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Today we are going to take your playing from "wow" to "wooooowwwwww" with these professional sounding chord changes. This intermediate ukulele tutorial will focus on better ukulele rhythm to take from some basic sounding strumming to play ukulele like Jake Shimabukuro and James Hill or even some of your favorite acoustic guitar legends like Doc Watson and Tommy Emmanuel. These are little tricks that you can use to make a regular old G C D G progression sound amazingly professional, intricate, unique and interesting.   

When going from a chord to another chord you can use scales, riffs, arpeggios and chromatic movements to tie the chords together, in this lesson we will explore all of them. From taking a minor chord, suspending it and bringing back to the minor then hitting a chord tone passing to the open G, to simply moving chromatically from D to C# but only playing those one specific notes to highlight the change. We will also take a look at a concept called walking bass, in that case we are playing what the bass player would typically play to make the changes more interesting. When a bass player changes from a G chord to a C chord for example he will walk through the scale from the G to the A to the B to the C, playing chord tones, making the change both interesting and dynamic.   

We will explore all of these with these ideas with three different example in three different keys, two major keys and one minor key, to show you how it works, we will start with the original chord progression and move to the more advanced version, I will walk you through my process verbally explaining every detail, very note, every thing you need to know to experiment and apply these ideas to your own chord progressions. Use these ideas for covers that you already play, as well as in your own song writing!  

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Change Chords Like a Pro!!! Ukulele Rhythm Tutorial

New Ukulele Tutorails every Monday, susbcribe and learn! Today we are going to take your playing from "wow" to "wooooowwwwww" with these professional sounding chord changes. This intermediate ukulele tutorial will focus on better ukulele rhythm to take from some basic sounding strumming to play ukulele like Jake Shimabukuro and James Hill or even some of your favorite acoustic guitar legends like Doc Watson and Tommy Emmanuel. These are little tricks that you can use to make a regular old G C D G progression sound amazingly professional, intricate, unique and interesting. When going from a chord to another chord you can use scales, riffs, arpeggios and chromatic movements to tie the chords together, in this lesson we will explore all of them. From taking a minor chord, suspending it and bringing back to the minor then hitting a chord tone passing to the open G, to simply moving chromatically from D to C# but only playing those one specific notes to highlight the change. We will also take a look at a concept called walking bass, in that case we are playing what the bass player would typically play to make the changes more interesting. When a bass player changes from a G chord to a C chord for example he will walk through the scale from the G to the A to the B to the C, playing chord tones, making the change both interesting and dynamic. We will explore all of these with these ideas with three different example in three different keys, two major keys and one minor key, to show you how it works, we will start with the original chord progression and move to the more advanced version, I will walk you through my process verbally explaining every detail, very note, every thing you need to know to experiment and apply these ideas to your own chord progressions. Use these ideas for covers that you already play, as well as in your own song writing! Tabs for all our tutorials here: https://www.patreon.com/TenThumbsPro Let's see you play it! https://www.instagram.com/tenthumbspro/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tenthumbspro... Website: https://www.tenthumbspro.com/ Private Lessons Inquiries: email tenthumbsproductions@gmail.com T-Shirts: https://www.etsy.com/shop/tenthumbspro #Ukulele #UkuleleTutorial # Change Chords Like a Pro!!! Ukulele Rhythm Tutorial

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Ian Bertie

Probably a silly question, but for this chord progression do you only use the G scale notes for all the changes or could you use the C and D scale notes also? (the first example of the 3 GCDG).

Tyler Austenfeld

That is a good question, in the first example you would use just the G scale because we are in the key of G. In the next example it is D minor we would only use the D minor scale and the last one is C and you would only use the C scale. You don't want to change the scale unless you are changing the key. There are exceptions, but they are quite advanced and really would deserve a video of their own to show how to use them properly. Strum on!

Banjo-Bard

this was really great! I’m going to have to rewatch it a few times to really get it. Also....I can’t believe you did a full lesson without a spontaneous string bend....