Guide In Playing Rhythms In Ukulele For Beginners
You are about to learn the basics of playing ukulele rhythms.
Rhythm is one of the most important things you can learn in the ukulele. First, you will learn how to play strokes on the ukulele and right-hand technique, which is what you use to play your ukulele and left if you are left-handed.
Tips to Improve Your Ukulele Rhythms
Play in the Region of the Strings: Well, about that buddy, watch out for the broadness of your strum. Do not let your hand and forearm go too high or too low! It's about using free movements but precise, which will help you keep your pulse.
The Wrist in Motion: Like the forearm, the wrist should always move, fluidly and with natural movements for your hand.
Beginner’s Error: Always play all chord strings. Do not insist on playing the 4 strings of the ukulele at the same time in each strumming movement. You can only play 2 or 3 when you go up, and the same when you go down.
Playing Ukulele Rhythms
If you are right-handed, the left hand will handle the mast, and the right hand will strum or press the strings. If you are left-handed, then just the opposite.
Simply play the strings from the fourth to the first with the thumb of your right hand. It is a mnemonic rule, the reentrant tuning of a ukulele resembles this phrase throwing it a little imagination.
The simple act of playing the strings in the air is a chord. As it does not have much merit, we will make our first chord where our left hand intervenes. We just have to press the first string on the third fret (this is note C). In fact, the finger should be in the gap between the second and third fret, as close as possible to the third without being on top of it, and exert sufficient and necessary pressure to sound correct. Insufficient pressure will sound off or not sound. Excessive pressure causes deflections. It requires practice. When we do this, what we really do is shorten the length of the rope. By shortening the length of the string we increase its frequency of oscillation, and therefore its sound is more acute.
If we play the strings again in the air we will be playing the C chord. Normally you will find chord diagrams which indicate graphically that you have to press frets. You can look at the article of chords if there is any doubt.
To practice, we can take any chord and play string by string trying to be as accurate as possible. We can go making several combinations of strings and fingers. It is important to go slowly and control the movement at all times. We can complicate a bit by playing two strings at the same time using two strings. You can try combinations of thumb and index, thumb and heart, index and heart, etc.
To strum, we must make a rhythmic movement with the right hand. The most basic strum is to play the 4 strings from top to bottom, and from bottom to top with the tip of the index finger (if possible, with the nail). There are countless rhythmic patterns with which to make our strumming.
As we have said, the most basic pattern is to play rhythmically (for example "blacks") and we are exchanging the movement up and down. Rhythmic patterns are noted using the symbol to indicate that we are strumming upwards or upstroke, and the symbol to indicate that it is downwards or downstroke. We can make all the combinations that occur to us, such as down-down-up-down, combine different musical figures, insert silences, etc. The limit is our imagination. There are more complicated strumming techniques such as rolls or syncopated patterns, but we better leave it for another day. With what I have explained, you only need to learn 4 or 5 basic chords to play many songs with which to practice your strummings.
Practice changing chords, at first very slowly until your fingers "learn" the positions (muscle memory). In the end, they will leave you without thinking. Increase the speed progressively. As for strumming you can go making all the variations that occur to you.
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