better formating? and a uke song.
Well hello there!A dedicated reader of mine (he called himself a viewer… lolwut?) told me that i need to work on formating for my blog, using such fragments as "paragraphs from hell" and "hard to see sentences", suggesting that i should also spell check my posts first. WHAT? How do i maintain a close and approachable writing style while adhering to such bounds and constraints such as those established 500 years ago, by the man, to keep us down? Well actually it isn’t that hard… I mean i am pretty much able to do it if i try… but don’t expect me to capitalize the word ‘i’, i will never do that. it is a principle thing.
Anyway. So i was thinking about what to post about and i could only think that my las post where i mentioned my Uke was pretty popular, so why not talk more about it. However to be honest, that post was mislabeled. It was less about the uke than other things but o well.
So my uke. i play it not horribly, based on several standpoints. More important than how good i am at it is how many people daily i can annoy with it. Which isn’t very many… i’m too shy. Woe is me. Anyway i could totally tell you about important chords in my opinion. Those would be all of them. But if you had to narrow it down i would learn these to start. C, Em, G, Am, F, Am, and if you feel ambitious E, D, and A. Why those… cuz it is almost all the major triads that’s why. God you are dense. well simply put if you know those you can basicly play anything in key of C, which is alot, i attribute the massive amount of music in C to the fact that musicians suck, and stopped learning music theory after 2 lessons. But regardless of that, there are many songs where you will find the chords online and the song is in C even if the original isn’t. This is because you and everyone else only plays in that key, so they transcribe the song to be easier to play. Easier may it be, but for people like me, that have no relative pitch register, it will never sound like the right song… so i only learn songs in the proper key (they were written there for a reason) Anyway the nice thing is once you learn the main chord shapes you can just shift your hand around the neck and have other chords. YAY. Like a Bb all you do is bar with your pointer finger the top fret and play an A under it, magic. There are a few more shapes that are important to use like Cm, Gm, Fm, Dm etc, but they are much less important for someone just starting in my opinion.
Also it is great to never use tabs. Tabs are for the weak, learn your chords, and fingering patterns, it is much more professional, and fun. i mean you could learn by tabs, but then you will never beable to see music for something, say "oh that is this chord progression, and then do an awesome improv riff." of course it will take lots of practice to do that, but you are on your way if you don’t use tabs. Also i kinda started that way out of nessecity. Guitar tabs are as plentiful as … as … something very plentiful, but uke tabs aren’t so if you use chords you can just re-purpose those guitar sheets that use chords as notation aswell. So it is fabulous. So it is now song time, everyone grab you ukes! i considered doing a super easy song like "somewhere over the rainbow," but i hate the easy version i know so i won’t. instead we are doing "You were meant for me"
The chords you need to know
idk..
its’ some kinda
C, i think
Cadd9
|0000|
|0P00|
|000R|
this is like
a G… G6 or something
|0000|
|0P0M|
Em
|0000|
|000P|
|00M0|
|0R00|
then there is D
|0000|
|MMM0| Bar that fret!
(i use my middle finger cuz it bends more, but use whatever is comfortable, just make sure the little A string rings out loud.)
so the verses use only these. i strum 1+4, then 3 then 2 then 1. pause then 2, 3, 1.
the main problem is a lack of sound depth in the uke so it won’t sound the same as with a guitar, but it should be recognizable.
play thusly
Cadd9 G6
i hear the clock, it’s six A.M.
C Em
i feel so far, from where i’ve been
Cadd9 G6
i got my eggs, my pancakes too,
C D
i got my maple syrup, everything but you
repeat that again, with the other words and that is the verse,
the course introduces 1 more chord
G
|0000|
|0P0M|
|00R0|
and it goes
C D G D Em
Dreams last for so long even after you’re gone.
C D G D Em
i know that you love me and soon you will see
C D Em
you were meant for me, and i was meant for you.
that transition between G and D is half a measure, all other transitions are
1 measure throughout.
Well i hope that was at least a little interesting.
Have fun y’all.
Bye-Q!
