If we think of our ukuleles and many times they are laminate tops and not so good quality. The standard movable 4442, what ever played can't really produce much strong E note on these. Now I don’t like blues and don’t think our ukuleles can really perform that well, except in home situations, perhaps? But that chord will sound sissy in blues. Our instrument’s blues key is A instead E, if any.
We do have a quite standard open chord fingering to E, 1402. Not that difficult, but if you have a strap more easy. Analysing it, you can find that 2 Es, one open that is strong and another one on C string pinky, that don’t add any volume more. It is totally redundant when strumming.
I searched youtube today out of curiosity, about the E chord , and this was all I found about 1x02:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_saGCSU9QYU
He plays it wrong. Starting with E7 is a good one as a starting point, but then he mutes the C string with his second finger. Tells also that he have not maybe got it quite right, right. There are no such things good as muting with a finger tip, it will bring tensions to our fretting hand.
Instead what he should have done is a little unorthodox to normal fingering, that we should not mute adjacent strings. Just in this case he should have done that. It is something that is not so obvious because of that, that very few people find this proper fingering.
So the 1x02 is a 2 finger chord, is played with index finger producing G# and muting same time the C string! Takes some practice not to mute the E string, but it is easy and you will hear if that. And ring finger on A string.
Propably with a pick one can produce volume in able to play with guitarists playing acoustic blues. I have not searced, because to me ukulele is rather a country/folk instrument for my playing. But interested if you guys can find a specimen of such a genre, uke and guitar playing blues. The uke might sound too delicate though lol.
The strongest E chord we can have.
We do have a quite standard open chord fingering to E, 1402. Not that difficult, but if you have a strap more easy. Analysing it, you can find that 2 Es, one open that is strong and another one on C string pinky, that don’t add any volume more. It is totally redundant when strumming.
I searched youtube today out of curiosity, about the E chord , and this was all I found about 1x02:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_saGCSU9QYU
He plays it wrong. Starting with E7 is a good one as a starting point, but then he mutes the C string with his second finger. Tells also that he have not maybe got it quite right, right. There are no such things good as muting with a finger tip, it will bring tensions to our fretting hand.
Instead what he should have done is a little unorthodox to normal fingering, that we should not mute adjacent strings. Just in this case he should have done that. It is something that is not so obvious because of that, that very few people find this proper fingering.
So the 1x02 is a 2 finger chord, is played with index finger producing G# and muting same time the C string! Takes some practice not to mute the E string, but it is easy and you will hear if that. And ring finger on A string.
Propably with a pick one can produce volume in able to play with guitarists playing acoustic blues. I have not searced, because to me ukulele is rather a country/folk instrument for my playing. But interested if you guys can find a specimen of such a genre, uke and guitar playing blues. The uke might sound too delicate though lol.
The strongest E chord we can have.