Ukulele Lesson - Compose Your Own Melodies

Ukulele Lesson - Compose Your Own Melodies

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In this lesson you will learn to play a melody on your ukulele! You do not have to read sheet music. It is time to learn to play Mary Had A Little Lamb with an easy instruction and tablature notation!

This might be pointing out the obvious, but you have to listen to the song before you try to work it out and before you even pick up your Ukulele for sale in uk. Try to pick out the structure of the song, when the chords change, when sections are repeated. See if you can relate the song to one you know already. Many songs are structured in a very similar way. If you can relate it to a song you know already, you're off to a head start.

Y: Yard fun: Go to your yard (or a park) and have some fun. Have someone hide peanuts in their shells for you to find. Play tag. Play hide and go seek. Run around the perimeter of the yard as fast as you can. Now skip around the perimeter of the house. Rake up a pile of leaves and bury yourself. Try to use all the space in the yard for fun activities.

On some sites you will find ukulele tablature which works the same way. The only difference is that ukulele tabs have four lines as an ukulele usually has four strings.

Learn how to read Ukulele tab even if your friends advise you to play by the ear. It's true that many people can play ukes great without knowing how to read tabs, but you should always remember that knowledge means power and that you will have a major advantage over the others.

Now you will learn to interpret this notation. The digit before the slash indicates the fret to press down. The digit after the slash shows you Ukulele for sale which string to play.

This ukulele tab notation doesn't indicate the rhythm of the song. As you know the melody and maybe can sing it I guess you will feel how long the notes should be.

We haven't used the fourth string in this melody Ukulele but you can listen to the two notes 3/2 and 0/4. These two notes should have the same pitch if you have tuned the ukulele correctly.