- Oh (laughs).
Hello, I'm Alexis, and welcome to the second installment
of beginner, upside-down, lefty ukelele tutorials.
(ukelele music)
These videos go out to all of you folks
that play a right-handed ukelele flipped upside-down
on the left side, without restringing your strings.
I also just wanted to give a huge shout out
to all of you folks who watched my last video
who commented, who liked it, I had such amazing support,
so thank you, there's such a beautiful, strong,
ukelele-loving community out there, and I just love you,
I had no idea that you existed in this great way,
so thank you for being so rad, if you know anybody
who plays like me, definitely send them my way.
So, last time we talked about the C chord
and some basic strumming patterns,
if you wanna check out the last video, you can click
this link right here, today, I thought we could talk
a bit about holding your instrument,
and then learning the F chord.
(chord strum)
Battery died so I had to change it.
What were we talking about?
Oh yeah, so the way that I hold a ukelele
is going to be quite different than, say,
what you'll see in all of the ukelele videos out there,
honestly, if you watched my last video,
you know that I don't think there's any wrong way
to hold or play a ukelele because they're just so great
and they love you for exactly who you are.
General tips on holding, do something
that feels good to your body, that's about it.
Things that I do are, I like to make sure
that my back is as straight as possible,
if I slouch too much, it can kinda get tiring,
a lot of people, when they hold their ukelele,
they will use their forearm to kinda squish in
the ukelele, to keep it nice and firm and hold it,
and that gives a lot of support, but for me,
I'm not quite able to do that in the same way,
it slips quite, quite often, it slips down,
so I like to sit on the ground and kinda use
one of my legs to prop up my instrument like this,
to hold it, and then play like that,
and then, if I'm standing and playing,
I'll either sit in a tall chair, or,
if I must stand, I will try to find something
to put up my leg on so I can support it like this.
Sitting is just so lovely, especially for folks
who have chronic pain or are chair users,
or just in general, sitting is just a great way
to play the ukelele, if you're not able
to get your leg up there, you can get, like,
a pillow or a heating pad, maybe, like,
your cat (laughs), kinda rest it on something to keep it,
to keep it nice and sturdy, the other advice I have
about holding your instrument is,
try a bunch of stuff and if something feels a bit tense
or if you find your shoulders getting tight
or your arm's getting a bit weird,
try a different position, experiment until you find
something that feels really good to you,
some people really like to hold their ukelele
nice and low, like this (plays ukelele),
I've seen other people that like to hold their ukelele
really high on their chest, kinda like this,
I can't actually, here, I'll try this way,
they hold it up nice and high (plays ukelele).
I really like this up high situation,
it just looks so cute, your arm that's doing the fretting,
I think, sometimes, people can kind of
get really, kind of cramped in and really tense like this,
so I try to like to think of having my arm out,
kind of like a little chicken wing, you know,
let the ukelele rest in my thumb pocket,
whatever this is, kind of let it rest there,
and have my fingers free to do the fretting,
versus this, I find there's a lot of tension,
and it's really hard to move my hand around.
(ukelele music)
So, yeah, that's, there's lots of different ways
to play your instrument and there's no wrong way.
I really wish I could play with my feet, I can't,
if you can, I would like to see a video,
yeah, no.
This is not happening.
And the other thing I'll say about holding is,
oh, the light's changing again, there's clouds,
I've also seen on a lot of ukelele tutorials,
they talk about where your thumb should be on the back
of your neck, ukelele neck, they talk about it being
here, so as you're playing your chords,
it's kind of like this (strums chords).
I've never played like that (laughs),
I always kind of have my thumb pocket,
have the ukelele resting in my thumb pocket,
and then my fingers are free to kind of do their thing,
but both ways are equally great,
I think it's whatever works for your body,
I find this way, when I have my thumb there,
I almost have to squeeze harder than I might,
and it gets kind of tense in my thumb pad right there,
I'm going to play a bunch of chords backwards
so you can see what my hand looks like on the back.
(ukelele music)
So, as you can see, my thumb moved tons
depending on what chord I was playing,
you can do that too, it definitely doesn't have to
stick in one place, those are some general tips
about holding your instrument, just do
what feels good to your body, now,
we're going to go on to a new chord,
we're gonna play the F chord.
(strums chord)
For your F chord, we're gonna play on the bottom string,
so, for us, that's our G string (chuckles),
and you're gonna take your ring finger
and put it on the second fret, right in the middle
between your two little fret bars there,
and use your finger pads, so not, like,
not flat against it, but kind of curved,
boof, like that, and then, to your pointer finger
or your middle finger and put it on your E string,
which is your, second from the top string,
and put it on the first fret, so right between
the little bridge here, and the first fretboard,
so nice and hard, the first fret here,
that's the hardest one, I find, to push down,
so you kind of have to push a little extra with that one.
Let's strum four down, one, two, three, and,
♪ one, two, three, four. ♪
Excellent, good, now, you might have had some weird sounds,
maybe it was like, like this, or kind of like that,
if that's the case, just go through each string
one at a time, and when you get to one
that sounds a bit funky, try pressing harder,
there we go, maybe try moving your finger
into the center point of the fret,
so just do some, like, self-diagnostic checks.
(strums)
So, there's our F chord, now let's do
eight down, one, two, three, and.
♪ Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. ♪
Excellent, really, really good.
Let's do eight counts of down, up, down, up,
down, up, down, up.
One, two, three, and.
♪ Down, up, down, up, down, up, ♪
♪ Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. ♪
Yeah, good, good, good.
Coffee time.
Now, let's try the strumming pattern
that we learned in the last video,
down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, down,
up, up, down, up, okay, let's do that on our F chord.
One, two, three, and.
♪ Down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, ♪
♪ up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up, ♪
♪ down, down, up, up, down, up. ♪
Yeah, good!
Don't worry if that was overwhelming,
go back to the first video, do all the practicing
that you need to, strumming is, I'd say,
number one hardest thing in ukelele,
and the second hardest thing are chord changes.
So, now that we know two chords,
C and F, we're gonna do some changes between them.
Find your C chord, so, it's on our top string,
which is our A string, third fret, middle finger,
and make sure you're using that nice padded tip
of your finger and a nice, you have a nice,
round claw shape (growls), to your hand,
on our third fret, right in the middle,
there you go, that's our C chord (strums).
And, just a reminder of where your F chord is,
it's your ring finger on the bottom string, second fret,
and your pointer finger on the second from the top string
on the first fret (strums), F chord.
So, we're gonna do four, really slow, on C,
and then we're gonna switch to F,
and it's gonna get messy and that's okay.
Here we go, starting on your C chord.
One, two, three, and.
♪ C, C, C, C, ♪
now F, F, F, F, ♪
Now back to C.
♪ C, C, C, C, ♪
F,
♪ F, F, F, F. ♪
Okay, good, excellent, shake off any
mistakes you made [Lip Trills]
Way to go, you did that.
One thing that can be helpful is if
you're going from, say, C to F,
and you can't quite get both your fingers to the F position,
just try to get one, maybe you go, C,
and then you just work on getting your pointer finger
to that E string on the first fret, F, F, F, F,
C, C, C, C, F, and then maybe once you get
that finger there, maybe after a couple strums,
you can work on getting your ring finger down here,
like that, so, maybe it'll sound like this,
♪ C, C, C, C, F, F, there you go, yeah, ♪
♪ C, C, C, C, F. ♪
And a nice thing about the ukelele is that it sounds good
pretty much all the time, so you can take your time
getting your fingers to the strings.
Okay, so let's do, let's do the same thing,
let's do four on C, four on F,
but we're gonna go down, up, down, up, down, up,
down, up, and we'll do this for a little while,
so, just, if you get off track, just start back in
on C or whatever works for you, don't worry
about getting it perfect, down, up, down, up, ready,
one, two, three, and.
♪ Down, up, down, up, down, up, now, F, ♪
♪ F. ♪
Back to C.
♪ C. ♪
Yeah.
♪ F. ♪
And you can just stick to the down strumming
if the down, up, down, up is too much,
you can just go down, down, down.
♪ C ♪
♪ F. ♪
♪ Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, ♪
♪ Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, ♪
♪ Down, up. ♪
Yes, way to go.
All right, and for those that want to
have a little extra challenge,
let's do the down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up.
We're gonna do that and we're gonna switch chords,
if you think this is gonna be too much for you,
that's fine, you can just stop the video right here,
or go back to the beginning and try things again,
or watch the first one, whatever works for you, it's fine.
Or you can just watch me play and give me
an applause from wherever you're watching.
♪ Down, down, up, up, down, up, down, ♪
♪ down, up, up, down, up. ♪
♪ Down, down, up, up, down, up, ♪
♪ down, down, up, now to F. ♪
♪ F, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, ♪
♪ Up, down, up, C. ♪
♪ Down, down, up, up, down, up, F. ♪
♪ Down, down, up, down, up, C. ♪
And again, if this is too much,
just go back to the downstrokes, which is cool.
Yeah, this is like a fast down, yeah.
Back to the down, down, up.
Down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up,
up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up.
Yeah, way to go.
If that sounded super messy, great,
that's what it should sound like right now,
you're just starting out, that's amazing,
really, you don't need more than, like,
10 minutes a day, and make sure you
stretch out your limbs, take breaks,
love your mistakes, let your ukelele love you
just as you are because that's what they're here for.
Thank you so much for being here,
this was really, really, fun, definitely stay tuned
for video number three (belches), pardon me,
thank you so much for watching, and we'll see you next time
on beginner, upside-down, ukelele, lefty, times,
(laughs), bye!
(bright music)
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