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Welcome, Toni! Glad to have you on-board.
Hope you join us in this month’s challenge. It’s a great way to stay motivated, make friends, and have fun 🙂
The blues strumming tune from the Beginner’s Course is one of the songs you can pick for this month.
@taylor22jane – Beautifully played, Taylor! Great job on nailing the change in feels too. And yes, I could use a summer day just about now LOL
Hi @xerxes, Robin wrote a brilliant response which I agree with and hope you found helpful. Our lessons are geared more-so for the fingerstyle player than the singer/strummer. While we do have quite a few singing and strumming lessons up, most will be geared for folks that want to do something beyond the beginner level.
Robin mentioned UU and the Uke Teacher, but I’d also recommend Katie with One Music School and Bernadette Teaches Music on YouTube for beginner-friendly singing/strumming lessons.
Our Beginner’s Course will prep you from day 1 (how to hold the uke) all the way to playing your first fingerstyle songs (using: fingerpicking and strumming). I recall offering some advice for you in this forum post which was related to the Beginner’s Course.
Which BTW, I see you’ve made excellent progress! You’re into the performance song modules now. That’s where the fun starts 🙂
In that post, I recommended setting up a practice schedule that consisted of 3 parts. The 3rd part was songs. Besides the tunes in the Beginner’s Course, I’d add this lesson to your song list. It’s our beginner-friendly lesson that teaches you how to sing and strum.
As far as warm-up exercises, check out this lesson. It’s a great warm up tool that builds dexterity in your fretting hand. Plus, you can do it to a metronome to work on timing 🙂
You mentioned:
I was gifted a number of ukulele song books they have the chords and notes of the sung notes but most don’t have strumming patterns.
A lot of simple songs can be played using the Island Strum. But it doesn’t work for every song. If you need a bit of help with the tunes in that book, this is something Stephen can help you with in a one-on-one private lesson.
I’d also encourage you to join our February Challenge. The beginner blues strumming tune from the Beginner’s Course is one of the songs you can pick for this month. Challenges are a great way to stay motivated as it gives you a goal to aim for, which is to learn a song within a month and share your performance with our community 🙂
@zongozongo – Great job on the feel and vibe of this tune! Only thing I’d say is to work on timing and keeping it steady. Try playing along with a metronome or switching the tab player to “synthetic” mode. Tackle one theme at a time.
Here’s a couple that come to mind:
1) Ode to Joy
And here’s a more challenging one that uses a pedal tone in the A melody:
Sounding great, Mark! One suggestion, try to swing the rhythm just a bit more.
Keep up the good work and P.S. I like it at that tempo 🙂
@henri0 – Great performance! The only thing I’d suggest is to use the same strumming motion you did for 26 seconds to 30 for the rest of the tune. Will give it a more natural strum sound then a flick of the index finger.
@mikeramsey2 – Beautiful performance and great job on nailing the playful feel and dynamic change for the last part 🙂
@turkgoose – Melody, technique 1, 2 and 4 sound great! But watch your tempo, try to keep it a bit more steady. For the sweep strum, I want to hear more of the rasgueado burst. So that’s where I would focus your practice at. Overall, well done! Keep up the great work!Hi @pluribus,
We launched baritone lessons last year: https://rockclass101.com/songcategories/?_sft_post_tag=baritone
Robin’s steps were correct for accessing those lessons. You can manually access them by clicking “Ukulele Songs” in the main menu, then selecting “Baritone” in the filter on the right hand side of the site:
There’s 8 lessons up right now with a new one coming out Feb 18.
At the moment, all we’re planning to do with baritone is stand-alone lessons on songs. If you’re looking for courses or general playing lessons, you’ll want to grab a high or low G uke as we have hundreds of lessons for those tunings.
P.S. Did you know that you can play any low G arrangement on baritone? Although you will be playing in a different key.
You can use the same sorting method detailed above to find all of our low G content 🙂
@evapaju – Matt says: Doesn’t matter if it’s open hand or close hand technique, just try to be able to do both and select what is more natural for the situation.
@evapaju – Let me ask Matt and get back to you on this.
@sarahmusic – I agree, it would be very helpful! I just submitted the idea as a feature request to the course developer 🙂