Uke Minute 2 – Basic Strum

January 21, 2008

In this episode of Uke Minutes Aldrine Guerrero teaches you the basic strum on the ukulele. We’re working on getting our videos to play more smoothly. Let us know if this one is still giving problems.

If this video is giving you problems, or if you want to see Aldrine in (near) HD. check out the Vimeo version.

Comments

This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.

159 ResponsesUke+Minute+2+-+Basic+Strum2008-01-21+08%3A08%3A32rayan to “Uke Minute 2 – Basic Strum”

Nemo on January 21st, 2008 6:40 am

great work
Lee on January 21st, 2008 5:23 pm

Did you seriously mention the Konami code? hahah
Fred Miu on January 22nd, 2008 12:46 am

i love the matrix strum comment ryan haha
Iain on January 23rd, 2008 7:39 pm

That strum could carve a turkey.
Tad on February 9th, 2008 4:03 am

It’d be awesome if you could do a uke minute where you explain how to do a fan stroke…

From what I’ve seen, looking around on the web, you’re one of the best people out there at breaking things down and making them seem easy/possible.

Thanks!
Jane on July 12th, 2009 3:49 pm

Since I just got a ukulele, it was quite helpful that you indicated that it is my wrist, not my whole arm, that is supposed to work while strumming. That helped me more than I can say. It might sound like a little thing, but beginners have no clue. Thanks!
Zach on October 9th, 2009 11:36 am

I can’t seem to get this.. Maybe its my cheap ukulele strings, but it really hurts the side of my finger and i keep skipping over strings when I’m doing it which makes it sound really bad
ukeunderground on January 6th, 2010 9:39 pm

Try curling your finger a little more so instead of pointing at yourself you are almost creating an open parenthesis with your finger and using the top of your nail to strum.
James on March 15th, 2010 7:05 pm

My finger keeps getting caught up with the bottom and top strings