sailboats
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Two things have helped me memorize the Uke fret board! And the first one is power chords! (side note – power chords are the 1st and 5th notes of a scale. Ex. C power chord is CG and can work out to 0033(GCGC))
Why is this helpful? Simple there is a connection between the 4th & 3rd strings to the 2nd & 1st strings. If 0033 is GCGC then 1144 are G#C# G#C# and 2255 is ADAD.
You can follow this pattern up the fret board! By memorizing the 4th & 3rd strings I have in effect memorized the 1st and 2nd!
The second thing that has helped me is the few spaces on the fret board where there are no sharps or flats.
0 – GCEA
5- CFAD
7- DGBE
12- GCEA
For those just starting out you may have heard of the tuning ADF#B. This happens to be what you would get if you bar GCEA at the second fret. So knowing that had made me easily also remember
2 – ADF#B
Why is this helpful? Simple there is a connection between the 4th & 3rd strings to the 2nd & 1st strings. If 0033 is GCGC then 1144 are G#C# G#C# and 2255 is ADAD.
You can follow this pattern up the fret board! By memorizing the 4th & 3rd strings I have in effect memorized the 1st and 2nd!
The second thing that has helped me is the few spaces on the fret board where there are no sharps or flats.
0 – GCEA
5- CFAD
7- DGBE
12- GCEA
For those just starting out you may have heard of the tuning ADF#B. This happens to be what you would get if you bar GCEA at the second fret. So knowing that had made me easily also remember
2 – ADF#B