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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Ok, we’re going to be talking about the tenor ukulele. This is the third one up the strain from the smallest to the largest, this is the third size. They come in many, many different styles, four strings, six strings or eight strings. This is the one that gives you the most variety. For those that play guitar, the tenor would be best ukulele to play, because it gives you a lot more frets to play around with and have notes. It’s about 21 inches, is the average size of a tenor ukulele. I prefer actually a tenor because of the size of the neck, it’s a little bit slimmer. And, the tenor, if you do the vamp, it would sound like this. It should always feel good when you play it, so a tenor is my choice instrument.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452618-how-to-play-hawaiian-music-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:31:09 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452618-how-to-play-hawaiian-music-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, we’re going to be learning how to play the vamp or also in Hawaiian known as the kaholo. And the kaholo is played just before a song and if you watch hula, you’ll see them both kind of sway to the left and to the right and you hear three notes being played. This is what is called the vamp or the kaholo. And in a C, when you’re playing in a chord of C, it starts of with a D7 with two notes, a G7 with two strums, and then your C. It’s 1, 2, 3, 4. And when played together it’ll sound like 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4. [Plays count] 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4. The kaholo is also used in between verses to tie two verses together. It is also used in ukulele music when you play to have everybody start off so everybody is in sync. It is a great way to make sure that everybody’s together when you start the music.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452619-how-to-play-happy-birthday-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:31:09 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452619-how-to-play-happy-birthday-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. We’re going to be learning how to play “Happy Birthday.” This is probably going to be your very very first song that you’re going to play for someone. Very easy. It only takes four notes. And it’s in the chord of C. You’re going to be using C, C7, F, and G7. And F is played on the first fret, second string, and the fourth string on the second fret. That’s your F. So it starts off at C. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Heather. Happy birthday to you.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452614-how-to-palm-mute-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:31:09 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452614-how-to-palm-mute-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, palm mute is another way of playing your instrument and what you do is like a karate chop right above your bridge area and what you’re using is your palm to mute the strings and it kind of sounds like this. The muting sound comes from your palm resting on the strings and not allowing it to fully ring and it’s almost a percussion sound.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452606-how-to-play-a-c-chord-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:15:31 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452606-how-to-play-a-c-chord-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Ok, we are going to learn how to play the chord C. One of the easiest chords to learn. You play the first string on the fifth rank with your ring finger it sounds like this. It is one third of a hollow or vamp movement that I am going to teaching you later and see it sound like this with three chords. This is the C.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452612-how-to-play-a-d7-chord-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:15:31 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452612-how-to-play-a-d7-chord-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, we’re gonna learn how to play D7. And there’s 2 ways of playing D7. There is the traditional way, where you put your index finger over all of your strings on your 2nd fret, and your 2nd finger or your ring finger places over the 1st string on the 3rd fret. And it’ll sound like this. For a lot of the students, that may be real difficult, because it is a…it requires a lot of holding on here. There is a simpler way, where you put your finger over the 4th string and the 2nd string on the 2nd fret, and it sounds like this. There’s not a whole lot of difference. There are…again there are 2 types of D7. I play both, so, and I prefer, actually, the one that requires only 2 fingers. It’s easier for a lot of people.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452609-how-to-play-a-g7-chord-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:15:31 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452609-how-to-play-a-g7-chord-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. OK. The next chord we’re going to learn is G7. It takes three fingers. You’re going to put your fir-, your index finger on the second string on the first fret. Your, your next finger will go on the third string on the second fret and your ring finger will go on the first string on the second fret. It’s like a triangle. And your G7 sounds like this. And again, it is part of this Kahlo or vamp where three chords are played together and so, G7, in that mix, will sound like this. This is the G7. G7. G7. G7. C.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452604-how-to-play-a-b-flat-chord-ukulele-lessons/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:01:05 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452604-how-to-play-a-b-flat-chord-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Ok, we are going to learn how to play the chord B-flat. It is one of the most difficult chords to learn when you first beginning how to play ukulele, but it is a very common chord that you should learn and you do that by placing your index finger over the first two strings on your first fret, your second finger on the second fret on the third string, and then the last finger goes over the fourth string on the third fret and your b-flat just sound like this (plays b-flat) At first when you first play it, it all sound very muffled and very very difficult to hold it, also when you hold your instrument, its good to put some backing in the back of the neck with your thumb here, makes it a lot more easier when you hold it correctly like that. (plays b-flat again) That’s B-flat.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452613-how-to-fingerpick-ukulele-lessons/ Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:46:12 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452613-how-to-fingerpick-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, I’m going to teach you how to play using finger picking and it’s a very easy way. You play your top string, 4th string, 3rd string, 2nd string, and first string. And all you do is from top to bottom, do this. 4, 3, 2, 1. 4, 3, 2, 1. So in a vamp for instance it will sound like D7, G7, C. D7, G7, C. D7, G7, C. And you’re just going from top to bottom; 4, 3, 2, 1. 4, 3, 2, 1.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452603-how-to-tune-ukulele-with-electric-tuner-ukulele-lessons/ Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:46:12 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452603-how-to-tune-ukulele-with-electric-tuner-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Ok the other way to tune your ukulele, which is the best way I like, and the most common way, is to use an electronic tuner. And there are many different types of electronic tuners. We have the flat ones, where you sit it on the table, you pluck a note, and when you turn it on it will actually register and tell you whether or not it’s in tune or not. The bad part about these ones that you lay on the table is that will actually pick up a lot of sounds from different areas and so if you’re in a room with a lot of students or a lot of noise going around, this might be a little more difficult for you to, to tune your ukulele. The other part is these clip on types and I bought three different styles. Each one is good, when you hit the right note it actually lights up rather than hearing it, it actually goes by vibrations. So what you would do for instance is to clip it onto the crown of your ukulele, turn it on, and when you hit your chord, it’ll actually register what note you’re in. So it’s very easy for you to find g, c, e, a, using these tuners. Also another note is that you wanna write your name on your tuners, very easy, when you’re in a group of people to set it down or very common you see tuners being passed on from person to person and then it gets lost. So if you write your name you will never lose your tuner.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452601-how-to-tune-a-ukulele-with-a-fork-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:45:35 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452601-how-to-tune-a-ukulele-with-a-fork-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Another way to tune your ukelele would be using a tuning fork. Uh, in this particular case, this is an A tuning fork. And you would hit it against something, put it against your ukelele, and then pluck the string. So…so this is an A tuning fork. And it sounds like my A string. You would have to, then, if you were off, again, tune it up or down. And again, it is a lot easier to tune up from a flate note, and bring it sharp. Up to find your correct. Uh, this is very uncommon nowadays, because there’s so many different ways, and much easier ways to tune your ukelele.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452599-how-to-tune-a-ukulele-with-a-pitch-pipe-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:45:35 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452599-how-to-tune-a-ukulele-with-a-pitch-pipe-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Ok, we’re going to be talking about tuning your ukulele, and one of the ways to do it is with a pitch pipe here. Uh, and it should be a ukulele pitch pipe, G C E A is what this pipe will play, and what you would do is blow into it, for instance on your G string. [plays G] Your fourth string, and it actually says G and it has the number 4 next to it, so it means the fourth string. And so, if your instrument was out of tune, for instance, like this, and you would play your note… [plays G] You would twist your machine head here, your tuner, until it actually sounded the same as the pitch pipe. [plays G] Like that. It’s always easier to tune from low to high. It’s very difficult going from a sharp note to a flat note, so again, when you tune, and you don’t know where you’re at, and you’re lost, kinda loosen the string a little bit, and then tune up to the, to that note. [plays G] See? The third string… [plays C] Your second string, which is your E string. [plays E] And your last string, which is your A. [plays A] This is another way to tune your instrument, using a pitch pipe.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452589-what-is-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:45:35 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452589-what-is-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. We’re going to talk about the ukulele and some of stories behind the ukulele in the beginning part — how it came to Hawaii. In 1879, we owe the existence of the ukulele to people that came over from Portugal. They brought a very, very small instrument called a machete, and it was actually a very — much smaller than the soprano. And luckily we had three cabinetmakers on that ship. And they duplicated the instrument, brought it along, played it for the Hawaiians. Hawaiians really liked the sound. Later on they made it a little bit larger, and they changed the types of chords on it to a G C E A. You know, the royalty Kalakaua, the King of Hawaii, really loved that instrument, and requested that ukulele be a part of — a lot of our songs and dance that we did. And finally in 1886 it was played for the first hula dancer, and that’s really the beginnings of the ukulele in Hawaii.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452590-4-facts-about-the-baritone-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:30:48 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452590-4-facts-about-the-baritone-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. We’re going to be talking about the largest of the ukulele family which is the baritone. This offers the fullest sound. The strings on here are the last four strings of a guitar, so it is actually tuned differently than your G C E A which is the normal tuning of most Hawaiian ukuleles. And the baritone is tuned to D G B E. And if I play a vamp on it, it will sound like this: [Music playing] You notice the deep sound on it. Again, this is the largest of the ukulele family. And, you know, it takes actually a special ukulele player. Not everybody is drawn to a baritone. I really like it because of the low tones.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452592-6-facts-about-the-soprano-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:30:48 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452592-6-facts-about-the-soprano-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, I’m going to be talking about the smallest of our ukuleles, which is the soprano. It is the baby. It is the highest sounding instrument. It has the smallest fretboard on there. It is generally about twelve to fourteen frets long here. It is actually a great size for kids to learn on because of it being smaller. If you do a lot of backpacking and like bringing instruments along with you, this will actually fit into your backpack. If I play the vamp on there, the C vamp, it will sound like this. (Music)

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452591-concert-ukulele-aka-alto-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:15:35 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452591-concert-ukulele-aka-alto-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. We are going to be talking about the medium ukulele, which is the second actually from the bottom, after the soprano. This is called the concert or also known as the alto. It is a nice size, on the concert it is about 14 to 17 frets on here. So it does give you some freedom to play and play along with the fret line. It is a more fuller sound than the soprano, when I play the vamp on it it will sound like this.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/453012-learn-ukulele-with-jarret-delos-santos-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:15:35 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/453012-learn-ukulele-with-jarret-delos-santos-ukulele-lessons/

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“We’re the voices behind the face of the Hawaiian nation, the Hawaiian race. Rise to justice — the day has come for all our people to stand as one.” Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos. I’m also known as Kumu Kealoha: ‘Kumu’ meaning ‘Teacher’ and ‘Kealoha’ is my middle name, meaning ‘Love.’ And I was born and raised here on Maui in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui, about 52 waterfalls away from here. I love the ukulele — found a lot of popularity with people wanting to learn. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture, by teaching people how to play the ukulele, and also teaching people the language — the Hawaiian language. And I’m able to do both of that. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452620-how-to-read-chord-charts-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:15:35 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452620-how-to-read-chord-charts-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay we’re going to be learning how to read Ukulele chords. For instance, this is a very common thing that you’ll see when you look Ukulele music, and you’ll see the fret board. For instance this is a G7, and it shows which notes your fingers should be on. Your top string here is the string that’s closest to you which would be number 4, which is G. Number 3, C. Number 2, E. Number 1, A. And it tells you which strings need to be held down. So for instance this is a G7, that would translate to a G7 here. And that’s how you read a chord.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452621-how-to-sing-along-with-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:01:16 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452621-how-to-sing-along-with-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. We the voices behind the face of the Hawaiian nation, the Hawaiian race. Rise for justice the day has come, for all our people to stand as one. E ala e, e ala e. K, we’re going to be talking about playing the ukulele and singing, both benefits from regular practicing. With your ukulele playing, you should be practicing about 15 to 20 minutes a day. Practice what you know, how to play and try to sing along with it. Again, if you practice and play regularly, both will benefit from steady practice.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452596-how-to-buy-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:01:16 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452596-how-to-buy-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, we’re going to be talking about what to look for when you go out and purchase an ukulele. One of the things that we like to do here, and I tell my students, is to name your instrument – give it a name. It gives it personality. And saying that, what you’re gonna be doing is looking for an ukulele that fits you as a person. It needs to feel good, so when you first go out and get an ukulele, or are looking for an ukulele, pick it up and see how it feels. See how it looks on you. It needs to be a fit to your personality. That’s one of the things you need to do – play it, make sure that the tone is good, that you like the tone. Kinda want to put your finger and play some of the notes that you know. What you’re listening for is vibrating. Is the tone good? Are there any dead spots? When you try your notes out and you’re playing your notes, it should ring – it should sound really nice. Your notes should sound like full sounds. Every once in a while, you’ll pick up an ukulele, and you’ll hit a note somewhere along the line, and it goes ‘thug’, ‘thug’, ‘thug’. And you position your fingers, and it still has that ‘thug’ sound, that’s a dead spot. And that would be an indication that that instrument is probably not a good instrument for you.
Also to look at the type of wood. There’s a difference between a solid wood and something that’s covered with a veneer finish. Solid wood tends to have a better tone all through. Solid wood also ages well, so the tone gets sweeter as it gets older. Veneer, you don’t know what you’re getting underneath that – under that veneer. Could be very cheap plywood, so you kind of want to see and take a look at what the constructions look like through the hole here. I’m looking at the action – the distance between the string and the fretboard. If it’s too high, it’s difficult – makes it difficult to play. If it’s too low, it’ll vibrate. You’re gonna look for defects, make sure there’s no defects on the body. You’re gonna also look down the instrument to kinda just eyeball it – eyeball it and see that you’re not seeing any warping of the instrument. Then you look at it to see whether the neck is straight on your ukulele, and what you do is you lift it up and you kind of look at it at an angle and see and make sure that the fretboard is not crooked or twisted in any way. The other thing to look at is your – the nuts, up here, and the crown of the head. You’re looking at the type of machinery is on here. You’re making sure that it’s not loose and wiggly, because that will cause vibration in the instrument. Other models have cut away where this part is gone. It allows you to access – better access some of the lower frets, so that’s something if you’re into playing a lot of picking and that sort of action, you might want to have a ukulele where the bottom part here is cut away. And again, you’re going to have to decide what type of instrument you want, whether a soprano, concert, your tenor or your baritone, because that will determine the amount of frets and the quality of the sound that you want.

]]> https://howcast.com/videos/452597-how-to-string-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:01:16 +0000 https://howcast.com/videos/452597-how-to-string-a-ukulele-ukulele-lessons/

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. OK, we’re going to learn how to change your strings which is usually the thing that most people are most afraid of. And it’s very, very easy. I’m going to change just one string on this concert ukelele and you do it by first loosening your strings down. So you just kind of just make it go flat on you and you’re going to loosen up enough to kind of lift the strings over the nuts here at the top. And then you want to take if off there and you also want to take it off from here at the bottom. They’re just tied on. This is where the fingernail clippers come in handy. And they clip fight off real easy an clean. And there are many different varieties of strings to use. I’m going to use aquilla strings. These are white strings. And usually when you buy the strings they will tell you which…there’s a legend which will tell you which strings go where on the ukelele. I’m just going to change my last string, or A string. What you want to do is put it through the hole, want to loop it around here. You’re going to create a little loop. You know, twist it about 2 ¬Ω to 3 times and you’re going to get other end here. You’re going to put it through, you know, pull it and secure it. You’re going to make sure that knot is at the very base. You pull it up here. You’re going to want to wind it around here. Kind of look at all your other strings and how, which way they’re facing. A lot of times if you’re really new at it, you want to take notes. You know, go ahead and get a piece of paper and kind of write down how everything is turned. It makes things a lot easier in case you’ve got to go back for reference. But usually what I do, I put it on the head and I keep tension on it and I wrap it a couple times all the way up to the hole where you put the string through and pull it through the hole. If you think that it’s going to slip and you’re not comfortable with that, you can put it through the hole one more time and you’re going to tune up on it. You’re going to tighten it. Don’t worry about this extra string. And in fact, you don’t want to cut your strings right away just in case it slides or there’s some problems that you have to undo the strings. So for now, you kind of just want to leave it alone. And then you’re tuning it up. Going to use my electronic tuner and clip it on there. And I’m looking for an A,. For right now it’s flat and I’m tuning up to it. Takes a little bit. And the tuner says that I’m at A. And that’s how you would tune it and put in a new string. One thing about new strings is that new strings will not hold its tone. Um, you, sometimes pulling on it will help stretch the strings. But when you put new strings on, you will continuously have to tune it, ah, for a little bit until the string is stretched out and has acclimated to it being pulled. And you should be changing your strings often. Ah, some people tend to leave it on too long and that’s when you start hearing dead sounds, ah, not full ringing sounds. You’d be surprised when you put new strings on how beautiful your instrument will sound when, when you have new strings on there.

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Aloha, my name is Jarret Delos Santos and I was born and raised in a little town called Hana on the east side of Maui. Playing the ukulele and teaching the ukulele gives me a chance to perpetuate our culture. So today, we’re going to be talking about the ukulele. Okay, we’re going to be talking about the different types of accessories that you can purchase when you get your ukulele. The music stand, like this one here. They are small and portable. They fold up really nice and they will fit into a ukulele case. The other type of accessories would be your various types of books on chords. You have different types of examples of music to play. That should also be an accessory for you. A lot of people have a hard time holding onto their ukulele. So there are straps, like a guitar strap. You strap one end here and one end there on the very bottom, and it will provide you a way of holding up the instrument when you play it. Very valuable for your music book is to have clips, lots of them available, in case it gets windy. Again, we talked about the various types of tuners. This is a type of accessory and you can get various types of instruments between your ukulele. Here in Hawaii, we sing a lot of Hawaiian music and having a Hawaiian pocket dictionary is a good thing to have when you’re playing Hawaiian music. When you trim strings on your ukulele, instead of carrying scissors around, just carry a nail clipper. It serves two purposes. You can always trim your nails with it and you can also clip your strings. It’s very easy with this instrument here. I like carrying around a pen that is silver. Because it allows you to write on your black ukulele cases, or stands, or tuners. You’re able to write your name on it using a silver pen. Another type of accessory is a pick. There is a whole various types of picks that you can use. We have here our cases. We have a hard shell case here, which is nice to have. And there are also soft shell cases to use here. Either one will work depending on what you would want to use.

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