https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/Recent content in Ukulele on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/meet-the-ukulele/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/meet-the-ukulele/The parts of a ukulele, the four sizes, and the four strings, G, C, E and A, with the high G that gives the ukulele its sound.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/hawaiian-roots/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/hawaiian-roots/How a small Portuguese instrument, the machete, arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1879 and became the ʻukulele, with the help of three Madeiran craftsmen and King Kalākaua.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/holding-the-ukulele/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/holding-the-ukulele/How to sit or stand with a ukulele, where each hand goes, how to press a string cleanly, and how to look after your hands while you learn.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/tuning/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/tuning/Tune your ukulele with the tuner, by ear from reference notes, or string to string with the 5th, 4th and 7th frets.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/chord-charts/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/chord-charts/How to read a ukulele chord diagram: the strings, the frets, the dots and finger numbers, open strings, and what the left-handed view changes.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/reading-tab/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/reading-tab/Ukulele tablature: four lines for four strings, numbers for frets, and the rhythm written under the tab. With notation above it, so you can learn both.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/first-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/first-chords/Your first two chords, C and A minor, each with one finger, and your first song-length practice: four down strums per chord.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/f-and-g7/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/f-and-g7/Add F and G7 to C, the three chords of the key of C, and practice changing between them in time.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/strumming/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/strumming/Eighth-note strumming: down on the beat, up on the “and,” with a hand that never stops moving. Plus misses, the key to every strum pattern.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/island-strum/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/island-strum/The ukulele’s best-loved strum: down, down-up, (miss), up-down-up. Learn it in pieces, then play it with C, Am, F and G7.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/picking-a-tune/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/picking-a-tune/Play single notes: the notes of the first three frets, picking with the thumb or index finger, and your first tunes from tab.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/key-of-g/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/key-of-g/The G chord, D7 and E minor: the main chords of the key of G, with tips for the trickier shapes and a song in G.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/three-four-time/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/three-four-time/Songs in 3/4 time and how to strum them: the waltz pattern with a thumb note on beat 1, a busier version with up strums, and a pickup note.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/hawaiian-vamp/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/hawaiian-vamp/The little chord turn that starts, ends and links so many Hawaiian songs: D7–G7–C in C, A7–D7–G in G. Learn it, hear why it works, and play a tune that ends with it.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/the-fretboard/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/the-fretboard/Half steps and whole steps on one string, sharps and flats, the 12th fret octave, and a way to find any note on the ukulele’s neck.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/major-scale/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/major-scale/The major scale’s pattern of whole and half steps, the C and G major scales on the ukulele, and how scales connect to the chords you know.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/minor-keys/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/minor-keys/Minor chords and the minor keys: Am, Dm and E7 in A minor; Em, Am and B7 in E minor; and how a major chord becomes minor.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/barre-chords/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/barre-chords/Lay one finger across several strings: B♭, Bm and B7, and how one shape slid up the neck gives you a whole family of chords.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/low-g/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/low-g/Swap the high G string for a low one: what changes, what stays the same, and the extra notes it gives you for tunes.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/chunk-and-more-strums/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/chunk-and-more-strums/The chunk (a muted, percussive strum), accents, the 6/8 lilt and a swung shuffle: four ways to give your strumming more rhythm and color.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/fingerpicking/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/fingerpicking/Pick the strings one at a time with thumb and fingers: one finger per string, three picking patterns, and a fingerpicked waltz.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/chord-melody/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/chord-melody/Chord melody: play the tune as the top note of each chord, so one ukulele carries both. The first phrase of Amazing Grace, worked out step by step.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/ragtime-era/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/ragtime-era/The ukulele craze of the 1910s and 1920s: swung strums, the ragtime chord chain E7–A7–D7–G7–C, and Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer on four strings.https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/hawaiian-songs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/music/ukulele/hawaiian-songs/The songs of Queen Liliʻuokalani and King Kalākaua, Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī and Hawaiʻi Aloha, the old D tuning, and how to play Hawaiian music with respect. With the chords of Aloha ʻOe to strum.