Hi everyone! I love playing my ukulele and am self-taught! Today I thought I would share some of my tips for learning how to play the ukulele to help you practice and get the hang of it!
- Chordify
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Chordify is a free app that allows you to play along with your favorite songs in time with the chords on the screen. I use this app all the time! For a beginner, it might be more challenging to keep up with, but it also helped me learn chords and transition between chords. Whenever I have a jam sesh, I use this app!
- Chords
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This is probably the most important part of learning how to play. Once you learn how to play chords, you can pretty much play anything. You could look up a chord chart and practice each one individually. Another approach to this is if you have a favorite song you want to learn to play, you could break it down and learn each chord in the song. Some chords are more challenging than others, but keep trying!
- Books
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There are tons of books for beginners that have lots of information about chords and strumming and songs to practice with. The book I have is “Ukulele from Scratch.” Books break it down and can guide your practice.
- Practice! Practice! Practice!
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This is a given, but the only way to truly learn is with practice. Don’t give up because playing the ukulele is awesome! Hopefully these tools I discussed in tips 1-3 will be helpful to your practice!
Thanks for reading and happy strumming!