How to play - Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers) - Ukulele Beginners/Intermediate

[@wylancslass]

Wow! Alex .. I had no idea what a great singing voice you have! Thanks for this tutorial hun. I will give it a go later. Happy Father's Day to you!

[@MarcGallagherMusic]

I love the dubbing of an Em7 as a “sexy E minor”! I think more tutors should adopt a similar nomenclature

[@meldrumart]

Hey, nice singing voice you got there! Thanks for the lesson. I'll give it a shot for sure.

[@krysiabamford1624]

WOW and you can sing as well ! 💖

[@UkesWithAlex]

Thanks so much 🙏

[@alessiogallerano7563]

good god dude, that was incredible!!!

[@april7643]

Alex! You are a man of continuing surprises. Have been loving your playing but wow what a nice voice. Thanks for the instruction!

[@pammcreynolds]

Thank you for the lesson! You have an amazing voice! Really enjoyed this!

[@rjejames28]

Great voice

[@donlebaige4981]

Thanks Alex. Love that song, was very pleased to find that's you'd done a lesson for it. Your voice really works well for that! And it's a simple enough version that I think I can learn it.

[@soniamorley8789]

Fabulous

[@athanott]

Beautiful cover!

[@143jeg]

Been on vacation for a few days and missed the release of this one... nice surprise to come home to though. The way you teach really works for me... love the easy version hard version approach. I can't wait for that fingerstyle course.

[@UkesWithAlex]

🙂👍

[@Mithadon]

Looove this song, challenge accepted, looking forward to the next one :)

[@UkesWithAlex]

Cool, the tricker version will be available next week. I saw you signed up to patreon so hopefully there are a few exclusive general lessons on there to make it fun for you in the meantime. Many thanks 😊

[@ukecrush]

Wow, absolutely fantastic, Alex!!! 😍 And, oh my goodness, your voice is phenomenal!!!!! ❤🙌

[@UkesWithAlex]

Aww thank you

[@jakestasil5506]

Love this man, going to need some more Mayer covers if possible. It’s tough to transpose his playing onto a uke but your gravity tutorial was so well done, looking forward to more

[@UkesWithAlex]

I have toyed with a few John Mayer songs on the uke but never seriously... slow dancing would be a good one if you move it up a semitone to Dm and New Light is probably quite straightforward. What kind of songs do you think would work on uke, I'm interested to hear in case it gets the old brain going. 😅

[@KB-ks8jv]

Thank you Alex, love the channel and SUS

[@mrmufasio]

Dude! I've enjoy your Ukulele reviews as inspiration to play. I had no idea you were a great vocalist too!

[@UkesWithAlex]

Thanks very much 😀

[@markbassham1740]

Love this video and your teaching style. Great voice ! I do have a question / comment . I know you are left handed, however this video initially appears that you are playing with a right hand set up and playing right handed. I noticed you headstock logo is backwards. I say all this to tell you that as a right handed player this made it much easier for me to process. THANK YOU !!!

[@UkesWithAlex]

My pleasure, thanks for noticing

[@lerixke]

👍 🏆 👍

[@sophiebialocki361]

Hey Alex! Love your videos! I was wondering if you'll do any ukulele tutorials with a usual ukulele G rather than the low G? I really want to try some of these but when I tune my ukulele to a low g it is too lose to play. Really appreciate any thoughts or assistance 😊

[@UkesWithAlex]

I recommend trying a specific low g string as tuning your high G string down an octave won't work. A Fremont soloist usually fits without needing to widen the nut slot. I love that you love the videos.

[@ericgray2485]

Hi Alex, loved the video and your uke sounds beautiful. What are the tone woods thanks. Eric

[@UkesWithAlex]

It's a Hawaiian mango body. The model is the Kanile'a Manako

[@ericgray2485]

@@UkesWithAlex Alex how would you compare the sound of the manako to the Uli? There is a big price difference.

[@UkesWithAlex]

The Kanile'a is the better instrument... bigger, bolder, cleaner, more precise. However, the Uli is in my opinion as good as anything upto about £1300. I sold my Kanile'a SUS-T once I tried the Uli because I felt that the Uli had a really special sound. Its one of the most expressive instruments to fingerpick I've ever played and the Uli has been the instrument I have player in restaurants etc every week for the past year. My financial situation changed recently and I sold several ukes, I never considered selling the Uli.

[@digomanda]

Sounds great. I like the chords used. It seems you're doing some fancier things and maybe a couple other chords you didn't mention here and there? Do you have a chord chart?

[@UkesWithAlex]

Sorry I don't.

[@bingers_tv]

Sounds amazing! Could you explain how you're getting that sound? Is that a tenor uke, do you have a different string setup? Awesome voice. Thanks Also, what happened to the advanced version?

[@UkesWithAlex]

Hiya, I play a Kanile'a Manako Tenor strung with my own ukes with alex low g strings. The advanced tutorial is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p52VhIKGi7RsfK8 Thanks for your kind words of encouragement

[@skbrandhofer9950]

Hi there - which ukulele are you playing ? Sounds great

[@UkesWithAlex]

Kanile'a Manako Tenor. My signature model

[@Eric-xg9nq]

Hi Alex, great hit.. I would like changing my Uluru strings, why not testing in Low G ? What's strings on your Kanilea ? And why not, ainsi on SUS shop... Thank you. Eric

[@UkesWithAlex]

I am playing my own custom set of Rotosound strings that I will be launching soon. I use whatever the factory strings are for the SUS demos and most of them come to us high G. We have literally 50 different low G sets on the SUS website so I'm not sure I understand your question. Perhaps send me an email to the shop at [e-mail]

[@ericsinchina]

I've been strumming daily for 2 years now but my skill hasn't advanced in a long time. I really want to be able to do this kind of thing...but don't know where to start. There's some step between where I'm at and this that I'm missing.

[@UkesWithAlex]

My advice as someone that has had lots of students move from beginners to advanced is that there isn't necessarily a set course of steps for everyone to take... I recommend taking a piece like this and just practicing the first section daily until you get there, then the next section then the next and when you come to play other intermediate pieces you will have filled in more blanks in your own playing than you realise. Good luck!

[@altviooltom]

Ps the lesson is nice too , but why hide being a 'lefty'? The Kanilea logo gives it away ;-)

[@UkesWithAlex]

I'm not hiding anything... I have made tutorials without reversing the video and spent months looking at comments from people saying they couldn't follow it I've had the same experiences as a teacher where occasionally a student preferred I record on a phone in selfie mode so the video was reversed. Also, I'm going to be launching paid tutorial content very soon and I'd rather it was accessible to the 99% of players out there than the 1%... I hope that clears it up 👌

[@altviooltom]

@@UkesWithAlex no problem, I just thought you left inverted selfie mode on by accident 😉 you are right that it will look more familiar to most adult learners this way. The accessibility is a really good point!

[@UkesWithAlex]

It's all good. It's definitely deliberate 😄 Thanks for watching