Try to be aware of your hands and arms and notice if they feel like they’re starting to tense up. The frustrating thing with tensing up is that you often don’t notice it happening and only when it becomes a real problem do you recognise it. When you find something difficult to play you may notice that your arms start to tense up. I still do this now from time to time but it’s still worth knowing about. Ok this one isn’t so much a beginner mistake but an everyone mistake. Once you start doing this you’ll find that your rhythm improves drastically. This means when you need to miss a strum for your rhythm your strumming hand keeps going but it doesn’t make contact with the strings. What you need to get into the habit of doing is keeping your strumming arm moving.
The problem with doing this is that it completely breaks your rhythm and is likely to mess up your timing to a point where it’s instantly noticeable to the listener.
One you get to the point with strumming patterns where you need to miss a strum here and there to provide a more interesting rhythm it’s super common to stop the strumming hand moving completely until it’s needed for the next strum. This will bring your fingers further around the front of your ukulele which is exactly where they need to be to fret a chord or note well. Essentially you’re fretting notes with the back of your finger rather than the end of your finger.Īll you need to do is push your wrist forwards a little. Laying your fingers on the frets rather than pressing directly down is likely to leave you with unwanted muted strings. This one is really common but it’s also very easy to fix. Plucking each string individually allows you to quickly isolate any issues and get on the path to correcting them. When you learn to play a new chord, and this is particularly important for chords that use more fingers it’s important for all the notes within the chord to ring clearly.Ī quick way to check whether the notes are ringing clearly is to fret the chord and pluck each string individually to make sure it isn’t being muted by either poor finger position, not enough pressure or another finger accidentally muting the string. Your nail should be hitting the strings on the down strums and the back of your finger hitting the strings on the up. This is the perfect position to strum from your wrist whilst at the same time flicking your finger downwards. This will mean your hand is not quite so horizontal.
To correct this you need to let your hand drop a little and relax your wrist. It sort of works but it brings a few issues, the most common of which is your fingers getting caught in the strings a little as you strum. This results in quite a rigid wrist and more often than not this means that your finger is strumming across the strings horizontally.
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