How to Play the Ukulele like a Real Instrument!

[@sponky475]

I learned more in the first couple minutes of this video than I did from several years of playing ukulele. Thanks Sean!

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@Chord_The_Seeker]

My son bugged me for a year to buy him a ukulele. When he finally got it he played it for a total of about 15 minutes, and it’s been collecting dust since then. I keep thinking about learning to play it. Maybe this video will motivate me to finally get around to it.

[@seandaniel23]

Show him who the boss is!

[@drunkass77]

Do it! They're fun to play. If you can play guitar chords you can play a ukulele. It's like playing the top four strings with a capo on the fifth fret. Piece of cake!

[@adinhdstudios7397]

I’m curious after more than a year how is your progress

[@tieegg]

Learn a G, C, F and Am chords and you got dozens of songs ready to learn.

[@jake______]

this happened with my kid at Christmas but at least I can mostly play Imagine so that's nice

[@BillDeWitt]

If you already know guitar, Ukulele is just like a capo on the 5th fret, but then you get the re-entrant G string. Most people just ignore that, but for fingerstyle it gives you an easy access to the middle notes of an arpeggio. See: "John King Ukulele" People rag on the ukulele, but it has about the same range as a violin or mandolin and no one considers those a toy.

[@5688gamble]

I mean if you put a low G on it, it gets a little closer but even then my ukulele only went from G3 to D#6, it's a fair range, but violin can get up to A7 (maybe a bit higher) so nearly a 12th more I liked to play it like a melody instrument more and strum chords over what I'm playing so I tuned mines to CGDA (like a viola, which while not called a toy, is the butt of many a joke) and this brings it closer, although even with that extra 5th, it is still an octave less, I mean most of those high notes on violin I don't touch anyway, but if you use standard tuning you only get C4 to E6 max without harmonics, which would give it nearly 2 octaves less, although I don't think an instruments range has much to do with how serious it can be, many woodwinds can't get close to that range and they are played seriously!

[@RevealerOfNow]

Check out Feng E, makes ukulele burst into beautiful flames with his covers and originals.

[@dementedorkka398]

I love surprising people with my skill. I'm 32 born and raised in Hawaii, been playing for 20 years, moved to Washington and I shread it up for people. They love it! People beg me to teach them. The first lesson they learn is how to pronounce ukulele correctly.

[@FingersOnAFretboard]

literally had an old uke as decoration on a shelf for years, and on a snow-day whim I tuned it up, transposed some chords from guitar and wrote a song out of nowhere! The tone is inspiring and the quirks of the tuning and form factor provided a true get-out-of a creative rut moment. George Harrison knew what was up with the Ukulele

[@StopFear]

A more correct way to word is it not “play it more like a real instrument” but rather play serious more complex music on it which can make it a serious instrument by default.

[@mikeportjogger1]

Uke started to make sense to me once I realised it's like a 4 string guitar capoed at the 5th fret. I find it great for playing Cm and Cmaj pentatonic riffs on the top three strings and swap between them. That can be extended if you swap the 4th string for a low G instead of the normal high G.

[@HelenSanderson-j9p]

Wow.. thank you for bringing kindness & light into the world! Desire is the best teacher of all.. The Uke is a very powerful instrument.. WHY? Because it has the power to bring people together in love and light, sing and play.. and bring joy and happiness. If you truly are a uke player and understand the connection and circle of friends it brings.. it is way MORE Fun then any other instrument. Because of the Ukelele we have kanikapila's (singing and potulucks) in the park, at our homes, at the bar and grill EVERY week sometimes once or twice.. everyweek. Music is so powerful.. I LOVE and I am proud to be a ukelele player. It has brought so much joy in my life. I also play the drums, the banjo and guitar.. but the uke is my love.. because I can hug it! Aloha my friends.. be happy that is what kind of world I want to live in with YOU! peace and love!

[@chapmandw]

Have been following Sean for a while, but just saw this in my Home feed. Great video and shows why the uke is a good instrument to play or, at least, to start with (particularly the layout of intervals). So much applies to the guitar (and I'd suggest the baritone uke for people who think they may go to guitar).

[@thatswhatisaidCA]

Hi from 2023. I want to live in Florida. (I'm in Canada; nuff said) Just found you and as a beginner, i really appreciate your angle on these uke lessons; thank you so much!!!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks! I started another channel with more uke lessons: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKPVaqGej7GNjNE

[@thurgogopro5338]

If I slow this down by a factor of ten I might understand less than a quarter of what he said.

[@anikethrajaram1366]

ive had my ukelele for a long time now and ive been playing a guitar this is what finally made me pick up my uke agian

[@Ijcarter1962]

Now you're opening up that fretboard and making it much more interesting. Great video!

[@StopFear]

Just in Florida? Pretty much here in California it has the same bad reputation. But I heard people play like people play classical guitar, which is what I play, which is why I bought a couple. One cordoba and one makala. I try to pick it the classical way or perhaps retune it like mandolin. The store didn’t have baritone or tenor available.

[@StrayVet]

Thank you!!! Finally a very good lesson.

[@warismine1078]

Just go and watch Feng E videos on ukelele. This little thing is really awesome !

[@ronnoron3004]

I’m just going thru utube asking can folks do a video on how to take any sheet music notes in treble clef and be able to play it,notes,chords,melody ….it all on a high g tenor Uke? I can’t wait till people respond.great video though.

[@HenPapirman]

I used to play on the guitar, in fact, I have 3, not touching them. For years now.. I've always had a problem with scales, I knew them, but could never improvise. Memorize is difficult especially when one gets older, and now I got myself a Ukulele, it was easy at first, but then I found all these tuts, and music theory, and what not, Everyone says different things, "Don't memorize all," 'Do memorize all," "I have an easy way to" whatever. Never been good in theory, it's always by hearing, strumming as well, and now I'm trying to understand what it is you say, and it's like Chinese to me.

[@keithgardner5818]

I played the clarinet for years, from when I was a kid, and in that world, school band and what not, we learned how to read music, and how to finger that note on the instrument. That was about it, that was the extent of the "music theory." I have for a long time composed music based on either improvising or just banging around and hearing something I like and working on it. The piano that I am sitting in front of right now has been converted into a desk (no pianos were hurt in the conversion! It is completely reversible!), was, well, a tool by which I learned that I did not understand music theory at all, or how to get my fingers to work independently, as opposed to all together, as on the clarinet. I learned some guitar as a kid also, of course, but it was never really my thing. Then the ukulele came along and it all kind of just came together. All I can suggest to you is, keep playing. Play 30 minutes, an hour, every day. Play the same damned thing you played yesterday, don't worry, your family will tune it out. :) And you'll play it better than you did yesterday! And then try something new. Maybe you'll play a few notes or a chord and think, you know what that reminds me of? And you'll try to figure out how to play that song. Do this every day! By six months from now, or a year, you'll be really happy that you did it, and you'll be able to play a few things really well, and a few other things not so well, but you will be making the world a better place, and your life a better life. Trust me on this.

[@williamSailingWindDragon]

put a capo on the 5th fret of your guitar, you have the Ukulele with 2 added lower strings :-P

[@claras9650]

I watched a video of a kid called Feng E and I was really impressed what you can do with this instrument. If anyone needs some inspiration to practice just watch Feng E!

[@funnycat1333]

I came here from watching him as well! 😂

[@gavinp.2603]

Yooo I really enjoy your take on ukulele lessons, as I feel like they'll benefit me more in the long run than many lessons

[@KevinORourke25]

I will never accept the ukulele as a serious instrument...........Then I heard Greg Hawkes and Jake Shimabukuro play and I changed my mind. Now it's yet another instrument that I will never be any good at! Kevin O'Rourke

[@iFeelFancy]

Very good music theory advice things.

[@kaleidoscopicvoid]

thanks. this is exactly what i was looking for... i want to add some cool ukulele strumming without having that island feel to it.

[@Yaturu]

Im 1 year late and i forgot how to ukalele and im starting to get back to it

[@RC32Smiths01]

I try to make it sound like a real instrument by trying to shred on it haha. Always a well done video man!

[@John_Kealiinohomoku]

check out Jake Shimabukuro

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@seandaniel23 You are definitely welcome!

[@ElessarEstel]

I played guitar my whole life. I always viewed the uke as a joke until I joined the Army. I couldn't take my guitar with me to AIT or into the field or overseas, but I had room for a uke so I bought one. I never loved it the way I love guitar and I never will, but it's not a bad little instrument like I used to think.

[@delbomb3131]

I'll be ready for Midwest emo ukulele with lessons like this in no time

[@Schnoodles46]

Hi, Sean. How easy is it to learn guitar FROM uke? (Maybe using a baritone as a bridge.)

[@xxburningfoxxx1081]

Ukulele is basically guitar but at 5th fret and slightly tune string number 4....the chord is different but overall it is pretty much similar

[@samraffertymusic]

I watch all of these ukulele videos but still don't have one. At least I'll be prepared for when I do :)

[@seandaniel23]

:) soon!

[@pooner61]

How to Play the Ukulele like a Real Instrument......by a Real musician!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks Ed!

[@dgrebin]

Great lesson!

[@The3baconboys]

Go cubs!

[@helenesanderson8902]

I love my uke! It's not necessarily about being a great player..it's about singing Yo! It's about having fun and joy.. and doing something more productive with your mind and soul besides destroying the earth and all the shit people want to make.. Ukulele is great for the brain.. the more you put into it the more you can get out of it.. LIKE anything else in life you decide to do. So yah, I actually play 3 scales now on my uke, can jam on any song .. and hit it like a drum.. but most of all I have FUN with my friends when we sing and jam together.. That's the TRUE KEY.

[@bluesusername]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying! So long as you're having fun right? It's not a competition about which instrument is most difficult.

[@justethan2731]

I don’t know if you’ll see this but I’ve played the ukulele for 3 years I think I’m getting bored and want to either move up to a tenor or a Bariton Uke or even a guitar I’m just sick of the high notes I’d like to play low songs!!

[@seandaniel23]

Go for a guitar! It's a perfect complement to uke!

[@d2dolan]

You should do systematic lessons. I would pay for a logical presentation of this. Well done

[@mriconoclast13]

Sometime watch the Dooo shred a ukulele. You'll never think of them the same way again.

[@technochroma6537]

Finally

[@deeman524]

I hate when people that don't play Uke, think they have to cover it, when you do this, you contradict yourself. Out of respect for the tradition and culture, you should say: "hey, I've been interested in the Uke lately , come journey with me". And Just for the record; I also play guitar as well, but I play the 2 instruments distinctive from each other as the 2 have their own unique beauty. you're right.

[@shubhankarvishwas3492]

Hii sir, your techniqes are realy nice👍👍👍

[@capntripps9]

Nice vid, great hat

[@seandaniel23]

Cubbies!

[@TheNightshadePrince]

No one has given the instrument more shade than the Colleen ballinger. Lol . I also live in Florida, do you do private lessons? :)

[@ericbrouet]

Slow down dude, I'm trying to keep up!

[@_Nathanwood]

Pretty cooll

[@machoprotegido5607]

The title is hilarious

[@nesbittbrian059]

Hi Sean, I hear your always looking for a joke to open your post. What about this?... in the uk, Liverpool’s John Lennon airport is to start quarantining everybody hohos comes through the airport 🤔 “imagine all the people”😂😂😂😂

[@seandaniel23]

hey oh!

[@davidsims1329]

You know the ukulele is a real instrument? Started out in Portugal but it was a Accompaniment rhythm instrument with metal strings

[@BurnWithGaming]

this guy is hilarious

[@UkeDawg]

Too fast. The information is too fast!

[@susanropars8200]

I love that he’s teaching this differently than most and I want to use what he’s teaching. But he’s losing me. It’s too fast. And I’m not a beginner. Good info though.

[@joeylabranche1014]

Since the ukulele is not a serious instrument because it as only 4 string i guess bass guitar is not a serious instrument,violin is not a serious instrument this is ridiculous the ukulele is a serious musical instrument just like a guitar or a piano.

[@claudiaacevedo835]

This rimade me of boywithuke

[@calcifer758]

you kind of resemble Pewdiepie :0

[@elderberry-hamster]

Michael Angelo Batio just played the hell out of one in recent video. Makes me want to date a hula girl. 😜

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

Hahaha, "like a real instrument."

[@perap2726]

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[@agr_seven]

*Is ukulele is not a real musical instrument ?*

[@adityarajganeju]

No it's not

[@StopFear]

Do people agree with me? The most annoying Ukulele song of all time is “somewhere over the rainbow” as played by Izrael from Hawaii (rest in peace, good man). But that song is just …ugh.

[@paulmaartensphotography9950]

CDC 😂

[@BanishmentRedpegs]

Slow down a bit dude.

[@TheLastMoomin]

Anything with 4 strings is not a real instrument. OMG.

[@timwint]

So like a violin?

[@John_Kealiinohomoku]

?

[@markbothum4338]

37 million bass players are right now tracing your IP Address.

[@giovanni21mas]

Ukelele a real instrument? Nope I don’t buy that

[@cedricalmojuela4659]

So you simply tell that ukulele isn't REAL instrument if it wasn't played the way you say so?

[@mikekachowski2797]

he’s kinda just joking about all of those 14 year old girls that play riptide, somewhere over the rainbow, i’m yours and that stuff. What here’s doing here is showing there’s a lot more to the ukulele than playing simple songs with the same 4 chords

[@gregglashauser4125]

Please go back to guitar, all these other instruments r brutal, ur a guitar god, these instruments won't get u a soap opera gig or a leather jacket