☯︎ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:44 Strum thru the 12 bar blues 6:45 Double Stop Licks & PRACTICE TIPS 18:12 Practice the whole thing #1 21:33 Practice the whole thing #2 25:30 Mindfulness Meditation Practice
As a 73-year old just picking up the ukulele after taking classical music theory from a composer at the school of the arts, I find I am compelled to translate what you taught into “Theory”to be able to comprehend, retain, apply and generalize your lesson. Which in no ways is meant to disparage your beautiful and useful presentation. So here are a few things I worked out, maybe some others might benefit: - I am so used to A being a minor key that it took a while to realize we are in A major with sharp F, C, and G - I am so used to seeing guitarists and ukesters (?) who don’t know theory call all 7th chords 7, that it took a while to realize that all 3 are really dominant (major-minor) 7ths, so if F, C or G are in the 7th position they have to be flatted from their sharps but not if they are in root, 3rd or 5th position. Of course that’s the nature of a blues scale - I had not encountered the term double stop before, so I had to look it up. Easiest explanation is that it is a “chord” of 2 notes - Sometimes because the back of your right hand obscures your fingers I can’t tell what you are strumming or picking and have to guess. But that part of playing is the key to putting rhythm into melody and deserves some explication. - I figured out that your tablature translates into a sequence of double stops of chord notes 5-3, 6-4, 7-5, and 6-4 or 3-1, 4-2, 5-3, and 4-2. In the long run, I think that will be easier to retain and apply to other keys. All in all, a challenging but rewarding learning experience technically, and I love the Zen! Thank you!
On Sunday the weather was surprisingly nice here, so we preferred to go for a walk ... .. but its so wonderful that thanks to the recording I don't miss anything ... ... Thank you for everything ! ! !
I am so glad you mentioned projects on hold. i am a perfectionist type personality. i often for 16 months played from 2020 December until now august 29 2021 today only played when I completed my housework. As busy older young hearted painter I don't get how free and abstract I can be. Learning to relax in a mess is really hard for me. its a control issue mostly now during covid. thank you for being a safe place. please tell us again it takes time, thank you so blessed
"It takes time...and time takes time". I forget who said this -- maybe it common folk wisdom. Personally I add this: Spending time in a relaxed way, keeping the journey light, accepting our shortcomings, seeing frustration as a friend telling us which way to go (or not go) all leads to good growth....and we enjoy ourselves in the process 😉 Thanks for watching Kaylynn...happy playing 😊🎶🙏
"staying within our circle of competence" means, to me, staying in the present moment and practicing our fundamentals within our current skillset without pressuring ourself to go fast and move beyond our momentary level. Patience and faith that the speed will come with mastery of those fundamentals. I have to choose between typing/writing and Uke practice my fingers hurt too much lol....
I really love this so appreciate your time and expertise Stu. I look forward to practicing this one ☺️, have a lovely day and hopefully you had a better night.xx
Great stuff, but haven't made is past the first 9 minutes yet. I spent 2 hours playing with the A7 stops, 'merging' them into my regular strumming and fingerpicking of the I chord. It's neat that you can take some chord tones from the IV and V and use them to dress up the I chord, even use them as an implicit IV and V if you wish. Thank you.
OMG…. Thank You So Much for this, You’re an AWESOME Teacher, Love it… I’m not quite there Yet, I hope someday 😀.. Love The Breathing session, I used to do it in Yoga class. Again Thank You Very Much, God Bless You 👍👍🎉🌹🎉🌹🎉
I liked to comment about present moment, relaxation etc... A common problem I face in life and many things,;music brings it to my attention present. Often enough, I find myself pressured to "go fast" and or move beyond rudimentary or fundamental things. Realizing that pressure comes from mother and father as well as x wife and her family , not to mention other people as well I am so sure. Over reaching for advancement, this is like not letting the fundamentals and foundation cure and form properly. Metaphorically, it's not unlike framing your house before letting the concrete foundation form properly. Or worse, trying to roof before you have even formed your walls on an uncured foundation. The "zenlike" state of mind seems to occur when we are simply doing something simple but learning and a challenge, but not frustratingly difficult. If it's frustratingly difficult, I find I am probably trying to go too fast or too advanced before I have formed my foundational learning. I find, it takes about 3 days of practice to learn something and much of the learning occurs in my sleep; I wake up a few days later and my fingers remember what I learned a day or two or three prior. Going slow , staying in the moment, patience with the the short and long term really does make those little fundamentals become 2nd nature and flow better.
I really love that strum thru the 12 bar blues! I learned it now, its so cool! Thanks for that! I usually play the banjo as you can see on my little channel but sometimes I just need a uke lesson in between! i should definitely spend more time with the uke. Grüsse aus der schweiz.
My dear friend I'm from Venezudla I play litle what we call here "cuatro" can I use my. " Cuatro" as ukelele an how can convert it in one. Hoe to tune it, I heard there many way to tune it, all depend of the size
That’s a good question Michael… I usually use that form to make it accessible for beginners and, because the voicing of it sometimes is a better sound. If you prefer the sound of the bar chord version of D7 then please by all means use it 😉🎶✌️
Are you using a soprano ukulele or a baritone ukulele or tenor ukulele or what to play this blues music ? I have a soprano ukulele with standard G C E A tuning, so can this be played on a soprano ukulele please ? thanks :) I might just give this a go sometime !Looks like fun ! i love the 12 bar blues rock n roll music ! lol :)
☯︎ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:44 Strum thru the 12 bar blues
6:45 Double Stop Licks & PRACTICE TIPS
18:12 Practice the whole thing #1
21:33 Practice the whole thing #2
25:30 Mindfulness Meditation Practice
Two years later and I so love this opportunity to return to revisit and learn with you Stu. Ukulele ❤ to you.
As a 73-year old just picking up the ukulele after taking classical music theory from a composer at the school of the arts, I find I am compelled to translate what you taught into “Theory”to be able to comprehend, retain, apply and generalize your lesson. Which in no ways is meant to disparage your beautiful and useful presentation.
So here are a few things I worked out, maybe some others might benefit:
- I am so used to A being a minor key that it took a while to realize we are in A major with sharp F, C, and G
- I am so used to seeing guitarists and ukesters (?) who don’t know theory call all 7th chords 7, that it took a while to realize that all 3 are really dominant (major-minor) 7ths, so if F, C or G are in the 7th position they have to be flatted from their sharps but not if they are in root, 3rd or 5th position. Of course that’s the nature of a blues scale
- I had not encountered the term double stop before, so I had to look it up. Easiest explanation is that it is a “chord” of 2 notes
- Sometimes because the back of your right hand obscures your fingers I can’t tell what you are strumming or picking and have to guess. But that part of playing is the key to putting rhythm into melody and deserves some explication.
- I figured out that your tablature translates into a sequence of double stops of chord notes 5-3, 6-4, 7-5, and 6-4 or 3-1, 4-2, 5-3, and 4-2. In the long run, I think that will be easier to retain and apply to other keys.
All in all, a challenging but rewarding learning experience technically, and I love the Zen! Thank you!
On Sunday the weather was surprisingly nice here, so we preferred to go for a walk ...
.. but its so wonderful that thanks to the recording I don't miss anything ...
... Thank you for everything ! ! !
My pleasure! Thanks for joining in! Please like, share, subscribe…and play your heart out 🤙😊
I am so glad you mentioned projects on hold. i am a perfectionist type personality. i often for 16 months played from 2020 December until now august 29 2021 today only played when I completed my housework. As busy older young hearted painter I don't get how free and abstract I can be. Learning to relax in a mess is really hard for me. its a control issue mostly now during covid. thank you for being a safe place. please tell us again it takes time, thank you so blessed
"It takes time...and time takes time". I forget who said this -- maybe it common folk wisdom. Personally I add this: Spending time in a relaxed way, keeping the journey light, accepting our shortcomings, seeing frustration as a friend telling us which way to go (or not go) all leads to good growth....and we enjoy ourselves in the process 😉 Thanks for watching Kaylynn...happy playing 😊🎶🙏
Man I love this little riff!! I've been playing it all morning. Thank you!! And especially thanks for the last few minutes!!! I needed that 😀😀
My joy to share with you!
Truly appreciate the calm patience with which you teach.
The magic of the guide finger and the magic of our guide Stu! That was great. Looking forward the workshop!
Thanks Jana!
Thanks! Could not find this session this morning so grateful for this replay notice.
You're so welcome David! 🤙🎶
"staying within our circle of competence" means, to me, staying in the present moment and practicing our fundamentals within our current skillset without pressuring ourself to go fast and move beyond our momentary level. Patience and faith that the speed will come with mastery of those fundamentals. I have to choose between typing/writing and Uke practice my fingers hurt too much lol....
Stu is the best ukulele teacher on the tinternet :)
it really is meditative or zen like to play music. It works better than sitting cross legged and all that for sure. from New Hampshire
Hi sir your lessons are amazing blues stuff thankyou 🎶🎶🎸🤞😊
Thanks Andrew...Glad you like them! 🎶😊🎸
Yes I want to learn the uke : thankyou
You are the best teacher, thankyou vero, vero much!
Thanks very much! Please subscribe for more helpful video like this one 😊 I love your channel!
Hi Stu, good see you here again. Thank you and God bless you.
Thank you! God bless you too 🎶🙏😊
The blues aint nothin but a good man feeling sad , its true! You will play the blues better when you're feeling sad , !!
I really love this so appreciate your time and expertise Stu. I look forward to practicing this one ☺️, have a lovely day and hopefully you had a better night.xx
arpegio, there is another word I just learned... making gains today, thank you can I have another.
Lovely stuff brother!
Much appreciated Trex!
Enjoy this riff Stu keep up the good work
Thanks Davey! Enjoy getting bluesy with it! :-)
Hi in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Hello Sheila!
Great lesson thank you 👏😁
Thank you, thank you darlin for all of this!
You are so welcome Helen!
Great stuff, but haven't made is past the first 9 minutes yet. I spent 2 hours playing with the A7 stops, 'merging' them into my regular strumming and fingerpicking of the I chord. It's neat that you can take some chord tones from the IV and V and use them to dress up the I chord, even use them as an implicit IV and V if you wish. Thank you.
Hey Stu thanks for the very cool lesson. Love the blues. Really fun stuff!
OMG…. Thank You So Much for this, You’re an AWESOME Teacher, Love it… I’m not quite there Yet, I hope someday 😀.. Love The Breathing session, I used to do it in Yoga class. Again Thank You Very Much, God Bless You 👍👍🎉🌹🎉🌹🎉
You are so welcome! Glad you're here...happy jamming! 🎶😊🙏 Namaste & God Bless You too
@@UkuleleZenNAMASTE … ❤🙏
Thanks very much 🙏 very enjoyable and informative lesson
I liked to comment about present moment, relaxation etc... A common problem I face in life and many things,;music brings it to my attention present. Often enough, I find myself pressured to "go fast" and or move beyond rudimentary or fundamental things. Realizing that pressure comes from mother and father as well as x wife and her family , not to mention other people as well I am so sure. Over reaching for advancement, this is like not letting the fundamentals and foundation cure and form properly. Metaphorically, it's not unlike framing your house before letting the concrete foundation form properly. Or worse, trying to roof before you have even formed your walls on an uncured foundation.
The "zenlike" state of mind seems to occur when we are simply doing something simple but learning and a challenge, but not frustratingly difficult. If it's frustratingly difficult, I find I am probably trying to go too fast or too advanced before I have formed my foundational learning. I find, it takes about 3 days of practice to learn something and much of the learning occurs in my sleep; I wake up a few days later and my fingers remember what I learned a day or two or three prior. Going slow , staying in the moment, patience with the the short and long term really does make those little fundamentals become 2nd nature and flow better.
Awesome !!
Thanks!! 🎶🙏😊
I really love that strum thru the 12 bar blues! I learned it now, its so cool! Thanks for that! I usually play the banjo as you can see on my little channel but sometimes I just need a uke lesson in between! i should definitely spend more time with the uke. Grüsse aus der schweiz.
Thanks so much! Happy jamming :-) Plz share the video with a uke playin' friend...
Hi Stu, another great video, Thank you 👍👍
gracias,a seguir intentando.
Thanks for watching...Muchisimas Gracias!! 😊🎶🤙
Germany 😊
Danke!
Desde Kentoky….un saludo grande…gracias por tus lecciones..
How do I become a patreon? This is the best teaching site on here 😊 clear and direct instructions.
Super cool daddy Stu! Good on u and your toddler. Love the riffs and jammies. What else for jammin?
Thanks from manchester England
this is brilliant
Thanks for watching & playing along!
Murray from Australia
Nice! As always, thank you!
WELCOME STUART GOD LAKE . POLAND . WARSAW .
Thanks for joining in from Warsaw Andrzej!
Wowsa ❤😊
Glad you dig it!
Always great, Stu
Love this 😊on my hols at moment, so lots of chilling and strumming.
My dear friend I'm from Venezudla I play litle what we call here "cuatro" can I use my. " Cuatro" as ukelele an how can convert it in one. Hoe to tune it, I heard there many way to tune it, all depend of the size
Very nice -- the Venezuelan Cuatro is an amazing instrument --- SO rhythmic!
.....tasty. I like it 👍😎
Hi!
Hello Marina!
I just became aware, just a moment ago, my fingers remembered E7 without thinking about it. I struggled with E7 and b flat ....lol..
Hi Stu. I notice you use the Hawaiian D7 in most of your tutorial rather than the 2223 method any reason why
That’s a good question Michael… I usually use that form to make it accessible for beginners and, because the voicing of it sometimes is a better sound. If you prefer the sound of the bar chord version of D7 then please by all means use it 😉🎶✌️
new daddy tunes
Yes indeed Kaylynn!
Tx U
Are you using a soprano ukulele or a baritone ukulele or tenor ukulele or what to play this blues music ? I have a soprano ukulele with standard G C E A tuning, so can this be played on a soprano ukulele please ? thanks :) I might just give this a go sometime !Looks like fun ! i love the 12 bar blues rock n roll music ! lol :)
Are usually use a standard GCA ukulele… Often with a low G tuning. I also have a baritone but don’t have much time to make lessons for it 😃🎶🤙🎉
Fun !!! Thanks Stu!!! I have a question,how to keep wooden uke safe in this high NE humidity?
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Thanks Antonio!
Kudos on this video… I have a baritone and try to transpose the chords to fit. This would be the key of E. Using E7,A7and B7. Correct?
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tQ
Sorry I couldn't follow your fretting shapes. I'll go elsewhere. T
Great lesson thanks X