I was sitting at the computer. Your program came on without me doing anything about learning the Fretboard. I am a pianist, organist and play accordion and lastly ukulele. I am running out of time am 78 yrs of age but keep music ongoing. I have always wanted to know the names of the keys on the fretboard. After Listening for the first time ever your wonderful presentation sent the light bulb to my brain and I caught the things everything and I was on cloud nine for this info that for many years bothered me not knowing and this will stick the rest of the time God keeps me here. It all clicked and I am just ecstatic and am going to tune in on all your lessons I am a new follower. I just loved your presentation you use words that make concepts stick. THANK YOU FOR REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD ABOUT THE UKE I have never had formal lessons on like the other three instruments. All I have to say it is never to late.

@PhilDoleman

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Virginia!

@louloucooke1

7 ай бұрын

I was in the same position and just could not get my head around notes on a fretboard. I a keyboard player to but this tutorial has really helped 🙏good luck with your playing

You have a gift of explaining complicated stuff to something interesting, fascinating, simple and logical. Thank you so much, Phil.

@sarasmothers1

3 жыл бұрын

Great Video very helpful!🙂

@anasahmad5415

2 жыл бұрын

could you explain me what he was talking about at 13:37 i am beginner with uku i didnt get that c chord part

@PhilDoleman

Жыл бұрын

@@anasahmad5415 Sorry, I didn't see this post until now! All I'm doing at that point is playing lots of different combinations of the notes C, E and G, because those three notes make a C chord wherever you play them.

In a sea of KZread content where a whole lot of stuff is click bait or a waste of time, every once in a while you come across a video that you watch the whole way through on the first go and it just plain makes things **click.** This video was that for me…! You are a very talented teacher with a knack for making things simple, but not oversimplifying them. Bravo! 👏 👏 👏

@PhilDoleman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Many, many thanks! I agonized over memorizing the whole fingerboard several times and finally just gave up on the whole business. Now it suddenly makes sense. This is one of the most useful youtube videos ever.

@PhilDoleman

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm really glad it helped!

The man's a wizard!

THANK YOU! I've been playing uke for over 20 years and not knowing the notes has always been my shame. This was extremely helpful.

Thank you Sir, I am a young student of 56. I am very much fascinated with your lesson. This is KZread who helped me to get a great teacher like you. Thanks a lot.

I'm gonna be watching this video several times because the whole video is very informative. And, you've answered many questions I've had about playing the Ukulele. I've often wondered if there was a pattern such as the one you have more or less "uncovered" and shown to us, here. TYSM for explaining all this to us. Hope you're still making videos. 👍

This is without doubt the most sense and easiest way to learn the fretboard imo,this is the first video ive seen breaking it down simply,it surprisingly made it so more interesting to learn this way,thanks.

You have no idea how much help you’re giving me. So many lightbulbs lighting up at long, long last!

Thank You ! I was getting frustrated with others complicated explanations

Oh my !!! Ive been learning the uku for a couple of months and had never realised this before !! Thank you so much it was really enlightning ❤

Also helps that the fifth fret and seventh fret are whole notes, so you can create a mnemonic for those starting with the letters. Like for eg "Cheer For A Deer" and "Don't Go Before Evening"

@PhilDoleman

Жыл бұрын

Yes, good one!

Thank you sooooo much! My ears were starting to bleed from my x teaching me this! You explained it beautifully.

Phil there are many excellent teachers around but personally I find your teachings the best

@PhilDoleman

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you David!

I love the CLARITY with which you present your tutorials, along with your personality. Thank you!

@PhilDoleman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Coming late to the Uke (60) this was really informative.

the best teachers are effective teachers… and you sir are effective… thank you!

Mr Doleman, you are a genius!

Learning basic piano theory makes this so much easier. But this video helped clarify stuff

You changed the way I aproach the ukulele in under 17minutes, well done

All of a sudden it makes sense. Thank you so much.

Been trying to understand my uke's fretboard for a while but all the diagrams I find online are overwhelming. This video is brilliant !! So well explained and fun to follow. You've got a new subscriber here, I'm off to watch more of your videos xx Thank you :)

@PhilDoleman

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

A masterclass ! What a great teacher Phil is.

OmG has a guitar teacher for 2 years never explained it to me all make sense penny drop mate you just changed music for me get on it

Wow - this is literally BEST tutorial I’ve ever seen. Thank you!!!!

Good video, I didn't want to be stressed and I was able to remain calm, breathing easily and keeping the heart rate down. I wondered what the noise was and I realized I was snoring.

@PhilDoleman

Жыл бұрын

Glad I helped you get some rest ;-)

This was a brilliant lesson! I've not seen it presented this way before and I have no idea why! It's so easy! Thank you for making it so!

Oh my goodness! By George I got it!! Thank you😊

I just started learning ukulele and have no musical background so this helped so much - especially equating the #/b gaps with black piano keys! Thank you so much!

This was the best lesson ever. You’ve used what I already knew and added so much information without making it difficult. Just WOW!

I will need to watch this several times but a very useful lesson.

Best lesson on this subject, guitar or ukulele, thank you...🍺

Wow i have been playing ukulele mostly just chords for 8 months. this opens up do many more possibilities! Thanks

I started the ukulele 4 years ago THANKS to my wife. SO much fun! Subscribed, and thanks for the lesson!

best lesson ever for this new born ukelele player.

‘A’ lad this is ‘F’ing ‘G’nius - Why didn’t I ‘C’ it till now? I am ‘D’lighted’ Who knew it could ‘B’ made so ‘E’zee. Thanks brother. 👏🏻🇺🇦☺️

I’m truly a novice when it comes to the Uke…i picked it up last year as part of me “ trying to deal with the pandemic” . I can play tons of notes and tunes now but honestly, I haven’t a clue about the fret board or chords. After watching this…I feel like another world has been opened up for me. Truly a master class for dummies ( talking about myself here 😬✌️) . Thank you for providing the “ key” I was missing and for making “ music theory” so digestible. Looking forward to putting theory into practice! 👏👏👏👏🇨🇦

@hazelmacgregor4355

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil for teaching so simply so us newbies can understand x

@usernamemykel

Жыл бұрын

@@hazelmacgregor4355 Wondering why you attached your comment to Kathleen's comment...

Honestly the first video I’ve watched about the fret board that actually made sense to me

Phil Doleman your my hero

Omg! You are the best teacher 😭👏💚Thank youuuuuu !!👏💚

Here's another trick that helps me know the notes at the dot markers on the fretboard. Ukuleles almost always have dots at frets 5, 7, 10, and 12. As Phil explained, the notes at fret 12 are the same names as the open string notes but an octave higher, so you don't need any mnemonic to remember them. If you know the arrangement of chord names on the Circle of Fifths around C, then you can easily remember the notes at dots 5, 7, and 10. The note to the left (counter-clockwise) of C is F and to the right of C is G. The Circle is constructed so that the note to the left of a root note is "a fourth" higher, which is musical lingo for 5 frets higher in pitch. The note to the right of a root note is "a fifth" higher, which is 7 frets higher in pitch. So starting with C on the open 3rd string, the note at fret 5 dot on the 3rd string is F and at fret 7 is G. Fret 10 is 2 times 5 frets higher than the root note C, so fret 10 on the C string is two places to the left of C on the Circle, which is Bb. Applying this to all 4 strings gives you the note names at each of these 3 dot markers. This may seem cumbersome at first, but if you have a mental image of the Circle of Fifths around the C note, it comes quickly to mind. If you don't know the Circle of Fifths, which has so many other uses in music, watch a video about it, such as the one by Phil kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5aKxKd6YNe4nqw.html .

My mind is blown 😱😱😱😱 This is exactly what i needed

Wow! You are an amazing teacher. Nobody has explained or showed me how to figure out the notes on the fretboard. I am so glad that I became a member of your patreon. This is a masterclass! Kudos to you!💥💢

This is so helpful. Thank you for explaining it so clearly🙏😊

Love the way you explain everything! Thanks a million.

This is utterly amazing.🎉 Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! ❤

Beautiful job! Thank you. A few mnemonics to help find your way about: The 2 notes at the 4th fret are BEfour (B and E on the fourth fret). The notes at the 5th fret are Cats Fight All Dogs(CFAD) -and- at the 7th fret are DoGBonE (DGBE). This helped me.

@PhilDoleman

5 ай бұрын

I like those!

@dorktwat

3 ай бұрын

A couple more I came up with that at least work for me (though admittedly bizarre, but that tends to help memorizing mnemonics): All Dogs FisstBump twice (Fiss = F#; twice for 2nd fret); 10 FAissDoGs (Aiss = A#; 10th fret).

@PhilDoleman

3 ай бұрын

@@dorktwat Cool, often the more bizarre ones are the best, much easier to remember!

Man, you are a ukulele GOD! Thank You for making this note spagetty make sense. I will play this over and over and try out all of that.

I can tell that you are an excellent and patient teacher. Unlike all the commentors here I don't follow. I will come back to this another time. I have been trying to learn the uke for the last 4 months and figured it would be good to learn picking and fretboard early on. They are difficult for me. I will be back. Thanks.

thanks for the ukulele lesson you made it easy. now I can play three songs... you are "great".

@PhilDoleman

Жыл бұрын

That's brilliant!

This really stuck to me. The fretboard was so intimidating to me and you really helped me. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much! You’ve opened up a whole new world!

I loved the video. You are the only one that mentioned fun. Thanks.

Thanks Phil, very informative and just what I need at the moment

Teaching complex stuff is an art. This is so helpful to so many. Thank you

This is sooooo helpful! Thank you so much, Phil!!!

Well - for any guitarist there is a shortcut: the standard tuned uke has the same notes as the standard tuned guitar starting from fret five - the upper four strings. If you see it this way and already have an idea about how the guitar is tuned - this might help.

So I've been refusing to look at music theory for 2 ½ years 🤦🏼‍♀️, watched t.h.i.s. and truly had AN ENLIGHTENMENT!! The way you explain it is just mind-blowing, THANK YOU so much 🤗!!!!

Brilliant!!! So glad you popped into my feed! Thanks!

I think I'm finally learning the notes on my soprano fretboard. Thank you, Phil! Took me long enough to realize that this is what I needed to do.

I really enjoyed this lesson. It's exactly where I am at the moment. Been playing for a while, but now I want to start soloing. Thank you Phil

I've been very lazy with learning my uke fingerboard because I'm fairly familiar with the guitar and the bass guitar fingerboards. I didn't want to mix them all up. This 16 minute lesson has given me the kick I needed. Thanks a lot, Phil.

Thank you so much for your Video explaining the fretboard. It helped me a lot. As I looked at the fretboard atlas I bought I was a little bit confused. Greetings and blessings from Germany.

this video needs more views.. I'm exactly one of those individuals you was talking about i can play multiple songs and chords but don't understand my fretboard. your lesson just broke down a huge wall i had in my learning curve thank you.

Thank you so much for this great lesson. I want to understand this to better play with others, I have no formal music training.

Best explanation I’ve seen! 🙏 Thank you!

I've already watched this a few times. It along with its companion video are bookmarked for easy reference. Thank you Sir!

THANK YOU!

Thank you you have enlighten me, love the way you explain things so easy. Everything make sense. Thank you so much

Thanks I would say you only have to remember EF CB to get along since you always will be 2 frets off in each direction even less to remember thanks for the inspiration

Thank you so much! Calculation works so much better than memorisation for me, this is fantastic. I feel like I can actually do this now.

Thank you ! Brilliant ! Sheila

You made it easier for me as a senior learner.Thank you

Phil, I’m SO GLAD to have come across your video! You did a brilliant job of untangling and simplifying what has been my nemesis - learning the ukulele keyboard. Besides it looks like a lot of fun to do so. Thanks!!!!

Thank you so much! You truly are a wonderful teacher. You make learning not intimidating

So good! Thanks Phil!

Holy cow. I have been desperate for this information. THANK YOU

Marvellous Phil, thanks so much!

I've never seen this before. I play flute and am familiar with the piano keyboard, so this makes sense to me. Thanks!

how’d I miss this one for nearly 2 years? I’m going to just hand draw the stripped down version (I have some blank fingerboard sheets already) and I’ve got this saved to my Phil Doleman playlist for ease of finding it later. thanks again for your lessons. I may yet learn how to play ukulele.

Outstanding video, thank you for making it! Very well done!

Brilliant lesson - thank you so much

Thank you Phil for this wonderful sharing. That helps a lot. Can’t agree more on ‘learning it in a music setting’ 👍

I've played guitar for over 30 years and never knew the fretboard - this tip is inspiring and gives me a better idea of navigating my way; who knows where this might lead. Thanks Phil.

@anasahmad5415

2 жыл бұрын

could you explain me what he was talking about at 13:37 i am beginner with uku i didnt get that c chord part

@CornishCockney

2 жыл бұрын

@@anasahmad5415 a chord is made up of a series of notes played together. Some or none or all of those notes might be fingered. He is going on to show the same notes played on different strings, each of which are variations of a C chord. These are called inversions. As a beginner this is not essential but if you wish, it is useful to know.

Got an uke over a month ago, and now I get everything thanks to you👍

SOOO helpful!!! thank you!

This was super informative and easy to understand, thank you for sharing!

Great lesson, as usual! Thank you!

Thanks it really helped

EXCELLENT tutorial!!! THANKS!!!

Excellent! Saved to revisit often.

Thank you so much. So easy to understand.

Clearest info I have found so far on learning the fretboard and I looked at a lot of other videos. Thanks so much for distilling this down to the most needed focal points.

This is an incredible explanation! Thank you so much!

This is brilliant! Thanks!

Love the way you explained this

thank you Phill, easy when so well explain

Subbed. Let the learning begin.

I've been looking for this! thank you. Very helpful.