Five Ukulele Scales You Should Be Practicing Right Now!
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Published 2020-12-11
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Hey guys, I want to show you the five ukulele scales you should be practicing right now in this video.
We love the ukulele! This tiny instrument is great for playing songs and lovely chords.
However, playing just chords doesn't help you develop more aspects of your left hand.
Let me explain.
Playing chords on the ukulele is great. However, once you have memorized them, your fingers go through the same movement over and over.
It's important, then, to introduce scale into your practice routine to break the chord habit and create new patterns and movements in your playing.
Practice the ukulele scales using the alternate fingering technique. This fingerstyle approach allows you to develop your plucking technique and plucking volume easily.
The five scales are:
-C major
-F major
-D major
-A minor
D minor
Good luck and enjoy this lesson.
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All Comments (21)
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It's crazy how I absolutely HATED memorizing and practicing scales in school band but now that I'm an adult and learning a new instrument on my own terms I've been looking for and practicing scales like mad ๐
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Clearly one of the best ukulele (and guitar) instructors I have found! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
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Just what I wanted! Played violin as a kid and scales were mandatory. It feels wrong not to do the same on ukulele.
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I'd sure love for you teach us how to finger pick and play these... and in this order too. LOL! 1. Ellens GesangIIIin F MajorGounod by (Michele Nobler) 2. Ballerina (Yehezkel Raz) 3. Falling Asleep (Michele Nobler) 4. Joking Together (Michele Nobler) 5. Midnight Sun (Beneaththe Mountain) 6. Nocturne Eb (Ohad Ben Ari) 7. The Path (Patrick Ussher) 8. Summerin Paris (Lance Conrad) 9. Wonderland (Midtro) 10. BrokenVals (Biba Dupont) 11. Venice (GAEL)
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Very greatful to you man. 1) It helped me know how to assign fingers to each fret 2) Memorize and visualise the location of each note 3) Improve speed 4) Last but not least, obviously improved finger picking
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SLOOOOOWWWW down....
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Great lesson! It's so important to work on left hand technique too!
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Your lessons are incredibly helpful, thank you so much for all the effort you put in your videos!
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Man you are the best. Gonna buy an ukulele in january after my exam.
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It helped me to look at a scale chart and practice the right hand by itself, to get used to the picking pattern. Thanks for a great video!
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I play F major starting on the 5th fret, C string (most of the time) G-major is good to know as well, the pattern is different ( at least on my low G because the third between C and E strings is in a different part of the scale) but those 2 patterns allow you to play any major scale and their relatives, I think of playing A-minor for example as playing the A and B on the G string and then playing a C major scale up to the open A , if I play G A B C to G in the same way, I get a mixolydian scale, theory really helps! Scales are movable in the same way as chords and further, When I play a chord progression I see the scales in the shapes I am making so i know what chords and embellishments will be consonant and which should be used very sparingly, if at all.
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This is so great! I'm a beginner and I've been looking for a video like this! Thanks so much man!
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One can pause the video and i took notes.. this is a wonderful lesson. Love it
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I've just signed up for your tabs- have been inspired by your style of playing and your musicality. I'm a Ukulele beginner (and a very basic guitarist) and appreciate your clear guidance. It's taking work, but I can feel myself improving. Enjoying your videos very much - keep it up:)
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This is great video, thank you! It will be even better if it comes with a graphically tab on the side showing which note and finger to play on. Many thanks
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Thanks so much! Iโm a beginner and looking to expand my knowledge and skills so I really appreciate your videos!
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Marco. Good lesson as usual, but what are your thoughts on some universal major and minor patterns that can be slid up and down frets to change key. I would rather gain muscle memory on fewer shapes, versus having unique shapes for every key. For example, my Am pentatonic, adapts to a lot of keys.
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I feel like a proper player/musician... not just plodding through the same songs over and over aain! Using the same old strums Don't get me wrong LOVED Learning over the rainbow/wonderful world... But its good to stretched ๐ I just make sure I watch your videos on as big a screen as I can, and keep rewinding each scale or tutorial until I get it, and I write EVERYTHING down in a notebook... then move on to the next one. So after a week of doing that everyday, I can get to anticipating chords, and even play some phrases off by heart ๐๐ป๐ Thank you ๐
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"To give a finger to each fret..." Now, that's what I'm talking about m8! ๐๐๐
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Teaching scales using an open string as the tonic makes more memorization. Teaching them as relations between each string that can start anywhere multiplies results, like learning movable chord shapes.
