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Live Stream: Thursday, November 13th at 6:00pm ET (check your local time zone)
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Hi guys! We are back with Live Lesson EP084! This month’s topic is: How to Do Slides on the Ukulele
In this session, you’ll learn one of the coolest ukulele techniques: Slides. We’ll cover what slides are, why they’re used, and how to apply them to single notes, double stops, and chords. This lesson also includes a printable tab with five exercises to help you practice and perfect your slides.
This month’s topic should stir up some great questions! So please post all you have below and I hope you join us for the live stream. 🙂
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I really like this topic, man! Slides are one of my favorite techniques on the ukulele. 🙂
After pondering for a bit, I remembered some silly (but genuinely curious) questions I’ve always had about slides on the ukulele. Here they are:
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1. Is it physically possible to do a slide starting from “0” (an open string) on the ukulele, or do you already need to be fretting a note to do a slide?
If yes, it’s possible, then that would be like jumping onto a playground slide before sitting down to maximize the speed and force. As an adult, you would not recover from such a maneuver (I’m cry laughing, but I seriously do wonder if that’s possible – on ukulele).
2. Do you think there’s a limit of distance with a slide on the ukulele? So, could you start at fret 1, then slide to fret 12 (or higher)? Is there any reason you would do this?
3. How much of a difference is there between sliding between two notes versus doing a hammer-on/pull-off between the same two notes? For example, sliding from A2 to A3 versus hammering on between those notes? Also, I probably wrote that wrong, sorry.
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Thank you for these amazing lessons and still tolerating me after all this time and not blocking me!
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