minor. And to see maybe you know, that very, very, very popular in a way. So G to D. Keep in mind that we have one bar over here. See, sorry, E minor, and then C. Now the pattern is a bit more complicated and we have a fast tempo. So you see it's the last song of our song example, the expedition. And we did. We start with a G chord and we play down, down, down, down. Same thing with a D chord together. Then E minor together one more time. And then we move on to C together one more time. Let's concentrate on the change. So we start from G and what do we need to do to go to D? My suggestion would be maybe you can try to slip down or slide down with your ring finger on the second fret and put the other two fingers to see that the change from D to E minor, there's no possibility to make it the easy way, so it's like that. And C as well. So we have to move through. Here we go G star, so down to D, to E minor, to C, back to G. G, E minor. Maybe you start first of all with a pattern and then bring in the chords and Dan bring in the one-bar principle. And if that function is very good for you, Let's move on to our last rehearse or last jam together with the beat. Here we go.
44. Song Example 6: G, D, Em and C: Now here we go with our beach sunning a G-Major. This is our beads in our liked down, down. Okay, so here we go. Are you ready? So 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4 changed the G, E minor to C, G to D. Rhythm before changes. Know that if you get lost or tried to be an end again, but whole background. Still know where we are. And other parts of G again. C, D, E minor to C to G, T, E minor to C, G. Last chord, C. Now, far more times. Here we go. Tomorrow. That's time. An anion could be EGE. Great, Great job. Let's move on.
45. Song 1: Sunday Morning (Maroon 5) (Pattern and Explanation): Now as the exciting moment, we get into our first real song, just little explanation from the beginning on. It works like that. We have three videos for every song, which means I have one explanation. That's this video now. Then we have a video. We just practice the changes in almost original temple. So you really have to focus on your fretting hand and really get into those details about how to get from chord to chord. And the third video is a little bit slower so we can bring together the patterns and, and the fretting hand, the changes within a almost original sample. So the cool thing about that, as you have to MP3 you can download and you can time stretch in a way without losing pitch. And of course you can work with the video as well by increasing or decreasing the temple. With that said, we start with our first song called Sunday morning by a room 5 and old number, but really cool. We have three cores and that's the cool thing about here. We only play F, Then we play G, Then we play C. Now, the first thing you have to have in mind is the problem is, if we have three courts than usually, two of those have only one bar or half a bar and the other chord is double time. So if you have a look on your pattern sheet and you can find that sheet as a downloadable PDF within this section and you can find the lead sheet as well. So those are the two things we need to download. So if you didn't do that already, please fix that right now. Are you back? Great. Dan, have a look and then you can see that we have on our pattern sheet f and g sharing one bar. And then we have seen alone until the end of the bar. So that means we have 12 for f, 12, g 34, and then c 3. For the cool thing is, it is like a looping pattern. It repeats and repeats and repeats throughout the whole song gray thing about that. If you have a look on your lead sheet, you find the tidal, you find the band, you find a key. It is in C major. And then you find, we have averse. We have a chorus, then we have a verse again, a chorus and altro, and that's it. And all the time of the song we repeat F, G, and C. So with that said, let's have a look at the pitons, a pattern speak specifically on your panel sheet you find two patterns. One is called the easy pattern, the other one is called the advanced patterns. So it's just for those of you guys who want to take it to another level directly. But the first thing should be the easiest pattern. We start with the f with a downstroke, another downstroke. And now you see this little dots behind the eighth note. That means it is Prolonged with its half. What does he mean? The half of a eighth note is a 16th note. So we have, in a way, an eighth note and integrated a 16th note that we count within. So it's prolonged. And at the end there's only a 16th note left with the upstroke. And that brings us to a point where we still have a syncope. So it's not 123, It's furthermore 12, sorry, 123. So a little bit before we get the counting part of three, we bring in 16th abstract, meaning you play 16th notes throughout all the channels like 123. And then you have a little bow that's binding this upstroke with another 60. Now we do not hear because it's it's a combination of both. So it's 10, it would be down again. And then we play another stroke and eighth note, and at the end, a little up. So that means down town. And if you hear the whole rhythm it sounds, it sounds very logical, isn't it? Down, down, up, up. And then we move to the C chord, down, down, up, up, down the whole chord for one bar. So one more pattern, f down Tau, G to C, tau, tau. The smoothest way would be if you play 16th notes Rob throughout the whole beats. So it's down, down, down, down, down. Pretty cool. Now, if we move on and have a look on the advanced pattern, it's almost the same, just without the little bow and without 1 eighth note. And then we have those xs in your notes. So more 16th notes means we're playing more through and those x's are so-called DAD notes or muted notes. How do we produce that? Well, DAD notes usually are when you lay your hand on the strings so they are muted. But you already play them. You still play them, okay? Those are muted strings or DAD notes. And you can do another way of playing dead notes. Bye. Hitting the strings with your hand or hitting a strings with your, with your palm of your hand and then playing it down or an upstroke. Okay, those are dead nodes and they bring in a, an idea of percussive play. So the same pattern I play the, the easy paranormal time sounds like that. He advanced panel would sound like. So you bring in those two x's by hitting the palm of the string, I would do that here. I'm hitting the strings, up, hitting the strings. Okay. So you get like percussive sound links. Maybe you can practice that again on your own. And that's what I would suggest. So please practice those core changes. Practice this pattern, and we move on to the next video where we will work on your core changes in the original tempo. So only your fretting out. Here we go.
46. Song 1: Sunday Morning (Changes): So here we go. We play the song and see in almost original temple that would be that we hear the beat already, but we would really play on. And maybe you can try to bring that syncope within the genes. So we play F. And okay, I will count you in and I will sing along a bit. Not the idea of giving you a full concert or a big show. It's not focuses not on the singing. It's just to give you an idea where we are on the song, that it sounds away like the song. And of course, ukulele is a great instrument for yeah, playing together with a singer or singing along. So if you feel like that or if you want to practice that you can sing along with me too. So here we go. Want to 1, 2, 3, and we start. Sunday. Rain is falling. Still some carbon shares. So skin. Now the Shroud in everyday moments for GAD of both its way is to fill the mold that I am there. The thing she's gets a crazy live in love kids do. And now a glow up and that someday will lead me back to that someday it will lead me back to you. Chorus. Then maybe daggers, she is. C, gamma, Dragon's Lair on Sunday morning. And then verse two fingers trace your every day in the mixture with my hand, back and forth with sway like branches then a change to where the steel together when there may be named darkness. She is a master boot on Sunday mornings him and made him know that maybe in darkness she is C The Chairman rest chill where they would rather slow on Sunday morning. Now you have an outro. You can play the chords again. Maybe like two times. And unsee. Great job, and that was only the first part. Now move on to the next video where we have the full pattern a bit slower and yeah, let's give it a try. If there was too fast or too slow for you, you can still decrease or increase the tempo. And now we see each other within the next video. Here we go.
47. Song 1: Sunday Morning (Song): So here we go. Full pattern, F, G, C with the beats a bed slower than before. A pattern was okay, 121234. Some still some shares skin. The twins to fill some crazy to you. The main needs. See me draft and fingers to step back and we're swayed. Now. That may seem to share the draft Sunday and then the main name. See where they would rather stay on Sunday. And more men and the outro. And ending on C and C. Great job. That's Sunday morning by Maroon 5. Let's move on to the next song.
48. Song 2: Count on me (Bruno Mars) (Patterns and Explanation): The next song is count on me by Bruno Mars. A great song for the ukulele as well. We have more cards here. We have C, we have E minor, we have a minor, we have G, we have F. And we have D minor later on. So a lot of course, C, E minor, a minor, F, and D minor. That if you have a look on your sheet, on your, your lead sheet, you can see we have an intro, a verse, a pre-chorus, a chorus. And in the pre-chorus you have at the end a G with a little star. That star is not a specific card or something that you need to know. It's just a sign that we put in here because this is a specific thing where we will stop the pattern and only play G strum one. So it's really like to make a little rest and move on with the next pattern part. And that's the key word. Let's move on to the pattern sheet where we have two parents, pattern a and pattern B. And if you have a look on the nodes without the courts, you see it is exactly the same thing. It's just because it's the first time that we have it over here. We have one pattern for the, for the whole bar and pattern B is for the parts where we increase the temperature. If we start with the verse, we really have the first pattern for a long time and then we change it to a minor. So we jump always between half bar per chord or whole bar per core. To keep that in mind, please practice that and really go through the song with the changes video. Because it's really, really necessary that before, before you start to work on the pattern itself, you really have to know where to place the courts because sometimes there is a lot of space in between the changes. Sometimes it changes in a fast way and then have a mind that within the G in the pre-chorus, we really play a long note to have that little rest. Now, how does the pattern function where it's quite easy in a way, we only play 16th notes throughout all the time by not hitting all those nodes, we have an eighth note. We have an eighth note with a dot. So it's a little prolonged as well. And then we play the two. Not so it's really like one. Or I should count 12. Okay. So yeah. It's like okay. You can count it that way. Or we would say 1, 2, 3 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Here after the, the two, There's directly that abstract 1234, down, down, up, down, up, down, down. But important that the second node is prolonged in to the next count, 12344. Now the complicated thing is when you change chords right now, then you have a 16th note at the end. And that makes it very complicated because we, in the end, we're at the temple-like. Pretty fast. Now, I show you a trick that professionals always do, and we will talk about that much more often with an ukulele control. Because most students think, well, this is my pattern. I really have to play. But how on earth should I come from C to E minor within that space in-between the 16th note. And I want to play with this, see, and be back on the one of the next bar with an E minor. Well, the trick is the professionals leave away the fingers. They leave away the chord in a way I call that open chord, or I call that 0 because you take away the sea, the finger, and you can do that with all the other courts as well. Now we only have an open ukelele sound, the 0. And within that little 16th note, I haven't time to switch cards. I will show that very, very fast. So you do not hear anything. Get it. See. It's just the exact same sound or the time like or it does not sound beautiful, but you do not really recognize it as disturbing. It's useful. Quake2 quite easy makes it pretty, pretty, pretty much easier, especially if you're using pattern B where we play like one to four. So we're putting two chords within one bond. With that said, please practice the changes. Move on to the next video and play the changes with me with a song. Temple and Dan. Work on the pattern and we see each other in the third video, will play the song a bit slower than the original with core changes and pattern all together.
49. Song 2: Count on me (Changes): Now let's give it a try without the patterns only the qualitative. We started with a C. This is our beat. It's like 1, 2, 1, 2, starting with a C. Here we go. Have you ever find yourself stuck in the middle labours, see how sale the world to find the final velocity in the DAG. And you can't see B, the D minor. When we got to have a frenzy. Here, can now be their king. Lag for prey to and your B. Because dance where France as well. So do Oh, David Johnson, Yana journey energy is Kim fall asleep? How single song beside you? And if he ever forget how material every day with real my pre-chorus. Well, we are called to happen randomly. You can lie. I'll be there. I can count for grade 2 and your bead. That's where friend's house. So do all ways. Next barn. You can't like long to now be there. Can lie on your bed. And that's where friends are supposed to do or who you can count on me cuz zagging channel. Now you have the chords on the exact same places and maybe really starts to sing along again. It's quite high that song, so it's cool for girls and boys and boys if it's too high for you, especially the bridge part where you heard that I really need to get into falsetto and I did not try to overpower it for now. You can just download. So if you wait 10. So that said let's bring in a bit down with a template and move on to the next song where we tried to put together the pattern and the courts enjoy.
50. Song 2: Count on me (Song): So here we go. Let's bring it all together Academy. This is our beat a bit slower so we can concentrate on the panel. Want to want 234 here we go. So far. You have to have a frenzy leaves one string here, and he'll be kills. Dan disclosed their details, energy, energy scale. This favorite brands in one strong here. And now. And you will be cuz that's what Francis, to the branch, to the gene. So the G, again, here's that sound is A2. Great job. That was a bit slower. Again, guys, if it's too high for you to sing, go down an octave below. For me, it's too high as well. So just a cool. The key for girls and boys, if you want to sing along while playing ukulele, work on that and we see each other and work on the next song.
51. Song 3: Hallelujah (Patterns and Explanation): The next song is a, we can already say, a classic originally by Leonard Cohen. And there are so many covers and so many famous covers in a way. And we've chosen the version by Jeff Buckley for this video course. And the courts are quite easy. We just have seen we have a minor and we have F-major, and we have g. And then we have fun E. And that's, yeah, in a way, new because it's E7, you can find that in your cards. But if it's too new for you, you can play an E chord as well. Quite easily, quite cool. And yeah, that's it. So that's all we need. C, a minor, F, and G. And in the end, you seven or okay. Now the song is in the version that jetpack replace it. It's, it's it feels like a free for rhythm, but it isn't really, it's more like 12341 and that's what we have on your pattern. She's so you will only play 12341. Now, that strange thing is a trial. That's a triad. Sorry. It's a triad. It's called tried. You have 3 eighth notes and you see that little bar around there or that little, that little thing, the little line where it says three, that means we bring in three notes on 1-bit. Usually it's like 1234. And then he could play 1234 down. So we have two nodes over one quarter note. And now if you use that sine of a trial, you can play three nodes. So each node is a bit shorter than in the, in the binary way, but in the, tried to convey 2341222324 and do it. So it sounds like a waltz over a straight 44 rhythm. That's the idea and we would play one. So we bring that down, up, down, up. It's like three. Exact same was not pleased in a place. That's not what's meant here. All those nodes are exact the same length, so we play one. Okay? That's very important to know. And the pattern B is only for the parts where we leave a little space. That's especially before we go to the, the final hallelujah to the chorus part so that we only play 1234. That note, that note with a blank space in between is a half node, so we only have 123. Okay? We take that for the, the end parts of the VS, where it says baffled king composing Hallelujah. We leave that space there. We would take a little rest, would take that long node for he. And then we go to the chorus and started seeing our hallelujah part. Now, with that said, we move on to the song. First of all, arranging the changes down. We play the whole song. We do not do the whole song through because if you have a look on your sheet, there's five Vs. That takes lot of time. We play three Vs and three choruses and then we play the end. Okay, so that's the idea. At the end we repeat the Hallelujah partners like Hallelujah. They'll have like in the original version as well. So practice that. Work on your chords. Have a look if you can find all the chords and then we see each other and tried to change the course with the song.
52. Song 3: Hallelujah (Changes): Now let's give it a try. We start with an intro. It's only C and a minor in a repetition in a, in, in part. This is albedos of really a beat. It's only a metronome. I will challenge in. Here we go. It's like one, 234, C, a minor. C, a minor version. I heard there was a secret chord that David play you then and pleased law. But you care for music. Well, it goes like this. The, for the fall, how the major lived, the baffled king, king. We have sorry, a minor. How? How you could use intro again. And then verse. Where your fatal strong but she needed prove. He saw her obey them through her beauty. She tidied to the kitchen, share acute Brown and she had a froms. She'd leave it there. Have how how has the intro and third verse? They The, been headed for a season as this flow, I used to live alone need for. I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch, is now a victory march. He had sutural. Dan did see brew, kill, hallelujah. Have have have Hal. Yeah. One more time. Hal. Have great job. I did a little mistake. I'm not sure if you heard that I played in the E minor instead of a minor at the end of the last verse. Please do not do that and work on your coursework on that pattern thing. And we go on to the next video and try to bring together the changes and the original pattern. It a little bit slower than the original.
53. Song 3: Hallelujah (Song): Now let's give it a try with the original pattern a bit slow. Here we go. Our counted for you, it's like 1234. Okay, so one, intro, three, and here we go. I heard secret chord that David played. The board that she would think. Well it goes like this. The, for the baffle came to compose. And B, have, have, have intro. Second verse. You faith was strong but she needs to prove. He's so her. Then her she chided to share, she broke it, brown hair and she catchy. And she drew hallelujah. Pattern B has had intro verse 3. And the early form of season 3. The Ofwat this for one, I use and lived for a C flag on the law. Orange was a victory march. He had circle down. Here. We have one more time. Has great job. And keep in mind, you can download the MP3 and increase the tempo with use of ADH DAW. So enjoy that and increase the tempo as soon as possible to really play that song in a coup version in your own style. And congratulations to your first songs with a new repertoire.
54. Song 4: No woman, no cry (Patterns and Explanation): Now another classic, another evergreen, No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley and the whalers. Cool thing is we have the key of C. So easy chords, easy basic chords to play that song we play C major, G major, a minor, and F, and that's everything we need to know. So just a four chord song. We have two parts or let's say three parts. We have an intro. We have the chorus, which uses the same pattern. We talked about that just in a second. Then we have the verse or the vertices, and we have that bridge bothered. Everything's gonna be alright. And we have two patterns in a way. So that said, we already talked about the sheet and the sheet is not that 100% correct answer usually say, Oh crap. And then we have that quick changes from C, F, C, G, C. So that's really a thing that you have to focus on because that's a bit complicated to play the C to C Gs really, really quick changing. Now let's move on to the panel sheet. It's quite easy in a way because it's reggae. Reggae is with a lot of sync apiece. So to bring in that cool and smooth and easy rhythm, it's important to work with lots of upstrokes and prolonged notes. So we play with a C down, down. Then we go to G down, down, move over to ima, a minor, and then we have down, up. So it's so the two is missing 12. And then we go to F and bring down a downstroke, which is a bit unusual, but it sounds better. Okay, and it's easy to change because a minor and F are so familiar, so it's Okay. Let's play the first part together. 234, It's C, G, a minor down, f, f, f, That's it. Then we move on to the second part, which means soon, see. And then the quick change we already talked about, F, C, G, C, U prolong the last node within the next beat. So it's F, C, G, C1 to as a downstroke, moving to G again to turn it around, down, up, down. So that means for the second part of pattern a, C-star down, down to F, down. C, C, one, C down, up, down. So see, pretty cool, pretty cool. Let's jump over to pattern B because that's the next easy one. And you see we already have x nodes in here. So DAD notes, again, you know how to produce them. Either you're putting your hand over the strings or you play them by muting the strings with your palm of your strumming hand. Arab prefer that because it's pretty not that fast, but it's faster than you think in the original. So we played down, down, down, up, up, down, down Chaka to the next court. Same thing here, a minor next chord. And F. That's what we use for the Vs because there's not that thing. So it's just okay. And we use it for the, Everything's going to be, or RI power will be only have those four chords changing and changing and changing. Last look when we can give it a try, is the pattern a advanced? We have an easy pattern and advanced a pattern. You see they're much more notes in there because we have DAD notes and so we play C. C, we already know that from pattern B, G. And then we play a minor like down, up, up, but we do not live that long. No replay down and make an X in there as well. And at the end again. So it's the same pattern or the same first half of the pattern as pattern a bot within the datanodes. So x g axis, a minor down, up, down on the acts directly to an F down, down, down XX. Okay, I'll play it one more time for you so you can hear. Okay, second half, same thing. See with down, down XX and then we have the same pattern as before, f one to access. And then I built in something pretty cool. If you want to give it a try, It's very sophisticated. We play the organ melody that's in there. And that's your first use of tablature in a way. So those four lines that you can read here are the four strings of your ukuleles. You have it in front of you like a picture. So the bottom line is the G string, the top line is the a string. And now you can see some numbers on those lines written and on that part in the end you see only there's 0 to three, then there is one single 51 single tool on single free. And you can see they move string per string. That's the same thing we talked about when I talked about your fretting hand. That thing, that tablature tells you where to put your finger on the string, on what Fred. So that means you play together 0 on the next string, it's a two, on the next string is a three. And that's the beginning of your G chord. Okay, so it's like together. You could pick it. I will play black with my thumb. Then you play the five on the E string with a pinky. You play the two on the a string with your index finger. And he move back to the eastern again with a three. So it's like okay. And that's pretty cool because you have light. Then we go back to the pattern. So you build in a ukulele melody within the courts, within the sound. Pretty cool. Practice that you can still take the last melody parts into the easy pattern so you can leave away the dead notes if that's too complicated for you, and suspend the g part at the end of the easy pattern with that picking part or melody part, that could be a mixed version in between, easy and advanced as well. So practice those parents practice those core changes, especially the fast one that could change. And we move on to the next video where we'll play the song in original sample only using the changes. Okay, here we go.
55. Song 4: No woman, no cry (Changes): Now let's give it a try with the changes. We play Intro 2 times, chorus, verse, chorus, verse. Then we go into the, Everything's going to be part chorus, chorus, and interlude, which is a solo, but we do not played eight times like the original version is. Then we play the chorus in the end and that's the whole song. We have the original temple, little ragged feeling in here. So we say 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, c and f. C quick change. And again, C and G, a minor F, and it's c quick change. Radar. Now into the chorus It's no, no one, no one cry. And I tried to, cinco said I when we sustain and legato man's yard in strands chow, the Hippo creates as they would mingle with the people we may hear in France we have a good brands. We love him this great. He can't forget your past self. Let's say we go though. No Cry. Cope again though. Quick change. One though, cry to the G. And no one, No Cry. One. And again to the verse here we'll say that remember when ways to say in the government yard in French town. And what made them will die as it was burning through them die. Then we would cook made up of which share, which is my only chariot. So what gap to push on through? But while I'm gone, I mean, you say everything's going to be Everything's going to be all right. Everything on a B, right? If the thing's going to be all right, everything's gonna be all right. Everything's going to be all right. Everything's going to be all right. A repels down. A B, though. No one. Great job though. Track. 11 more time. No, mom though. No, No Cry. Cry. And now the interlude would be same changes, C to G. A minor and F thicker pig guitar solo. See with a quick change. And again the g part. And one more time. And quick change, our one last time chorus. No, no, no. No. Trash. Could be your ending a bit. Richards handle. Great job. That was almost original temple. And now we move on and bring together the patterns a and B with the changes. Here we go.
56. Song 4: No woman, no cry (Song): Now here we go, the same song with a literally decrease temple. And with a pattern, the pattern is advanced pattern would be, and so on and so on. And please think of a Cinco notes. Think of the, if you want to play that. Okay, So here we go, our Canvas and we start with an intro two times, and then we play the whole song. One, 212342 times. My own dog, cry, cry, no cry. Man jar. In French town. The hairball Cree. As they work with the paper. Think of pattern B all the time. Your friends, wave layout. France. In these grapes. You can't forget your past. So dry you say cat and a dog. No, no, no cry. And next verse, in the jars in tranche town. In Georgia. What them feel thy seed was locked in through them. Then we weren't cookie. Which I'll share with you, is my edge. So I've got to Bush on. But while I'm gone, I mean, I'd say you, everything's gone and p or everything's going to be our right. Everything's gone wrong or right. Everything's going to be every 10 scanner. Everything's gone up, VRI, everything's gone up or rents. The details gone on. Your red colors. No cry. No, no, no, no, no. No cry. No, one cry again to load or solo part. Repeating that pattern. Moments, I'm chorus. No, no, no, no. No. One. Great job. Now that was the fourth song in a row. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you keep on rehearsing and work on that and we move on to other different stories and very, very exciting things. Here we go.
Marius Worch
