10 vídeos fantásticos para aprender a tocar el ukelele.

Vídeo 1. Cómo tocar canciones con las cuerdas del ukelele al aire. Nivel 0 (Fácil)


Vídeo 2. Cómo tocar ritmos con el ukelele. Strumming con el ukelele. Nivel Cero (Fácil)


Vídeo 3. Escalas con el ukelele. Nivel básico, intermedio y avanzado.

 

Vídeo 4. Karaoke para ukelele. Uno de los mejores karaokes para aprender canciones fáciles.


Vídeo 5. Aprende cómo tocar 10 canciones con 3 acordes fáciles. Ukelele para principiantes.


Vídeo 6. Aprende a tocar el tema de JUEGO DE TRONOS con 5 ukeleles. Game of Thrones para cuatro ukeleles. Nivel Intermedio.

 
Vídeo 7. Aprende a tocar Villancicos con uno de los profesores más locos de YouTube.
Nivel Iniciación.


Vídeo 8. De Ukelele Underground, aprende a tocar TITANIC con un arreglo para ukelele genial. Nivel Intermedio Avanzado.

 
 
 
 
Vídeo 9. "Over the Rainbow" Tutorial BY UKULELE MIKE...Aprende a tocar este famoso tema para ukelele con uno de los profesores más veteranos de internet.


Video 10. Uno de los mejores vídeos de Jake Simabukuro, para deleitarnos y ver hasta dónde se puede llegar con el ukelele interpretando el mítico tema de Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"



 

"How to Strum a ukulele" Ukulele lesson by Sierra Hellemans

Strumming a ukulele may seem like a very simple thing, but a surprising number of people get it wrong. There is a specific right way to do it - to make sure you get the best sound possible out of your ukulele and to sound great. This article will go throw the most important aspects of strumming technique to make sure you know exactly how to strum a ukulele to get the sound you're looking for.

Hand Position


In order to get the perfect strumming hand position, make your right hand (or your left hand if you are left-handed) into a loose fist. Make sure you're not holding it too tight. You want your hand to be comfortable in this shape as you might have to hold it for a long period of time.

Hold your hand in front of you so it is in front of the area just around the center of your chest. Now extend your index (pointer) finger so you are pointing in the direction of your left nipple. You should find that your thumb is resting on top of your index finger (somewhere between the first and second knuckle). This will add a little extra stability to your strumming finger.

Where to Strum


Every ukulele has a sweet spot. This is the area where the ukulele sounds fullest and will give you the best tone. If you strum too close to the bridge it will produce a very thin and tinny sound. You can produce a much more pleasing tone by strumming closer to the fretboard. The idea place is around the place where the neck hits the body of the ukulele.

If you play a larger size of ukulele such as the tenor or baritone, the sweet spot will be more over the sound hole.

Strumming Technique


For the actual strumming itself, you need to ensure two things: that your arm doesn't get tired and that you don't strum more widely than you have to. Both of these can be achieved by ensuring that you strum from the wrist. If you were to strum the ukulele with your whole arm, you would be getting tired before the end of the first song.

Using your wrist also means that you will be able to increase the speed of your strumming as you improve much more efficiently. If you were to strum with your whole arm, it would be much harder to increase strumming speed to match up with the speed of the top players.

It's important to get your ukulele strumming technique right from the beginning. If you pick up bad habits when you start, it will be much harder to change them in the future. Once you have a bad habit ingrained, it's ten times more difficult to get rid of it than it is to set good habits in place from the start. Any time spent practicing your stumming at the beginning stage will pay off many times over for you. It's vital to get it right from the outset or you'll be forever at a disadvantage.

By: Sierra Hellemans Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com

Famous Ukulele Songs by Jennifer Quilter

The great thing about the ukulele these days is that a lot of popular songs that we're originally played on this great instrument are being covered on it--you can find uke videos all over the internet for most popular songs today. But for those interested, here is a list of famous ukulele songs that are well known for being played on a uke, and ones that a lot of people will probably be asking you to play once they find out you have the instrument.

Tonight You Belong To Me is probably going to be on every list you find. This song was written by Billy Rose and Lee David in 1926, but that's not how most people know it. It became popular in the movie “The Jerk” where Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters sing along. Since that time there have of course been many covers.

Another older song that keeps getting covered today is Ukulele Lady, originally by Gus Kahn and Richard Whiting in 1925. You can find popular covers by Kermit the Frog, or Better Middler.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is one of my favorite famous ukulele songs. It was originally done by Harold Arlen and Yip Harbury in 1939, but the version that really made is a uke song is by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. If you don't think you're familiar with the uke version, you probably heard it in the movie 50 First Dates.

There is no uke played in Jason Mraz's song “I'm Yours”, but people cover this song on the uke constantly, making this a popular uke tune. This is a great example of how a song that's more popular today is helping making the uke a more common instrument.

Hey, Soul Sister by Train is another more current popular option. This is one of the very popular, current famous ukulele songs that gets covered a great deal online and that your friends will probably ask you to play shortly after finding out you have the instrument, so it's worth learning now.

Once you decide to learn to play the ukulele it's pretty easy to get started! You can pick up the pace by learning songs you already know and love, like with Lady Gaga ukulele covers.



"Famous Ukulele Songs" by JENNIFER QUILTER12/31/2010 www.amazines.com