Welcome to the wonderful world of classical music.
With these easy fun lessons you'll learn to play classical ukulele!
All of the pieces in this mini-course have been carefully selected and arranged for this special graduated introduction to classical ukulele.
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Find all my fingerstyle and chord melody solos here.
An understanding of the basics is necessary to establish before attempting this course, if you've completed the Play Ukulele NOW Method and Songbook you'll have all the basic instruction you need to do this!
IMPORTANT! Before attempting this lesson, these preliminary lessons must be mastered:
Are you holding the ukulele wrong? Avoid these 5 mistakes
Beginning fingerstyle ukulele made easy
The lessons above will lay the groundwork needed to begin classical ukulele - do not skip them.
Click on the picture below to see it up close
Click here to get the PDF: Scottish Dance
Unless indicated otherwise use the fingering you learned here.
The marking that has a note, and then = 88, indicates the tempo that the piece should be played at.
Feel free to start at a slower tempo. A metronome should be used to insure you 're playing at the proper temo, and to be sure you are keeping a steady beat. This piece is mostly eighth notes, see the Play Ukulele NOW Method and Songbook for details on basic note values, so the eighth notes will get two notes per click. Basic note values are easy to understand with the right method.
Learn about using a metronome here:
Three secrets to learn and play faster
Take it a few measures at a time, get the measures down that you are working on, then move on to the next ones.
Measure 1
The line you see here connecting the first two notes is called a slur. A slur is to be played in a smooth connected manner.
A slur is played using legato, The term legato (pronounced "leh-gaw-toe") means connected, or joined, notes.
Legato is played using hammer-ons and pull-offs, so a pull-off would be used to play the first two notes in this measure.
Fingering for measure 1: p, (Pull off here) i, m
Learn about how to do a pull off here
Measure 2
Hold down this dyad* here, in measure 4, and measure 6
*A dyad is a pair of pitches sounding together (in other words, a two-note chord)
Measure 10
Use p and m for the first two notes i for the second, same for measure 12 and other similar measures.
D.C al fine means repeat from the beginning until you reach fine.
Have fun!
UPDATE: Here's the next lesson: Beginning Classical Ukulele: Lesson 2 - Country Dance - Ferdinando Carulli
Stay tuned! More classical ukulele lessons to come...
Check out my previous fingerstyle lessons - You'll find lots of great tips and tricks on fingerstyle playing and technique along with these songs:
What Child is This?
IMPORTANT! Before attempting this lesson, these preliminary lessons must be mastered:
Are you holding the ukulele wrong? Avoid these 5 mistakes
Beginning fingerstyle ukulele made easy
The lessons above will lay the groundwork needed to begin classical ukulele - do not skip them.
Scottish Dance
Click on the picture below to see it up close
Click here to get the PDF: Scottish Dance
Performance notes
Unless indicated otherwise use the fingering you learned here.
The marking that has a note, and then = 88, indicates the tempo that the piece should be played at.
Feel free to start at a slower tempo. A metronome should be used to insure you 're playing at the proper temo, and to be sure you are keeping a steady beat. This piece is mostly eighth notes, see the Play Ukulele NOW Method and Songbook for details on basic note values, so the eighth notes will get two notes per click. Basic note values are easy to understand with the right method.
Learn about using a metronome here:
Three secrets to learn and play faster
Take it a few measures at a time, get the measures down that you are working on, then move on to the next ones.
Measure 1
The line you see here connecting the first two notes is called a slur. A slur is to be played in a smooth connected manner.
A slur is played using legato, The term legato (pronounced "leh-gaw-toe") means connected, or joined, notes.
Legato is played using hammer-ons and pull-offs, so a pull-off would be used to play the first two notes in this measure.
Fingering for measure 1: p, (Pull off here) i, m
Learn about how to do a pull off here
Measure 2
Hold down this dyad* here, in measure 4, and measure 6
*A dyad is a pair of pitches sounding together (in other words, a two-note chord)
Measure 10
Use p and m for the first two notes i for the second, same for measure 12 and other similar measures.
D.C al fine means repeat from the beginning until you reach fine.
Have fun!
UPDATE: Here's the next lesson: Beginning Classical Ukulele: Lesson 2 - Country Dance - Ferdinando Carulli
Stay tuned! More classical ukulele lessons to come...
Check out my previous fingerstyle lessons - You'll find lots of great tips and tricks on fingerstyle playing and technique along with these songs:
What Child is This?
Jingle Bells
Silent Night - two arrangements, and Silent Night - Easy Fingerstyle
The First Noel - two arrangements
Silent Night - two arrangements, and Silent Night - Easy Fingerstyle
The First Noel - two arrangements
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