I've waited 50 years for you to come along. I started playing guitar age 15 and just bought a soprano uke and I have never seen a lesson so clear without unnecessary twaddle. Magnificent. Many thanks. Have my last 75 years all been wasted?
Hello from the u.k. Re read your reply, if you haven’t tried a baritone, do so, a game changer! I’m 65 now, got a baritone for Xmas all over it! Guitar so frustrating! I promise you will trade your other uke once you try a baritone. Take care.
@@madcyril4135 Cheers from Bangor, Northern Ireland. Thanks for your reply. I should have said baritone uke. I have arthritis in my left fingers so I find chords hard to play on guitar. I'm 75 years old and decided to play some Bach. The first part of the Bach cello suite is fairly easy as it is mostly single notes and a bit of finger-picking. And the beautiful baritone uke sounds perfect for it. Bach would be turning in his grave if he could hear it.
You are an excellent teacher, Phil. I’m about a month into learning baritone ukulele and I find the blues are lots of fun to play. (Or attempt to play in my case 🙂) Great stuff, I look forward to working my way through your series.
Always great to have more resources for the so neglected baritone. Also loving the series on the tenor banjo/guitar, even if I'm not planning to fall on yet another rabbit hole of acquisition syndrome.
Wow! This is big fun! You have a great teaching style. Thank you for creating content for the baritone. I read in an earlier comment that you’ll be adding baritone tutorials to your Patreon account. I can’t wait 😃 Just here, doing my happy dance and practicing my 12 bar blues in the meantime. Thank you Phil.
Hi Phil! So glad to find you. What a great teacher you are. Certainly the best I have found here on RU-vid. Looking forward to more of these lessons. Five starts all the way!
Brilliant lesson mate I learned quite a bit easier following along your video. Was helpful to cement some vital basics and further my own foundation toward better growth of my own playing level now. I have a few chords down and decided to check out blues as my doorway in learning more ukulele lore. Cheers my friend
Thanks for this Phil. Always looking for stuff to help me along the baritone learning road! Love all your videos but if baritone related so much the better! Curious to know how much baritone related content there is on your Patreon page??? Jeff
Hi Jeff, thanks. At the moment there isn't any baritone content, but I'm aiming to fix that over the enxt few weeks. You might be best hanging fire for a month or two, and then if you choose to join you'll find plenty there.
Hi Phil. Great lesson, just what I needed. One question though; isn't it common for bar 10 to switch to the 4 chord? I think that V IV change just before the turn around has a real bluesy feel to it. BTW, I am learning on a tenor guitar tuned DGBE so the Baritone uke lessons are perfect.
Thanks! Yes, that 'walk down' from the V, to the IV to the I is very common, but lots of songs (particularly older blues) don't do it, and for this one I kept it simple :-) I really like playing the IV chord as a 7th too, as well as the V chord.
Yes, this one is the simplest 12 bar as a beginner lesson. Lots of songs stick to the B7 in bar 10, others have a B7 bar 9 and an A in bar 10, as you say. There are loads of variations, and as you go through the series you'll find loads of different ways of play a 12 bar!
A guitarlele is normally tuned ADGCEA, so regular ukulele shapes would match up, fingering-wise (if you ignore your two lowest strings). That said, a chord is a chord whatever you play it on, so if you're just following the chord names an you know how to play them on you guitarlele then you'll be fine.
Yes, Willie's guitar trigger is a nylon string, just like the baritone, so it's possible to get something of that sound. You mioght find that using a pick might help with the attack.
maan, its so funny you talk tha bari is different from guitar when it only lacks 2 bottom strings,, back in daze the jazz guitarists in the big bands only used the 4 top strings, for push chords hoping that at least something would possibly get thru the "MiX! and Keith R cut at leas one low string , cuz the band had a bass guitar!ist! perfec sense n sensibility.., Im getting older and slower/lazier, I have some hand probs( and mental anger for ) barrehuray chordhandling , BUTT Ima stilledalive n love nylon stringed guitars! I have found one with slim neck with a trussrod, and it still intonates mor perfect than any classiacal that ive laid my fingertops on..., I had onece a 500 tenor, which sounded like Mark Knopfler, but too clear n too short... I tune my evyrthing low so the baritone interest me theres one Cordoba under 100€s new music store, never got my Hartwood 50 € tenors exactly intonated, is it easier( no ) on baritones...,
