{"id":72,"date":"2012-10-05T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:47:47","slug":"beginners-pack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/?page_id=72","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started With Your Ukulele"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The first thing to do as a Beginner is to familiarise yourself with your ukulele and get ready to start playing. Then start playing of course!<\/h2>\n<p>The <em>Babbacombe Ukulele Strummers<\/em> have produced an excellent <strong>&#8216;Beginners Guide to the Ukulele&#8217;<\/strong> to step you through the topics to do just this, namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parts of a ukulele<\/li>\n<li>Types of Ukulele<\/li>\n<li>How to hold a ukulele<\/li>\n<li>Strings and Tuning<\/li>\n<li>Strumming<\/li>\n<li>How to read strumming patterns<\/li>\n<li>Reading Chord Diagrams<\/li>\n<li>Ukulele Chord Chart<\/li>\n<li>Top Tips<\/li>\n<li>Useful Resources<\/li>\n<li>BUS Beginner Tunes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click here to download or print this guide: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BUS-BEGINNERS-GUIDE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUS Beginners Guide to the Ukulele<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A very important step is tuning the strings of your ukulele. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet bought a tuner as recommended in the guide, then Dr Uke has an audio you can play for each string of the ukulele i.e.&nbsp; G \u2013 4th string, C \u2013 3rd string, E \u2013 2nd string and A \u2013 1st string.&nbsp; Simply play each audio and tune the appropriate string to it.&nbsp; These audios are the first four songs of Dr Uke\u2019s songbook, Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctoruke.com\/songs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> to find them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And finally, in addition to the full chord chart in the guide, here are some simple chord charts for Beginners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click here to view \/ print \/ save&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Basic-Ukulele-Chords-for-GCEA-Tuning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Basic Ukulele Chords for GCEA Tuning<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click here to view \/ print \/ save&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Basic-Ukulele-Chords-for-GCEA-Tuning-left-handed1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Basic Ukulele Chords for GCEA Tuning &#8211; left handed<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>. . . . Happy strumming!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing to do as a Beginner is to familiarise yourself with your ukulele and get ready to start playing. Then start playing of course! The Babbacombe Ukulele Strummers have produced an excellent &#8216;Beginners Guide to the Ukulele&#8217; to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/?page_id=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":87,"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11360,"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/11360"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.babbacombeukulele.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}