Chords for Kimo Hussey Ukulele Video Series: Opening Up the Fretboard

_ Hello, happy day to you all.
I thought it would be very very fun
If we talked about in this session what I will call
Opening up the fretboard and what we're going to do or what I would like to do today is to show you
_ Certain
positions and learn some progressions based on positions on the fretboard and positions of your hands
Rather than names of chords, so what I will purposely not do is tell you the name of chords
But I will tell you how these chords substitute, so let's go to C
[F] F and [G] G7
_ [C] again C, [G] F and G7
[C] So now I'm going to play a substitute for C, and this is it
Here comes a substitute for F [Dm] and a [B] substitute for G7
So let me do that again [C] here comes a regular C
_ _ [G] F and G7
_ [Am] Substitutions
_ [F] _ _ [B]
So
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] Okay, _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[N] let's figure out what these positions are
_ Before I get there
I want to tell you that as as you know whenever you can hold down four strings on the ukulele you can play that
Same chord anywhere on the fretboard
So one of the reasons why I don't want us to get tangled up in names of chords is at this point.
They're irrelevant
And in terms of learning chords on the fretboard by positions
Names are totally irrelevant plus that some of them have long names that might confuse us
So go here [C] first
I think we would call that
[Gb] 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7
Or put these two guys on the fifth fret
One string apart and then one fret apart and put these guys
On [Em] the seventh fret here and here
[C] So we have that chord and we're gonna call this chord the C
substitute
one of the things [Gb] I really like about learning chords in positions is
The F substitute is very very easy to locate
See where these two fingers are if if if you just bar that fret which is the fifth fret you'll get the F
Substitute so we go [E] from the C substitute
to [F] the F substitute _ _
_ C [Am] substitute
bar [Dm] this fret _
Substitute to get from to get to the g7 substitute is even easier
You take this bar slide it back one and [Eb] put it on the fourth fret and then take this finger
The F road rage finger and just hold [B] on these three strings right here
[Am] See, so here's the four.
He's the the F substitute.
[B] Here's the
[Am] g7 substitute so
_ C substitute _
[Am] _ [B] _ _ G7 [Am] substitute.
I want you to notice how
Simple [E] and close together these chords are [A] _ [C] so you are _ _ _ _
Going to the F substitute you [F] make me happy _
When [C] skies are gray
You [F] never know how much
[Am] You _
Will take [B] my sunshine [C] away
Does that look familiar?
Bum bum bum bum _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Or bum bum bum bum [C] Or
bum [F] bum bum bum
bum bum bum [C] bum
_ _ _ bum bum [Dm] bum bum
bum bum bum bum bum bum
This is the G7 substitute
[E] _ _ _
_ _ The other thing to notice is
The C substitute if [C] C is here is two frets above here above
Two frets I should say to the right of C and this is one of the things I personally use
It's kind of a spatial relationship
That helps me to remember that if I'm holding C in this position and I go [Em] two frets up that's where that substitute [A] is
so in a
If I [A] go two frets up from here this becomes the A substitute [E] so [Gbm] there's the A
[Ab] _ One fret [Bb] above that becomes the Bb
So _
_ [Cm] Bb
_ _ Eb _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ Okay, I want to show you [C] one other thing.
That's really really cool
Go back to the C substitute and one [Ab] of the things you should practice [Gb] is this
_ _ [Am] That pair of fingers see those are moving
[Am] And then move these
_ _ It's great great practice.
Let me show you how you can use it
This is the C substitute and I'm going to create a second [C] chord just by bringing these two guys back here
[F] and then from here if I go to the F substitute and then from the F [B] substitute to G7 _
I can fashion an introduction or a mount
[C] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [B] re [Am] _ [Eb]-demo
_ [Dm] _ _ _
once [Am] more
There [C] bring these two [Dm] guys back
Bar that fifth fret move it back one to the G7 and I can resolve [C] this
Here if I want
Okay
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