Ukulele Left Hand Position

Video Transcript

"Now that you've done some breathing, you've gotten your posture good, and you've gotten into comfortable clothing, you're ready to sit down and play the instrument. Now, the first thing I'm going to talk about, when you hold the instrument, is your left hand, the left hand position. Now, first what you want to look at is the neck. Your thumb should be, vaguely, in the back of the center of the neck. So, you don't want to have your thumb over like this, you don't want to have it way back here, you want to have it pretty much in the center so that it can ride up and down the center of the back of the neck there. Now, as you wrap your fingers around, you're going to want to keep them one finger per fret. That's called a position. So that your first finger will play any note of the first fret, your middle finger will play any note on the second fret, your third finger will play any note on the third fret, and your pinkie will be available to play any note on the fourth fret. Now the idea, again, is to keep your fingers in this position so that they can come down and onto the strings rather than flat."