Hey all! Newbie looking for feedback.
So I'm working on fingerpicking on my low-d baritone ukulele. Now when you do an alternating bass line you pluck the root note and then the fifth note. And with a properly inverted chord, the fifth note is in the bass.
OK, if all I want to do is a simple bass line then I can totally do simple power chord fingering on the 3rd & 4th strings and pluck root-fifth-root-fifth over and over until my hair wants to fall out. And when I'm playing along as part of a ukulele ensemble then that's probably exactly what I'm going to do, given the instrument I'm playing and it's role in a ukulele ensemble.
But I want to finger pick arpeggios.
So I look at, for example, an open C fingering and the only root note in the chord shape is on the 2nd string, fifth on the 3rd. Well, do I alternate between root and fifth on the 2nd & 3rd string, and then arpeggio the first & second string? That seems like a lot of plucking the same note over and over.
Or do I limit myself to barre chords with the root on the 3rd string and the fifth on the 4th, like the barre G form?
So I'm working on fingerpicking on my low-d baritone ukulele. Now when you do an alternating bass line you pluck the root note and then the fifth note. And with a properly inverted chord, the fifth note is in the bass.
OK, if all I want to do is a simple bass line then I can totally do simple power chord fingering on the 3rd & 4th strings and pluck root-fifth-root-fifth over and over until my hair wants to fall out. And when I'm playing along as part of a ukulele ensemble then that's probably exactly what I'm going to do, given the instrument I'm playing and it's role in a ukulele ensemble.
But I want to finger pick arpeggios.
So I look at, for example, an open C fingering and the only root note in the chord shape is on the 2nd string, fifth on the 3rd. Well, do I alternate between root and fifth on the 2nd & 3rd string, and then arpeggio the first & second string? That seems like a lot of plucking the same note over and over.
Or do I limit myself to barre chords with the root on the 3rd string and the fifth on the 4th, like the barre G form?