Ukulele plucking method
Striking the strings and striking the board is a simple but handsome playing method, similar to the practice of sweeping the strings, as long as "sweeping" and "striking" are combined well.
The high-five technique of ukulele imitates the high-five technique commonly used in flamenco guitar playing techniques and adapts it into some techniques suitable for folk guitar playing.
This technique is often used in folkrock (folk rock) or Bosanova (Bosanova) rhythm forms, which can make the strength of the rhythm more clear.
The reason to learn from Creary.
There is no entry threshold and the learning cost is extremely low.
As long as 10 minutes, you can pop up a complete song. If you can play the guitar, you will play more. There are two fewer strings than the guitar, and the learning cost plummets, but the playing effect is similar to that of the guitar. You don't need to learn music theory, and you don't need to learn systematically. You can find a score to practice what you want to sing. Many young girls can learn, so can you. As the saying goes, haste makes waste, but Creary is really fast.
Finger friendship
Most ukulele strings are nylon strings, which are painless to press and particularly friendly to fingers. It's not as hard to press as a guitar. Playing for ten minutes will hurt your fingers. Of course, when you practice for a week, you will find a cocoon on your finger, and it won't hurt if you press it.
Small and portable, it can be used in various occasions.
Miniaturization also applies to guitars. You can hold it with one arm, and carrying a small bag is no trouble at all. Students get together for dinner and sing a song to arouse the atmosphere; There is a deep feeling on the edge of the lawn; The annual meeting of the company will be a surprise; The gap between debugging code can also be a song to cultivate sentiment; Put a bowl on the side of the road and at the subway entrance.
Is ukulele the simplest plucked instrument?
Almost everyone says that ukulele is studious, but it's not true.
Ukulele has just started, but the future study is not as simple as you think. Some people say that the guitar is difficult, but in fact it is just difficult to get started, the chords are difficult to press, the fingertips hurt, and the fingers of the right hand are inflexible.
Because there are only four strings in ukulele, and the range is only from low octave to high octave, it is relatively easy to press with the left hand. But it also limits Creary. Different from guitar, ukulele only has bass, so the simple up-and-down sweep is very thin, and more right-handed skills are needed to enrich the sound. The simplicity of ukulele's left hand leads to the difficulty of his right hand, but beginners can't understand the difficulty of his right hand. The most orthodox right-hand fingering in ukulele is the two-finger fingering, that is, the thumb and forefinger are the main fingers, and the middle finger is the auxiliary. It is said that when the right hand commands the strings, the guitar technology is directly transferred to ukulele, and the typical example is Zheng Chenghe. He used a lot of guitar skills such as tapping strings in the video, so I won't take him as an example.
It is said that the basis of learning a tune a day is playing and singing, as well as the significance of traveling, holding hands with small hands and so on. It is a "prerequisite" for you Creary and guitar playing and singing. This type of playing and singing, the right hand is the same, almost all up and down or similar rhythm. Those who buy a piano today and will play a song tomorrow may not even know that they are swinging their arms and sweeping the strings. If you just want to play the guitar, I suggest you play the guitar. And among those people, there are very few fools. Finger-playing requires the player to grasp the rhythm, the skills of both hands, and the understanding and expression of music.
There are many elementary teaching videos on the Internet. You can use those videos to learn the basic posture of holding the piano, the way of pressing the strings with your left hand, plucking and sweeping the strings with your right hand, the basic rhythm, the sound of each string and so on. Playing the piano is to suggest using a metronome to beat time.
Of course, you'd better learn from the teacher if you can. But don't follow the teacher who teaches guitar as a supplement to Bishop Xiao U. Find a teacher who specializes in teaching Xiao U. I have met one. He plays the guitar very well (actually, I haven't heard of it, but he says he has played it for more than 30 years), but playing U is really a mess. He also said that ukulele has a narrow range and is not as expressive as guitar. You might as well learn the guitar. Well, I'm hehe. My skills are not in place. It's all the musical instruments. How can such a teacher teach students if he doesn't like you himself? Hanging a small U in the store or opening a small U training class is simply to set off the guitar or cheat the tuition.
Also, ukuleles are not toys, but musical instruments. Little u is a traditional musical instrument in Hawaii, and everyone here cherishes ukulele more than we do. Most ukulele colored pianos are toys without pitch, tone and feeling. Only when you buy a real little U can you feel the cheerful and crisp sound, and plucking the strings is enjoyment.
I know that ukulele is an article from VOA Special English. I didn't know the name at that time, but I vaguely knew it was a musical instrument.
Later, my friend recommended me to buy a small U, and there are many elementary teaching videos on the Internet. You can use those videos to learn the basic posture of holding the piano, pressing the strings with your left hand, plucking the strings with your right hand, sweeping the strings, and basic rhythm patterns. After I learned this, I happened to see a video in which a person was playing the Creary, playing an unusually beautiful melody, and it didn't look difficult! At that time, I immediately learned to learn, and later found that this was an extremely refreshing song for me at that time. How can the left hand span be so big! Why do you always press the strings with your little finger? It hurts! How can you move to such a high position? Later, I learned that this person is Jake shimabukuro, a top performer in Creary, and this song is Missing Three.
Coincidentally, later I heard another piece with an unknown name, but the sliding string left a deep impression on me. Looking and looking, I finally found this song. Jack adapted from George? Harrison's, while my guitar cries softly.
"let? Dance "Flamengo Style, after listening to this song, I became a fan of God J". The ten-finger scanning and shadowless hand in the video are absolutely wonderful.
The dragon was inspired by Bruce Lee, or a tribute to Bruce Lee. My eyes got wet when I listened to the electronic sound in the second half.
Bohemian Rhapsody (Bohemian Rhapsody) This is a video of Jack performing at TED. He said that when I played Bohemian Rhapsody with Creary, the audience at the bottom laughed. But after playing the last note, everyone applauded for Jack, cheered for him and was impressed by him!
"Blue Rose Falling", Jack's friend's grandmother is ill, very ill, and has to bear a lot of medication. When she was lying in the hospital bed, she had hallucinations. She saw all the blue roses on the ceiling. At night, those beautiful blue roses fell on her. Jack found the scene fascinating and inspired him to write this song.
Shimonoseki Kaigara, adapted from Masayoshi Yamazaki's song of the same name. Personally, I think this adaptation is really wonderful, accepting the baptism of nature and feeling the elegance of nature.
Qiu Shu is adapted from Yamaguchi Momoe's song of the same name. A euphemistic and sad song.
In My Life, a concerto sung by guitarist kotaro oshio adapted from The Beatles's song of the same name.
The rich right-handed skills mentioned above are just a video of Jack, so you can learn it. Master Jack's documentary Four-String Life is highly recommended!
Some people say that before Jack, I never thought Britain would be so crazy. It can be said that Jake pushed you Creary to a higher level, and he also let many people know you Creary and learned you Creary. Sometimes I wonder, if I hadn't seen the video of Missing Three, would I have given up playing U because of difficulties? Maybe I won't meet so many people because of u, I won't perform for the first time, and I won't be depressed because of the boring life. Ukulele has brought me a lot, and I still think it is coincidence or predestined.
In fact, playing the small U well means finding the right method and practicing more. To play a tune well is to practice 100 times when you are familiar with the score. It's normal that my left fingertip hurts just after playing the piano for 3 days. Come back after playing for 30 or 300 days. You can practice if you can't sweep the strings. If the wheel finger doesn't work, you can practice. If the rhythm is unstable, you can use the metronome to slow down and practice music. Listen to more original music. Also, to practice a tune, you can't just look at the score. The score just tells you how to press it. The rhythm of the right hand must be learned by listening to the original sound and practicing more.