Stretchmark #9 Learning to play the Uke
May 18, 2010
So the beginning of this year, around the end of January I actually learned how to play the Ukelele. I always wanted to learn because I’d always here all these people around school playing the uke and it looked interesting to learn. My bestfriend, JM had a uke and knew how to play it very well. He would bring his ukelele to school sometimes and when I’d come over I would mess around with it pretending like I knew how to play it. One day I asked JM to finally teach me. The first time where I actually wanted to learn a song was when we were at his house and all our friends were over, Elizabeth and I were messing with it and I guess she knew part of the song “Break up Song” so she told me where to put my fingers but she actually didn’t know herself how to strum or how it went. JM took over and was telling us step by step what the notes were and teaching us the strum pattern. That was probably the hardest thing to get use to, the Strumming. I would get so frustrated everytime I couldn’t get the strumming right. Ever since that day, I told him to bring his uke to school all the time and everytime I was there was practicing. I’d learn a song one by one and I actually got the hang of it right away and it wasn’t really hard for me to learn. I would ask to borrow his uke all the time and take it home. I learned a lot of songs on YouTube and they have tutorials they teach you and it helped a lot. Of course JM was the one that got me starting to play the uke and until this day, I’m still learning a few songs. Now I just need to buy my own Ukelele. (=
