Five Steps to Ukulele Blues Mastery
October 29, 2008 · Print This Article
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.
If this is your first visit here, you can find the chords/tab in those posts by clicking on the song title in red.
Mmmm….blue-sy.
Got the faces down!
“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.
“..woke up about 11,
with hair like Brian May…”
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.
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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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
Thanks for the link, David.