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Hey, how you doing?
Justin here today!

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We are going to be looking
at some more ukulele.

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We're gonna have a look
at the 2 and 4 hit rhythm,

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really cool little groove. (♪)

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Now the cool thing with
the ukelele is it is

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it's own kind
of whole orchestra

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You're not usually playing 
a ukelele as part of a band

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although it's definitely very possible,

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much more common is for
people to be playing on their own.

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So, if you've been working a little bit,

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on your strumming and 
you're confident

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with your down and up strumming,

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and you're staying in time,

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this is a really really cool little trick

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to get under your fingers.

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Basically a drummer, when
they're playing,plays a kick drum

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the big fat drum, on beats 1 and 3

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and they play the snare drum, which is

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a really loud one on beats 2 and 4

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excuse my terrible beatboxing,
but it kinda like:

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and it's this 'ka' sound
that is the...

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Called the back-beat.
Happens on beat 2 and 4 - Okay?

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So, if we introduce that idea of playing

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a little accented hit on beats 2 and 4,
gives you a little bit more groove.

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So, if I'm just playing regular (♪)

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and then I add the back-beating

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It's just like-"Oh yeah, it's
moving along a little better!"

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it's kinda introducing a rhythmic element

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if I can learn to talk today.

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So, what do we do?

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So, normally we're playing
1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and

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down-up-down-up
down-up-down-up

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1 and 2, and on that beat 2

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What we're gonna do is: mute a little bit
with the palm of our hand

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On the strings..
and give it a little strum.

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So, I'd recommend doing this without
any chord at all

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to make sure that you're doing it right.
Just going: 1-and-2.

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Just try that. So, down-up,
and then let your hand fall down

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and let your finger hit the strings
after your hand has already hit the mute.

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So, 1-and-2-1-and-2.
Start-off with that!

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♪

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Then try and get: 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and
1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and

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♪

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Now the reason for not using a chord is it's
very tempting to use your fingers to mute the strings.

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Which is another way of doing it...
It's just not as good.

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Okay, so not holding your chord down,
see if you can get that little muted hit.

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It will take some practice, it's
not something that you're likely to go

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"Oh yeah, I can do it!"
- perfect straight away

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or maybe you can, which would be great.
But what you want to work on is

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getting that hand to sit down on the
string and you're strumming just behind.

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I think this is almost certainly gonna be
cool for a close-up.

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So let's just look at this muted hit again.
So we've got the palm of the hand

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That's gonna touch the strings and then
you're gonna strum in front of it

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So it's already muted. If it wasn't there:
(♪)

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So it's just using the heal of your hand
just to rest on the strings.

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So there's nothing coming out.
And then going through:

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1-and-2. So try and get that hit.
1-and-2-3-and-4

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Just try to get that first,
so you can get your nice muted click.

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♪

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Then try and lock it into the whole groove.
So: 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and

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1-and-2-and-3-and-4
1-and-2-and-3-and-4

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and 1-and-2-and-3-and-4

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Now you'll notice there as well I'm
starting to put the shuffle.

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♪

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Okay? So it's not just straight.
Straight would be:

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♪

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Wth the shuffle:

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♪

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Both of those are pretty useful. But (♪)
that little kind of shuffle with the mute:

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♪

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Is definitely where it's at.

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For nearly everyone, this kind of strumming
pattern takes a little practice.

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Takes a while to get used to
the technique.

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Which is something that you wanna work on
separately- right?

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Just, you know, literally working on doing
that and then doing the 1-and-2 thing.

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♪

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You know, just making sure that you kinda
get that under your fingers first

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before you try and lock into
the whole groove.

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Okay? Really big deal. Just learning
things one-step at a time and

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definitely, definitely don't be trying to
change chords while you're learning this.

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Okay? Either do it with no chords at all,
or just pick a simple chord like C or G,

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or whatever, whatever chord you really
feel comfy with and just stay on that

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one chord while you get the rhythm.
Then once you've got the rhythm,

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maybe try changing just between 2 chords (♪)

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And if you've got 2 or 3 chords,
and you can start to mix them up,

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you'll find that it's properly under your
fingers and you can apply it to

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any tune you want. So, have a bit of fun
with that, 2-and-4 hit strumming,

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I will see you for plenty more lessons
on uke and guitar and maybe something else

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sometime in the future too.
Take care of yourselves! Bye-bye!