I have just scoured YT for tutorials on chunking and in the 10 years since you made this video, nothing has bettered it. No fancy graphics needed - your musicianship, communication and technical understanding outclass every other attempt to teach the chunk. Thank you for sharing and namaste for your amazing approach to the nitty gritty of making music.
I love your laid back and relax teaching style. "These two fingerrs". Your funny and you really explain well. You would be a great teacher at whatever you would be teaching.
Thanks Jeni! Glad you liked it & found it helpful. If you like my videos, you'll love my CD! ;-) stukulele.bandcamp.com/album/stukulele www.cdbaby.com/cd/stuartfuchs
Awesome tutorial, as someone else stated most people are just like "Here is how I do it, now do it" You take it nice and slow and really explain the entire process and that helped me tremendously! Thanks.
OOh Thank you so much Stuart. There got to be about a million Chunking lessons out there on youtube and you have been the only one taking it reaaaally slow and patient to teach. This is very important when it comes to get messages through... not everybody understands english as well for starters and also we all have out own rythms. Thanks again!
Stuart, I enjoyed my lesson with you so very much. You are such an excellent teacher because you make each move so clear as well as truly fun to learn. I fly to Europe tomorrow but I will be back often to learn more from my favorite as well as my first teacher. I'd say you have a lively following who love the ukulele more because they have found you. Way to go! Thank You!-----------Annie
Stu, you are my ukulele hero! No one else explained chucking in this detailed and excellent way. I am well on my way to being a great chucker!! Ha! The other members of my uke club will be sooooo jealous! But I will now refer them to you for instruction. Many mahalos!!! You're the best!
Brand new musician here, one month in. I’m teaching myself via you tube and haven’t quite got the rhythm thing down... till now!. Your video got me chunking! Thanks Stu. I love your style. You have a new fan.
Thank u Stu! Everything about this lesson is extremely helpful. Showing the strum pattern in various forms of tabulation was great. I especially appreciate your reminders to keep the hands and wrist soft and relaxed. You are an awesome teacher! And best of all, now I know how to play Folsom Prison Blues! XXOO
Thanks Kelli - I'm so glad that you found my little video helpful! Soon I'll be launching a NEW website @ www.stufuchs.com - sign up at the current website for my newsletter (each newsletter contains Uke lessons :) Wishing you many years of happy playing!
thanks! btw, i really enjoy your back teaching style. of course it's instructional, but you've got one of those personalities that's naturally encouraging and makes people WANT to get better! i really feel like you're teaching me rather than just making an instructional TH-cam video. I look forward to more tutorials and you performing! Thanks again! :)
This has been the most charming lesson I have seen for a long time. Its not the let me show you how to do this is 5 seconds nor its the sloppy teaching that instill no appreciations in the music. There is an endearing and inspiring quality in your teaching. Thank you for making the video.
Just found you here on TH-cam and truly happy I did. Had a zoom teacher from UK for a year and each week got more frustrating than the last and I would truly practice 2 hours a day. Started getting totally messed up trying to form bar chords and and he became a d#@k to deal with. I was so unhappy with all the time and effort put in and felt like it was useless. I was playing very well but had trouble with a couple of things and he couldn't work them out with me so I gave up and put my ukulele down for 2 years. Picking it up again because I love my ukulele and really love playing. Going to view you videos from 1st to last and pray a whole bunch. Wish me luck and thank you!!!
Thx. It's meant to be a step by step (re-training of the hand. Going uber-slow at first (and always) will always integrate the new motions int a technique that will be SOLID & relaxed. Steady as she goes. :)
You're not only a good teacher and good uke player, but you seem like a really nice guy too. Great lesson. Thanks so much. Its guys like you that make me glad I started learning the uke. So many nice people prepared to help others.(and with no hidden agendas). Its a pity the rest of the world hasnt taken up the uke. It' be such a better place with more people like you
Thanks for checking out my video! While strumming, keep you hand relaxed and find the most natural position for you. You may find that this will have the fingers slightly open. When you mute to get the chunk sound, the base of the thumb is used. That's the part of the thumb in the palm essentially. Good luck & thanks for saying hi!
I've been working on this for a few weeks and I've seen various versions of how to CHK or CHUNK or whatever. This is the first one that actually felt comfortable to me, while helping my hand plan for what was next. Great video.
Want to thank you for all the videos you make, you are a great teacher. What a pleasure it was to meet you and see you perform at the Ukulele festival ofScotland, hope you come back next year.
Thanks John! I loved being at the ukulele festival of Scotland very much… Truly the Rolls-Royce of festivals!! I hope to come back someday to the UK… Working on my own tour in June 2019. Feel free to recommend me to any clubs or ukulele organizations that you think might enjoy having me. 😊 Happy playing! Wishing you all the best, Stu
Thank you so much for actually breaking down that technique and taking the mystery out of it. I was about to give up on TH-cam tutorials because they're all "here watch me. get it?" You're a great teacher!
Thanks for this video. I've been teaching myself uke on and off for... Umm... The last 10 years hahaha. I just started getting serious about it the past few months and chunking always evaded me. This video helped a lot. Thanks!
So glad you got something good out of the lesson Howard...in my journey, Yogic body & mind awareness have greatly enhanced the music process in every way....making more joyful & effective too :-)
I’m always learning something new from you. I think your the best teacher out there. I wanted a ukulele just to play around with, but then I started to get serious, and taught myself chords and stuff. You make playing interesting and fun. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️👍🏼
Hey Loriane, So glad you dig the video & found it helpful. The breath...deeeep sloooow breaths will deeped everything too. Try this-get to know a song or chord solo SO well that you can just focus on breathing the whole time. Eyes opened or closed, but focused (not looking into space). Enjoy, Peace.
Greetings Stu! I've been looking on youtube videos on how to Chunk the chords correctly in the Ukulele. You make it easy for us to learn it using the correct technique, you are the master! I wish others who teach learn from you how to teach correctly instead of saying "You can strum using the Chunk Hawaiian style" especially if you are learning or intermediate uke player. I do appreciated your time on demonstrating the technique correctly. Mahalo Nui Loa!
Thanks Alberto - there are SO many ways to do any technique & everyone needs to customize it for your physiology...that said - thanks again! Play on 🤙 Subscribe & ring the bell for more videos like this one! 🎶🤙 goo.gl/rMXsnw
Hi Stuart, your early videos are so amazing, so cool, laid back and at the same time quite amusing high tech messages. Its only a few years ago. And for sure, you learn the "The Chunk" in a second.
Thanks Oliver! I sure didn’t have any super high tech going on back then (I think I filmed that one with a flip phone!) but I try to make the message clearer than the pixel quality! 😉😀 Play in, Stu
WOW! This lesson is from 3-6-2011, 9+ yrs old... My, my Stu, have you come a long way in your lesson/tutorial presentations... Love love love the quantum physics... I am Patreon & I've been watching you for about 4-5 wks... Happy trails..🐴🎻🐴
you are one of the most clear and easy to follow , wich is so important for beginners, some very good girls and boys on youtube tutos, but too fast, and it's quite frustrating when you can't achieve, you think you will never progress, and start thinking about selling your Uke and give up... I like the way you slowly show the progression, and then make us practice on a song, first slow, then faster, and make that i can play a song in the end. and be happy with the feeling of being able of playing a song. THANKS, a Lot !! you really help. best regards from Olivier, south of France.
I never comment on youtube, but I just wanted to say....FINALLY someone explained chunking in a way that helped me make the sound I wanted to. I have been playing for awhile, but good I could never get the right sound! I LOVE YOU! Thank you!
Thanks so much Richard--I'm very glad that you found this video lesson helpful! I do my best to be thorough so that you will learn it correctly the 1st time...thus eliminating the need to "unlearn & relearn" things... :)
Hello from Montpellier France ! I have worked all day long on your Chunk lesson ! This is great ! I would greatly enjoy a lesson on how to play"man in constant sorrow"?
I'm a special education teacher in downtown LA, and it's been a rough day. I work with students who not only have special needs, but who are also poverty stricken, gang members, pregnant... the list goes on and on. Finding your videos today has been such a wonderful and relaxing experience. I really needed this! :-) You seem like the kindest soul in the world and you are so knowledgeable about the awesomeness of the ukelele. Thank you!
Hi Jen, thanks for both your comments - I'm really glad that you got something positive out of my videos.,,,yay! Mission accomplished! Sounds like you're doing great work for the world. Teaching to students (and adults) with special needs is not easy at all & I bow to your efforts to make the world a better place. I used to do do similar work when I lived in Buffalo NY. It's difficult to keep ones center & still serve when there is so much being asked of us. Perhaps someday you'll bring a uke with you to work? Those four strings can do some magic...with your voice & talent, I'm sure you'd bring people together around a song! Be well, Stu (P.S. More videos coming soon)
Agree, this is the ONLY lesson that has taught me (and, in one try!). You're an amazing teacher. please keep it up! I can't wait to watch all of your videos! Thank you!
SO glad you cracked the "chunk code" :) Really - glad you found he video helpful! Thanks for watching & hope you'll subscribe to Ukulele Zen for more fun & helpful music videos :) Be well, Stu
you are an amazing teacher, thank you so much! I have been playing for about 2 month and had giving up ever learning "the chunk", not only that but I needed that reminder to relax and don't tense up!!
NICE! SO happy to hear you had that breakthrough...it's moments like that that I live for! Thanks for watching & hope you'll subscribe & ring the notification bell for more vids. Cheers, Stu
Can't believe I've only just found your channel! In the most respectful way possible, I'm so in love with you! Thanks for these awesome ukulele tutorials. Peace & Love...
I appreciate that & I take it with the intention you're offering :) My more recent videos are of even better quality...hope you'll subscribe & check them out at goo.gl/rMXsnw Be well & happy playing! - Stu
really great. I've viewed several videos teaching chunking on the uku but only really start chunking when I see and follow this video. Thank you Stuart.
Thanks for your comment! I LOVE Thailand and have visited there twice...perhaps you've seen some of videos from Thailand in my playlist "Travel Adventures"? I WILL return to your beautiful country someday & when I do we should jam--I'd love to give a concert in Thailand again (& not just at the night market in Chiang Mai!) :) Be well, Stu
Great lesson, thank you. Really like how you go over all the small details like staying relaxed and not having too much tension in your body. The explanation of strumming and chunking were perfectly clear to me as a totally new uke student. And thanks for the free song lesson!
Stuart, thank you soooooooooo much. I love your teaching technique, laid back and yet highly informative. I also appreciate your reference to staying relaxed - when playing for a while I often do find that I have "tensed up"... so thanks. I will be watching more of your videos.
Best chunking video I found! Thank you for explaining so much and playing a sample so we can play along with you. That's when it clicked for me! Thanks again! :)
I really enjoy your teaching style. Thank you. The sequence was still a little fast for my beginner music hands, but I'll be sure to watch it over and over till it becomes natural. P.S. I just love the man in black. What a pleasant surprise in learning to chuck. Thanks Stu!
Great channel name - the Earth Network :) Glad you enjoyed the video - subscribe for more from Ukulele Zen! btw, I teach a Johnny Cash workshop where we learn his strums & play lots of luther's lead lines - SO many great J.C. songs! Happy playing, Stu
THIS WAS GREAT! I've been looking up videos on chunking for a long time now and I've had a few friends try to teach me themselves, but none of it helped... Until I found this video! This helped so much, thank you!
+Defiant Dreamer I'm VERY glad that you found the video helpful! My intention is to help folks just like you ;) Please subscribe to my channel for more vids...I'm making more this week! Happy playing :-)
You are really great at teaching. thank you very much for being so clear and straight at the same time! you are very talented at both tecnique and teaching it.
Hey Jay, just keep at it--you'll get it. remember that the "chunk" is a pretty deadened sound, so as long as there is not a clear note ringing from the first string, you're probably doing it a-ok :) Slow it down to a slow-mo tempo & soften up the hands--you'll find that you can reach the 1st string when your hand is softened & it naturally extends. Peace, Stu
Thank you so much for this super clear instruction! I've tried to learn it before but no one's ever shown it to me this clearly. I'm thrilled to have found your channel!
Hey UkeRiikka! Thanks for finding my channel! Click subscribe & "ring the bell" next to it to be kept in the loop for new vids & other lessons :) Play on, Stu
Just THANK YOU so very much. I have been increasingly frustrated watching video after video of how to chunk, with no success. Just five minutes with you and I HAVE IT! I actually did a happy dance! I am still very new, and only know a few songs but this has definitely built my confidence. :) Thanks again, you have a new fan.
I'm so glad that you had a great experience with this video! It's an old one but my point about staying relaxed did you go is the key. You can also try it with your index finger... please subscribe for more videos. happy playing, Stu
Great tutorial, very relaxing and totally chilled.....thanks....I am loving' my uke after a four years going steady.........finally got it.....so thanks, now I'll try a little chunking here and there too........xxx
Really enjoyed this video. I'm still struggling with THE CHUNK but I found the detailed explanation so helpful. Now I just need to get my hands to do what I am trying to tell them to do. Will deffo look for some more of your videos. Thanks
It depends what you are playing. However for most things you want a little space between the hand & the neck. The thumb touches the back & is relaxed, the fingers curl to the strings. I'll make a vid on that someday...it makes playing WAY easier at times. The key is to soften the thumb :) Peace.
Cool! I've been ALWAYS curious how to chuck, because strumming are too fast to see. I checked many YT videos and finally found the best in here! Your tutorials are so easy & details. It really helpful. I'm learning ukulele with my 8 yr-old son.
you are the best ukulele teacher I ever had!!! tried to learn this technique by watching other videos, but didn't help me a lot. this is really awesommme:^)
I have watched over a dozen videos on how to do this and was always frustrated yet determined to learn how to 'chuck'... After watching your video I have learned and I want to share with you my gratitude. Thank you for making this informative video and have a blessed day. p.s you're very handsome . *blushes*
Aww shucks, you're making ME blush! I'm very glad that the video helped you to break through on this technique...SO cool to have that percussive element in one's strumming sound :) All the best - happy playing, Stu
Thanx for this Stu, I've often struggled with the chunk. It was great seeing you at the Buffalo Ukulele Club and having you bless us with your talents. I love the CD & hope your recording in Cheektowaga went well today. Can't wait for the next CD. Keep spreading that uke love man!
Susan Becker Thanks Susan! I'm really happy for the change to return to Buffalo and offer the workshop...looking forward to coming back soon ;) Wishing you many many hours of happy playing...Uke on!
Hmmm...yes that is a good topic for a LH technique video. There is a gentle balancing act that happens to hold up the uke with the thumb and fretting fingers in situations like these--just be sure it's not too much effort there. No squeeze just holding it up...
thank you so much for your video lessons i just started but i almost learned all about ukulele watching your videos!! amazing and wonderful, just a lovely way to teach, very simple and clear, thank you thank you so much!!
+Martina Corbetti Thanks so much for saying so! I am always very happy to hear that the lessons are received with the same intention i create them! Subscribe for more goodies ;) be well, Stu
Wonderful! Congratulations! Happy that my video helped out. I have many new videos and I create new content each and every week, I hope you’ll subscribe to the channel for more great ukulele instruction like this 😉🎶👍
Thank you so much, tried a little chunking before, didn't quite get it until with you!!! Very well explained! This is bringing me to the next level :))
Thank you for your tips and lesson on 'The Chunk'. Rreally appreciate it and got a very clear picture of how to play it. Pls keep up the great work :0)
Cool! Glad you found it helpful...slooow & steady wins the race :) As we relax w our music practice, it starts to seep into other areas of life. But believe me, I have a lot to learn...humbling is this life!
Oh my god but it's true that this chunck is terribly effective! Why do not I watch this video before !!!!! Thanks Super Stu! One day maybe I would have seen every videos of Ukulele Zen, but watching this video I'm happy to see that I still have so much to discover!😊
SO cool to hear. This is one of the oldest uke vids I've made...Bit by bit, piece by piece we build our rhythm and melodic vocabulary :) Cheers & thanks for watching ... Hope you'll subscribe for more goodies from Ukulele Zen!
thank you so so much! i had been looking for a good youtube tutorial of chunking for awhile but none that i found really helped.. then i stumbled across yours and it was amazing. you've helped me so much - thanks again! :)
Thanks. That was very good. I was able to get chunking rather quickly with your instructions. I do have to work on relaxing, but that is another issue. Thanks!
I have just scoured YT for tutorials on chunking and in the 10 years since you made this video, nothing has bettered it. No fancy graphics needed - your musicianship, communication and technical understanding outclass every other attempt to teach the chunk. Thank you for sharing and namaste for your amazing approach to the nitty gritty of making music.
The Stu from 10 years past was already a great one!
Thanks Tom...hMy cameras have gotten younger as I get older ;-)
This is the ONLY video I could find that made me understand chunking and I was able to practice immediately. Amazing teacher.
Exactly my thoughts! I've been stumbling with it until I watched this video!
I agree!
Agree.
I love your laid back and relax teaching style. "These two fingerrs". Your funny and you really explain well. You would be a great teacher at whatever you would be teaching.
I've watched a bunch of videos on the "chunk" and I just couldn't get it. Until I saw this one! Thanks a bunch, finally I can do it, consistently too!
Thanks Jeni! Glad you liked it & found it helpful. If you like my videos, you'll love my CD! ;-) stukulele.bandcamp.com/album/stukulele www.cdbaby.com/cd/stuartfuchs
Awesome tutorial, as someone else stated most people are just like "Here is how I do it, now do it" You take it nice and slow and really explain the entire process and that helped me tremendously! Thanks.
OOh Thank you so much Stuart. There got to be about a million Chunking lessons out there on youtube and you have been the only one taking it reaaaally slow and patient to teach. This is very important when it comes to get messages through... not everybody understands english as well for starters and also we all have out own rythms.
Thanks again!
Stuart, I enjoyed my lesson with you so very much. You are such an excellent teacher because you make each move so clear as well as truly fun to learn. I fly to Europe tomorrow but I will be back often to learn more from my favorite as well as my first teacher. I'd say you have a lively following who love the ukulele more because they have found you. Way to go! Thank You!-----------Annie
Stu, you are my ukulele hero! No one else explained chucking in this detailed and excellent way. I am well on my way to being a great chucker!! Ha! The other members of my uke club will be sooooo jealous! But I will now refer them to you for instruction. Many mahalos!!! You're the best!
Such a great teacher here. Has no ego whatesoever in his teachings. Takes his time and breaks things down twice
Well done Stuart! I like how you emphasize checking in and getting feedback from your own body. So important! and yet so easy to overlook. Thanks!
Brand new musician here, one month in. I’m teaching myself via you tube and haven’t quite got the rhythm thing down... till now!. Your video got me chunking! Thanks Stu. I love your style. You have a new fan.
Thank u Stu! Everything about this lesson is extremely helpful. Showing the strum pattern in various forms of tabulation was great. I especially appreciate your reminders to keep the hands and wrist soft and relaxed. You are an awesome teacher! And best of all, now I know how to play Folsom Prison Blues! XXOO
Thanks Kelli - I'm so glad that you found my little video helpful! Soon I'll be launching a NEW website @ www.stufuchs.com - sign up at the current website for my newsletter (each newsletter contains Uke lessons :) Wishing you many years of happy playing!
I always thought I could chunk, but was using an extremely rigid motion.
This is the DEFINITIVE tutorial for chunking!
thanks! btw, i really enjoy your back teaching style. of course it's instructional, but you've got one of those personalities that's naturally encouraging and makes people WANT to get better! i really feel like you're teaching me rather than just making an instructional TH-cam video. I look forward to more tutorials and you performing! Thanks again! :)
This has been the most charming lesson I have seen for a long time. Its not the let me show you how to do this is 5 seconds nor its the sloppy teaching that instill no appreciations in the music. There is an endearing and inspiring quality in your teaching. Thank you for making the video.
Agreed!
Just found you here on TH-cam and truly happy I did. Had a zoom teacher from UK for a year and each week got more frustrating than the last and I would truly practice 2 hours a day. Started getting totally messed up trying to form bar chords and and he became a d#@k to deal with. I was so unhappy with all the time and effort put in and felt like it was useless. I was playing very well but had trouble with a couple of things and he couldn't work them out with me so I gave up and put my ukulele down for 2 years. Picking it up again because I love my ukulele and really love playing. Going to view you videos from 1st to last and pray a whole bunch. Wish me luck and thank you!!!
Thank you so much! I am very happy that you’re finding my contact helpful… Wishing you all the best and keep on jamming 😊🤙🎶
Thx. It's meant to be a step by step (re-training of the hand. Going uber-slow at first (and always) will always integrate the new motions int a technique that will be SOLID & relaxed. Steady as she goes. :)
You're not only a good teacher and good uke player, but you seem like a really nice guy too. Great lesson. Thanks so much. Its guys like you that make me glad I started learning the uke. So many nice people prepared to help others.(and with no hidden agendas). Its a pity the rest of the world hasnt taken up the uke. It' be such a better place with more people like you
Thanks for watching Greg! UKES, NOT NUKES! 😉🎶 Hope you’re enjoying the other videos on the channel...play on!
Thanks for checking out my video! While strumming, keep you hand relaxed and find the most natural position for you. You may find that this will have the fingers slightly open. When you mute to get the chunk sound, the base of the thumb is used. That's the part of the thumb in the palm essentially. Good luck & thanks for saying hi!
After watching multiple other tutorials, this is the video that taught me how to chunk.
All hail! Stuart!
I've been working on this for a few weeks and I've seen various versions of how to CHK or CHUNK or whatever. This is the first one that actually felt comfortable to me, while helping my hand plan for what was next. Great video.
Want to thank you for all the videos you make, you are a great teacher. What a pleasure it was to meet you and see you perform at the Ukulele festival ofScotland, hope you come back next year.
Thanks John! I loved being at the ukulele festival of Scotland very much… Truly the Rolls-Royce of festivals!! I hope to come back someday to the UK… Working on my own tour in June 2019. Feel free to recommend me to any clubs or ukulele organizations that you think might enjoy having me. 😊 Happy playing! Wishing you all the best, Stu
Thank you so much for actually breaking down that technique and taking the mystery out of it. I was about to give up on TH-cam tutorials because they're all "here watch me. get it?" You're a great teacher!
Thanks for this video. I've been teaching myself uke on and off for... Umm... The last 10 years hahaha. I just started getting serious about it the past few months and chunking always evaded me. This video helped a lot. Thanks!
So glad you got something good out of the lesson Howard...in my journey, Yogic body & mind awareness have greatly enhanced the music process in every way....making more joyful & effective too :-)
I’m always learning something new from you. I think your the best teacher out there. I wanted a ukulele just to play around with, but then I started to get serious, and taught myself chords and stuff. You make playing interesting and fun. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️👍🏼
At last! The chunk explained clearly and slowly! I can finally see why I have struggled with it - I wasn't using 'those two fingers'! Thanks Stu! 😍
Hey Loriane, So glad you dig the video & found it helpful. The breath...deeeep sloooow breaths will deeped everything too. Try this-get to know a song or chord solo SO well that you can just focus on breathing the whole time. Eyes opened or closed, but focused (not looking into space). Enjoy, Peace.
Thanks for your kind words...so glad it was helpful! I'll keep on offering more lessons :-) Be well, Stu
Greetings Stu!
I've been looking on youtube videos on how to Chunk the chords correctly in the Ukulele. You make it easy for us to learn it using the correct technique, you are the master! I wish others who teach learn from you how to teach correctly instead of saying "You can strum using the Chunk Hawaiian style" especially if you are learning or intermediate uke player. I do appreciated your time on demonstrating the technique correctly. Mahalo Nui Loa!
Thanks Alberto - there are SO many ways to do any technique & everyone needs to customize it for your physiology...that said - thanks again! Play on 🤙 Subscribe & ring the bell for more videos like this one! 🎶🤙 goo.gl/rMXsnw
Hi Stuart, your early videos are so amazing, so cool, laid back and at the same time quite amusing high tech messages. Its only a few years ago. And for sure, you learn the "The Chunk" in a second.
Thanks Oliver! I sure didn’t have any super high tech going on back then (I think I filmed that one with a flip phone!) but I try to make the message clearer than the pixel quality! 😉😀 Play in, Stu
WOW! This lesson is from 3-6-2011, 9+ yrs old... My, my Stu, have you come a long way in your lesson/tutorial presentations... Love love love the quantum physics... I am Patreon & I've been watching you for about 4-5 wks... Happy trails..🐴🎻🐴
Thanks! 😃 Yeah this was shot with a Flip Camera from 2008 - good times! 🤣 I'm a little better at videos & presentation...always learning. Be well🙏
you are one of the most clear and easy to follow , wich is so important for beginners,
some very good girls and boys on youtube tutos, but too fast, and it's quite frustrating when you can't achieve,
you think you will never progress, and start thinking about selling your Uke and give up...
I like the way you slowly show the progression, and then make us practice on a song, first slow, then faster, and make that i can play a song in the end.
and be happy with the feeling of being able of playing a song.
THANKS, a Lot !!
you really help.
best regards from Olivier, south of France.
Thanks Olive! Please subscribe for more videos from this channel...I've made SO many more since this old one :-) All the best, Stu
This is the only video that could help me understand chunking. Thank you so much.
Glad I could help!! If you haven't yet, hope you'll subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one 🎶🤙😊
I never comment on youtube, but I just wanted to say....FINALLY someone explained chunking in a way that helped me make the sound I wanted to. I have been playing for awhile, but good I could never get the right sound! I LOVE YOU! Thank you!
You're very welcome! Glad it was helpful :-) More videos to come...
Thanks so much Richard--I'm very glad that you found this video lesson helpful! I do my best to be thorough so that you will learn it correctly the 1st time...thus eliminating the need to "unlearn & relearn" things... :)
Hello from Montpellier France ! I have worked all day long on your Chunk lesson ! This is great ! I would greatly enjoy a lesson on how to play"man in constant sorrow"?
Thanks for watching! I'll take a look at that song for future lesson ;-) Please subscribe to keep in the loop of more videos from my channel 🎶🤙😊
MY PLEASURE, MY PLEASURE MY PLEASURE! I'm so glad you got something out of this lesson ;-) More vids to come...
I'm a special education teacher in downtown LA, and it's been a rough day. I work with students who not only have special needs, but who are also poverty stricken, gang members, pregnant... the list goes on and on. Finding your videos today has been such a wonderful and relaxing experience. I really needed this! :-) You seem like the kindest soul in the world and you are so knowledgeable about the awesomeness of the ukelele. Thank you!
Hi Jen, thanks for both your comments - I'm really glad that you got something positive out of my videos.,,,yay! Mission accomplished! Sounds like you're doing great work for the world. Teaching to students (and adults) with special needs is not easy at all & I bow to your efforts to make the world a better place. I used to do do similar work when I lived in Buffalo NY. It's difficult to keep ones center & still serve when there is so much being asked of us. Perhaps someday you'll bring a uke with you to work? Those four strings can do some magic...with your voice & talent, I'm sure you'd bring people together around a song! Be well, Stu (P.S. More videos coming soon)
Stu! So wonderful to hear from you. Are you originally from Buffalo? (Just wondering, because I am from Rochester, NY! :-)
Sweet! Working on making more videos now...
Agree, this is the ONLY lesson that has taught me (and, in one try!). You're an amazing teacher. please keep it up! I can't wait to watch all of your videos! Thank you!
SO glad you cracked the "chunk code" :) Really - glad you found he video helpful! Thanks for watching & hope you'll subscribe to Ukulele Zen for more fun & helpful music videos :) Be well, Stu
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. I've had my ukulele for about a year now, and thanks to you, I learned how to chunk. Thank you so much.
you are an amazing teacher, thank you so much! I have been playing for about 2 month and had giving up ever learning "the chunk", not only that but I needed that reminder to relax and don't tense up!!
Thanks for watching it...I'm glad you found it helpful!
Finally I made it!!! Thank YOU! Relaxed way works :-) I watched so many chunking videos, but yours is the best for me!
NICE! SO happy to hear you had that breakthrough...it's moments like that that I live for! Thanks for watching & hope you'll subscribe & ring the notification bell for more vids. Cheers, Stu
I went to 12 different videos before i found this one. You are a very talented teacher, God bless you!
sharon pink Thanks Sharon...wishing you many blessings as well!
Can't believe I've only just found your channel! In the most respectful way possible, I'm so in love with you! Thanks for these awesome ukulele tutorials. Peace & Love...
I appreciate that & I take it with the intention you're offering :) My more recent videos are of even better quality...hope you'll subscribe & check them out at goo.gl/rMXsnw Be well & happy playing! - Stu
really great. I've viewed several videos teaching chunking on the uku but only really start chunking when I see and follow this video. Thank you Stuart.
The "two-finger secret" is the key for me.
Thanks so much! I'll keep more videos a-coming! Subscribe for more goodies...I think you have. Happy playing!
Thanks for your comment! I LOVE Thailand and have visited there twice...perhaps you've seen some of videos from Thailand in my playlist "Travel Adventures"? I WILL return to your beautiful country someday & when I do we should jam--I'd love to give a concert in Thailand again (& not just at the night market in Chiang Mai!) :) Be well, Stu
Great lesson, thank you. Really like how you go over all the small details like staying relaxed and not having too much tension in your body. The explanation of strumming and chunking were perfectly clear to me as a totally new uke student. And thanks for the free song lesson!
Stuart, thank you soooooooooo much. I love your teaching technique, laid back and yet highly informative. I also appreciate your reference to staying relaxed - when playing for a while I often do find that I have "tensed up"... so thanks. I will be watching more of your videos.
Thanks so much! More lesson videos on the way!
Best chunking video I found! Thank you for explaining so much and playing a sample so we can play along with you. That's when it clicked for me! Thanks again! :)
CHUNK ON!!!! :) So glad you got a lot out of this video! All the best - happy playing, Stu
I really enjoy your teaching style. Thank you. The sequence was still a little fast for my beginner music hands, but I'll be sure to watch it over and over till it becomes natural. P.S. I just love the man in black. What a pleasant surprise in learning to chuck. Thanks Stu!
Great channel name - the Earth Network :) Glad you enjoyed the video - subscribe for more from Ukulele Zen! btw, I teach a Johnny Cash workshop where we learn his strums & play lots of luther's lead lines - SO many great J.C. songs! Happy playing, Stu
THIS WAS GREAT! I've been looking up videos on chunking for a long time now and I've had a few friends try to teach me themselves, but none of it helped... Until I found this video! This helped so much, thank you!
+Defiant Dreamer I'm VERY glad that you found the video helpful! My intention is to help folks just like you ;) Please subscribe to my channel for more vids...I'm making more this week! Happy playing :-)
You are really great at teaching. thank you very much for being so clear and straight at the same time! you are very talented at both tecnique and teaching it.
Thank you and I think you made me understand the chunk very very clearly you are a
good teacher
Thanks Don! Chunk on 😉 Glad you're here...plz subscribe to the Ukulele Zen channel to keep in the loop of my weekly video lessons 🤙🎶
Hey Jay, just keep at it--you'll get it. remember that the "chunk" is a pretty deadened sound, so as long as there is not a clear note ringing from the first string, you're probably doing it a-ok :) Slow it down to a slow-mo tempo & soften up the hands--you'll find that you can reach the 1st string when your hand is softened & it naturally extends. Peace, Stu
Thank you so much for this super clear instruction! I've tried to learn it before but no one's ever shown it to me this clearly. I'm thrilled to have found your channel!
Hey UkeRiikka! Thanks for finding my channel! Click subscribe & "ring the bell" next to it to be kept in the loop for new vids & other lessons :) Play on, Stu
Just THANK YOU so very much. I have been increasingly frustrated watching video after video of how to chunk, with no success. Just five minutes with you and I HAVE IT! I actually did a happy dance! I am still very new, and only know a few songs but this has definitely built my confidence. :) Thanks again, you have a new fan.
I'm so glad that you had a great experience with this video! It's an old one but my point about staying relaxed did you go is the key. You can also try it with your index finger... please subscribe for more videos. happy playing, Stu
Great tutorial, very relaxing and totally chilled.....thanks....I am loving' my uke after a four years going steady.........finally got it.....so thanks, now I'll try a little chunking here and there too........xxx
Really enjoyed this video. I'm still struggling with THE CHUNK but I found the detailed explanation so helpful. Now I just need to get my hands to do what I am trying to tell them to do. Will deffo look for some more of your videos. Thanks
Thanks Bob! Glad you got some good mileage out of this lesson...keeping it (the wrist & the lesson) loose :-)
This is a great lesson. Thanks Stu. I watched the video once but now I must practice the technique as it's completely new to me.
It depends what you are playing. However for most things you want a little space between the hand & the neck. The thumb touches the back & is relaxed, the fingers curl to the strings. I'll make a vid on that someday...it makes playing WAY easier at times. The key is to soften the thumb :) Peace.
Nothing to add to the others' opinion. You truly are a good teacher, very patient and with lots of good advice.
Gosh the details in the info a fabulous . Thanks so much. It will make my playing sound better.
Thank you Stuart...you explain everything so clearly ....😁😁
Thanks for watching and playing along Sheila! Lots more videos at the channels homepage!
A very clear and friendly presentation, Stu.
Cool! I've been ALWAYS curious how to chuck, because strumming are too fast to see. I checked many YT videos and finally found the best in here! Your tutorials are so easy & details. It really helpful. I'm learning ukulele with my 8 yr-old son.
you are the best ukulele teacher I ever had!!! tried to learn this technique by watching other videos, but didn't help me a lot. this is really awesommme:^)
I have watched over a dozen videos on how to do this and was always frustrated yet determined to learn how to 'chuck'... After watching your video I have learned and I want to share with you my gratitude. Thank you for making this informative video and have a blessed day.
p.s you're very handsome . *blushes*
Aww shucks, you're making ME blush! I'm very glad that the video helped you to break through on this technique...SO cool to have that percussive element in one's strumming sound :) All the best - happy playing, Stu
Where are YOUR videos? I just clicked on your channel...
Thanx for this Stu, I've often struggled with the chunk. It was great seeing you at the Buffalo Ukulele Club and having you bless us with your talents. I love the CD & hope your recording in Cheektowaga went well today. Can't wait for the next CD. Keep spreading that uke love man!
Susan Becker Thanks Susan! I'm really happy for the change to return to Buffalo and offer the workshop...looking forward to coming back soon ;) Wishing you many many hours of happy playing...Uke on!
Hmmm...yes that is a good topic for a LH technique video. There is a gentle balancing act that happens to hold up the uke with the thumb and fretting fingers in situations like these--just be sure it's not too much effort there. No squeeze just holding it up...
You are great, now I have mastered the chunk, you have a fantastic style that I enjoy!
Thank you so much for this lesson! I'm not quite there yet, but I finally feel like I'm getting it and I really enjoy your teaching style
Many thanks! This was a very old video of mine… I have many more recent ones at my TH-cam channel 😊🎶🤙
@@UkuleleZen I've subscribed ^^ thanks!
Glad to hear it! More lessons to come!
Super Helpful!!! Thank-you very much! Chunking is a struggle right now for me…but I just began playing a few days ago! Thank-you again!!!
Omg thank you so much I've tried so hard to get it down but you finally helped lol you're an awesome teacher !
Thanks for saying so! It's my pleasure to share my tips with you! All the best, Stu
thank you so much for your video lessons i just started but i almost learned all about ukulele watching your videos!! amazing and wonderful, just a lovely way to teach, very simple and clear, thank you thank you so much!!
+Martina Corbetti Thanks so much for saying so! I am always very happy to hear that the lessons are received with the same intention i create them! Subscribe for more goodies ;) be well, Stu
Hey, I can at last chunk, after watching many videos. Thank you so much for your help.
Wonderful! Congratulations! Happy that my video helped out. I have many new videos and I create new content each and every week, I hope you’ll subscribe to the channel for more great ukulele instruction like this 😉🎶👍
Thanks! So far, this is the only video I have found that' has actually been helpful in teaching this technique!
Thank you so much, tried a little chunking before, didn't quite get it until with you!!! Very well explained! This is bringing me to the next level :))
+choclid I'm very happy to hear that you got something out of the video! Subscribe to the channel for more goodies :) Happy playing, Stu
Found your tutorial so helpful - each stage explained in a friendly relaxed style. Thank you - I'm now off to practice and fired up to get chunking
Sweet! Glad that my little video helped...enjoy chunking wid yo' strrrrrrummmmin' ;)
Thank you for your tips and lesson on 'The Chunk'. Rreally appreciate it and got a very clear picture of how to play it. Pls keep up the great work :0)
+Valerie Ou Yong Thank you Valerie - so glad you found it helpful! Please subscribe to my channel for more video :) Be well, Stu
Totally with you Stuart. Music IS the journey...
Cool! Glad you found it helpful...slooow & steady wins the race :) As we relax w our music practice, it starts to seep into other areas of life. But believe me, I have a lot to learn...humbling is this life!
WHAT A GREAT TEACHER!
Thanks Girish :) One of my first lesson videos. Be well, Stu
Oh my god but it's true that this chunck is terribly effective! Why do not I watch this video before !!!!! Thanks Super Stu!
One day maybe I would have seen every videos of Ukulele Zen, but watching this video I'm happy to see that I still have so much to discover!😊
There’s many ways to do it, but once you get the hang of “chucking” the strings, you’ll always have a drummer inside your strums 😉 All the best, Stu
i just got my ukulele yesterday and your video really helped me,so thank you :)
Seriously, I think you're one of the best uke teachers I've come across on TH-cam so far, if not the best haha
Many thanks for watching! :) Be well & play on, Stu
Thank you for doing these great films I've learnt so much from you. This pattern is now in stuck in my mind thank you so much
SO cool to hear. This is one of the oldest uke vids I've made...Bit by bit, piece by piece we build our rhythm and melodic vocabulary :) Cheers & thanks for watching ... Hope you'll subscribe for more goodies from Ukulele Zen!
thank you so so much! i had been looking for a good youtube tutorial of chunking for awhile but none that i found really helped.. then i stumbled across yours and it was amazing. you've helped me so much - thanks again! :)
Awesome stuff, I am just learning, the chunking ,is something I have to know about, it's needed on the bob Marley song 🎵 no woman no cry
Thanks! Got my Ukulele for Christmas, your videos are really helpful :)
Thanks. That was very good. I was able to get chunking rather quickly with your instructions. I do have to work on relaxing, but that is another issue. Thanks!
Been trying to chuck for an hour and watched tons of videos...got it two minutes into this video. God fucking bless.
I'm always So happy to hear that these videos are serving people in their music journey. F$%^ing awe-some!
Aww, thanks so much. I'm happy you got something from the video. More to come! :) All the best, Stu
Best teacher, best chunking video 👏👍🏼🙏🙏🙏
Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy the other vids on my channel & that your music keeps on flowing 🎶🤙😎