Pick some easy songs that use 3-4 chords to begin with and rather than strum them, fingerpick your way through using the pattern you’ve just learned. Now you’ve got a simple ukulele fingerpicking pattern, apply it to some songs that you know the chords for. To combat this slow down to the speed that you can comfortably make the change and then speed the whole thing up as you get better. You’ll probably find that initially you stutter a little at the point of the chord change.

Play through the pattern above for C and then immediately switch to the F and play the pattern. Once you’ve got this solid, try and alternate between the C and the F. Again this shouldn’t be any trouble for you if you’re comfortable with the pattern. This should be easy for you, but again go for pure consistency. Let’s start with the ever popular C chord (third finger of the third fret, first string) playing the same pattern as before. Once you’re comfortable with the pattern and your picking hand is doing what it should you can start to introduce a few chords. Only increase your speed once you’re completely comfortable. Play slowly to begin with, aiming for a steady tempo that keeps the spacing between notes equal. That will give you a good starting position. To get your hand into a good position, put your fingers and thumb on to the strings that they will be playing then just lift them off slightly. If you need it, here’s my guide to help you know which string is which. Your thumb will play the G, your index finger plays the E and your middle finger plays the A. The tab above shows the sequence of G E A and just repeats it. To start with, we’re not going to use our fretting hand so just let it relax, I want you take all your focus away from that hand. I’ve created some simple ukulele tab below ( if you don’t know how to read ukulele tab, head this way) for you to follow.

1.2 Introducing chords into fingerpickingįor the purpose of this post and to keep it as simple as possible, we’re going to stick with just one pattern which uses your thumb, index and middle finger.

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