My Answers - How to Build a Chord lesson
1 b3 5 = minor
1 3 5 b7 = dominant 7th
1 3 5# = augmented
1 2 5 = sus2
C E G = C major
C Eb G = C minor

1 b3 5 = minor
1 3 5 b7 = dominant 7th
1 3 5# = augmented
1 2 5 = sus2
C E G = C major
C Eb G = C minor
first point I don't yet own a uke with a pick up.
I've now joined a local uke club and I am mostly keeping up.
It depends on strum pattern and what's being sung.
Sometimes concentration only stretches to one or the other. Alongside a block of ''intermediate'' lessons. Again I seem to be holding my own.
Nobody plays amped up , so that's fine.
They club does go out and about to venues to entertain, residential homes, local fetes and such like. When they do I think they generally rely on a microphone set up to amplify the group rather than any individual player.
A baby step would be to attach a piezio transducer pickup to your soundboard. It doesn't require any drilling or interior wiring to your instrument. You'd still need an amplifier-speaker to process the signal.
Hi Matt -
After trying for ages to try to figure out Chord Melody on my own, I suddenly became sensible and went to basics on your course !!
I enjoyed your explanation of “Twinkle, Twinkle …” and reached a good level of understanding but when I printed out your music sheet, I noticed a slight difference between the pdfs.
On the hand-written ones you guided us toward playing the open notes on the GCEA voicing.
But the printed music sheet directed me to play the fretted G note on the E string rather than the open G.
I understand both are the same, but why the change ?
Hi, I had just acquired a Fender Dhani Harrison Signature Acoustic electric Tenor Ukulele and wonder if I could change the strings to hi G. The seller was not able to tell me if it was equipped with a low G or hi G strings. Need hep. Thanks.
Hi Jenny, my favourite strings at the moment are D'Addario Flurocarbons - high G. They have a nice warmth to them and are quite gentle on the fingers.
100% correct!! :)