Chords for How To Play Slide Style on Ukulele

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_ [Db] _ Alright, the new fad _ _ _ is the slide, alright?
So what we're doing today is I'm going to show you how to [Eb] apply your slide [D] _ to your ukulele,
okay? _
_ _ _ _ [G] Forewarned, this is a big heavy slide and this style of music, in all honesty, is going
to sound a lot better on a guitar.
But _ [Db] that doesn't mean that you can't play with it, have fun with it, experiment, and
who knows, maybe you'll find a technique or develop something or just be more [D] efficient
at it than I am.
So, for this you're going to need your ukulele, [C] your open C or your banjo tuning, and a big slide.
If you don't have this, _ [Ebm] a glass bottle works, a coffee mug, but it gets cumbersome [N] if you're
trying to play with, you know, world's best dad coffee mug.
Alright, so stay tuned, follow me, and let's [C] break it down.
Alright, _ _ _ _ [D] so the first thing you need to do is get back into that open C tuning that we did, okay?
The open tunings are going to work the best with your [Eb] slide.
[C] _ _ So, if you know, if you watched the last video, you know that we [F] have a chord here _ _ and _ [G]
here.
_ _ _ _ [Em] One of the most [Ebm] important things with your slide is to note [A] the position, okay?
When you play [G] with your fingers, you're behind [C] the fret. _
But that point [Ebm] of pressure is still right on the fret.
So when you play with your slide, the first thing you want to do is practice voicing your
[F] chord _ _ right [Fm] _ _ _ _ [F] over that fret. _
_ _ Okay, so if I'm a little [Gb] further back, you hear all that dissonance?
_ [F] Move forward a little bit, _ _ _ [C] it sounds much better, okay?
So [Gb] that's the first tip.
The second tip I have is [D] these fingers behind your slide, rest them on [F] your strings. _ _
_ _ [Ebm] It kind of helps to get rid of some of [F] the wobbliness.
_ _ _ [Dm] Alright, it keeps your hands [Gb] steady and it helps with the shaking [Ebm] strings.
_ [C] So if I'm playing, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Db] it's important to see how I slide [Db] into the chord.
_ _ [D] The first thing I would do is I would do a basic blues progression, [C] alright?
So I would run through, your [F] C is your one chord, _ F is your [C] two, or F is your four, _ _ D
is your five.
So I do something like, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ D, F, [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ back [C] to your C, _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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[Ebm] and I would practice that, alright?
[C] That's the basic thing, I'm just kind of _ not really worrying about the strum pattern, I'm
just kind of focusing on the actual slide, okay?
Some other tips, [Bb] _ this [Gm] octave on the _ 12th _ _ _ _ _ _ _ gives you some cool [B] options.
So if you want to start a song, I would say start on the 10th [G] and slide into the 12th. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [B] Alright? _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ Now this [Eb] is going to sound better on [D] a 10th, keep this in mind, I'm playing a concert.
The bigger the ukulele you have, the better this is [Eb] going to sound, alright?
_ _ But you have your [C] octave there. _
[Ab] Another cool trick when [Ab] you're playing this is [Gm] you can kind of _ _
[C] slide [Bb] into that open [D] G
and come off it.
I'm sorry, slide into that [Gm] third _ fret, [Ebm] _ which [Gb] is actually an E sharp major, and come [C] off it. _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [Eb] Alright, that's pretty cool too.
That's really Muddy Waters, alright?
That's really, really [B] old, vintage electric blues, and a lot of guys have adapted that
[Cm] and taken it to _ [Ab] Muddy Waters probably got some of that from Robert Johnson, but we see
a lot of that playing in Fleetwood Mac, [Db] in Dwayne [Bb] Allman, a lot of these guys have an
influence that all kind of [G] started with that muddy, _
_ _ [C] _ and that kind of blues attitude. _
_ _ _ [Cm] It's one of those things that you [D] know it's in your head, I know you've heard it before,
okay?
_ Alright, so we have the slide up, [F] _ _
[Bb] fourth, fifth, and the octave, [C] right? _ _
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[C] _ _ _ That should be enough to get you [D] started playing some slide ukulele, okay? _
Alright, until the next time, _ _ keep [Eb] on keeping on, alright?
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ That [N] was it, easy, alright?
Painless, kind of fun, interesting, and who knows? _
_ _ Maybe you can _ revolutionize the style of playing, okay?
Alright, take care, as always, subscribe, help me help you, _ if it helped you, hit the
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Alright, have a lovely day, _ stay tuned, [C] take care, and keep [C] on _ keeping [Fm] on. _ _ _
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