Recorder lesson - notes on treble clef

Watch the following video to learn to read the notes on stave to play your recorder songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le10tF_3YWg

C chord and F chord

            C                  C

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

            F                     C 

You make me happy, when skies are grey

           F                    C

You never know dear, how much I love you

             C       G       C

Please dont take my sunshine away

Placing your left hand fingers and the C chord

1) Remember to count your strings from the bottom.

2) Those metal bars on the fingerboard are called frets!

3) You should be placing your fingers in the correct boxes.

4) Lastly, your Ukulele's body should be against your belly and hug it like a baby!


 

Ukulele lesson - Simple strumming patterns

Once you can play a simple song with some of the basic chords (C, F, G, maybe Am) , you can start to switch your attention to your right hand and focus on playing the chords with different rhythmic patterns, to make it sound more varied and interesting.

Watch the following YouTube video to learn a few effective strumming patterns that you can use to make your song sounds much, much better than just playing each chord once!

Follow the video and practise the strumming on just C chord. Once you get the hang of it, try using the strumming pattern to play a few different chords, then play the songs you learnt and make it better by strumming differently!

Or, click on the following link to view the video on YouTube directly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAScCO3Mb-w

Holding your Ukulele

Things to remember:

1) Left hand is used to hold your Ukulele around the neck

2) Right hand is used to strum your Ukulele

3) Pinch your thumb and index finger of your right hand and strum it using the nail part of your index finger

Enjoy!