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Learn to play ukulele 18 Jun 2015

A Question of Fingernails

Tamás Gáll

If there can be a thorny question, perhaps there can be a nail-related one too :). And no, this is not about nail salons :D. Over the past few years I have received several emails about “fingernail policy”, so I thought the topic deserved a short post. Interestingly, questions have come from both di…

Learn to play ukulele 17 Nov 2014

All Ukulele Chords (for Intermediate Players)

Tamás Gáll

You probably know the joke: "How many push-ups can Chuck Norris do? All of them." Now we are going to try to be Chuck Norris and put all the chords into a single chart. It may be easier for more advanced players, but I certainly do not want to discourage beginners either: anyone who understands and…

Learn to play ukulele 11 Aug 2016

Chord progressions

Tamás Gáll

Beginners and advanced players alike often ask the same question: what should I practise, and where do I go from here? More experienced players may find it easier to come up with ideas, but beginners who are still discovering the mysteries of chords can easily get stuck. I found a very useful little…

Learn to play ukulele 04 Jun 2022

Chord sequences for warming up

Tamás Gáll

I would like to show you two chord sequences in the next video. I “developed” them a few years ago because I became bored with strumming the same basic chords as a warm-up or whenever I tried a new instrument. In these sequences we alternate between two chord shapes, and it does not matter where — m…

Learn to play ukulele 25 May 2018

Chords 01: C major

Tamás Gáll

We are starting a new series whose aim is to teach complete beginners as many chords as possible. In today's video we learn C major, the simplest chord and probably the one with which almost every beginner starts learning chords. Over the course of the series we will go through the basic chords, pro…

Learn to play ukulele 07 Sep 2018

Chords 02: A minor

Tamás Gáll

In this part of our series for beginners we learn A minor. LikeC major, A minor is not a difficult chord; it is easy both to play and to remember. Like every chord, A minor can be fingered in several different ways. We will learn the simplest version, written as 2 0 0 0. This means pressing the seco…

Learn to play ukulele 01 Dec 2018

Chords 03: F major

Tamás Gáll

In this part of our beginner series – followingC major and A minor – we learn F major. This is the first chord that requires more than one finger – two, to be exact. If C major and A minor already feel secure, it is time to put the middle and index fingers to work at the same time. It is not a diffi…

Learn to play ukulele 25 Feb 2019

Chords 04: G major

Tamás Gáll

The fourth basic chord is G major. Add it to the C major, F majorandA minorwe have already learned, and we will be able to play quite a large number of songs – at least accompany them with chords. Compared with the first three chords, G major initially seems the most complicated, because the first t…

Learn to play ukulele 24 Mar 2019

Chords 05: C major, A minor, F major and G major

Tamás Gáll

We have already learned four chords. I hope you have managed to memorise how to fretC major,A minor, F majorand G major . These are excellent basic chords with which to begin learning because they appear in songs constantly. There are very few songs in which at least one of the four does not occur.…

Learn to play ukulele 21 Jun 2019

Chords 06: D major

Tamás Gáll

We have completed the first four chords and hopefully can now strum C major, A minor, F major and G major with confidence. The series continues with D major, taking us into the category of slightly more difficult chords. The challenge with G major was forcing the fingers into a somewhat unusual hand…

Learn to play ukulele 09 Jul 2019

Chords 07: E major

Tamás Gáll

This may be the first chord that makes beginner ukulele players genuinely wince. However we twist our fingers, E major is simply not very comfortable to fret. There is no need to be frightened of it, of course; it simply requires a little more patient practice than something like C major. In the vid…

Learn to play ukulele 30 Jul 2019

Chords 08: A major

Tamás Gáll

After the difficulties of E major, we get a little relaxation and learn A major. If we had arranged these chords strictly by difficulty, A major really should have come before E major, but never mind – this is the order we ended up with :). Anyone who can already fret F major and A minor will have a…