Top Ten Ukulele Tips For Beginners Uku. Guides. There are quite a few of these Top 1. Tips out there on the internets. Ill try to add something to that with my own personal Top 1. Tips for beginning ukulele players. When I bought my first ukulele I was completely unprepared, but I had the advantage of having some guitar background though. J Bridge For Beginners' title='J Bridge For Beginners' />Ill try to give you some really useful tips that will give you a jump start when you begin playing the ukulele. Make sure to also check out the before buying an ukulele guide and ukulele buying guide. Get a decent ukulele. This is the most important one of all when you are serious about wanting to learn how to play the ukulele. There are a few good ukuleles in the 1. The main issue you will have is that it wont be able to stay in tune. I speak from experience. Ive bought a 4. Harley Benton soprano once and it couldnt keep the E string in tune for even one strum. 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All this may take some practice but it will pay of in the end because that way you will be able to pick up your ukulele and play even when walking around, without messing around first. Pearl Milk Tea Vector. In my opinion a strap is unnecessary and it just adds bulk to the ukulele. I had some trouble at the beginning, but nowadays Im walking around the house, in the garden, with my ukulele. Small note dont hold it too tightThe sound still needs to vibrate properly through the body. Have fun The ukulele is a fun instrument. Some may call the ukulele a toy, so what, toys are fun to play with But it really isnt a toy at all, its a true instrument and you can do wonderful things with it. Also dont make the mistake by thinking that it is an easy instrument, you will need to practice a lot to master it, but even when you only know the basics it is already so much fun Enjoy playing it and without knowing, you will improve each and every day. First things first, the basics. When looking on You. Tube and other websites you will quickly learn that amazing things can be done with the ukulele, but like every skill in life youll need to learn the basics first. Dont try to play some big fancy tab when you are just starting out, learn your basic chords instead. Start with the majors, minors and then go on with other chords. The Uku. Chords chords chart is perfect for this, since it gives you a very decent overview of all the major chords. You will notice that once you know your chords you will be playing tons of songs without even thinking twice on how to play them. Also check out the Uku. Chords Chord Library to watch how to play every ukulele chord possible. Decent strumming makes all the difference. At the start youll probably only be doing simple up and down, up and down, up and down. But after a while you can try to add some slapping and palm muting to really get that chunky, funky and groovy feeling. I wont explain how to strum in here, feel free to take a look at The Ultimate Strumming guide. Wondering why there arent any strumming patterns posted along with songs Well, thats a whole other story. This isnt allowed by the MPA Music Publishers Association because of copyright issues. They say that it isnt allowed to share online how to literally play a song. So strumming patterns rhythm and tempo arent allowed to be shared at all and Im afraid that there isnt much I can do about that. It will really help a lot if you try to figure out the strumming yourself. You will learn playing the ukulele a lot quicker and after a while youll come up with your own strumming patterns Carefully listen to the song and feel the rhythm. I know that this isnt easy, but once you get the basics, itll go real quick. Use Uku. Tabs. com to learn songs. Hah, this may sound silly but this is actually one of the best ways to learn new songs, since each song on Uku. Tabs has the chord diagrams for each chord in that song. That way you wont have to look up the chord diagrams. Also, when you hover over a chord in the song itself, the chord diagram will pop up You can also transpose the key of a song to more easier chords. Play as slowly as you can. When you know your basic chords and can do some basic strumming you can eventually start to change between chords. Practice this a lot and with many different chords and at first do it as slow as you can so that you cant possibly make a mistake. Remember that the most important thing is to be accurate instead of being quick The same goes for when you are starting out with tablatures. Make sure to get a clean sound with no buzzing and muting. Start with slow and easy songs that have easy chords and not that much chord changes. Gradually speed up and try more difficult songs. Play along and listen to ukulele players. Already in a band Perfect Bring along your ukulele and jam along with your friends. Not in a band yet No problem either, convince your friends to start playing the ukuleleAnd if that doesnt work, boot your computer, go online and watch ukulele videos where you can play along. Or marvel at the true ukulele gurus out there All of this will help you to feel the ukulele groove and feel. Listen and watch carefully for tempos and rhythm and without knowing, youll be learning how to play the ukulele Record yourself playing and listen back to it. Ive got this tip from the Ukulele. Hunt maintained by Alistair Wood. Its difficult to play and listen to yourself at the same time. Quite often just noticing what youre doing wrong is enough to fix the problem. It also gets you used to playing infront of the mic making it less of a big deal when you want to record yourself properly. Fingering exercisesThis might seem a lot. Besides learning chord shapes, learning how to strum, learn how to quickly change chords, etc youll also need to do some fingering exercises. This will help to gradually build up calluses  toughened area of skin which has become relatively thick and hard in response to repeated friction or pressure. This may sound weird, but this will help a lot in the end, because what you will learn quickly, is that when you start playing stringed instruments your fingers will hurt Not as much with nylon than with steel stringed instruments though. With the developing calluses youll notice that will hurt less. I have found the below exercise by Faye Hicks to be a real good one. Pluck the first string open, then with your index finger on actually just behind the first fret, then with your middle finger on the second fret, then with your ring finger on the third fret and finally with your pinky finger on the fourth fret. Do the pinky one twice and then work your way back down ring finger on third fret, middle finger on second fret, index finger on the first fret, then open. Now move to the second string and repeat the pattern. Then the third string, then the fourth. Run through that a few times at the beginning of each practice.