Jordan Neary
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Hi. I've been learning the Uku for a couple of months and loving it. Been going at my own pace just playing with it now wanting to learn a song. Started with 'Over the rainbow' off of youtube.
I'm struggling a bit with the Island strum, I'm very comfortable with it but after watching the lesson I think I have the chord change at a wrong point in the strum.
It's supposed to be D-D-U-U-D-U (I think) and for this one you substitute the first down stroke for a G string pluck.
My problem is I shift the sequence to D-U-U-D-U-D with the last down stroke being a g string pluck.
It was just the way I learned it without realising it was wrong and it's very tricky for me to change chords before I pluck G now, as G was the last note before I changed chords.
My question is:
Is my understanding of this (What I think I've gotten wrong and the correct way I should be doing it) correct? And how important is it that I correct this issue before I continue or is it fine this way?
Thanks! If clarification is needed or a recording just shout.
I'm struggling a bit with the Island strum, I'm very comfortable with it but after watching the lesson I think I have the chord change at a wrong point in the strum.
It's supposed to be D-D-U-U-D-U (I think) and for this one you substitute the first down stroke for a G string pluck.
My problem is I shift the sequence to D-U-U-D-U-D with the last down stroke being a g string pluck.
It was just the way I learned it without realising it was wrong and it's very tricky for me to change chords before I pluck G now, as G was the last note before I changed chords.
My question is:
Is my understanding of this (What I think I've gotten wrong and the correct way I should be doing it) correct? And how important is it that I correct this issue before I continue or is it fine this way?
Thanks! If clarification is needed or a recording just shout.
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