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10 vídeos fantásticos para aprender a tocar el ukelele.

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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

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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

Easy Ukulele Songs for Beginners by Jennifer Quilter

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The ukulele is one of the easiest instruments to pick up and play, but that doesn't mean you're going to sound great the first time you pick up and play it. While it's faster to learn than most instruments, you do still have to learn how to play. The thing everyone wants to do as soon as possible is play their first song, so this list goes over easy ukulele songs for beginners.
It's important to keep in mind though that the way we're determining what's "easy" is by what chords you are likely to have learned in the beginning. Before you can do any songs you'll need to start learning some chords, and then you can learn to play some songs and put them together.
The first three songs that should be pretty easy to play are Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Happy Birthday, and I Wanna Be Like You (from the Disney film The Jungle Book).
Most people are looking to play something more current and popular though, and once you master the chords C, F, and G you can go ahead and play the songs "Five Years Time" by Noah and the Whale, "This Too Shall Pass" by OK Go, and "The Bucket" by Kings of Leon. All three of these songs are fairly popular and current and are more likely to impress people when you play them, because they're not songs people will expect a beginning ukulele player to play, even though they're fairly easy (others just won't know that).
Of course, the more chords you add to your knowledge database, the more you'll be able to play! With just a few more chords you'll be able to play a lot more than the ones listed above, soon you'll be able to try songs like The Addams Family Theme, "Foundations" by Kate Nash, "Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend, "Kiss With a Fist" by Florence and the Machine, and "Be Ok" and "You and I" by Ingrid Michaelson. Another great one is "Creep" by Radiohead, which was covered on the ukulele by Amanda Palmer.
Once you start learning some more and can conquer some more difficult songs, the easiest way to add to the chords you can play and learn new songs is to look up songs that you like and see if there are ukulele tutorials for the song. Most songs these days have been covered and tutorialed, everything from The Beatles to Lady Gaga ukulele covers are out there these days.
Remember, a song that's supposed to be easy is only said to be so because it assumes you'll learn those chords first. If you have a hard time with a song marked "easy" don't let it discourage you! It just means you need to take some time to learn the chords in that song first.

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There are a ton of covers out there from your favorite musicians todaywho play ukulele [http://www.playtheukulele.net/current-famous-musicians-who-play-the-ukulele/], and it's easy to do it yourself. You can pick up the pace by learning songs you already know to get yourself motivated and learning to play the ukulele [http://www.playtheukulele.net/].

Jennifer Quilter. "Easy Ukulele Songs for Beginners". GoArticles.com 2011-07-09