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Ukulele open tuning – How to tune and hold a ukulele

Ukulele open tuning – How to tune and hold a ukulele

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Ukulele open tuning - Once parents and kids have made an informed decision when purchasing a pair of ukuleles, they’re ready to get to work. Tuning A Ukulele For a while, parents will be tuning their child’s ukuleles. It’s a good idea if they check ukulele setup tuning before playing each time. New strings will take a while to stretch before holding their tune, and even strings that are broken in are sensitive to temperature changes. One slightly off-pitch string can make someone sound plain awful. Soon, parents and kids may become accustomed to the intervals between each string. At that point, A strum or two can tell them whether their instrument is in tune with itself or not. When parents play along with their children though, both instruments need to be tuned so the strings...
Ukulele tips – Play more Christmas songs on ukulele scales

Ukulele tips – Play more Christmas songs on ukulele scales

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Ukulele tips: Usually guitarists ukulele players play these five holiday songs - Silent Night, The First Noel, Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella, Felíz Navidad, and Good King Wenceslas using the five popular ukulele scales or chords; G, C, D7, D, and Em. The ukulele players also add sometimes ukulele scales or chords of A7, Am, Bm, and B7 to play the seven Christmas songs; Away in a Manger, Oh Christmas Tree, Go, Tell It on the Mountain, Oh Come, Oh Come, Emanuel, Deck the Halls, We Three Kings, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Now, here in the Ukulele tips we will discuss just the four new ukulele scales or chords of G7, A, E, and F players can raise their holiday repertoir to eighteen songs by adding the carols, The Little Drummer Boy, Jingle Bells, What Child Is This?, Angels ...
What’s the best jazz ukulele to buy

What’s the best jazz ukulele to buy

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If you're looking to buy a jazz ukulele or steel string ukulele the choices available can be quite overwhelming. So here's a quick guide to picking a jazz ukulele or steel string ukulele in three different price/quality brackets. Best Beginner Jazz Ukulele or steel string ukulele A great first jazz ukulele is the Lanikai LU-21 range. Despite them being cheap, they are well put together and are (usually at least) set up well enough for beginners not to have any problems with them. If you go cheaper than this you are very likely to come across problems in the way the steel string ukulele is made such as tuning problems or inaccurate intonation (i.e. the frets are not placed accurately). Another big advantage is that the jazz ukulele Lanikai LU-21 is one of the few entry level st...