Uke Minute 2 – Basic Strum

Posted January 21st, 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.

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10 Comments

  1. Nemo, January 21, 2008:

    great work

  2. Lee, January 21, 2008:

    Did you seriously mention the Konami code? hahah

  3. Fred Miu, January 22, 2008:

    i love the matrix strum comment ryan haha

  4. Iain, January 23, 2008:

    That strum could carve a turkey.

  5. Tad, February 9, 2008:

    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!

  6. Jane, July 12, 2009:

    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!

  7. Zach, October 9, 2009:

    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

  8. rayan, January 6, 2010:

    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.

  9. James, March 15, 2010:

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

  10. hfhj, April 25, 2010:

    same problem :(

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