How to Strum Ukulele Swing + "All of Me" Uke Jam
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- čas přidán 1. 09. 2020
- Learn how to strum ukulele in a swing style! We'll learn a GREAT foundational strum technique that you can build onto AND play the tune "All of Me - CHORDS DISPLAYED ON SCREEN. Get a printable songsheet & other perks here: / 41165017
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Stu Fuchs is a heart-centered, lifelong musician and teaching artist who has inspired and taught thousands of people to make music a relaxing part of their daily life. “Classically trained, improvisationally freed", his ukulele and guitar workshops empower people of all backgrounds to connect with their inner musician. His music spans jazz, world & original styles with playing that is both meditative and exciting. Stu weaves virtuosity, humor, audience participation and soulful musicianship into his uplifting performances.
As a long time practitioner of Buddhist meditation (Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Tradition), Stu is passionate about sharing music as a daily practice for health & well being. His playful, inspiring, and holistic teaching method "Ukulele Zen” make his workshops a not-to-be missed experience. Stu’s workshops playfully encourage students to deepen the mind-body-spirit-instrument connection which allows for enhanced listening, increased creativity and greater ease in music making.
Over a 25 year career, Stu has performed gypsy jazz guitar with symphony orchestras, presented ukulele workshops at festivals worldwide, toured internationally and recorded with renowned sacred chant artist Snatam Kaur on her 2018 Grammy-nominated album “Beloved”. In 2014 he was awarded a prestigious grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for his work offering healing music at cancer hospitals for patients and their families.
Stu’s offers weekly ukulele lessons and inspiration on his popular CZcams channel “Ukulele Zen” to Uke enthusiasts around the world. He holds his transformational Ukulele Zen retreat at holistic centers around the world. www.stufuchs.com
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Wow! ... just when I think I'm making progress 🙄 I'd have to live a LONG Time. Lord have mercy.🦋
Same here dude! Keep at it though.
Woaaah! This was one of your coolest lessons and there are soooooo many. I was swinging like a crazy woman. Not caring what my neighbours thought! Merci.
Rock on!! Like a New Orleans/Paris 1937 party!!
I looove John Legend, but THIS is the "All of me" song I wanted. If you're reading this - I like you - yes you!!
Why thank you :-) I like you too. John is a Legend! Billie Holiday's version is of course a classic...I also like Louis Prima's version. So many great versions!
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Thanks, Stu. This is one of my favourite old songs. Your teaching style is so much technical and fun - it makes learning enjoyable. Love your videos!
Oh I wish I could like this a thousand times over!! Great song, great solo!! Thanks so much!
Thanks Mailen...play along anytime - I'll be here for you! More swinging vids like tis coming soon!! :-)
I agree with you sister 👍🏼
Baddass man on the planet🎉
never really paid swing any attention until now. What a way to make the ukulele sing. Awesome video.
Glad you liked it! The thumb strum & gentle mute really gets things swinging 😉🎶
Wow! You rock your ukulele!
About dang time somebody made ukulele sound fun and jazzy.
Thanks very much for watching and sharing 😊 Please subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one 🤙🎶
Wonderful!!! Love it! Can´t stop playing!
Your energy is fantastic my friend! Well needed and I'll enjoy giving it a go, much peace and respect!
Thanks so much! Wishing you all blessings...peace & respect right back at you MrDkjJabs 🙏
Agree hes natural
🎶🕺💃✌️Hi, 👋 from Montreal 🇨🇦🙋♀️Thank you!
Stu....you make learning and playing the uku fun and easy. Best wishes from Cornwall
Thank you Robert! Glad to hear you're jamming along!Hope you'll subscribe to this channel for more great ukulele video content like this one 😊🎶🤙
I love this video and I find all your videos so helpful and inspiring! Thanks for all the great patreon content too.
Your energy always lifts me up! Thank you so much for being you.
Thank you for sending good vibrations back to me (and I imagine you do this with many many people throughout your days). All the best, Happy playing, Stu
That’s a good song and strumming accompaniment; of course a good voice too!
Why thank you! More lessons every week ;-)
You are an incredibly talented person. Rhythm oozes out of your pores. I hope it's contagious.
Thanks for watching Robin 🎶🤙😊 It IS contagious!
I'm gonna have to watch this over and over. And over! You are a gem!!
Thanks Mia :-). YOU'RE a gem.
Quelle joie de passer ces moments de ukululele avec vous. Encore et encore merci 😊
Merci Beaucoup! 😊
What a delight! Love your videos, the way you teach.
Thanks for watching and playing along Mary! Please subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one 😊🎶🤙
Groove and accuracy, that's what I need to copy!
Sweet! Hope you'll watch again & enjoy! :)
Brilliant!!!
Outstanding
Enjoyed this ! Thank you Stu. I can’t play hard for my trigger finger😓 in these days. I am taking this as a message that I need to let go my too much controling...
Well, I LOOOOOVE your solo version. That is some very tasteful playing you offered. Keep that solo warm under your fingers - you really played nicely. 🎶😊
Dear Stu, your music has the destiny to make people feel really happy - thanks for spreading wonderfull moods to the world!
Happy greetings from Germany.
Thanks for listening & wishing you all the best over in Germany! Happy playing Gert!
Thanks for the lesson
My pleasure Bea! 😊🤙🎶
This is really great!! I would really like it if you make another video on the introductory part too!!
SUPER EXELLENT !!! THANKS
Thanks so very much!
All of me 🎶🎶🎶💕Merciii Stu, c est vraiment extra !!!
Merci Beaucoup! 🎶💕
Thank you Stu, as always wonderful!!!!!
Keep on swinging from a star...
Thanks Stu !! Fantastic lesson !!
Glad you liked it Shine!
You’re gorgeous and such a great teacher !! Thank you 🙏🥰
🙏 Thank you for watching & joining in...and thank you for this video - I saw this on your channel page a nice meditation here: czcams.com/video/k0PSUDvLi8E/video.html
thank you very much!!
That was a lot of fun. A favorite song of mine anyway!!
Thanks Randall!!
I am very glad to discover you! Although I cannot do what you teach in every video, it is very enjoyable to watch! ♥
Thank you so much and thank you for subscribing!
Thank You for your videos ! You are so a good teacher 😊
You're very welcome! Check out some of the other videos at my channel…click subscribe to keep in the loop! happy jamming 🎶😊🤙
We recently did this song in concert; it's always fun played jazzy and loose in the syncopation. Some day I'd love to play the picking patterns and flourishes you do here, even half as fluidly as you do it. Right now, Until I get better at it I do a few slides here and there instead.
Such a beautiful soul you got here. Greetings from Croatia 😊
Thank you! 😃.Wishing you and your family well in Croatia 🙏
Love it! thank you
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching 😊🎶🤙 Please subscribe for more videos like this one :-)
This strum works really well with 'What a Day for a Daydream' - John Sebastian's great song from the 60s.
Yes - that's a super cool swinging tune...hmmm - I think that should be lesson someday!
Amazing Stu! Love you bro ❤️🔱⚡️
Thanks very much mate… More swinging videos to come!
Loved it!!!
Thank you Carlos! Hope you'll subscribe to this channel for more great video content like this every week 😉🎶🤙
😀 Wouaw ! Thanks so much ! (From France) Excellent Professeur, MERCI BEAUCOUP !!! 🙏
MERCI!!! 😊
Awesome vid. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
This is Wunderbar… so love it…I’m a Cole Porter Girl! But I can’t get that slap/mute yet…working on it…
Nice lesson! (And solo, and song etc!!)
Thanks Tom!
Thanks for the lesson. Greetings from. Germany. Moritz
My pleasure! Thanks for watching Mortix 🤙🎶
Hallo Moritz, auch ich bin begeistert von seinen Videos, er macht es toll!
Grüße von Haus zu Haus 🏡🇩🇪 👋🏻
Ukulele Zen - see, you have more than one fan in Germany 😃🤣! Thank you for your wonderful videos!
Hermi
Very cool. Subscribed.
Thanks so much Beerbatter!
Hey Ukulele Zen Master, you rock!
I am merely a reflection of your awesomeness 😊🤙☯︎
Great !!
🙏🌎🎶🌎☯️🔥🎉
One of my faves, from the movie
Yes!! Loved that one! 🤙🎶
Play along jam starts@ 4:02
Phenomenal 👍
Thanks! 🙏🎶
Loved this Stu. Going to crib the solo if that’s ok. Hope you are ok
You play awesome chords! I enjoy learning this so much. Played guitar for long time, but I think uke is better voiced for jazz 😁
Excelllent tutorial
Many thanks for watching...play on and please subscribe for more videos like this one :-D
so sick!
Play on Was! (I was in a band called "The Waz" 20 yrs ago.
Fantastic! thanks for sharing
Thanks Tom...Glad you enjoyed it! Share the vid & keep on swinging!
Gads. Cool! tryin to move away from strum only..so tab for solo?
Awsome
Stu, you're incredible in teaching and encouraging!
Too bad, six people ain't swinging but hating.
Sweet !!!!
Thank you Mike! Hope you'll subscribe to this channel for more great ukulele video content like this every week 😉🎶🤙
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Wow! ✌️Is there a sheet to follow printable? I love this beats 🎶💃🕺🌹 love it 😍
I would like to play like you🥺 but I've only had the ukulele for two month, so everything is ahead of me.. I hope:) You sing very well too.
Besides, just looking at you puts me in a good mood. I use your lessons to learn. Thank you❤
Great tutorial!
Thank you!! You’re a GREAT UKULELE CLUB!! 🤙🎶😊💜
@@UkuleleZen, thank you. We all think the world of you!
1)I am crazy about this lesson and I find with the speed and all ( I know I can slow it down, but I like the vitesse) I slip into chucking ( hey, this song has helped me, without intending improve my chuck, thanks), but I like this mellower sound. I suppose it depends if I use the index finger or the thumb while strumming . When I use the index, I tend to use the bottom (palm) part of my thumb.
Yes - wherever it feels natural, follow that. Just as long as your technique is LIGHT. That's key. Keep on searching for the effortless, ease of when something is known. Watch the body...feel the dance on the instrument....ENjoy :-)
Você é uma festa inteira! (You are a whole party!)
Muito Obrigado! (the extend of my Portuguese ;-) Thanks so much & happy music making Dan!
Okay I’m ready for the solo tab now!
Do you edit the solo and how can we have it ? Please!
Thanck you 😊
Right on Jon! I'll be outlining what I did this month for $10 patrons...I'll offer a sample lick first as a public video. www.patreon.com/ukulelezen
Yes! I'll be outlining what I did this month for $10 patrons...I'll offer a sample lick first as a public video. www.patreon.com/ukulelezen
2) The delicious UDU at the end adds so much flavour but overused it's less magical. It is nice to feel a surprise when it comes- how often should we had it? After certain chords? I know it's a matter of preference but any suggestions?
You can feel free there...Once you're in the pocket, just stretch out with your feelings & start to improv some strum effects...it becomes more jammy that way too. :-)
Awesome 🇬🇧👽😎🙏💚🖖
Thank you Rusterferian! Keep on jamming! 🙏🎶🤙
Another superb video Stu. Thank you. This is a challenge for a beginner like me but I'm sure giving it a go. Can I ask you, when you mute it's difficult for me to stop it becoming a chunk so is that alright?
Yes, absolutely - a silent mute is what I'm recommending, but a chuck is juuuust fine! Do YOUR thing ;-) Thanks Lisa
I love your arrangement, I would like to learn this song in gypsy jazz style :)
Sure thing Moli! We can do this in our private lessons...it's often one of the first major key Gypsy Jazz songs I teach 😊
@@UkuleleZen Oh Great! ^^ I am writing you en email now. i have some idea.
Its 2am. I wanna play this song *NOW*!!! My flatmate is going to hate me haha
Look like your flatmate is going to be staying up late! ;-)
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Hi, loved your swing strum with All Of Me. Is it possible to make it work using my index finger? Thanks.
Jane ,from Down Under
Yes Jane, you can! Same idea, different finger. Also sounds good with a straight forward DU DU DU DU strum w index...Hope you'll subscribe for more vids like this one...Be well & Happy playing, Stu
All of uke, why not learn all of uke... with UZ! I am amazed how you make what I thought a very melancholic song into something fun and happy. The image of the trampoline helps a lot to get the movement: maybe a way of transforming pain into energy and joy ? A languorous stroke and then a brisk whip... Merci beaucoup!
Thanks Jana - that bounce helps keep the swing! Ps. The Merci I said at the end was for you, Estelle and all the sweet folks in France 🇫🇷🤙🎶🙏🏻
you are SO fun! Love swing,, you rock !! now if I can just take five to get my knuckles untied .. LOL that was fun :)
Thanks Sher Lynn! Glad you liked it :-)
You are too advanced for me but i love it🤩
Thanks for watching and trying! Just so you know, I have lots of beginner friendly tutorials at my channels homepage “Ukulele Zen”. Play on, Stu 😊🎶🤙
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update :new found freedom found from this vidio, helped to cast off unneeded, restaints...
Awesome!! I appreciate your kind comment and am very happy for your music making 😀 I’ve got more to enjoy at the channel and courses at my website too. Play on! www.stufuchs.com/store
if 2:45 "really starts to cook" I'm at pot noodle stage of cookin'...
Dig it! I have Rocky Raccoon almost ready for you & Séan ;-)
@@UkuleleZen Super and the swing strum just "clicked" last night 😁
Where can i find the tab?
I now know...what I'll be playing for at least the next 3 months.
NICE! Keep swinging! I think Steve Martin had a movie of this same title ;)
I am getting like 3 beats instead of 2: 1 when i slow strum,1when i fast strum and 1 when i mute
Unlike in yours where the fast strum and mute together are one beat.
And my hand movement is also different from yours, i know I am doing it wrong but don't know how to correct it
What Brand of UKULELE are you playing in this Video?
Hi Aylett, The Ukulele played in this video is a custom Tenor Uke w/ Kasha Bracing System. Very unique ukulele made by a wonderful luthier… He is getting older so if you wanna get one reach out to him soon and get one while he's still making them!
Made by Brian Griffin - P.S. Please tell him Stu sent ya’! www.griffinukuleles.com
wow............
Thanks for watching!
Hi Stuart,
please have a look at the comments under your Johnny B Goode video. Everyone has problems with playback, France, US, German.
Hi Ramon, Yes - it's unfortunate! I think the estate of Chuck Berry has blocked the video in the EU. Never fear - an online course about rock and roll and rockabilly music is about halfway finished… I'll be announcing it on this channel soon as it's completed! Be well, Stu
Scoobi doo....i want to be like you!
I can't see a thing!! The ad won't go away. Not a usual problem.
Sorry about that Nick - try refreshing the page - you may have to "skip ad"...there shouldn't be any banner ads on this vid...
@@UkuleleZen Thanks. Failed on the Android - worked on the iPad thankfully 🤗
The music I printed out for this song, does not have what you are playing??? Why??
the music that you printed maybe in a different key
Hi Kim, It's what I played...it is the songsheet. I'm following the chords & strum....the songsheet is a guide - jazz has lots of ad libbing - in tis version I stick pretty close to the page ;-)
Dotted notes...or triplets
Yes - the rhythm has a swing triplet feel. Try this tutorial out to learn the fancy triplet strum fill: czcams.com/video/Q0o3-bYsMT4/video.html
My ukulele most be broken because it does not sound like that😱😂 i think the batteries are low👍
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Sorry I can't hit 'like' twice
Awww, thanks! Feel free to share it with a friend ;-). Be well & jam ON!
Man this is harder than you make it look 😭
Keep at it Gavin...the muting of the strings - is just a moment of touching the string lightly :)
Ukulele Zen Thanks Stu, I can actually do the mute but can’t get the “swing”.
I just sound forced and robotic rather than relaxed and eh swing, bouncy, trampoliney
BTW when is your next “how to sing & play for dummies” tutorial 🤔.
Greetings from a sunny and more locked down Ireland. Every time we get even a regional lockdown the weather gets better.
This isn't my favorite for a beginner. Song is not introduced (chords) and seems more about Stu's playing than teaching the student.
great song and lesson but waaaaay to fast for me to play along with you. I could only get one strum per measure, but at least I muted that strum! I will have to slow it down a lot, although then you sound like somebody leaving the dentist with a numbed mouth that won't work and it makes me laugh.
Slowing it dooooowwwwnnnn is goooooooowwwoooood! 😉 Thanks for watching & joining in - my tempo is just one possibility of course - play it slower & it becomes a nice ballad 🎶