#ChordMelodyChallenge - Day 1 - The Thumb Strum (Patreon)

#ChordMelodyChallenge - Day 1 - How to play the Melody & Chords at the Same Time - Ukulele Tutorial

Welcome to the #ChordMelodyChallenge and today is day 1! First thing is first, we need to talk about how to play the melody and the chords at the same time. We are usually either strumming away with the chords or picking through the melody, so...how do you play both at that same time? The foundation of the ability to do so is with the thum strum. No, not just strumming down like normal with your thumb, but actually using the thumb to push the melody to the front of the chord sonically. Your ear hears the highest note in the chord, and once you learn that you can arrange songs and progressions with chord shapes have melody in font. To enter to win go to instagram, film yourself playing the challenge, upload it and tag us @Tenthumbspro and @KalaBrandMusic with the hashtag #ChordMelodyChallenge. You have to do all 10 days, if you complete all 10 days your name gets entered into a raffle on October 1st where you can win a bran new Ukulele from Kala or 1 of 3 other cool Kala packs. If you don't have instragram you can upload your video to youtube, or to Facebook and put it in the group "10 Thumbs Challenges." To show you how to do this we are going to walk you through exactly what the thumb strum is and take a melody in the key of F and turn into a chord melody by applying the thumb strum. Afterwards we are going to do the esaem in the key of C and look at the potential proe #ChordMelodyChallenge - Day 1 - How to play the Melody & Chords at the Same Time - Ukulele Tutorial