In the Suzuki violin method, an enormous amount of time is spent learning the proper way to hold the instrument and bow.

Start your musical journey on good footing and learn to hold your ukulele. Heidi Swedberg: From ‘Seinfeld’ to Uke Clinician Holding The Uke The strumming hand can have longer nails, as they can serve as picks-or plectrums as they are known in British countries. If you are a lefty who has restrung, you probably know what to do-flip all diagrams and instructions to make them left-centric.Īll players will find things are much easier when the nails of the chording hand are cut very short.

Also, chord diagrams are always drawn in the standard right-handed fashion. For our purposes, I may refer to the strumming hand as the right hand and the chording as the left. Restringing is simple and can liberate a lefty from debilitating frustration.

They have two choices: to flip it around, play upside-down-backwards, and devise their own chord shapes, or to restring their instrument. But some lefties find expressing rhythm challenging with their non-dominant hand. Most people, even some lefties, will strum with their right hands and chord with their left. A Note On Hands & ‘Handedness’ on Ukuleleīoth hands have much work to do! One is the chording hand, holding down strings, while the other hand is the strumming or “speaking” hand. As soon as you master your first chords, strums, and songs you may find that you, too, are moved to share it with a friend. Be warned: The ukulele spirit is highly contagious. The ukulele is a social instrument, a song machine that magnetically draws people together to enjoy themselves. So, you want to learn how to play a ukulele? Welcome! The first thing to notice is all the encouraging, happy people around you, cheering you on and helping you out. Subscribe to Ukulele on BY HEIDI SWEDBERG | FROM THE FALL 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE

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