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Hey how you doing.

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Justin here for another
ukulele lesson for you.

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and today we are checking out 
shape one of the

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moveable chords.

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Okay, so. Hopefully by this 
stage you're really hip with all of

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the open chord shapes on the uke that
we've covered so far in the course.

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And now we're going to look at the 
chord shapes that move

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up and down the neck.

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Okay, and this particular one 
that we're looking at today

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I've called shape one.

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Now, the root note for that 
is on the first string. Okay?

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The one that start with the note A. Okay?

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So, you need to be familiar 
with the notes on the first string.

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Okay? Particularly the ones kind of 
early on from the nut,

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say the first 5/6 frets particularly. Ok?

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So let's get to a close up.

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Check out this chord and 
what the root note is,

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and see if we can't change the chords 
around a little bit.

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Okay, Here we are with the first of our
moveable chord shapes ...

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for the ukulele.

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This one I call Shape One.

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We're going to start with the 
third finger

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on the fourth fret of the fourth string.

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Then we put the second finger down 
in the third fret of the third string,

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and we use our 1st finger
to cover 2 strings in the 2nd fret.

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That'll be the 1st string and
the 2nd string on the 2nd fret.

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Some people prefer to put the fingers
down in order, so 1st finger 1st,

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doing a little mini-barré there,
2nd finger down on the 3rd fret

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of the 3rd string, 3rd finger
down on the 4th fret of the 4th string.

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♪

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That's what it sounds like.

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For those of you who're curious where it
comes from, if you remember our A chord,

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Open chord, we've re-fingered that
using strings 2 and 3,

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if we move that up one fret and then our
1st finger replaces the nut,

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♪

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That's where we've got it!
So, that's (♪) A chord,

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Up one fret from A chord would be
A sharp (♪), up one more would be B (♪)

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And here is our root note.
So, that was the note A.

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♪

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If we wanted to play a B chord,
- A, A#, B - (♪)

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There's B, (♪),-
B chord!

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What would it be if we move it up
one more fret? (♪)

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What's this note here? (♪)
3rd fret of the thinnest string.

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That would be the note C (♪)
So that would be a C chord (♪)

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We already got a C chord like that.
But we can play it ( ♪)

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It's another way of playing a C chord now, 


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so, we could do that (♪), way, or that way (♪)

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Same chord. You can hear it sounds
slightly different, but it's essentially

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the same chord. Anyone figure out where
we'd put it if we wanted to play a D# chord?

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Think about it! So, we had an A there,
A#, B, C, C#, D, D#

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Right up on the 6th fret (♪)
That's how we'd get our D# chord (♪)

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Okay, so, make sure you get that!

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So we've got A,- would be the open chord,-
up one, A sharp/B flat, up another one B.

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C, C sharp/D flat, D, D sharp/E flat, E.

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Okay, so it's a moveable chord shape.

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Very-very cool little idea, you'll learn
lots of different chords this way.

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So, it get's cooler. 'cause that's the
major chord, ok? If I move it back to B.

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So, 1st finger's in the 2nd fret.

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That's the major chord.
If we take off the 2nd finger,

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and move the bar over, so it's covering now


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3 strings, so we've got:
4th fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret.

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Now I'm kind of moving my 2nd finger
other way, so you can see, I'd normally

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just leave it hanging around.
Okay, so 4th fret, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd

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That would be a B minor chord.

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Ok? So, major..minor...ok?

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Now, the same idea just moves around.

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So, if we wanted to say, 
take it up to a D chord at the 5th fret,

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that'll be a D major chord.
That'll be a D minor.

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Ok? Major...minor...major...minor...

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Ok? So, if I wanted you to play a
B flat minor chord, you'd start with A,

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find the root note first, so that'd be A, 
A#/ B flat,- ok, there's the root note,

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now, we know, that was the major shape,
oh, there's the minor shape!

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There's B flat minor (♪)

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What, if we wanted to play a D flat minor?

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Ok, 1st of all, you find where the D is,
so, A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D,

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Then we want a D flat,- we said,
D flat minor, so, D, flat, we put down the shape

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and we want D flat minor.
So, we'd use that shape (♪) - Ok?

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If you're really clever, you could 've gone
straight to the D flat, there, and then

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put down the minor grip - ok?
So, a really good exercise is to try

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playing a few songs, just using these shapes.
See, if you can find some tunes that

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are just using these (♪)

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Ok? there's all sorts of different little
things that you can find that're just using

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these one-shape kinda grips moving around.

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Ok, so, we've looked at major, and minor,

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There's also another really cool one
which is dominant 7 (♪)

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Ok? So, we're just barring the whole neck now.
Ok? So, this is more like a proper barré chord

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that we'd have on guitar; covering all
4 strings with the 1st finger,

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and then we add the 2nd finger
in the 3rd fret of the 3rd string.

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♪

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2-3-2-2

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Root note's still here, this would be a B7.

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If we wanted a D7:
ok, find B, C, C sharp, D.

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Put the shape down!

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Ok? it's really important that you
get used to this idea of finding

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the root note on the thinnest string and
then putting down the appropriate shape.

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Either major, minor, or 7.


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It's very likely, that learning these 
moveable shapes on the uke are

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a little bit more challenging then
the regular open chords and require

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a little bit more finger strength,
but it's just practice!

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Particularly on ukulele, the fact that
strings are nice and soft and you don't

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usually have to press'em down too hard, 
should make it relatively easy.

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It's definitely not as difficult as learning
barré chords on the guitar.

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The big deal is, making sure that you know
those root notes. 'Cause without knowing the

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root notes, the notes on that thinnest string,

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you're not gonna be able to use these shapes.

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But what this has done, in case you hadn't realised,-
is given you a whole lotta chords.

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You've got 3 chords on each different fret
that you know know, a maj. chord, a min.chord


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and a dominant 7th on every fret,
all the way up, as far as you can get


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your fingers still in the frets - ok?
That's a whole lot of chords.

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I don't know exactly how many, but a LOT.
Depends on, I guess, how far up the neck

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you feel like you can get to.
But this gives you access now to

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all of those chords that you couldn't
play before. if you see C#min. or E flat7

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or whatever, these kind of chords that you
might not have been able to play in an

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open position, you can now play them
using this shape one.

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There's five shapes alltogether.
But this particular shape is the one that

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I recommend you spend quite a bit of time
with first-ok? And it's got that root note

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on the thinnest string, which is in
some instances is the easiest string

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to remember the note names of - ok?
So, get to grips with that solidly first,

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before you even think about learning
more shapes, but when you're ready,

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join me for the next one, and we're gonna
be looking at Shape Two!

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Take care of yourselves!
Bye-bye!