Ukulele Alternate Picking

Video Transcript

"The ukulele is primarily a chordal instrument. Now that would mean that you'd be striking all of the strings at the same time while singing a tune or maybe accompanying somebody else. Now you can use it as a single note instrument as well, meaning just playing one string at a time. Now when you do that, you want to keep in mind how to pick multiple notes, especially on the same string. That's what alternate picking is all about. Now alternate picking means you're not just going to be picking down on the string, but you're also going to be picking back up on the string. Alternate picking allows you to play, essentially, twice as quickly. So that might be as fast as you can play going in one stroke, same thing just going up. But if you play alternate picking so that every down, up, down, up, strikes the same string, you can play much more quickly and much more efficiently."