Banjo Ukulele Playing

Me singing & playing “Five foot two” on my Tyler Mountain Banjo Ukulele. I have only been playing for a couple of years. Sorry about the audio being out of sync with the video, I used my digital camera and when it uploaded it got weird.

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Tune your Ukulele with GCEA for standard playing.

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Will it be hard to learn the ukulele if I have had no prior experience reading notes or playing?

I want to begin learning the ukulele, however I do not know how to read music. I have also never played any instrument. As a teenager, will this be hard to pick up on my own?

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Ukulele Practice Tips: Set Goals for Your Playing

Learning to play the ukulele, like learning any instrument, is a marathon rather than a sprint. No matter how much practice you do in the short term, it is long term dedication that will determine how well you play. But, how do you keep up your level of motivation in the long term? Setting goals for yourself is a great way to keep yourself motivated.

But it also does more than this. It allows you to monitor how your playing is improving. It is sometimes hard to recognise when we are improving. If you don’t realise that you are improving, you may start to lose your motivation. Keeping track of your goals and when you reach them will reassure you that your playing is getting better and that the practicing you are doing does pay off.

Setting Speed Goals

Find, or invent, as short practice exercise. This could be a scale, a sequence of chords or a musical phrase. Set a metronome at a slow speed – slow enough that you can play it comfortably without making any mistakes. Once you’ve found that speed, turn the metronome up very slightly. Keep doing this until mistakes start to creep in. As soon as you start making mistakes, make a note of that speed. This is your new goal. Go back down slightly (to a speed at which you can play without making mistakes) and practice the phrase over and over. This will get your fingers used to making these certain movements.

Eventually, making these moves will become second nature. After practicing like this for a few days. Go back to the slightly higher speed. Can you play it at this speed now? If you can, keep increasing the speed again until mistakes start to creep in again. The big advantage of keeping track of how fast you can play is that it is very easy to measure. On the down side, playing the same exercise over and over again can become a little boring.

Setting Repertoire Goals

Adding new songs and tunes to your repertoire is a much more fun way of practicing. However, since it is less vigorous, it is not always as effective as speed practice. It is also much harder to gauge how well your playing along as there isn’t any concrete measurement.

Ideally, your practice should be well balanced between both repertoire goals and speed goals to make sure that it doesn’t become too boring.

Is playing ukulele generally easier to play than a guitar, or is it the same?

Im looking into playing ukulele, because guitar just didnt work with me. I have no musical talent whatsoever, besides the harmonica, lol

So is it usually easier to play ukulele than guitar, or same?

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How should I get started playing the Ukulele?

I live in a town where there wouldn’t be any kind of ukulele lessons, in fact nobody even sells them, even the big music store. I am really interested in learning how to play, because I love the sound of it. Is there any kind of books or even a website that could get me started with some basic peices of information? Thank you!

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Playing Ukulele Chords : Ukulele Tuning

The ukulele, like any instrument, needs to be in tune before you begin playing. Learn all about ukulele tuning with tips tips from a ukulele player in this free music lesson video. Expert: Daniel Bissell Bio: Daniel Bissell is a self-aught ukulele player and carries a binder filled with hundreds of songs that have been transposed for the fabulous four stringed instrument. Filmmaker: Doug Craig

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