Hong Kong Ukulele - Location 地址. The Ukulizer. Imyours. Ukulele Tuner - UkeBuddy. Best iPhone Apps: Learn how to play the ukulele with these iPhone apps by jenniferbeese | Appolicious ™ iPhone & iPad App Directory. Check out appoLearning.com, because your kids deserve the very best educational apps! Jenniferbeese says: Having just become a proud owner of a hand-me-down ukulele, I am excited to start learning how to play it. Since I can't afford lessons, I turned to the Internet. YouTube and Google are full of tutorials, but the iPhone is a great teacher too! Jenniferbeese's picks UkeChords Learning how to play the ukulele? This app is a full-featured ukulele chord dictionary with access to over 1,000 of the most common chord forms in all 12 keys. Scale Buddy This app provides scales for the ukulele and many other instruments. Ukulele Tutor This is a great app for beginners.
Discussion. Beginner Ukulele Lessons. You’ve just got your hands on a ukulele (or are just thinking of buying one). Here are a few things to read and songs to play that’ll get you up to speed quickly. Step One: Learn the basics - So You’ve Just Got Your First Ukulele – a free PDF I put together for beginners including essential links, first chords, tips and links to suggestions for the first songs to learn. - 10 Things I Wish I’d Known About Ukuleles (Before I Bought One) – Don’t make the same mistakes I did. - 10 Tips for Ukulele Beginners - How to read chord charts. Extra Credit: Ukulele for Dummies – The (paper) book I wrote covering all the ukulele basics from buying your first uke, to strumming, chord shapes and far beyond. Step 2: Get Your Strum On - Ukulele Strumming for Dummies - Strumming notation - 13 Most Useful Strumming Patterns Extra Credit: – How to Play Ukulele Strums – An ebook I wrote covering all the strumming and rhythm essentials for beginners.
Step 3: Play Some Songs Some popular ones: Step 4: Spend Some Money. Ukelele lessons. Fake Strums Tutorial | Ukulele Hunt. The fake strum is a simple technique that I use a lot in my arrangements. So it’s about time I gave it a post of its own. It’s used in fingerpicking pieces to play full chords. It sounds like a strum but it’s just done by picking individual strings in sequence. Here it is played twice slowly then up to speed. Why bother? Instead of doing this, you could just strum the strings and get the same effect. However, doing it this way keeps your fingers in position for picking individual notes. Here’s a quick video combining picking and fake strums. In Tab There isn’t any established tab for this as far as I know. You can do fake up-strums as well (although it’s more tricky and I can’t remember ever using one).