How to Play Baritone Ukulele Blues! (+ my favorite chord ever!)
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Lesson PDF available at www.abigailflowersmusic.com/n...
In today's tutorial, I'll show you how to play baritone ukulele blues progressions! We'll look at a 12 bar blues in the keys of D, A, and E, and for the first time ever, I've made my own practice tracks for you to play along with! I'll also share my favorite chord, which I recently discovered how to play on uke!
Please take a moment to watch this excellent video on the origin and impact of blues music!! • Is Blues the Mother of...
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 - introduction
0:33 - what is a 12 bar blues?
1:54 - chords in the key of D
2:08 - suggested strum pattern
4:05 - D blues play along
5:20 - D blues scale and major scale
7:58 - A blues chords
8:25 - A blues scale and major scale
9:12 - A blues play along
11:04 - E blues chords
11:20 - E blues scale and major scale
12:00 - E blues play along
Chord diagrams and tabs for this lesson can be purchased at www.abigailflowersmusic.com/pdf-downloads
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Wow! Okay, so I'm a long-term very average guitarist. One of my brothers bought me a baritone uke for Christmas, and I keep it besides my desk to noodle on it during the day for occasional breaks. Ran into your video through your comment on a "How Great Thou Art" baritone uke video (looking for the _On the Porch Hymns_ channel you mentioned). I've never tried blues before and I have to tell you, I had a *BLAST* traveling around that blues scale with your backing track. I can't remember the last time I had such fun with a YT video. Thanks for the great lesson, and personally, as a teacher in varying contexts, I agree with the others... you're an excellent teacher. Looking forward to seeing your other videos when I can get to them.
Thank you so much for these very kind words! You’ve made my day!!
I feel so lucky to have happened across this video. I’ve got a new baritone uke and just loved this lesson, Abigail! Thank you🌷
Excellent. The Baritone is now my uke of choice due in large part to Abigail Flowers. Thanks!
This was fun. I especially liked the improvisation..Thank you, Abigail.
I was looking for a blues backing track for my student - and this popped up!! Love this! You're an awesome teacher Abby!
Aww thank you! ☺️☺️☺️
Love everything you're doing!!
Perhaps you could adjust the mix when you play with the backing track to bring the uke more forward??
Thanks so much!! 😎
‘Fanny Any’ FANTASTIC !!! 😘 love this ....lets blues! Thanks
Arguably the best baritone ukulele teacher in YT. A real pleasure to watch
Thank you so much! I appreciate it a lot.
Very well done! Thank you.
Also, that E7(#9) was a great addition!
I am learning so much. Thank you for your well-designed lessons and excellent graphics and backing tracks. They are very helpful. Thanks a million.
Thank you so much for the kind words! It really means a lot to me.
thanks Abigail!
Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻
Gracias Abigail!!!
Wow FANTASTIC !!! 😘
Really well done. I enjoyed playing along. (not into soloing just yet) Good to have the notes ready though. Thanks
WOW! I'm using my TENOR Uke, Now I got it!
Very interesting. Thank you
Thanks for this Baritone Blues lesson and for your other 12 bar blues lesson where you play with Quentin(SP?) and we can follow along. I hope you do more of that. I was able to use a simple strum pattern and keep up with the chord changes while feeling I was doing something bluesey with you two playing in the background. One think I noticed in the repeat strings of D7 D7 D7 D7 which took me out of the rhythms and sounds that the changing sequences like A7 G7 D7 A7 make. I guess when you're really good at doing melody and chords and complex strumming along with some chord variations, it sounds better, but when I play the sequence alone, it's kinda ho hum. Again, this was a very good set of two videos for me. ~ Ray
Pretty lady and talented calming teacher. Great content!! Thanks for doing these. :)
Thank you for watching!
pro tip: watch series at kaldroStream. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies lately.
@Lucian Grayson definitely, been watching on kaldroStream for years myself :)
You are wearin a fannies shirt. I just bought a Washburn from there
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Thanks for this and your other videos. I'm just beginning to learn the blues and blues scales. The blues scale in E at 11:20 in the video, I'm curious why stop the scale after the E? I've seen other scales that add the A, A#, B (#1 string, 5-6-7 frets) at the end of the scale with the scale reversing after the 7th fret. Is it a style choice, a matter of how many bars to fill, ...?
Hey! Thanks so much for watching, and great question. The way I presented the E blues scale was intended to convey the scale *in theory*. So divorced from the actual playing of the scale in a musical context, the notes in the scale are E, G, A, A#, B, and D (then you can finish with the high E if you like). Once you know that those notes are the ones that “belong” to that scale (I like to think of it like a color palette in painting), you can find those notes on other strings. What you mentioned, like continuing the scale further up on the first string/E string, is geared toward showing you how to play the scale *in practice*. Which is obviously a great thing to learn! I just tend think of things in the theoretical sense first, so I ended up displaying the basic, one octave scale to start with. But when you’re actually playing, it’s fantastic to find those notes further up on the neck or on different strings!
Bar or Barre?
Technically barre, but either spelling will get the job done!