
Explore the baritone ukulele's size, portability, and guitar-like tuning minus the two bass strings, and see its place between violin, viola, cello, and guitar.
Explore ukulele basics, tuning, note formation, and instrument anatomy. Build daily skills with finger exercises, chords, strumming patterns, fretboard notes, tabs, and simple songs for fluency.
Learn the essentials to play the ukulele: use the ukulele alone, strum with fingers or pick, tune with a phone app, and add a strap if you prefer.
Explore the ukulele’s parts: the hollow acoustic body, sound hole, four strings, fretboard, and nut, and how frets raise notes by a half step with tuners keeping it in tune.
Explore the diagram of the parts of the baritone ukulele, providing a clear overview of its key components within the course.
Learn the string names of the baritone ukulele and how they guide playing in the complete course on baritone ukulele.
Learn ukulele tuning methods: use Guitar Tuna to match strings to the guitar, or tune by ear with the fifth fret on the second string, or to a piano.
Hold your wrist straight and relaxed, avoiding tension and cranking. Curl your fingers on the fret to hit individual strings clearly, practicing fret crawlers without deadening other strings.
Practice fret crawlers to train your right hand while placing fingers on successive frets, strengthening and aligning fingers so notes ring out clearly as you progress.
Practice along with me at a slow, steady pace as I guide you through a fret crawler exercise on the baritone ukulele, focusing on moving up the frets.
Explore fret crawlers variation on the baritone ukulele by adding multiple strums for variation and embracing bright colors in your playing.
Learn essential baritone ukulele chords, including E minor, D, B minor, and F, and practice transitioning between them to unlock a wide range of songs.
Practice rhythm strumming on the baritone ukulele without chords, focusing on dampening, and master four patterns: all down, down-up, beats 2 and 4 up, and final down.
Learn to play the G chord on the baritone ukulele using a down-strum rhythm and guided counting patterns, building solid rhythm strumming through practice sequences.
Master bar chords on the baritone ukulele by barring across frets and using the E and G strings to voice major and minor chords on the fly.
Learn to read chords on the baritone ukulele by interpreting fret lines, string assignments (D, G, B, E), and finger numbers (1–4) to play accurate chord shapes.
Master essential baritone ukulele chords including E minor, D, B minor, and F, and practice finger placements and strumming to unlock many songs.
Learn to play any major or minor chord on the baritone ukulele by using barre chords across the fretboard, focusing on the E string and G string to map notes.
Explore all major and minor chords for baritone ukulele, enabling you to play a wide range of tunes.
Explore the ukulele fretboard by identifying open-string notes and half-step progressions across the d, g, b, and e strings, including octave relationships and no sharps between certain adjacent notes.
Master the baritone ukulele pentatonic scale in the key of g to riff, improv, and craft melodies using open strings and fretted notes across the scale.
Learn two simple major chords on the baritone ukulele—G and C—and practice a basic strumming pattern to switch between them while playing the nursery rhyme apples and bananas.
Practice the apples and bananas song on the baritone ukulele, focusing on simple strumming patterns and a subtly different piano accompaniment.
Learn to play over the rainbow on the baritone ukulele using a four-chord loop (G, B minor, C, D) with a four-beat strum on every measure.
Practice along with the instructor as you strum through over the rainbow on baritone ukulele, following chord changes in G, C, and D.
Learn to read guitar tabs and play the melody on the baritone ukulele. Use open and fretted notes on each string, as shown in 'somewhere over the rainbow'.
Explore hammer ons and pull offs on the baritone ukulele to add flavor to notes; practice by hammering on or pulling off a note, then apply across frets.
Learn to play something just like this on the baritone ukulele, capturing the melody and feel of the Chainsmokers and Coldplay hit.
Baritone Ukulele is an incredible instrument. It has the wonderful sound of a Ukulele and plays almost exactly like a guitar.
Whether you want a small instrument to learn, or love the sound of the Ukulele, or even if you want to learn the guitar but have small hands the Baritone Ukulele is for you.
In this class we will learn;
How to tune your Ukulele
Finger exercises to work with right away
How to play chords
How to play rhythm
Basic Improvisation
I think everyone should learn an instrument if they want to and the Baritone Ukulele allows you the ease and portability for anyone. I hope you enjoy this class and enjoy playing your new instrument.