Start Off With Ukulele Or Guitar?
Start Off With Ukulele Or Guitar?
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This series of articles will give you a few chords that you can use on a huge number of songs to get your playing off the ground so you can start playing with confidence. In this first part we'll be tackling the C chord.
U: Ukulele Air Band: Here's your chance to perform in a wild Rock and Roll Band! Pretend you have a Ukulele for sale in uk, an accordion or a bass guitar. Now start singing and playing that instrument in your Air Band concert. Get moving and jump up and down while playing so you work up a sweat!
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.
As you can see this chord is the same chord as a D major on a guitar. A little bit confusing if you also play guitar but I guess you will get used to it.
It's cheap - Children can't always be trusted to be careful with their instrument. There's no need to worry with a Ukulele. They are cheap to replace and hardy instruments (I once watched a child stand on one to reach a shelf).
Why is it so easy to play? Well because of the way it is tuned Ukulele for sale you usually have to hold Ukulele for sale down one or two strings and strum and you have music. But even better is you can just fiddle with it and make pleasing music, and no more intermittent screeches or dribbles.
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.
Hold down the second string (from the top) at the 4th fret, and pick it alternating with your open string underneath it. Tune this open 3rd string to sound the same as fretted one above it.