I have been playing the mandolin for four years, and I just got a ukelele for Christmas. I love it! I just have one question...
The book I am using to teach myself the uke uses the "one finger per fret fingering". When you need to play the fifth fret, you just move every finger up a fret.
However, when I was first taught the mandolin, I also used this one finger per fret fingering. After about 6 months, when my fingers had become more flexible from playing the mando, my teacher showed me a new fingering: the first finger plays the 1st and 2nd frets, the 2nd finger plays the 3rd and 4th frets, the 3rd finger plays the 5th and 6th frets, and the 4th finger plays the 7th fret.
I was wondering if uke players also end up switching to this fingering, because if they do, then I will be able to start using it from the get-go because my fingers are already flexible enough to do this (because of my mandolin experience).
Thanks for your help!
The book I am using to teach myself the uke uses the "one finger per fret fingering". When you need to play the fifth fret, you just move every finger up a fret.
However, when I was first taught the mandolin, I also used this one finger per fret fingering. After about 6 months, when my fingers had become more flexible from playing the mando, my teacher showed me a new fingering: the first finger plays the 1st and 2nd frets, the 2nd finger plays the 3rd and 4th frets, the 3rd finger plays the 5th and 6th frets, and the 4th finger plays the 7th fret.
I was wondering if uke players also end up switching to this fingering, because if they do, then I will be able to start using it from the get-go because my fingers are already flexible enough to do this (because of my mandolin experience).
Thanks for your help!