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Ukulele Complete Course for Beginners

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Overview

Learn to play all your favourite songs on the ukulele

What you'll learn:
  • How to play songs on the ukulele.
  • After completing the course you will know how to play chords.
  • You will be able to play many different strumming patterns.
  • You will know about tuning on the ukulele.

The ukulele is a wonderful instrument to play, it is great fun, portable, inexpensive to buy and not hard to learn.

This course will teach you all the basic techniques needed to play songs on the ukulele. Everything will be covered in great detail to make sure you understand all the principles of playing. You will learn what type of ukulele is best to start on, how to tune it, basic music theory such as rhythms and note values, how to read chord diagrams and how to change chords, various strumming patterns and you will learn lots of great songs that you can play along with.

All the songs taught in the course are accompanied by PDF files of the lyrics and chords which you can download to help you learn them and to aid your practice sessions.

In this course you will learn :

* 13 chords

* 13 songs

* 14 strumming patterns

After completing the course you will be able to play all the songs and many others too because you will know all of the most common ukulele chords and strumming techniques . Using this knowledge you will be able to play literally hundreds of songs in any genre, pop, folk, gospel, rock and roll or traditional.

The course will include advice also about how and when to practise the ukulele in order to ensure you improve consistently.

The main thing you will get from this course is how rewarding and how much fun playing the ukulele really can be.



Syllabus

  • First things first
  • Understanding rhythm and strumming
  • How to play chords
  • The first song - Row, Row, Row Your Boat
  • More strumming patterns
  • Song 2 - The Whole World in his Hands
  • Tips on changing chords
  • More Major and 7th Chords
  • Song 3 - Oh Susannah
  • Minor chords
  • Song 4 - What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor
  • 3/4 time signature and strumming patterns
  • Song 5 - Happy Birthday ( 3/4 time )
  • Song 6: On Top of Old Smokey ( 3/4 time )
  • Song 7: Cockles and Mussels ( 3/4 time )
  • Song 8 : Home on the Range ( 3/4 time )
  • Song 9: When the Saints Go Marching In
  • More advanced strumming
  • Song 10 - The Battle of Jericho
  • Calypso strum pattern 14
  • Song 11- Everybody Loves Saturday Night
  • Song 12 - The Sloop John B
  • Song - 13 Michael Row the Boat Ashore
  • Practicing tips
  • Conclusion.
  • Bonus video

Taught by

Chris Pottle

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