Introduction to ukulele

Ukulele, a Hawaiian mini guitar, is generally translated into ukulele in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and is generally called ukulele in Chinese mainland. It is a four-string Hawaiian plucked instrument, invented in Portugal and prevailing in Hawaii, belonging to the family of guitar instruments. The following is the basic model essay of ukulele that I collected and sorted out. Welcome to learn from it.

Introduction to ukulele (1)

What is ukulele?

Ukulele translated into Hawaiian guitar and Creary, transliterated as ukulele, ukulele, ukulele and ukoro, referred to as Uku and Uke? Yes, so many names are all about the same thing. Never mind whether that name is appropriate in Chinese, just use the word You Creary.

All kinds of strange shapes of ukuleles are very cute. As can be seen from the picture, it is very similar to a guitar on the whole, the only difference is that two strings are missing, which greatly reduces the learning cost! Moreover, its timbre is crisp and refreshing, and the rhythm of playing is lively and carefree. It can be said that it is a must-have product for home travel. If you are interested in its origin or background, you can go to Baidu Encyclopedia-ukulele to find out.

Why do you want to play You Creary?

There is no entry threshold and the learning cost is extremely low.

As long as 10 minutes, you can pop up a complete song. If you can play the guitar, you will play more. There are two fewer strings than the guitar, and the learning cost plummets, but the playing effect is similar to that of the guitar. You don't need to learn music theory, and you don't need to learn systematically. You can find a score to practice what you want to sing. Many young girls can learn, so can you. As the saying goes, haste makes waste, but Creary is really fast.

Finger friendship

Most ukulele strings are nylon strings, which are painless to press and particularly friendly to fingers. It's not as hard to press as a guitar. Playing for ten minutes will hurt your fingers. Of course, when you practice for a week, you will find a cocoon on your finger, and it won't hurt if you press it.

Small and portable, it can be used in various occasions.

Miniaturization also applies to guitars. You can hold it with one arm, and carrying a small bag is no trouble at all. Students get together for dinner and sing a song to arouse the atmosphere; There is a deep feeling on the edge of the lawn; The annual meeting of the company will be a surprise; The gap between debugging code can also be a song to cultivate sentiment; Roadside, subway entrance, put a bowl?

How to play ukulele quickly

I was lured into this pit by my boss. After playing his piano for two days, I really couldn't put it down and couldn't wait to join in. Since then, my life has been more joyful, haha. According to my experience, the following are quick ways to get started:

1, you should have a piano.

Ukuleles in the market can be divided into three types: soprano, concert and tenor, which are referred to as S-type, C-type and T-type respectively. In fact, there is another type B, but because the sound is too low, novices should not consider it.

The S-shape is the smallest, the length of the piano is 2 1 inch, and the timbre is the clearest. You can buy it for your friends, and you can use it for your sister Macey. But because it is relatively small, it is suitable for playing and singing, not for fingering (playing and singing means playing and singing, fingering means just playing and not singing).

C-type is moderate, the piano is 23 inches long, and both fingering and singing can be done. Girls are very suitable for this model, and boys should also consider their height. It's not very harmonious for a tall man to use this.

T-shape is the longest, the piano is 26 inches long, and the timbre is slightly lower. Most boys choose this.

You must learn to tune.

Tuning is to adjust the tone (key) of each string to the tone (key) it should emit. Because ukulele's strings are nylon strings instead of metal strings, it is easy to be inaccurate when playing, so it should be adjusted frequently. People with perfect obsessive-compulsive disorder should adjust before playing.

I entered the piano in a treasure, and the store gave me a Andhadhun. Clamp the tuner on the piano head, then wave each string in turn, and observe whether the scale letters on the tuner correspond correctly and display in green.

3. Attitude

The ukulele is so cute that you can play with it. You can sit, lie and stand to play. But the farther back, the more important the posture.

Hold the piano with the inside of your right elbow, so that you won't run around when playing, but you can't let your right hand lose its flexibility. In short, it takes skillful efforts to explore slowly.

There are also two kinds of left hands, one is to hold the piano in the tiger's mouth and the other is to hang it in the tiger's mouth.

The main points of the posture of the left and right hands above are my personal experience. Other places, such as pressing strings, whether it means pressing strings with your stomach or with your fingertips (fingertip is recommended), I don't think there is much problem. How to make it comfortable.

But I also encountered a big pit during the practice: that is, when I dial four or three strings with my thumb, I always meet another one.

4. invincible quadrant

What is a chord? Most people play a musical instrument, and the first sentence must be: Where is this duo? Yes, chords can be regarded as a combination of notes such as Dodd's beauty. If you hold down the chord with your left hand, you will make a pleasant sound when you pluck the chord with your right hand. Our goal is to get started quickly and play the songs we want to sing quickly, so there is no need to know these details at first, and then go deeper when we learn the bottleneck.

These four chords are called invincible quartets. They are invincible because you can play many songs if you master them. If you don't believe me, you can see a lot of music scores by searching for the keyword "ukulele invincible quartet"

In addition, G chords are often used, which sounds similar to G7, so if you press G in the early stage, you will use G7 instead. It took a long time to get used to pressing the G ring finger and not reaching T _ T. In short, practice these four chords with your left hand first.

5. Rhythm and strumming

What is rhythm again? In fact, it is the rhythm. It moves every time, or it moves every time to impress. . There is still no need to understand. Each of us can beat time unless we have no sense of music at all. If you can beat time, you can play a simpler rhythm directly.

Step 6 practice

After getting started, all you have to do is practice! Practice after dinner, during debugging and after getting up. You should find the kind of music you really want to learn to play and sing, so that you will be particularly motivated to learn and make rapid progress in a short time. If you prefer fingering, it is not as simple as playing and singing. Playing and singing can cover up your defects in playing with voice, while fingering is simply plucking the strings, so a song has won countless times.

I learned it from playing ukulele.

1, learn a thing simply and rudely, grasp the general direction and don't stick to the details, practice directly to make the effect, then find the shortcomings, check the leaks and fill the gaps, and study the details.

2, difficult because there is no beginning, so it will not be difficult to start.

Learning new skills will open a window for your life.

As for your interest, just make a little progress every day. There is no need to be greedy or eager for quick success. Years of accumulation will make quantitative change to qualitative change.

5, rookie has the fun of rookie.

Introduction to ukulele (2)

First, holding the piano and playing posture

The correct posture of holding and playing the piano can make everyone play more comfortably and the sound will be purer!

Maintain posture

There are two postures in ukulele: sitting posture and standing posture.

The head of the piano faces the left side of the body and tilts slightly upward.

The piano body is placed in front of the chest, and the right hand is rolled up from the front section of the piano body for the second time, and the piano body is held with the fingertips of four fingers except the thumb.

The forearm grips the front and rear of the piano body, the left hand holds the piano head on the palm side, and the thumb gently holds the piano neck from above, so that the tiger's mouth is attached to the back of the piano neck and the wrist is kept straight.

Right hand posture:

Wrist slightly raised, fingers half clenched, each joint lifted outward.

Thumb in front, other fingers in back. One side of the thumb tip is pulled outward, and the force point is at the root of the finger.

The fingertips of other fingers hook the string upwards, and the force point is also at the root of the finger.

Thumb winding method: the other four fingers of the right hand gently hold the piano body, and the thumb plucks the strings from top to bottom, and then stops on the adjacent strings below.

Left-handed chord posture

Generally can be divided into two kinds.

For example, when climbing the grid, the left hand can adopt the following string pressing posture:

When pressing the most commonly used chords, the thumb can be naturally placed on the edge of the neck.

For example, the following is the pressing posture of the left hand when playing Em chords.

Second, understand the four-line spectrum.

Four-line notation is the universal ukulele notation. It consists of four parallel horizontal lines, representing four Creary strings.

From right to left, ukuleles are divided into one string, two strings, three strings and four strings.

On the four-line spectrum, the top horizontal line represents a string, and from top to bottom there are one string, two strings, three strings and four strings.

In the above four-line spectrum,? x？ On which string represents which string to pluck with your right finger;

The number on the four-line spectrum represents the number of products that should be held down by the left finger.

For example, the red box above indicates that we need to hold four strings and two frets with the fingers of our left hand and encircle the four strings with the fingers of our right hand.

The bar above is 4/4 beat, that is, four beats per bar, and the quarter note is taken as one beat, so the eighth note is half beat.

Third, the ukulele chord &; Rhythmic type

The chord diagram of ukulele is very intuitive and easy to understand. Take the most commonly used c chord as an example.

We just need to follow the fingering chart of the chord chart to find the strings and the number of products that the left finger needs to press. Holding down a string and three frets with your fingers is a C chord.

In addition to the chords controlled by the left hand, you need to master the rhythm of the right hand.

Rhythm can be divided into decomposition rhythm and sweeping rhythm. When looking at the rhythm, you need to pay attention to the duration of each tone. When practicing, you can turn on the metronome and practice with the beat.

Third, common playing skills: cutting the sound and playing the board.

Use two Chinese characters to represent the pronunciation of the third Chinese character.

Synchronisation is a very common technique, that is, brushing the strings with the right hand and muffling the sound with the palm of your hand, so that the whole song has a stronger sense of rhythm and a clearer beat.

When you start practicing, you can brush the string down slowly with your index finger, and gently suffocate the sound that just popped up with the palm of your right hand.

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Bouncing board is a technique to beat the piano body when playing, which can increase the rhythm of the whole song.

For example, the above part can be divided into four steps:

1. Pull down the fourth string with your thumb.

2. The index finger and middle finger hook the second string and the first string at the same time.

3. The index finger and the middle finger return to the second and first strings at the same time, and gently collide with the fingerboard near the sound hole ring, making a tapping sound.

4. The index finger and middle finger hook the second string and the first string at the same time.

Introduction to ukulele (3)

It is difficult for people without any musical foundation to learn musical instruments by themselves, but Creary, a small instrument from Hawaii, is called? The easiest western stringed instrument to use? There are only four strings, which are very easy to use. As long as you master some simple chords (C, Am, F, G), you can quickly learn to play and sing most popular songs. If you practice hard, you can achieve the goal of starting from scratch to proficiency in one month. So this instrument is called the easiest to use.

First of all, let's meet Ukulele, whose Chinese translation is You Creary or You Keli, also known as Hawaiian mini guitar.

Some ukulele structures are different in the shape of the piano body, the style of the piano head and the method of tying strings, but most of them are similar.

The shape of the piano head is generally classical, ordinary guitar or special-shaped piano head.

The knob corresponds to four strings and is responsible for adjusting the pitch of each string.

The strings are generally nylon and steel strings, while the expensive ones are carbon strings and titanium strings.

The timbre of nylon strings is soft and pure, which is suitable for solo and not for sweeping strings. If you sweep the strings, the timbre will make people feel very uncoordinated. Playing classical guitars always uses nylon strings, which are thick and soft, with little tension, little pressure on the fingertips and comfortable fingers.

The timbre of steel strings is crisp and loud, suitable for accompaniment. As soon as the strings are swept, the sound is layered. Folk music accompaniment or piano fingering solo mostly uses steel strings, which not only makes the accompaniment pleasant, but also has its own unique charm. But the steel string is thin and tight, and the opponent is more oppressive. However, as long as you insist on playing the piano, you will definitely give birth to cocoons and get used to it.

In normal posture, the string from top to bottom is 4.3.2. 1, and the corresponding timbre is 5 136, and the volume is called GCEA.

The pillow is used to lift and fix the strings (usually with grooves), and the empty strings are equivalent to the zero order when playing the piano.

The slender strip in the middle is the neck of the piano, and the fingerboard on it is divided into characters. Generally, there will be marked points in the characters of 3.5.7.10.12.15 (some edges will also have them).

The sound hole on the piano box is mainly responsible for amplifying the sound.

The lower chord pillow is mainly used for lifting strings.

When buying a ukulele, you should choose a piano that suits your body shape.

2 1 inch soprano (type s)? Light and compact, easy to carry, suitable for playing and singing;

23-inch concert (type C)? Fingers are easy to adapt; Performance range is higher than 2 1 inch. It is the first choice for most players.

26-inch tenor (T-shaped)? This fingerboard has a large spacing, so boys prefer this one. Wider range, clear bass, more suitable for novice and advanced players fingering.

You can choose your favorite size according to your body shape and preferences. New friends, if there is a music shop around, can go to the store to experience it.

After choosing your favorite piano, the next step is tuning.

Pitch is the premise of playing. Only by ensuring the pitch of our empty string can we play. Generally, a new piano or one that has just changed strings will have an adaptation period of about one week. During this period, the strings are easily out of tune, which is caused by the material and ductility of the strings. The application process is to keep it in a stable state, so everyone should tune it frequently during this time. Once the adaptation period is over, it is not so easy to get out of tune.

If tuning, it is recommended to download tuning software. Both Apple and Android are easy to find. Apple's ukulele tuner and Android's guitar tuna,

The tone is good, so how should I hold the piano?

The correct posture of holding the piano is the basis of advanced technology in the future. Share it briefly, mainly for beginners.

Fix the piano body with the right upper arm, the inside of the forearm and the right side of the chest to keep the flexibility of the elbow joint and wrist joint. Wrist flexibility is very important when playing, especially when playing rhythm. When I was a beginner, I found it difficult to stabilize the piano. When clamping, I feel that my elbow and wrist joints are inflexible and need more practice and adaptation. Hold the left hand in the corresponding position to be played, and the thumb is behind the corresponding position. In the left hand posture, first straighten our fingers, and the thumb is parallel to the other four fingers. When supporting the neck with a tiger's head, the bones of the thumb joint should be supported in the middle of the back of the neck, and the thumb should be perpendicular to the neck as far as possible, and the thumb should not be bent.

After knowing the posture of holding the piano, we need to know the staff of ukulele.

Take Xiaoxing as an example, the quadruplicate spectrum is 1.2.3.4 from top to bottom, but according to our normal piano-holding posture, ukulele is actually 1.2.3.4 from bottom to top, and vice versa. Please pay attention.

Four-line spectrum refers to which line has numbers written on it, which represents which line the right hand should play. The numbers above represent people. For example, the number 0 means that you don't have to press the character to be empty, and the number 3 means that your left hand should hold down the fret on the corresponding line.

As shown in the four-line score of Little Star, 00 means that the right hand plays the empty string sound of 3 strings twice, 33 means that the left hand holds down the 3 frets of 2 strings, and the right hand plays the 2 frets twice. The next 00 is in the position of 1 string, which means that the right hand plays the empty string sound of 1 string twice, and then the number 3 means that the left hand holds down the third fret of 2 strings and the right hand plays the second fret once. And so on, you can learn little stars in a few minutes.

The melody below the piano stands for roll call 1 155665, which is do do sol la sol.