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  • I can't seem to strum right, my finger always get stuck on the first string.

  • Uh. Thanks :)

  • @jezander Thank you so much!

  • Hey I started learning the uke yesterday and was looking for something that helped with chords and strum pattern. I love I'm yours and you made it so easy. So thanks and please make some simplified versions of other songs I'd love to learn some more :) xx

  • Thanks for the encouragement tto keep practicing will keep in touch

  • i have been searching for a tutorial like his and i found it! thank you so much this is gonna help a lot!:)

  • you have a bazillian requests but could you try i will follow you into the dark death cab for cutie? the normal version is tricky

  • could u do a lazy song tutorial by bruno mars thx!

  • I've been having trouble getting the G and have been using G6 instead and it seems to work well. I'll keep working on the G chord. Thanks.

  • thats am not a

  • Great tutorial, thank you! I would love to see more.

  • is each strum the same length of time? seems like there is a pause after the "mute".

  • Well done !

  • very helpful just got myself a basic ukulele few days ago and i can play my first popular song after watching ur video. 100+ Like

  • amazing video man! i dont have a ukulele but im looking forward to getting one and im definatly gunna use this! thanks alot!!

  • so you're awesome. i've been having a really hard time with the palm mute. but after closely inspecting what you were doing, i got it down mostly! just practice. gonna go get some chicks ;] cheers!

  • Thanks for teaching me the mute thing!!!!

  • I love this video! It would be nice if you posted more simplified versions, 'cause the other tutorials are indeed too hard for dummies! :)

  • Thank you! You gotta make more tutorials! Your tutorials are very easy to follow :D

  • thank you so much!! this is the first song i learnt on my ukulele and i learnt it so fast!!! :D really appreciate it!

  • soprano or concert??

  • Thank you so much, i learned it. :)

  • Thnx i really learned it luv it!!! xD

  • more!!!!

  • you rock! more please :)

  • You're wonderful :)

  • Nice strum pattern enjoyed learning it.

  • yes make more ur really good

  • Hi, Jezander, you made it look doable. I was undecided about deciding to learn to play the guitar or the ukelele. I think I will go for the Ukelele. What about beatles songs? do you have more tutorials to post?

  • Ive been practicing the initial rhythm, the up down up mute or however its called, for a couple hours now in between songs and the top of my finger is killing me lol I got to build up that skin... Thanks for the tutorial

  • thanks for the help, just got a ukulele and already getting okay at this song!

    please upload more simplified videos, they help heaps

  • You should include that the A chord is an A minor chord. An A major chord is different, but great tutorial brosef made this song super simple. Now you should do one showing some of the extentions he added :o

  • Yo bro good helpful clip what about over the rainbow by iz this time that's a great song

  • thank you for the tutorial - you're a great teacher!

  • Thanks!

  • Loveeeeeeeeee! This is the best!

  • really great! please upload more songs!!

  • Jake... THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!

  • Thank you Jake! I can finally play the uke to this song and my husband can sing since I cant LOL. You're the best!

  • yeah man post what you go bro good stuff

  • I don't understand how to do the palm mute thing! :S

  • Excellent, if you aren't already, you'd make a great teacher

  • hi can you make a tutorial vid for hey soul sister?:) thanks. nice job by the way :D

  • thanks for putting this video on! it has really helped me :) you should post more! they are really helpful! :)

  • post more! great job!!!

  • Thank you, easy version! I just need to get use to the strumming pattern as I've been playing up down up songs all week..

  • Thank you so much!..u really helped me Jake!:)

  • Best Im yours tutorial!

    And i've watched alot.....

  • Thanks man!!! I still hope that you're going to post those other tutorial vids :)

  • What ukulele do you have??

  • great job. thank you for calling out the chords!!

  • thankyou!!!! x you have filled a ukelele gap....lets learn ukelele together! :)

  • hes cute =3

  • Thanks Jake :) Really easy to follow and very clear. I know this was posted so long ago but you can post those other tutorial vids you have if you still got em ;)

  • thank god - a genuinely easy to follow tutorial that got straight to the point :)

  • Great video man thanks a ton!!

  • Thanks Jake! New uke owner and due to your simple instruction and approach I'm attempting to make this my first song. More please.

  • that's Am not A

    for those who don't know, the song has been transposed into C major scale for simplicity

  • Very nice, very thorough. Thanks!

  • ok, so i followed the up,down,up chuck strumming pattern and the rhythm still doesn't seem to be right. Also do you add in another strum between changing chords?, yours sounds alot smoother (:

  • you are so good plz post more for help!!!

  • Wow great tutorial, earned yourself a sub :D

  • thanks so dam freaken much i understood your video way much more than others!!! play

  • omg! i picked that up in like.. 30 seconds?:D

    you would be a complete babe if you did Dont worry, Be happy :D!

    thankyou:) xxxxx

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  • put more up def.

  • ur the best!!!!

    

  • thanks! you should definitely post more!!

  • Thanks

  • Amazing , Only got my ukulele today and can already play this !!

  • Major helpful! got it after the first watch! :)

  • First..... And only. Haha thanks anyway!

  • you are such a good tuturiol maker. make more please! ALL OF THE OTHER ONES DONT MAKE SENSE. THANK YOU!

  • PELASE PLEASE PLEASE DO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Thanks! That was so helpful!!

  • your simplified version of im your helped me sooo much. with both strumming and learning chords! you should make one of BIllionare by bruno mars & travie mcoy

  • thanks dude, you're awesome!

  • MAKE MORE TUTORIALS

    

  • thanks man, just got a ukulele for christmas soo happy!! i love it. and thanks to you i can almost play it fairly well and christmas isnt even over yet!! i really appreciate the vid thank you very helpful

  • You should totally do more! This is the best i've seen! :D

  • thanks so so so so much! you're great!

  • great video! could please put up an simplified versions of some/all/one Jack Johnson songs like breakdown, better together, taylor, banana pancakes, flake etc. thanks a heap!

  • i love you now thankyou do some more

  • Rhythm of love!!!

  • Cheers dude :)

  • can u put a simplified version of hey soul sister by train? that would be helpful im subscribing right now peace. everyone like this so he can see!

  • thanks <3

  • if you did a hey soul sister by train tutorial simplified that would be dope

  • thankyou. so. much. this helped me a lot on learning how to play! :D

  • 275,000th view :D great video!!

  • Thank u so much! :)

  • may i know what kind of ukulele this is? soprano?

  • you can play virtually any song with this chord progression. Just change up the strum pattern.

  • The whole time it looks like you're missing your index finger.  LOL, but that was great! Thanks so much!! Haha. :DD

  • thankyou so much!!! you were the only video tutorial on u tube which helped me!! xxx

  • I can't do the palm mute :(

  • You are the man! thanks for helping with my first ever song on the uke!

  • You are really hot!!!!!

  • i cant get the strumming down!?!?! and i dont know why haha it doesnt seem dificult... i just cant do it.

  • thank you so much!!! you taught me my first song on the uk!!

  • Hey can you do a reggae song pah leaze???

    This tutorial is WAYYY helpful!

  • What a dude.

  • Thank you so much!

  • anyone notice that he flips you off at 2:07? lol

  • OMG SO Easy thnks

  • can you do simplified version for hello from shinee??

    i really love that song...

  • I never played an instrument..I think i will start off with ukulele..wish me luck..:)

  • this is really good! thanks for simplifying it :)

  • Jake, keep this going, so simple and real, you just taught me my first song!!!!

  • Thank u so much!!! i am a new player and i like ur video!!!!!

  • Thankyou :)

  • Thanks man, playing the ukulele is pretty easy to learn, i've never played an itrument (well i've played the skin flute, but i didn't get much sound) and i've learned to play a few songs within a week

  • Wow, I've been trying to learn this with some really difficult cords wondering how so many people could learn to play so quickly!! This is so much clearer! Thank you : )

  • wow, thank you so much!! :D

  • Mute is called chucking.

  • CAN I DO DOWN UP DOWN MUTE?!?!?

  • love this tutorial! thank you so much! PLEASE POST MORE!!!

  • Thank you! : )

  • this is soooo helppful

  • your  tutorial is sooooo easy thanks heaps

  • Thanks, you made it so simple. I finally learned to do the mute right this time and have been having so much fun playing this.

    Do you have something as simple as this one?

  • Tha ks so much! Ur so much help and ac/dc

  • Great Job.

    Can you play You shook me all night long from Ac/Dc??

  • Thanks! i watched a number of videos on strumming but couldn't get it until i watched yours! Thanks so much!

  • HEY!!!, You are good!!!! why only one video?? Please do MORE!!

    you make agreat teacher and i can deff learn from you. many thanks.

  • Could you make a over the rainbow ukulele tuturial frok that hawaiian dude?

  • hey, you can explain it pretty good!!!keep going and make more lesons on

    the ukulele,please!

  • Thanks for this. Been learning this song and it really helps!! Can you post some more? Do you have any tips for the riff at the start of the song?

  • PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS!

  • Whoa thanks (: A is Am though, other than that FANKS!

  • Easy-breezy!Thanks man!U gotta put out more tutorial vids!!!

  • Does he mean a or a minor.... I think he played an a minor but said a major. But I'm not one to judge I just got a uke yesterday.

  • I CAN STRUM FOR NUTS T.T

  • Great tutorial. I'm just a beginner on the uke, so would love more like this please!?!

  • THUMB UPPPPPPPPP !!!!! MORE TUTORIAL PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

  • You should definitely put up more tutorials. This was the most helpful one I've seen

  • You should put up more tutorials man! This is one of the best I've seen.

  • just got my uk' finally learnt an actual easy song! thanks alot:)

  • HEY THERE DELILAH PLEASE!!!!!!

  • Hey soul sister pleasee :) x x

  • thankyou this is the besttt!!!

  • I think you should do a hey soul sister

  • you should do hey soul sister and adventure time..stuff like that. cuse I'D really appreciate it.!(:

    this was the only tutorial that was easy to learn for me.

  • Damn, those mutes are hard...

  • This is really awesome and simple...which is just what I needed. Thanks!

    

  • @jezander , Hey do you know what your original strings are tuned to? I have mine at GCEA.

  • buddy, you just made my day.... i just learned something...cheers.... hurrah!!! maybe i will get it after all... please do some Mraz or Jack Johnson chords....

    Kindest Regards,

    Clive of Manchester.

  • do you have a simplified version on the intro for this song?

  • Chord C:

    up down up mute up down up mute up down up mute up

    Chord G:

    up down up mute up down up mute up down up mute up

    Chord Am:

    up down up mute up down up mute up down up mute up

    Chord F:

    up down up mute up down up mute up down up mute up

  • This is actually the best im yours tutorial for a beginner!

  • this is great thanks a lot !!

    

  • i love it thank you so much you made this sooo insanely easy epescially cuz thats the only pattern i know lol

  • How do you do that!! X((

    every time i try it sounds horrible,

  • im all mixed up.. plz can you put the cam near the Ukulele

  • you're great man! please put out some more!

  • Btw: I notice that you only have one tutorial on youtube.. You should put out more! I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated by many!

  • You tha man!

  • dude plz post more!!

  • This is actually quite easy to play. It's just the G chord giving me problems

  • We have the same uke!! :D

  • Haha that was a good video man, good job!!! and fuck yeah my finger huirts too!

  • 2:07

  • Thank you, very helpful! The chords are 1/2 step above the original version, so they are

    C - G - am - F and there is a D7 in parts of the song. You call the A minor an A in the video, implying a major, but it's a minor there.

  • thank you! awesome stuff!

  • Nice. Could you post a simplified verison of "over the rainbow" by IZ ?

  • Nice. Could you post a simplified verison of "over the rainbow" by IZ ?

  • wow thanks man. I'm sort of a rookie ukulele player, and this was awesome.!

  • this video upload helped me alot!!!

    im not saying the other people suck or anything, theyre all awesome and way way better than me haha

    but ur vid helps the most ;)

  • i would LOVE where is my mind by pixies plz

  • has anyone actually tried singing along or playing this strum pattern w/ the actual song? the chords itself are easy but this pattern is not really with the pace of the original song unless the lyrics are slowed down a ton. suggestion= use these chords but diff pattern

  • i cant get the chord changes in time. help?

  • Thank you so much! i feel like i can actually play something now =D

  • this is super simple. loved it <3

  • post more!

    i just got my ukulele and learned this :D