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Fingerstyle on Ukulele?
Fingerstyle is the technique of playing by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (picking individual notes with a single plectrum called a flatpick) or strumming all the strings of the instrument in chords. The term is often used synonymously with fingerpicking. Music arranged for fingerstyle playing can include chords, arpeggios and other elements such as artificial harmonics, hammering on and pulling off with the fretting hand, using the body of the instrument percussively, and many other techniques. Fingerpicking is the standard technique on the classical or nylon string guitar.
On Ukulele, which uses strings and is set up like a small classica guitar. Classical guitar technique can be use. More common is a hybrid approach that incorporates elements of the classical fingerstyle and country fingerstyle or finger picking.
Fingerstyle Basics for Ukulele - Single String Exploration
Lesson Code: UL112
Published: 2005-01-02
Updated: 2011-10-17
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Exploring fingerstyle on ukulele. This lesson covers the common terms used for identifing the fingers used. And, presents a series of single string exercises for exploring and developing the techniques needed for this style.
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Fingerstyle on Ukulele - Single and Multi String Exploration
Lesson Code: UL112a
Published: 2011-10-17
Updated: 2011-10-17
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Exploring fingerstyle on ukulele. This lesson covers the common terms used for identifing the fingers used. And, presents a series of single and multi string exercises for exploring and developing the techniques needed for this style.
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This style of fingerpicking on guitar is called Travis Picking.
Travis Picking is a fingerstyle made famous by country guitar legand, Merle Travis. This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. Patterned picking is the use of "preset right-hand patterns" while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords.
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A Guide to Ukulele Chords - 2nd Edition
A Guide to Ukulele Chords is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced “oo-koo-lele”) chords. Covering the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know. A Guide to Ukulele Chords covers movable chord forms, rock chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and includes an introduction to 4-part, a.k.a “jazz” chords and more...
From a few “core, basic chord shapes and a understanding of how chords are constructed. Your chord vocabulary can be dramatically increased without memorizing countless chord shapes. There are too many chord shapes to memorize.
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