Five Steps to Ukulele Blues Mastery

October 29, 2008

Step 1: Wake up in the morning and feel around for your shoes.

Step 2: Learn the chords C, F and G7. Play four bars of C, two bars of F, two bars of C, a bar of G7, a bar of F and two bars of C. Repeat.

Step 3: Noodle around with the blues scale.

Step 4: Learn the BB King blues faces.

Step 5: Read How to Play Blues Ukulele.

OK, you knew that was coming. If you haven’t got your hands on a copy yet, you’ve got until midnight on Friday to buy one at the discount price of $15. Click here to find out more.

EXPECTING TO FIND CHORDS/TABS? Try clicking where it says the name of the song in red under the video.
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10 Responses to “Five Steps to Ukulele Blues Mastery”

  1. Nelson on October 29th, 2008 9:08 pm

    Mmmm….blue-sy.
    Got the faces down!

  2. Emily on October 29th, 2008 9:41 pm

    “noodle around”…I’ll have to use that more often.

    I also learned to use the word “biscuit” in place of bottom or butt around storytime kids. My “magical ukulele” and I made an appearance at another library today. I’m turning into quite a rock star in the early literacy arena.

  3. zym on October 29th, 2008 10:47 pm

    “..woke up about 11,
    with hair like Brian May…”

  4. ukegorilla on October 29th, 2008 10:53 pm

    Buy “How to Play Blues Ukulele”! It’s so great and packed with cool riffs and all the info you need to play the blues, except the faces.

  5. Woodshed on October 30th, 2008 9:59 pm

    Nelson: Then you’re 3/4 of the way towards blues legendariness.

    Emily: Biscuit/butt. That’s just asking for confusion.

    zym: I’m supposed to be the hardest man on the estate (or something like that).

    ukegorilla: Thanks very much!

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  7. David Barnes on November 3rd, 2008 4:32 pm

    If you find it limiting to only play blues in C, try this:

    http://ukulazy.tumblr.com/post/54669196/the-12-bar-blues-progression-is-used-in-countless

  8. Woodshed on November 5th, 2008 7:16 pm

    Thanks for the link, David.

  9. Alice on April 15th, 2009 12:52 am

    I did step two, and it actually made me smile it sounded so snazzy!

  10. Woodshed on April 15th, 2009 9:53 pm

    Alice: You’re a fully qualified blues player now!

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