Transform Your Fretting Hand with 3 Easy Steps! Dive into the A minor scale (Level 1)
Fretting hand hurts from sqeezing the notes too hard? This Ukulele Lesson shows a simple three step practice that, if done everyday, will train your hand is GOOD habits of using LESS force. Explore the A minor scale and make melodies as you develop a lighter, more musical technique.
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★ TIMESTAMPS/CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:35 The A minor scale (Finding and naming the notes)
2:17 Three Three Step Process (Thud, Buzz, Clean)
5:05 Options for fingerings
7:09 Making phrases with the scale
9:20 Practice game "One Minute Solo"
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This is how all music should be taught. Make music from day 1, step 1! Thanks for posting
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thank YOU! My teacher would say "I never practice....I only play" ;-)
Good tip on how much pressure to apply. That’s a tough one to help people understand when they are new. Thank you.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful Marci! Have a wonderful day :-)
@nickiemcnichols5397
11 ай бұрын
Isn’t it great? I teach it to my beginners. Workshop today, this will be included. It helps immensely with chord changes.
Danke Stu für den Gedankenanstoß, man muss sich die Leichtigkeit beim Spiel immer vor Augen führen um nicht verkrampft zu spielen.🙏
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thnk you so much! WIshing you a wonderful day & happy music making!
I love your ideas for instrumentalizing. The easing of grip is especially important for arthritic folks.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much Tom! WIshing you all the best, Stu. Happy playing please subscrbe to the channel for more vids like this one :-)
@tombailey2210
Жыл бұрын
@@UkuleleZen , Stu, I am a subscriber but, on a fixed income, cannot afford to become a patron. Please keep up all your great works.
Thank you for this particular lesson Stu. You are a good teacher that explains things very well.
@UkuleleZen
5 ай бұрын
Thanks very much! Glad it was helpful!
Amazing exercise 👏👏👏👏
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😃
I enjoyed this a lot Stu. Very helpful. I need more time on scales...and what to do with them! This opened the gate for me. I've been doing a little uki yoga. It also helps when you're staying in a place where you need to be quiet. I'm teaching my Ukulele to whisper. ~Mary 🦋
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Great to hear the sound of whispering strings! 😉 All the best to you Mary 🙏🎶💙
Love these exercises! Thanks so much for these technical details.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
You're so welcome! 😃🎶🤙 Thanks for watching & playing along...clcik subscribe & turn on notifications to keep in the loop of Ukulele Zen!
Good lesson Stu. Thanks! P.S. I don't know why you don't have more Subs! This is a great channel and you teach well.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so music -- I appreciate that! You can help spread the word by sharing links to Ukulele Zen videos with your friends on social media. Happy jamming & I'll "see you" in another tutorial soon :-)
Great lesson, thank you so much
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
hi, im still a beginner and i love this little practice . Feels good to take little steps. Greetings from Holland
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for the class. It's helping me tremendously
Thank you, this is such a great lesson. I actually had once stumbled across how light that II actually had to press to get a good tone, but had forgotten… eventually returning to a death grip mode. Thanks again!
Awesome!! Beautiful, stress free learning! Love the direction to smile while I'm learning.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Yes! Thank you! See you in another lesson sometime soon Donna :-)
I thank you sir but more importantly my finger tips thank you 🙏 also beautiful solo 👏👏👏
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Happy jamming :-)
Damn Stu while you play it looks so effortless on your fretting hand, on the other hand I actually have death grip in my fretting hand, will try these advice to see if it gets any better
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
You CAN transform the way you touch your instrument…remember these practices take time, so keep them as a consistent routine to get the results you are looking for. And of course: they are practices, not perfections 😉 Enjoy and please click subscribe to keep in the loop!
You are so awesome! Thank you, this vid helps me so much!
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Happy to help! Wishing you all the best with your music making 🎶🤙 Please subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one 😊
While doin the thud exercises, my fingers suddenly were playing "Kalinka" on that single string, pretty fun.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Whoah, no way. Great! Trying new things really opens us up 😃🎶🤙 Thanks for watching & playing along
To be honest Stu I usually gloss over your stuff as it’s above my skills and I find myself trying hard, for too long, to reproduce what you master so easily and gracefully. In doing so, I loose track of what i should be doing - just playing music. But this, whoa! So simple that a fool like me can improvise right now! I also recognize it, in its descending form, as the basis for the long riff in Let it Be. Thank you.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick! Glad you watched -- Please come back again for other videos....not sure which other ones you've seen, but in each one I strive to present quality lesson material from a classically trained gypsy jazz guitarist in a manner that is acessible for all beginners but also challenges us to grow in our skills in a non-competetive way. WIshing you well -- plz click subscribe and keep on jamming that Uke! 😊
This is an awesome little lesson, this. Cheers man. Fab!
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! Thanks 😊🎶
Hi Stu! Has anyone ever told you your like the Rob Ross of uku tutorials? The first thing I thought when I came across your channel was "if a ukulele were a person... it would look, act and speak like this guy". Lol anyways truthful jokes aside I really think your the embodiment of the ukulele and I really appreciate your clear but relaxed style of instruction. Some of the stuff you focus on has really helped me (posture and correct way to hold a uku as an example, before I got a strap) in such an immediate and marked way, really left me amazed. Anyways keep doing you man.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Awww, so sweet of you! I'm honored to be compared to Bob Ross ;-) Glad you find my tutorials helpful...please click subscribe and share my videos with others who you thinkwould enjoy and beneft from them. All the best & happy jamming! ;-)
Death grip. Yeah, that's me. ☠️😂This lesson especially, thank you.
Hiya Stu, thank you very much for another great tutorial. Have you ever had either Tennis or Golf Elbow? Take care, David.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thanks David 😃🎶🤙 Thankfully, no. Daily PT & Yoga keeps things limber...then I of course love to play from that place. Check in with your seat...forward on a levelchair, back upright yet relaxed. Elbows hand from shoulders. Find the center & your playing willbecome lighter & easier :) BE WELL, Stu
Omg is there something like a breakthrough in uke playing for a non musical person. Thank you Stu.
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Happy playing please subscrbe to the channel for more vids like this one :-)
Liked and subbed, you have an ease in your teaching method that is very peaceful. I was going to say Zen like but, well, seemed too on the nose. ;)
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you! All blessings to you and yours 🙏 😃🎶🤙 Thanks for watching & playing along...enjoy your music making! - Stu
Enlightening!!! I've been playing my ukulele for 3 years now and I already have a huge repertoire of melodies that I like to play, but what's the difference between playing and practicing? I want to be a musician who chose the ukulele as instrument. Can you help me? ❤🎶🌷
This is awesome! I’ve been getting hand cramps from unintentional death grip, so I hope this helps. Does this also work for barre chords? Or is there an exercise like this? Thank you!
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Yes, for sure it will work with Barchords… Search my channel for “10 minute bar chord”… go find a good tutorial for that subject there. Happy jamming!
Thanks so much Stu for this brilliant tutorial. IG'm trying hard to improve my music theory knowledge and this improvising is just so great. I shall practise and practise this. It's so relaxing and useful for our playing. Just one comment - in your handout (for which thank you) the little fret marker is not opposite the G on the 10th fret. A typo? Best wishes.
@lisacompton3661
Жыл бұрын
oops - I'm
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! Some fretboards have markers on the 9th fret, some on the 10h...all depends on the instrument design. Happy playing please subscrbe to the channel for more vids like this one :-)
@lisacompton3661
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Stu. I didn't know that!
Can you give a tip what strings you use pleace ?
@UkuleleZen
Жыл бұрын
Depends on the uke and the tuning....d'addario nyl gut come in concert, tenor and baritone sizes. 😊🎶🤙 Please click subscribe & turn on notifications to keep in ze loop...keep jamming, keep smiling, Stu
Hi Is there any way that I can play the f chord as a single note or a completely different way ? Sarah
New Moon Bird ukulele Stu? Congrats! But why is this scale Am and not A? Would not a minor scale have sharps and flats? I’m lost.