Chords for TRAVIS PICKING for the Ukulele by "UKULELE MIKE"
Tempo:
119.6 bpm
Chords used:
G
Am
C
A
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
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[A] [G]
[Am]
[G]
[Am]
[G]
[N] Hi, in this lesson we're going to depart a bit from our normal song lesson and talk a
little bit about technique and specifically finger picking.
And I'm going to be referring to a download that you can go up to, go up in the little
description box and click on the Mediafire website and you can download Ukulele Finger
Picking Patterns by Michael Lynch, Ukulele Finger Picking Lesson 1.
It looks like this.
Now it's a two sheet lesson and it covers some general topics about finger picking and
then specifically about one pattern which I call Pattern 1 for my purposes.
It's also
known in general as Travis Picking and I opened up this video with that pattern.
It's
a beautiful little flowing pattern.
You can do melody with it and accompaniment.
It's
a great pattern that you can play with.
In classical guitar technique, the right hand
has always been notated with letters rather than numbers.
Now with the left hand it's
pretty easy.
Thumb, first, second, third and fourth finger.
But the right hand, the
way we notate it in classical guitar is the thumb is the letter P, the index finger is
the letter I, the middle finger is the letter M, the ring finger is the letter A and the
little finger is the letter D.
Now in general we don't use the little finger in finger picking.
It's used in rasgato and flowing, stroking, strumming patterns.
But in specific fingering
we are going to avoid using it.
And in ukulele with only four strings quite often you just
use these three fingers, P, I and M.
Now when we play this pattern, the Travis Picking pattern,
the I finger, the index finger is assigned to the second string.
The M finger is assigned
to the first string.
The thumb is assigned to both the fourth and the third string.
So
these two fingers never stray away from these two strings.
That's their home.
The thumb
however alternates between the fourth and the third string.
And the pattern for a one
four beat measure of Travis is played like this.
Thumb [G] first, P, then M, [E] then [C] thumb again,
and [B] then I, [Eb] and then we do it all over again.
Thumb, M, [Am]
[Cm] thumb, [B] I.
Now [Ab] notice I've got my
thumb ahead of my fingers.
Avoid having your fingers ahead of the thumb.
Slide the fingers
back, keep them curved.
Don't do this, don't flatten your hand out.
Keep your hand up and
keep those fingers [Am] curved.
So that when you stroke the strings, the fingers actually come
up in to the palm of the hand, like so.
As opposed to, you don't want to pull the strings,
you want to stroke them.
So [G] the thumb first on the fourth string, [A] then M, [G] thumb on the
third [C] string, [B] and then I.
Now notice we always alternate fourth string, third string, fourth
string, third string.
[G] So if you start off with the pattern slowly at first, it sounds
like this.
[Am]
Just on open strings.
[C]
[Am] [C]
Increasing the tempo once you get more confidence.
G
[G] chord, A minor, [Am]
[G] G.
Now with slight variations, [D] like a suspended second, where you [G] lift the
little finger down on the third fret, you can get a little effect like this.
Then when
I go to A minor, [Am]
the variations are endless.
You can [G] come up with all kinds of variations.
This actually is nice just as an instrumental.
You don't even have to use it to accompany
a song.
But it's a great pattern to accompany anything in 4-4 time, a gentle ballad, [N] a folky
kind of song.
It's a great pattern, it's called Travis Picking.
And on this sheet, I call
it pattern number one.
And in future lessons, I will lay out other patterns, two, three,
four, and five, and so forth.
And eventually, when I am doing a song, I will say, use pattern
number seven on this.
Try pattern three or four, or mix up pattern six and two, or whatever.
And so, collect these, download them, keep them in a little folder, a little three ring
binder, so you can refer to them.
Because this is just the first installment.
It's up
there in the Mediafire website, link onto it, click on it, download it, print it out.
And like I say, take it slowly at first.
If you don't think you can finger pick, you got
another thing coming.
You can learn how to do this.
You can do finger picking.
It's a
nice [G] alternative to the typical ukulele strum, which is fine.
But there are times when you
want to do something a little gentler, and a little bit more, [Am] maybe, interesting with
a [G] little Travis pick.
So have fun, enjoy it.
And I'm enjoying all of the little notes
I'm getting from all of you ukesters out there, of all ages.
I've got people as young as like
eight and nine years old, all the way up into their seventies.
It's a great instrument for
everybody to learn to play.
Have fun.
Happy strumming.
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[A] [G]
[Am]
[G]
[Am]
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[N] Hi, in this lesson we're going to depart a bit from our normal song lesson and talk a
little bit about technique and specifically finger picking.
And I'm going to be referring to a download that you can go up to, go up in the little
description box and click on the Mediafire website and you can download Ukulele Finger
Picking Patterns by Michael Lynch, Ukulele Finger Picking Lesson 1.
It looks like this.
Now it's a two sheet lesson and it covers some general topics about finger picking and
then specifically about one pattern which I call Pattern 1 for my purposes.
It's also
known in general as Travis Picking and I opened up this video with that pattern.
It's
a beautiful little flowing pattern.
You can do melody with it and accompaniment.
It's
a great pattern that you can play with.
In classical guitar technique, the right hand
has always been notated with letters rather than numbers.
Now with the left hand it's
pretty easy.
Thumb, first, second, third and fourth finger.
But the right hand, the
way we notate it in classical guitar is the thumb is the letter P, the index finger is
the letter I, the middle finger is the letter M, the ring finger is the letter A and the
little finger is the letter D.
Now in general we don't use the little finger in finger picking.
It's used in rasgato and flowing, stroking, strumming patterns.
But in specific fingering
we are going to avoid using it.
And in ukulele with only four strings quite often you just
use these three fingers, P, I and M.
Now when we play this pattern, the Travis Picking pattern,
the I finger, the index finger is assigned to the second string.
The M finger is assigned
to the first string.
The thumb is assigned to both the fourth and the third string.
So
these two fingers never stray away from these two strings.
That's their home.
The thumb
however alternates between the fourth and the third string.
And the pattern for a one
four beat measure of Travis is played like this.
Thumb [G] first, P, then M, [E] then [C] thumb again,
and [B] then I, [Eb] and then we do it all over again.
Thumb, M, [Am]
[Cm] thumb, [B] I.
Now [Ab] notice I've got my
thumb ahead of my fingers.
Avoid having your fingers ahead of the thumb.
Slide the fingers
back, keep them curved.
Don't do this, don't flatten your hand out.
Keep your hand up and
keep those fingers [Am] curved.
So that when you stroke the strings, the fingers actually come
up in to the palm of the hand, like so.
As opposed to, you don't want to pull the strings,
you want to stroke them.
So [G] the thumb first on the fourth string, [A] then M, [G] thumb on the
third [C] string, [B] and then I.
Now notice we always alternate fourth string, third string, fourth
string, third string.
[G] So if you start off with the pattern slowly at first, it sounds
like this.
[Am]
Just on open strings.
[C]
[Am] [C]
Increasing the tempo once you get more confidence.
G
[G] chord, A minor, [Am]
[G] G.
Now with slight variations, [D] like a suspended second, where you [G] lift the
little finger down on the third fret, you can get a little effect like this.
Then when
I go to A minor, [Am]
the variations are endless.
You can [G] come up with all kinds of variations.
This actually is nice just as an instrumental.
You don't even have to use it to accompany
a song.
But it's a great pattern to accompany anything in 4-4 time, a gentle ballad, [N] a folky
kind of song.
It's a great pattern, it's called Travis Picking.
And on this sheet, I call
it pattern number one.
And in future lessons, I will lay out other patterns, two, three,
four, and five, and so forth.
And eventually, when I am doing a song, I will say, use pattern
number seven on this.
Try pattern three or four, or mix up pattern six and two, or whatever.
And so, collect these, download them, keep them in a little folder, a little three ring
binder, so you can refer to them.
Because this is just the first installment.
It's up
there in the Mediafire website, link onto it, click on it, download it, print it out.
And like I say, take it slowly at first.
If you don't think you can finger pick, you got
another thing coming.
You can learn how to do this.
You can do finger picking.
It's a
nice [G] alternative to the typical ukulele strum, which is fine.
But there are times when you
want to do something a little gentler, and a little bit more, [Am] maybe, interesting with
a [G] little Travis pick.
So have fun, enjoy it.
And I'm enjoying all of the little notes
I'm getting from all of you ukesters out there, of all ages.
I've got people as young as like
eight and nine years old, all the way up into their seventies.
It's a great instrument for
everybody to learn to play.
Have fun.
Happy strumming.
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Key:
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C
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_ _ _ [N] Hi, in this lesson we're going to depart a bit from our normal song lesson and talk a
little bit about technique and specifically finger picking.
And I'm going to be referring to a download that you can go up to, go up in the little
description box and click on the Mediafire website and you can download _ Ukulele Finger
Picking Patterns by Michael Lynch, Ukulele Finger Picking Lesson 1.
It looks like this. _ _ _
_ _ _ Now it's a two sheet lesson _ and it covers some general topics about finger picking and
then specifically about one pattern which I call Pattern 1 for my purposes.
It's also
known in general as Travis Picking and I opened up this video with that pattern. _
It's
a beautiful little flowing pattern.
You can do melody with it and _ accompaniment.
It's
a great pattern that you can play with.
_ _ In classical guitar technique, the right hand
has always been notated with letters rather than numbers.
Now with the left hand it's
pretty easy.
Thumb, first, second, third and fourth finger.
But the right hand, the
way we notate it in classical guitar is the thumb is the letter P, the index finger is
the letter I, the middle finger is the letter M, the ring finger is the letter A and the
little finger is the letter D.
Now in general we don't use the little finger in finger picking.
It's used in rasgato and flowing, stroking, strumming patterns.
But in specific fingering
we are going to avoid using it.
And in ukulele with only four strings quite often you just
use these three fingers, P, I and M.
Now when we play this pattern, the Travis Picking pattern, _ _
the I finger, the index finger is assigned to the second string.
_ The M finger is assigned
to the first string.
_ The thumb is assigned to both the fourth and the third string.
_ So
these two fingers never stray away from these two strings.
That's their home.
The thumb
however alternates between the fourth and the third string.
And the pattern for a one
four beat measure of Travis is played like this.
Thumb [G] first, P, _ then M, [E] _ _ then [C] thumb again,
and [B] then I, _ [Eb] and then we do it all over again.
Thumb, M, [Am] _ _
[Cm] thumb, _ [B] I.
_ Now [Ab] notice I've got my
thumb ahead of my fingers. _ _
Avoid having your fingers ahead of the thumb.
_ Slide the fingers
back, keep them curved. _ _ _
Don't do this, don't flatten your hand out.
Keep your hand up and
keep those fingers [Am] curved.
So that when you stroke the strings, the fingers actually come
up in to the palm of the hand, like so.
_ _ As opposed to, _ you don't want to pull the strings,
you want to stroke them.
_ So [G] the thumb first on the fourth string, [A] then M, _ [G] thumb on the
third [C] string, [B] and then I.
_ Now notice we always alternate fourth string, third string, fourth
string, third string.
[G] So if you start off with the pattern slowly at first, it sounds
like this.
[Am] _ _ _
Just on open strings.
[C] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
Increasing the tempo once you get more confidence. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ G
[G] chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ A minor, [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ G.
_ _ Now with slight variations, [D] like a suspended second, _ where you [G] lift _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the
little finger down on the third fret, you can get a little effect like this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Then when
I go to A minor, _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the variations are endless.
You can [G] come up with all kinds of variations.
_ _ This actually is nice just as an instrumental.
You don't even have to use it to accompany
a song.
_ But it's a great pattern to accompany anything in 4-4 time, a gentle ballad, _ _ [N] a folky
kind of song.
It's a great pattern, it's called Travis Picking. _
And on this sheet, I call
it pattern number one.
And in _ _ future lessons, I will _ _ lay out other patterns, two, three,
four, and five, and so forth.
And _ eventually, when I am doing a song, I will say, use pattern
number seven on this.
Try pattern three or four, or mix up pattern six and two, or whatever.
And so, _ collect these, download them, keep them in a little folder, a little three ring
binder, so you can refer to them.
Because this is just the first installment.
It's up
there in the Mediafire website, link onto it, click on it, download it, print it out.
And like I say, take it slowly at first.
If you don't think you can finger pick, _ you got
another thing coming.
You can learn how to do this.
You can do finger picking.
It's a
nice [G] alternative to the typical ukulele strum, which is fine.
But there are times when you
want to do something a little gentler, and a little bit more, [Am] maybe, _ interesting with
a _ _ [G] little Travis pick. _ _
_ So have fun, enjoy it.
And I'm enjoying all of the little notes
I'm getting from all of you ukesters out there, of all ages.
I've got people as young as like
eight and nine years old, all the way up into their seventies.
It's a great instrument for
everybody to learn to play.
Have fun.
Happy strumming.
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_ _ _ [N] Hi, in this lesson we're going to depart a bit from our normal song lesson and talk a
little bit about technique and specifically finger picking.
And I'm going to be referring to a download that you can go up to, go up in the little
description box and click on the Mediafire website and you can download _ Ukulele Finger
Picking Patterns by Michael Lynch, Ukulele Finger Picking Lesson 1.
It looks like this. _ _ _
_ _ _ Now it's a two sheet lesson _ and it covers some general topics about finger picking and
then specifically about one pattern which I call Pattern 1 for my purposes.
It's also
known in general as Travis Picking and I opened up this video with that pattern. _
It's
a beautiful little flowing pattern.
You can do melody with it and _ accompaniment.
It's
a great pattern that you can play with.
_ _ In classical guitar technique, the right hand
has always been notated with letters rather than numbers.
Now with the left hand it's
pretty easy.
Thumb, first, second, third and fourth finger.
But the right hand, the
way we notate it in classical guitar is the thumb is the letter P, the index finger is
the letter I, the middle finger is the letter M, the ring finger is the letter A and the
little finger is the letter D.
Now in general we don't use the little finger in finger picking.
It's used in rasgato and flowing, stroking, strumming patterns.
But in specific fingering
we are going to avoid using it.
And in ukulele with only four strings quite often you just
use these three fingers, P, I and M.
Now when we play this pattern, the Travis Picking pattern, _ _
the I finger, the index finger is assigned to the second string.
_ The M finger is assigned
to the first string.
_ The thumb is assigned to both the fourth and the third string.
_ So
these two fingers never stray away from these two strings.
That's their home.
The thumb
however alternates between the fourth and the third string.
And the pattern for a one
four beat measure of Travis is played like this.
Thumb [G] first, P, _ then M, [E] _ _ then [C] thumb again,
and [B] then I, _ [Eb] and then we do it all over again.
Thumb, M, [Am] _ _
[Cm] thumb, _ [B] I.
_ Now [Ab] notice I've got my
thumb ahead of my fingers. _ _
Avoid having your fingers ahead of the thumb.
_ Slide the fingers
back, keep them curved. _ _ _
Don't do this, don't flatten your hand out.
Keep your hand up and
keep those fingers [Am] curved.
So that when you stroke the strings, the fingers actually come
up in to the palm of the hand, like so.
_ _ As opposed to, _ you don't want to pull the strings,
you want to stroke them.
_ So [G] the thumb first on the fourth string, [A] then M, _ [G] thumb on the
third [C] string, [B] and then I.
_ Now notice we always alternate fourth string, third string, fourth
string, third string.
[G] So if you start off with the pattern slowly at first, it sounds
like this.
[Am] _ _ _
Just on open strings.
[C] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
Increasing the tempo once you get more confidence. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ G
[G] chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ A minor, [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ G.
_ _ Now with slight variations, [D] like a suspended second, _ where you [G] lift _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the
little finger down on the third fret, you can get a little effect like this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Then when
I go to A minor, _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the variations are endless.
You can [G] come up with all kinds of variations.
_ _ This actually is nice just as an instrumental.
You don't even have to use it to accompany
a song.
_ But it's a great pattern to accompany anything in 4-4 time, a gentle ballad, _ _ [N] a folky
kind of song.
It's a great pattern, it's called Travis Picking. _
And on this sheet, I call
it pattern number one.
And in _ _ future lessons, I will _ _ lay out other patterns, two, three,
four, and five, and so forth.
And _ eventually, when I am doing a song, I will say, use pattern
number seven on this.
Try pattern three or four, or mix up pattern six and two, or whatever.
And so, _ collect these, download them, keep them in a little folder, a little three ring
binder, so you can refer to them.
Because this is just the first installment.
It's up
there in the Mediafire website, link onto it, click on it, download it, print it out.
And like I say, take it slowly at first.
If you don't think you can finger pick, _ you got
another thing coming.
You can learn how to do this.
You can do finger picking.
It's a
nice [G] alternative to the typical ukulele strum, which is fine.
But there are times when you
want to do something a little gentler, and a little bit more, [Am] maybe, _ interesting with
a _ _ [G] little Travis pick. _ _
_ So have fun, enjoy it.
And I'm enjoying all of the little notes
I'm getting from all of you ukesters out there, of all ages.
I've got people as young as like
eight and nine years old, all the way up into their seventies.
It's a great instrument for
everybody to learn to play.
Have fun.
Happy strumming.
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