Ukulele Lesson - Play Nearer, My God To Thee

Ukulele Lesson - Play Nearer, My God To Thee

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Take the time to tune up properly. Because it's short, it can be quite hard to get the Ukulele for sale in uk in tune. But it has to be done. If your ukulele is out of tune, you WILL sound terrible. There are plenty of tools online to help you to do this. My particular favourite is the AP Tuner.

I will also use an easy form of tablature notation that will help you find your way around your ukulele guitar. Guitar tablature or guitar tab is very common on the internet. It is a notational system with six lines representing the strings on a guitar and numbers on the lines indicating which frets to press down.

On some sites you will find ukulele tablature which works the same way. The only difference is that ukulele tabs have four lines as an ukulele usually has four strings.

You can play and sing at the same time - As adults, many of us become nervous and almost ashamed of singing. Children have no such problem and love to sing. Teaching them to play a wind instrument such as the recorder prevents them singing. Similarly, a piano is too loud and will overwhelm the child's voice. Give a child a Ukulele and they'll be singing and strumming before you know it.

Now you will learn to interpret this notation. The digit before the slash indicates the fret to press down. The digit after the slash shows you Ukulele for sale which string to play.

You don't have to spend a fortune on a ukulele, but it is worth spending a little more than the very cheapest models. Fifty to a hundred dollars will get you a ukulele that should stay in tune and not have too many intonation problems.

Once you are comfortable with holding the instrument, high in your arms, and plucking the strings with your thumb or felt pick, you are able to take lessons and learn Ukulele how to really play the instrument and make some good music.

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