TTC How to Play the Ukulele TUTORiAL
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尤克里里琴起源于 1870 年代的葡萄牙 braguinha 和夏威夷，是一种与演奏者一样充满活力和传奇的历史。braguinha 最初在甘蔗种植园的移民劳工手中到达岛屿，在大小、形状和调音方面逐渐发生变化，成为我们今天所知的尤克里里乐器，或“来到这里的礼物”。
受到夏威夷王室的喜爱，尤克里里琴被引入了传统的夏威夷音乐——尤其是呼啦舞——并且从那时起它一直是夏威夷音乐文化的主要内容。尤克里里琴只有四根琴弦，尺寸独特易管理，是各种场合的理想乐器。它享有广泛的音乐范围，小巧的指板和可重入的调音使学习变得有趣且易于演奏。最重要的是，对于那些正在寻找一种对初学者来说几乎没有限制的乐器来学习的人来说，这是一种易于找到且购买价格低廉的乐器。
与专业音乐家兼讲师 Michael Poupko 一起潜入这种传统夏威夷乐器的神奇世界。在《如何弹奏尤克里里》的 24 课中，让 Michael 20 多年的演奏和教学经验带您从音乐初学者到“uke”大师。如果您是弦乐器新手，Michael 耐心且易于遵循的方法将让您立即弹奏起来。如果尤克里里琴对您来说只是众多乐器中的最新款，那么他对音乐理论和结构的娴熟知识会让您在不知不觉中用自己的尤克里里伴奏赞美他。
音乐剧 A、B、Cs
从音乐理论的简短教程开始您的课程，该教程旨在通过对音乐实践和可能性越来越丰富的理解来建立您与尤克里里琴的关系。随着您对尤克里里琴的技能的提高，您的音乐知识也会得到提高。在整个课程中，迈克尔解释了音阶、大调和小调和弦、和弦进行和公式等等。最重要的是，他在您的乐器和您演奏乐器的不断增长的经验中讨论了复杂的主题。通过将音乐理论的基本原理分解成可管理的部分，并将它们与实际背景专业地联系起来，迈克尔提供了一个理解水平，否则可能需要数年才能掌握。
除了音乐理论的基础知识外，本课程还从教您如何使用 uke 开始，从回顾每个部分的名称和用途到探索不同种类的尤克里里。学习如何握持、调音和保养您的乐器；使用电子调谐器；并通过关联的音符识别您的字符串。尽管简要讨论了标准乐谱，但 Michael 将他的记谱重点限制在指法谱、和弦图和弹奏图上——所有这些都旨在让您快速弹奏并让您在四弦琴上访问尽可能广泛的歌曲。
和弦、音阶和旋律
在您学习了尤克里里的部分和空弦的音符后，您就可以开始探索和弦和和弦进行了。慢慢开始，即使是音乐新手也能体验到几乎立竿见影的成功，迈克尔将引导您完成尤克里里的前六个和弦。他与您一起练习，提供有关手形、压力和位置的详细信息，以确保您的音符清晰真实。然后，他解释了指法如何用左手将手指放置在品格上，以及用右手弹奏哪些琴弦。
一旦你掌握了前六个和弦，练习了它们直到你感到舒服，并在和弦进行中使用它们来弹奏你的前几首歌曲，是时候进入课程的下一部分，重点是添加更多和弦你的曲目。在这里，您将开始音阶练习，扩展您对音符关系的理解，并在大调和小调音阶中尝试和弦进行。仔细阅读您的练习册，您将学习演奏“奇异恩典”、“欢乐颂”的变奏曲，以及由您的导师创作的几首自定义乐曲。每件作品都将支持练习和享受。
在这门令人印象深刻的课程中，您将演奏传统的夏威夷歌曲，如“Aloha Oe”，并且越来越熟练，您还将拥有视读尤克里里指法谱和演奏一些您选择的歌曲所需的技能。有了您的练习册并以迈克尔为向导，这场音乐冒险将变得如此简单，您会情不自禁地享受每一步。
拾音和弹奏
尽管和弦形式至关重要，但它们仍然只是尤克里里音乐方程的一半。在整个课程的每一节课中，Michael 都会教你新的、越来越复杂的方法，首先是弹奏，最后是在你的游戏中加入拾音模式，甚至是你选择音乐的旋律。从及时弹奏节拍器开始，随着您变得更加舒适，逐渐加快速度，并在您学习时加入按弦和弦。然后尝试新的弹奏模式，以各种组合上下，并使用这些来扩大您的歌曲选择。最后，学习指弹的艺术，让您可以捕捉个人音符并携带您喜欢的歌曲的旋律。
当您牢记和弦并且开始迅速掌握和弦进行时，迈克尔会解释和弦公式并提供一系列歌曲来练习您的高级技巧。通过交替弹奏和拨弦，您可以重温“Aloha Oe”等歌曲，陪伴 Michael 演奏，并为自己掌握独奏版本。
节奏与蓝调
从第一课开始，您将加深对节奏在音乐中的作用的理解。迈克尔使用节拍器以缓慢、均匀的速度开始。在这些课程的过程中，您将逐渐提高节奏的速度和复杂性。您将学习拍号、音符和测量长度，甚至将尤克里里琴用作打击乐器，通过消音弦和创造性组合来制作没有音高的有节奏的声音。
如果您认为尤克里里琴仅适用于夏威夷音乐，请再想一想！学习 12 小节布鲁斯进行，这是一种适用于布鲁斯传统中数百首歌曲的和弦进行。在迈克尔耐心而稳定的指导下，您将学习大调和小调的 12 小节布鲁斯。最后，将 C 小调五声音阶应用到这些深情的即兴段，在歌曲“Green Blues”中达到高潮。正如迈克尔一直提醒我们的那样，如果您需要在回到与他一起玩之前花时间练习，那么这种课程形式是理想的选择。停止视频，花所有你需要的时间，当你准备好继续时重新加入迈克尔。正如他所说，“我们有目标，而不是期望。”
练习，练习，重复
参加器乐视频课程最好的事情之一就是能够按照自己的节奏移动。反复观看这些精心制作的视频，直到您掌握了每个视频的内容，只有在您准备好尝试新事物时才继续观看。如果某个特定部分或整个课程看起来具有挑战性，作为学习者，您有足够的时间和空间反复返回视频，直到您掌握继续前进的技能。没有评判，只有支持和鼓励。每个视频都以歌曲和练习结束，供您自己练习，使用练习册和您自己不断发展的掌握来推动您前进并为下一个令人振奋的音乐教程做好准备。
现在都在一起了！
专注于旅程，享受乐趣，享受学习的体验，会让你回来接受更多指导。同样重要的是，迈克尔耐心、稳定的风格让练习变得轻松自如。一路上的自然挑战只是学习乐器的乐趣的一部分。他从每个学习者都可以访问的材料开始，但为那些有更多音乐经验的人提供了额外的信息和背景。迈克的每一步都在您已经掌握的基础上轻轻地但肯定地建立起来。不久之后，您对音乐理论基础的掌握和尤克里里技巧的复杂性将体现在新旧歌曲以及表达您个人音乐“声音”的创造性作品和节奏中。
正如他提醒我们的那样，音乐不是纸上的笔记。相反，它是音乐的声音，从一个人到另一个人共享，用连接和歌曲的魔力填充空气。加入 Michael，他将帮助您找到自己的音乐灵魂，并与您分享在未来几年继续探索尤克里里音乐所需的技能。大胆尝试，用这种非凡的乐器开始一段音乐之旅——它可能会持续一生。
With roots in the Portuguese braguinha and Hawaiian origins dating back to the 1870s, the ukulele is an instrument with a history as vibrant and storied as those who play it. First making its way to the islands in the hands of immigrant laborers on sugar plantations, the braguinha was gradually transformed in size, shape, and tuning, becoming the instrument we know today as the ukulele, or the “gift that came here.”
Loved by the Hawaiian royal family, the ukulele was introduced into traditional Hawaiian music—particularly hula—and it has been a staple of Hawaiian musical culture ever since. With only four strings and a uniquely manageable size, the ukulele is the ideal instrument for every occasion. It enjoys a broad musical range, and the small fretboard and re-entrant tuning make it fun to learn and simple to play. Most significantly for those looking for an instrument to learn with few limitations for beginners, it is an easy instrument to find and inexpensive to purchase.
Dive into the magical world of this traditional Hawaiian instrument with Michael Poupko, a professional musician and instructor. Let Michael’s 20-plus years of experience playing and teaching music take you from musical beginner to master of the “uke” in the 24 lessons of How to Play the Ukulele. If you are a stringed instrument novice, Michael’s patient, easy-to-follow approach will have you strumming along in no time. If the ukulele is just the latest in a long line of instruments for you, his deft knowledge of music theory and structure will have you singing his praises to your own uke accompaniment before you know it.
Musical A, B, Cs
Begin your course with a short tutorial in music theory that is designed to ground your relationship to your ukulele with an increasingly rich understanding of the practices and possibilities of music. As your skills on the ukulele develop, so, too, will your musical knowledge. Throughout the course, Michael explains scales, major and minor chords, chord progressions and formulas, and much more. Most important, he addresses the complex topics in the context of your instrument and your growing experience playing it. By breaking down the fundamentals of music theory into manageable pieces and tying them expertly in with practical context, Michael provides a level of understanding that might otherwise take years to master.
In addition to the basics of music theory, this course begins by teaching you your way around your uke, from a review of the names and purposes of each part to an exploration of the different varieties of ukulele. Learn how to hold, tune, and care for your instrument; use an electronic tuner; and identify your strings by associated note. Although standard music notation is discussed briefly, Michael limits his notation focus on tablature, chord diagrams, and strumming charts—all designed to get you playing quickly and to give you access to the broadest possible range of songs on your ukulele.
Chords, Scales, and Melodies
After you learn the parts of your ukulele and the notes that the open strings make, you are ready to discover chords and chord progressions. Beginning slowly so that even a musical novice can experience almost immediate success, Michael leads you through the first six chords on the ukulele. He practices along with you, providing detailed information about hand shape, pressure, and placement to ensure that your notes ring clear and true. Then, he explains how tablature establishes finger placement on the frets with your left hand and which strings are played with the right.
Once you have the first six chords down, have practiced them until you are comfortable, and have used them in chord progressions to strum out your first few songs, it is time to move into the next section of the course focusing on adding more chords to your repertoire. Here, you will begin scale exercises, expand your understanding of note relationships, and try chord progressions in major and minor scales. With careful attention to your workbook, you will learn to play variations on “Amazing Grace,” “Ode to Joy,” as well as several custom compositions by your instructor. Each piece will support practice as well as enjoyment.
By just the mid-point in this impressive course, you will be playing traditional Hawaiian songs like “Aloha Oe” with increasing facility, and you will also have the needed skills to sight read ukulele tablature and take on some songs of your choice. With your workbook in hand and Michael as your guide, this musical adventure will prove so easy that you can’t help but enjoy yourself every step of the way.
Picking and Strumming
As crucial as chord forms are, they remain only half of the ukulele musical equation. In each lesson throughout the course, Michael teaches you new, increasingly complex approaches, first to strumming and eventually adding in picking patterns to up your game and even take up the melody of your chosen music. Start with strumming in time to a metronome, gradually picking up speed as you become more comfortable and adding in fretted chords as you learn them. Then try new strum patterns, up and down in various combinations, and use these to broaden your song options. Finally, learn the fine art of fingerpicking, allowing you to capture individual notes and carry the melody of the songs you love.
When you know your chords by heart and the progressions start to come quickly to your fingers, Michael explains chord formulas and offers a range of songs for practicing your advancing skills. With alternating strumming and picking, you can revisit songs like “Aloha Oe” to accompany Michael as he plays and master a solo version for yourself.
Rhythm and Blues
From the first lesson, you will enhance your understanding of the role of rhythm in music. Michael uses a metronome to start with a slow, even tempo. Over the course of these lessons, you will gradually increase the speed and complexity of your rhythms. You will learn about time signatures, note and measure length, and even the use of the ukulele as a percussive instrument with deadened strings and creative combinations to make rhythmic sounds without pitch.
If you thought the ukulele was just for Hawaiian music, think again! Learn the 12-bar blues progression, a chord progression applicable to hundreds of songs in the blues tradition. With Michael’s patient and steady instruction, you will learn the 12-bar blues in more than a half dozen keys, both major and minor. Finally, apply the C minor pentatonic scale to these soulful riffs, culminating in the song “Green Blues.” As Michael consistently reminds us, if you need to take time to practice before you return to play along with him, this course format is ideal. Stop the video, take all the time you need, and rejoin Michael when you are ready to continue. As he says, “We have goals, not expectations.”
Practice, Practice, Repeat
One of the best things about taking an instrumental video course is the ability to move at your own pace. Watch and re-watch these carefully crafted videos until you master the material in each, only moving on when you feel ready to try something new. If a particular segment, or entire lessons, seem challenging, you have the time and space you need as a learner to return repeatedly to the video until you master the skills to move on. There is no judgment, only support and encouragement. Each video ends with songs and exercises to practice on your own, using the workbook and your own developing mastery to move you forward and prepare you for the next invigorating musical tutorial.
All Together Now!
Focusing on the journey, having fun, and enjoying the experience of learning will keep you coming back for more instruction. Equally important, Michael’s patient, steady style makes practicing feel effortless. The natural challenges along the way are just part of the joy of learning an instrument. He begins with material accessible to every learner, but with added information and context for those with more musical experience. Every step of the way, Michael builds gently, but surely, on what you have already mastered. Before long, your grasp of the basics of music theory and the intricacies of ukulele proficiency are manifested in songs old and new and in creative compositions and rhythms that express your personal musical “voice.”
Music is not, as he reminds us, the notes on paper. Instead, it is the sound of music, shared from one person to another, filling the air with the magic of connection and song. Join Michael as he helps you find your musical soul and shares with you the skills you need to continue to explore the music of the ukulele for years to come. Take the plunge and begin a musical love affair with this extraordinary instrument—one likely to last a lifetime.
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