Ukulele Tab: Ukulele Tuning For Beginners

Ukulele Tab: Ukulele Tuning For Beginners

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The ukulele is a very interesting and beautiful instrument. It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. The typical ukulele most people think of is the four string, tenor ukulele. It is tuned GCEA.

Listen to lots of ukulele players. The more you listen, the more you'll get a feel for the Ukulele for sale in uk and the way it sounds. It will influence how you play subconsciously.

The first benefit of learning ukulele is its size. Many small children struggle with larger instruments such as guitar. While guitars can be purchased in sizes as small as a quarter of the size of a regular-sized guitar, they are often still too big for kids who are 5-10 years old. Ukulele, on the other hand, is small enough to be handled easily by someone in this age range. The body of the instrument is small and easy to hold. The neck is also thin with narrow frets, which makes it easy to play basic chords.

At this stage, knowing some chord theory is useful. Learning the harmonized major scale will mean you can quickly assess whether a chord is likely to be major, minor, seventh etc.

Buy yourself a good uke. Do some studies first, find a Ukulele that you really like, that has good tone and analyze its neck and the height of the strings. If the neck feels comfortable, if the height of the strings is not too high or too low (they make a buzz) and if the price is not the cheapest (lower price reflect on quality, which can hinder progress), than you should become the owner of that ukulele.

Fsus2 is a very jazzy sounding chord, so Ukulele you have to be quite careful how you use it. It is played by putting Ukulele for sale your index finger on the first fret of the E string. The best way to use it is to switch between F and Fsus2 whilst playing. This is a trick that Zack Condon of Beirut often uses.

This gives the tenor ukulele more the feel of a guitar (the tuning of a low-G tenor ukulele is the same as the top four strings of a guitar capoed at the fifth fret). It gives the ukulele more options for playing bass notes: which can be very helpful when you are playing solo and need to provide your own bass line accompaniment.

Now you can play a Christmas melody on your ukulele. The ukulele tab notation I have used is good for finding the notes but I recommend you to learn the melody by heart so you can play it anywhere without the need to read on a piece of paper you will not find anyway!

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