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Today we are going to talk about how to make a cover more unique. When you are first learning how to play the goal is to play the song exactly like you hear it. It improves your rhythm, timing, pitch, consistency, it improves every aspect of your playing, even theory without you knowing it. After awhile though you will develop your own style, your own vibe, and applying that unique aspect, the aspects that make you who you are to the song can make a cover a lot more memorable.   

Last time I was at NAMM was 2020 right before covid changed the world and there were 3 girls playing ukulele back to back to back and all three of them played "Bad Girl" by Billie Eilish. Well, that was awkward... except the 3rd girl did a totally different version of the song and when compared to the other two that were exactly like the radio you could see how powerful it is when an artist puts themself into the cover. To fully do this you will need to develop your own style and find what makes your voice unique, which will take time, but here are 7 tips that will get you there much faster. This includes changing the strum pattern, adding fingerpicking, using jazz chords, adding arpeggios, changing the bpm, all kinds of things you can do to make the cover sound more like your own creation, while keeping the heart and soul of the song.

Will improve

  • Modifying covers
  • Fingerpicking
  • Arpeggios
  • Understanding of chord progressions
  • Transposition
  • Jazz chords

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How to Make a Cover Your Own More Unique, More Your Style - Ukulele

New Tutorials every Wednesday and Saturday Today we are going to talk about how to make a cover more unique. When you are first learning how to play the goal is to play the song exactly like you hear it. It improves your rhythm, timing, pitch, consistency, it improves every aspect of your playing, even theory without you knowing it. After awhile though you will develop your own style, your own vibe, and applying that unique aspect, the aspects that make you who you are to the song can make a cover a lot more memorable. Last time I was at NAMM was 2020 right before covid changed the world and there were 3 girls playing ukulele back to back to back and all three of them played "Bad Girl" by Billie Eilish. Well, that was awkward... except the 3rd girl did a totally different version of the song and when compared to the other two that were exactly like the radio you could see how powerful it is when an artist puts themself into the cover. To fully do this you will need to develop your own style and find what makes your voice unique, which will take time, but here are 7 tips that will get you there much faster. This includes changing the strum pattern, adding fingerpicking, using jazz chords, adding arpeggios, changing the bpm, all kinds of things you can do to make the cover sound more like your own creation, while keeping the heart and soul of the song. How to transpose a song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOscP3rktLg Tabs - https://www.patreon.com/TenThumbsPro Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tenthumbsproductions 1-1 Lessons - tenthumbsproductions@gmail.com. Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tenthumbspro/?hl=en #TenThumbsUkulele #Ukulele #UkuleleTutorial How to Make a Cover Your Own More Unique, More Your Style - Ukulele

Comments

Sean Rune

Awesome, thank you Tyler. Nice shirt 🦈 🥺

James Reinhardt

Love it! You always offer respect to all regardless of our levels :)