LEFT HAND FINGER DEXTERITY EXERCISE #1 for the Ukulele - Ukulele Mike Lynch 

I'm so sorry he passed away. So glad he lives on in video.

Do this exercise everytime you pick up your ukulele

Thank you Mr. Lynch. You are a wonder teacher. Wish you were a whole lot closer so I could buy you a good cup of coffee and chat!

Just what I have been looking for in my quest for Ukulele Mastery!

Love the photobomb by your Kitty!

Love your kitty cat in the background. Your hints on increasing the left hand dexterity are extremely helpful. Thank you so much.

Lovely. I can feel the difference after a few minutes. Thank you... good stuff as usual.

Really great ! Left hand exercises are awesome. Thanks so much and looking forward to playing better. ( Need to as it's keeping me sane in this world. PS: I'm 71.

Thanks very much for your thorough instruction. Just tried it for the first time and love it!

Mike, that was awesome! I found it really challenging at first, but with practise, it became easier. I'll try to exercise every day. It seems worth the effort.

Thanks for this video! I always took for granted the basics of this exercise. Thanks for reiterating it's importance as it is paying off dividends in chording...

I love you for that exercise! I'm a uke newbie and want to learn so I can teach a couple little ones in the family. Much appreciation, and thank you Ukulele Mike!

Thank you! This is simple enough that I actually can do it every day.

Thanks for the tips, Mike. I usually start my groups/classes with the 1234 exercise, but never thought about reversing, and having them place all four fingers at the start. Will try it.

I'm finally just starting to "get" how to play. I think this will be really helpful. Thanks!

Yes, my pinkie wants to hitch a ride on top off my ring finger. See what you mean it has a mind of its own. Many thanks for the videos Mike.

Thank you for this very helpful video. I have just started playing the Ukelele and I am experiencing difficulties with finger placement/dexterity. I am sure that these exercises will help!

3:30 If you’ve already seen the video and want to go directly to the exercises. I’m not sure if anyone else does this, but I like to go back to this video and practices the exercises with him.

This is exactly what i was looking for as a complete berginner. i just want deliberate practice to develop my finger skills.

Hi Michael, just want to say thankyou for your vids on here, I would not be able to learn with out them as I have problems with face to face teachers. so thankyou. x

I totally agree with you. It seems that a lot of Ukulele players don't see/want to see themselves as serious musicians, thus don't want to do scales/apeggios like the rest of the musical world. Yet one can't get any good at any instrument without doing them. I love the exercises, in any instrument you need to warm up and also in some cases the warm up the instrument as well. I'm an ex-flute player and a virgin Ukulele player.

Michael, thanks so much. I saw the second video first, so I watched that and commented. Same for this one, I really like these exercises and hope you will post more.

Great stuff. Really glad I found this video.

Thanks so much for sharing this excercise :)

~RIP Mike....still learning from you.

Actual video starts from 3:23

--- Darn ring finger & baby finger for being independent 😊

Thanks Mike, this is great, so easy to remember there's no excuse for not following your advice. Best wishes for 2014

Hi Mike, Many thanks for your instruction videos, so good, ,my playing has improved, as you said it would. The up the neck and stretch exercise has helped me enormously together with exercises #1 & #2. Do you please have any other exercises that you can recommend ? Thanks for all you are doing to promote ukulele playing, you certainly have a lot to answer for in ukulele playing here in the UK. Once again many thanks, best wishes, Peter Bailey.

This is very helpful. Thank you

Great video! thanks!

Good lesson

thanks for sharing this :)

thanks simple and effective

I knew he had to be a trained musician!

Mike - once again thanks - this is useful/good stuff =)

Merry Christmas, Mike! In Russia, Christmas is celebrated today, Jan. 7.

What about the fingers of the right hand during this exercise? Are you doing the entire fingerpicking with your right thumb (on each string), or are you assigning different fingers to each string? Thank you!

pretty cat Mr.Mike

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Dear Mike. Wishing you a great 2014 first of all. Thank yo so much for your lessons, I love it and am trying hard. In one of your video's I think I saw the Seattle Needle? Do you live there? I live in South Africa but I am in Seattle usually in your summer with my family. My daughter is a harpist (Maxine Eilander) and she is married to Stephen Stubbs, Lutenist, baroque guitarist, conductor etc. Do you teach at all? I was wondering if I could maybe have some lessons if indeed you live in Seattle? In the mean time, thank yo again for sending me your wonderful teaching emails. Kind regards, Ineken van Ketel Eilander.

Hi mike. I am a violinist. How can I tune my new Uk the same as a violin. Is it possible. Thanks joe

Thank You!!!! ;-)

Like ur cat!!

May god bless

Please, please do a few guitar tutorials, I've been looking on youtube for years for a good guitar teacher, and people either go way too fast or too complicated, or they drone through lessons making it hard to learn.

How is he supporting the instrument/neck with just his thumb?

I can not keep my finger close to the neck to move independently each finger :(

Great video! Does anyone have any suggestions about which fingers to use on the strumming hand? For example, the thumb on the top two strings, and then index and then middle? Or something else?

OMG cat 😘😘😘

What if you don't have a cat? Seriously, thanks.

What’s the name of the tune Mike plays at the beginning

Hi Mike, how many times would you do the exercise each day.

how long do i practice this for each time?

anyone please tell me the name of the time playing in the intro..

What????? this youtuber passed away????????????????????????????

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Great exercise but your tuxedo cat is stealing my attention.