Hi everybody, this is my first post on the wonderful UU forum - my name is T. J. and I just got my first (and second) ukulele this summer. When I first started, playing the E chord seemed impossible, so I started off using the "thumb on the fourth fret" method. After looking around the internet, I realized that was "cheating" and didn't want to pick up a bad habit, so from then on, I would usually try to switch it to an E7 or use the 4447 formation. Unfortunately, they didn't always sound good with the song, so usually I would just skip over tabs that had a lot of E chords.
Anyway, today I was trying a new song and one of the main chords was Eb, which I wasn't familiar with. So I looked up how to form it and it seemed pretty easy. Then, halfway through playing the song the second time, I realized, DUH! the Eb is just the E one fret down. So I tried a "real E" (index on 1 and ring finger on 2,3,4) and it sounded great. So now maybe I can go back and try all those tabs I skipped!
I guess the moral of the story is that if you try a chord or strum that just won't work, don't abandon it forever - give it a try once a month or so and maybe you will surprise yourself with how much you have improved.
Anyway, today I was trying a new song and one of the main chords was Eb, which I wasn't familiar with. So I looked up how to form it and it seemed pretty easy. Then, halfway through playing the song the second time, I realized, DUH! the Eb is just the E one fret down. So I tried a "real E" (index on 1 and ring finger on 2,3,4) and it sounded great. So now maybe I can go back and try all those tabs I skipped!
I guess the moral of the story is that if you try a chord or strum that just won't work, don't abandon it forever - give it a try once a month or so and maybe you will surprise yourself with how much you have improved.
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