Hi Brandon, check out this video we did on transposition. It is the pentatonic but the same concepts apply. Let us know what you think! ruclips.net/video/6ehtXuK9dY8/видео.html
The most important thing is playing evenly and in time. If you can do that then saying the notes out loud would be a GREAT boost to future skills sets.
@@lin1620 One shape at a time, add it to you warm up. Run through it up and down for 5 minutes every time you pick up your ukulele. Do that for one week, and next week do the same for the next shape and finish the warm up but playing 1 & 2, week 3 add 3, week 4 add 4 and week 5 add 5 and before by Thanksgiving you will have all 5 major shapes memorized, really opening up the fretboard for you.
@@TenThumbsProductions thanks for the advice and encouragement! Ive printed off the tabs for all your lessons on scales and blues and licks etc and Ive got them in my folder. Just get distracted playing songs from my other folder 😁. I am enjoying playing Tenessee Whiskey at the moment. I just recently went back to your tutorial. Sounds so cool especially on electric uke with a backing beat! Anyway, I am going to practice my scales as I want to get better a soloing. Thats going to be my goal for the end of this year! Thanks Tyler.
@@TenThumbsProductions In the video you said its called one scale to jam them all. The approach im taking currently is I learned the 5 shapes of the C major and memorized them, but now how do I transpose that c major scale to all root notes in the major scale
@@TenThumbsProductions Do you recommend I learn the pentatonic scale then? I don't know any scales except for the c major scale, does the pentatonic scale help in transposing?
I didn't know they had ukulele competitions. Is it like something were people play the blues and people judge them? Do you have any examples, it sounds fun.
Well this is America's got talent which i bet you could get into pretty easy and you should. And there is also this competition, [www.ukulelepicnicinhawaii.org/contest/] which is an international one.
Is there a certain amount of notes in a scale ? Cause from what I’ve thought before as in soloing you always wanna resolve on the say C note in this example but shape 2 ends on a D note ?
There are 7 notes in the major scale, the shapes just end on that note because that is where the physical space of the shape ends, but resolution still depends on the root note, in this case the C note.
Great question. Not every shape is conducive to that. If you were creating an actual melody for a song you would want to locate the root note and rotate around it but to get all the shapes in to the lesson sometimes we have to play modal harmony.
@@RandomRandoBro that is a good question. There are only 5 positions and the major scale has 7 notes, so a new position starting on every note wouldn’t be possible either. I think whoever decided that this was position one did so completely arbitrarily and if I had to guess why I would say they chose it as position because it is the easiest to play . With that said thinking about it as position 1 is mostly beneficial for communicating with other musicians and knowing what other shapes come subsequently, shape 2 for example follows immediately. I hope that helps a little bit, but there isn’t a theoretical reason we can point to and say “there! Thats why!” Unfortunately
@@TenThumbsProductions How do you transpose the first shape of C major to other another note, e.g, F Major, or you can only transpose the other shape 3 or 4 not 1?
@@dinysmonvoisin8876 the magic is the root note. So in all the C shapes you identify all the C notes, now let’s say you want it to be D, you find all the D notes and construct the exact same shapes relative to those notes. Meaning every note is 2 notes closer to the sound hole.
@@TenThumbsProductions It makes total sense, thank you for the explanation. However, there is no way I play the 1 to 4 threads with the D notes, if I don't know the scale of D because the first shape of C Major covers the threads 5 and onwards. So, do I need to know D scale to play from the start of the neck to the 4th thread?
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C Major Scales
Shape 1 - 1:47
Shape 1 Interval Exercise - 2:49
Shape 2 - 3:28
Shape 2 Interval Exercise - 4:06
Shape 3 - 4:45
Shape 3 Interval Exercise - 5:41
Shape 4 - 6:12
Shape 4 Interval Exercise - 6:47
Shape 5 - 7:10
Shape 5 Interval Exercise - 7:45
Can't wait to dive into this after work, thanks for sharing
I just started trying to map out scales! It would be great to have a follow up actually slow walking through how to transpose this into another scale!
Hi Brandon, check out this video we did on transposition. It is the pentatonic but the same concepts apply. Let us know what you think! ruclips.net/video/6ehtXuK9dY8/видео.html
Great great my friend 👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome as usual thanks!
Thank you for the kind comment!
I swear you are jn my head dude i was just running this scale last night lol
Hahahaha
Tyler, Tnx for the great videos. Should I be saying the notes as I am playing the scales, or does it matter at this point?
The most important thing is playing evenly and in time. If you can do that then saying the notes out loud would be a GREAT boost to future skills sets.
So helpful, thanks for posting!
Nice always love your scale lessons!
Thank you very much Lin this one might be the most important so far.
@@TenThumbsProductions I just wish I could remember them all 😁
@@lin1620 One shape at a time, add it to you warm up. Run through it up and down for 5 minutes every time you pick up your ukulele. Do that for one week, and next week do the same for the next shape and finish the warm up but playing 1 & 2, week 3 add 3, week 4 add 4 and week 5 add 5 and before by Thanksgiving you will have all 5 major shapes memorized, really opening up the fretboard for you.
@@TenThumbsProductions thanks for the advice and encouragement! Ive printed off the tabs for all your lessons on scales and blues and licks etc and Ive got them in my folder. Just get distracted playing songs from my other folder 😁. I am enjoying playing Tenessee Whiskey at the moment. I just recently went back to your tutorial. Sounds so cool especially on electric uke with a backing beat! Anyway, I am going to practice my scales as I want to get better a soloing. Thats going to be my goal for the end of this year! Thanks Tyler.
Can you link the transposition video?
Sure! How to transpose songs ruclips.net/video/OOscP3rktLg/видео.html
How to transpose melody specifically
ruclips.net/video/n_N-_RcyMq8/видео.html
@@TenThumbsProductions In the video you said its called one scale to jam them all. The approach im taking currently is I learned the 5 shapes of the C major and memorized them, but now how do I transpose that c major scale to all root notes in the major scale
@@scooby7877 ahhh this one ruclips.net/video/6ehtXuK9dY8/видео.html
@@scooby7877 i would suggest one scale to jam then all first but check out the other ones too to really internalize the concept, good luck!
@@TenThumbsProductions Do you recommend I learn the pentatonic scale then? I don't know any scales except for the c major scale, does the pentatonic scale help in transposing?
Do you do any uke competitions? Yous should.
I didn't know they had ukulele competitions. Is it like something were people play the blues and people judge them? Do you have any examples, it sounds fun.
Well this is America's got talent which i bet you could get into pretty easy and you should. And there is also this competition, [www.ukulelepicnicinhawaii.org/contest/] which is an international one.
@@totallynotlegacyband i should 🤔
Is there a certain amount of notes in a scale ? Cause from what I’ve thought before as in soloing you always wanna resolve on the say C note in this example but shape 2 ends on a D note ?
There are 7 notes in the major scale, the shapes just end on that note because that is where the physical space of the shape ends, but resolution still depends on the root note, in this case the C note.
Why don't we start on the first interval of the scale? Not sure 🤔
Great question. Not every shape is conducive to that. If you were creating an actual melody for a song you would want to locate the root note and rotate around it but to get all the shapes in to the lesson sometimes we have to play modal harmony.
I don't get why position 1 starts with G if we're doing C scale... Shouldn't position 1 start with C, position 2 start with D, etc?
@@RandomRandoBro that is a good question. There are only 5 positions and the major scale has 7 notes, so a new position starting on every note wouldn’t be possible either. I think whoever decided that this was position one did so completely arbitrarily and if I had to guess why I would say they chose it as position because it is the easiest to play . With that said thinking about it as position 1 is mostly beneficial for communicating with other musicians and knowing what other shapes come subsequently, shape 2 for example follows immediately. I hope that helps a little bit, but there isn’t a theoretical reason we can point to and say “there! Thats why!” Unfortunately
Is there a video showing you changing the high g to a low G lol
What is the next video to learn to solo after learning the 5 C Major Scale Shapes?
A video called “one scale to jam them all” to learn how to transpose it, then you can literally create melody in any song and any key!
@@TenThumbsProductions How do you transpose the first shape of C major to other another note, e.g, F Major, or you can only transpose the other shape 3 or 4 not 1?
@@dinysmonvoisin8876 the magic is the root note. So in all the C shapes you identify all the C notes, now let’s say you want it to be D, you find all the D notes and construct the exact same shapes relative to those notes. Meaning every note is 2 notes closer to the sound hole.
@@TenThumbsProductions It makes total sense, thank you for the explanation. However, there is no way I play the 1 to 4 threads with the D notes, if I don't know the scale of D because the first shape of C Major covers the threads 5 and onwards. So, do I need to know D scale to play from the start of the neck to the 4th thread?