Ukulele for Beginners: Learn the 'Crawdad Song' with Easy Country Strum & Solo Licks

A ukulele lesson for beginners and up! Learn an easy to play three chord uke jam, a very fun country strum -- watch to the end to learn TWO great country blues solo licks!

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★ CHAPTERS/TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:12 Three basic chords and easy strum pattern
0:40 Practice: Beginner friendly run through of the tune
1:32 How to play the basic country strum (Boom-Chuck Pattern)
2:19 How to read box notation
2:58 Practice: Run through with Country Strum
4:20 Run through the whole tune
6:30 How to play a Country Blues Riff #1
8:08 How to play a Country Blues Riff #2

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Stu Fuchs is a lifelong musician, award-winning ukulele artist and teacher of mindfulness through creative play. He has performed gypsy jazz guitar with symphony orchestras and facilitated holistic music clinics worldwide. Stu was artist-in-residence at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo NY and was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work bringing healing music to cancer patients and their families. He recorded and toured worldwide with renowned sacred chant artist Snatam Kaur, performing guitar on the Grammy nominated Best New Age album “Beloved”. A long-time practitioner of yoga and meditation, his focus is to teach people from all backgrounds to develop a music practice for joy, freedom, and self expression.

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