Wow. That's pretty much it. I've watched so many tutorials to get the strumming down, and none of those tutorials were accurate. Some didn't even come close. I think this is it. Good job dude! Me likes.
Bro you are a great teacher and player. This has been my favorite so far. I have played this song a lot and this exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much . I have to get this strum down.
I knew it was more complicated than many of the tutorials around were demonstrating. I get they are trying to be accessible, because this technique isn't immediately intuitive...but that "chunk" wasn't there and is really what gives the pattern that much needed percussion that palm muting just can't replicate. I'm going to need to practice this, but I can already see how damn fun it is once you get it, and can also be applied to other strumming patterns. Thanks so much for putting this out there!!
OMG!! You're the fifth or so UA-cam instructor I've listened to and your approach is the definitely the winner for me! Finally I'm starting to make the IZ sound.. all thanks to you my friend!!
just got my low G for my uke and played "to the best of my ability" the tune and i before knowing was trying to do this in high g "doesnt sound right" but when i heard the song come out ...man the smile on my face , i have to thank you again for what you do you deffinantly helped make that moment happen .... thanks from the heart
Great video thanks , you make it look so easy. I’ve just started learning the ukelele at the ripe old age of 70 think I left it to late but will give it a try . I would be happy just to play the ooooooos lol thank you
Mahalo! I’ve viewed perhaps six videos on this previously. This one makes SENSE! As you know, there are a couple of ways of throwing in that Fadd9: lift the finger off the second fret of the G string or drop a ring finger on the third fret of the E string (saving the pinkie for the mute). I’m finding the one you use (third fret) makes the better, more whimsical sound.
So if I don’t have a low g do I use c in the strum? I love this technique It’s going to take me a while as I am a beginner. Bu this is the best strumming pattern with the pinky to mute!!! Ty so much! JEY~
Out of all of the videos I have seen of people trying to reproduce IZ's strumming pattern of the song, your's is the ONLY one I have seen that throws in the staccato that I also believed IZ used. Nice job! I myself do a "decent" job with the song, but the staccato with the left hand has been a bit difficult to master. It causes me to revert back to just muting with the strumming hand.
awesome tutorial! I do not understand the right hand technique however are you supposed to just hover it over the bridge to limit the string sounds? that is what I've had most success with...placing the hand on the strings seems to mute too much
Mahalo for this lesson dude. Most tutorials I've seen on this recommend the island strum, but yours sounds more correct. I don't really understand the right (strumming) hand muting. Are you just muting at the same time as you do with the pinky of the chording hand? Or are you muting with the right hand after each strum? So much going on in this song. I've been playing it with going C then Cmaj7 first time thru on the first intro instead of C, G. Then going C, G, Am, Fadd9 the second time thru.
Claire Poirier Absolutely! You can use any finger to mute... even use your strumming hand if that’s more comfortable. The technique is more of a “means to an end” sort of thing. Play how you’re comfortable!
I have the same problem - my pinky is too short, and it's hard to use other fingers...So I try to use the strumming hand to mute, and it's somewhat similar. Still, long months to go till I get it right.
Aloha Aaron! This is really great stuff. I really want to learn this style but I dont have a low G yet, I have a standard so picking the G string doesn't work for now. What would you rec instead? Picking the C string?
Awesome! No one else covers this left hand muting! But I don't understand how the right hand is muting too - You say to mute with left hand, but you don't actually explain how or when. This what I got (t = thumb, m = pinky mute) t-DUmUDU When and how do you add in the left hand mute pleeeeeeease? Thank you :)
John Jamieson Aloha John! At 2 :07 you can see how I use the Pinky finger of my fretting hand to mute the strings. It’s explained further at 3:34 or so as well. All you want to do is stop the strings from vibrating. Don’t need to press hard, a simple touch suffices. Hope that helps!
Aloha @@HawaiiMusicSchool. Awesome you answered, thank you! Sorry I made a mistake when I said "You say to mute with left hand, but you don't actually explain... " - I meant "You say to mute with RIGHT hand..."! Because at 2:59 you say: "I'm muting it by putting my PALM across the strings." So it seems like you are muting with right palm as well as with left pinky (which I totally get!) ... you then go on to demo ALL strings muted with right hand and the ringing open strings ( 3:02 - 3:10 ) BEFORE saying add in the left pinky to mute If you ARE muting (all strings) with right palm, my question is still WHEN do you mute with right palm? It can't be same as when you mute with left pinky, otherwise there would be no point in the pinky mute! -- confused, but very grateful for your help, 'cos thanks to you I've finally nearly cracked it :)
Aloha again@@HawaiiMusicSchool Ok, I think I get it now - the right palm was a red herring - that was just to demo muting - the ONLY muting is the pinky and that's across all four strings. (for some reason, I thought pinky was only being used to mute the low G!!) The the pinky mute only happens once per bar (on the stop, as you call it) - as per t-DUmUDU ... relieved now
Thanks for the video. I do have one question, when you strum are you just strumming using CEA or are you strumming all the strings GCEA? In the video I could not hear the low g except on the bass. And also does it make a different if the mute is done with the right palm? Can you still get the same sound?
Wait so the mute happens with just the pinky or both the pinky or the palm? At the end he makes it sound like you need both, but where in the vido where do you explain the palm mute?
you can do either muting techniques, but for me the pinky version is much easier for an upstrum. I tried the palm muting (just search YT for it, there are plenty tutorials) after the upstrum but somehow i loose my smooth right mand motion and it sounds very bad. But for a downstrum i use the palm muting (chunk) instead usually Edit: in the video version only the pinky mute is used
Hi, I love your lessons, thank you. I see you from Mexico City. I have a doubt. What kind of ukulele are you playing? I have a tenor fender, but the fourth string sounds more like bass in your ukulele than mine. Do you use a different string from the standard?
Karla Angulo Sorry for the late response. It’s a Ko’olau C.S. I use a wound low G from Thomastik Infeld to get that Low sound without to much squeak(it’s flat wound)
Brah, I don't know how it's possible but I think you went and improved it. Listening to Braddah Iz's version and watching his old videos and he doesn't do the pinky mute just the right hand mute. The double mute you do gives it even more of that reggae vibe. Much mahalo on improving a classic. Didn't think it was possible.
Aloha Aaron i have a question! I like the sound of the low g, its sounds warm and Hawaiian. However when i play with a low G it doesnt sound verry good. I like to play with lots of dynamics from soft to loud. But it sounds only good when i play soft, otherwhise it dominates the other strings. It sounds to boomy. I used the d'addario and the aquila low g strings (wound) on a koa tenor ukulele. Is there a way to fix this and make the low g more in balance with the rest of the strings even when you play really fast and hard ? Different low g strings ? Different ukulele made of spruce/maple with maybe a cutaway ? Putting a sock in the soundhole ?
Timo Teernstra Aloha Timo! I know how you feel. In fact, I felt the same way. For a long time I avoided Low G for just this reason. What I found is it depends on the strings. It varies instrument to instrument. It took me a year or 2 of searching, but I found a string combo that works for my uke... try mixing strings from different brands!
Then i will keep looking for different strings. Just orded the Fremont soloist, curious how that sound :) And a super big thank you for making those video. Becouse of you i want to play with the low G, you make it sound so warm and good. And becouse of you i try to incorparate some licks, in the songs that i play to make them more unique and give them my own flavour. Mahalo Aaron
@@timoteernstra3990 I'm on the fremont soloist and love it, I was on the Aquila sugar wound low g and that was too boomy. But with Aquila Sugar and Fremont soloist is an awesome combo for my zebra wood tenor
Wow. That's pretty much it. I've watched so many tutorials to get the strumming down, and none of those tutorials were accurate. Some didn't even come close. I think this is it. Good job dude! Me likes.
Finally a video with the correct strumming, I’ve been trying to figure it out for like more than 3 years now, thank you very much ❤
Best strumming tutorial for IZ’s Over the Rainbow, I’ve come across. Your ooing is quite lovely, too.
Bro you are a great teacher and player. This has been my favorite so far. I have played this song a lot and this exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much . I have to get this strum down.
Hoo brah, you da man brah. Glad you are one Hawaiian teaching these sounds to the world. Kia ora my bro from Aotearoa
Just what I was looking for! Most accurate strumming tutorial there is about this masterpiece. Loved your vibes too, aloha!
I knew it was more complicated than many of the tutorials around were demonstrating. I get they are trying to be accessible, because this technique isn't immediately intuitive...but that "chunk" wasn't there and is really what gives the pattern that much needed percussion that palm muting just can't replicate. I'm going to need to practice this, but I can already see how damn fun it is once you get it, and can also be applied to other strumming patterns. Thanks so much for putting this out there!!
OMG!! You're the fifth or so UA-cam instructor I've listened to and your approach is the definitely the winner for me! Finally I'm starting to make the IZ sound.. all thanks to you my friend!!
Best interpretation I've seen and scratched that itch for me of other tutorials just not sounding quite right!
just got my low G for my uke and played "to the best of my ability" the tune and i before knowing was trying to do this in high g "doesnt sound right" but when i heard the song come out ...man the smile on my face , i have to thank you again for what you do you deffinantly helped make that moment happen .... thanks from the heart
Great video thanks , you make it look so easy. I’ve just started learning the ukelele at the ripe old age of 70 think I left it to late but will give it a try . I would be happy just to play the ooooooos lol thank you
Lived on Molakai. Back in da day Cuz. Still like to strum and these lesson are bomb Cuz. Thank you.
The best tutorial!! Thank you!! ✨😃
Mahalo! I’ve viewed perhaps six videos on this previously. This one makes SENSE!
As you know, there are a couple of ways of throwing in that Fadd9: lift the finger off the second fret of the G string or drop a ring finger on the third fret of the E string (saving the pinkie for the mute). I’m finding the one you use (third fret) makes the better, more whimsical sound.
Thank you very much!
Very Nice! I think your closer to Iz than any one else I've heard on You Tube. Thanks for the help!
thank you , so wonderful teaching !!
Exactly what I was after! Mahalo!
Thank you Aaron 🌞😃
I like your interpretation of it! Nice style 🤙
Fantastic interpretation!!! Love it. Using my palm is easier for me than the pinky but sounds great!!
Much love bruddah👍👍👍👍👍
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Awesome 👏 awesome 👏 awesome 👏
This is excellent. Thank you for sharing to the Uke community. Subscribed.
Very cool lesson. Thanks for this!
This was really helpful. Thank you!
FANTASTIC! That's brilliant mate! Thanks!
Excellent lesson. Thank you👍😊 new subscriber!
GR8 video, thanks !
Wowww 🤯 that was amazing lol. Thank you!!
So if I don’t have a low g do I use c in the strum? I love this technique It’s going to take me a while as I am a beginner. Bu this is the best strumming pattern with the pinky to mute!!! Ty so much!
JEY~
Hey I love your videos!! Could you please do a lesson on Hawaii 78?? I would love to watch you teach that
Aloha Jason! I'll put it on the list!
Out of all of the videos I have seen of people trying to reproduce IZ's strumming pattern of the song, your's is the ONLY one I have seen that throws in the staccato that I also believed IZ used. Nice job! I myself do a "decent" job with the song, but the staccato with the left hand has been a bit difficult to master. It causes me to revert back to just muting with the strumming hand.
Aloha
It's a reggae strum
I appreciate you so much!!!
Thank you brother!!
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Aloha!!You are great!!👍
Awsum video thank you 🤙
That was cool brah! Mahalos. I going practice that.
Loge the strum pattern my friend thanks please do a longer and more detailed tutorial for somewhere over the rainbow
You nailed it bro!
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awesome tutorial! I do not understand the right hand technique however are you supposed to just hover it over the bridge to limit the string sounds? that is what I've had most success with...placing the hand on the strings seems to mute too much
Really like this version the best! Is this available as actual lesson on HawaiiMusicSchool website now? I don't see reference to it on the website.
skills bruh 🕊️
ALoha - Just signed up, Let's go !
Thanks Bro, THIS. was the video that made me subscribe 👍🤙😎
Mahalo for this lesson dude. Most tutorials I've seen on this recommend the island strum, but yours sounds more correct. I don't really understand the right (strumming) hand muting. Are you just muting at the same time as you do with the pinky of the chording hand? Or are you muting with the right hand after each strum? So much going on in this song. I've been playing it with going C then Cmaj7 first time thru on the first intro instead of C, G. Then going C, G, Am, Fadd9 the second time thru.
Wow, finally someone got it
Mahalo this help. ❤
so the snare drum is silence - that's genius!
I do chuck instead, I think it's just a good. ;-) Dominique
My pinky is not able to do the complete mute (my pinky is very small) how do I do it?
@3:43 strum / mute
I can’t mute because my pinky’s too short 😅
My pinky is to small so can I use another fingers to mute. Thanks
Claire Poirier Absolutely! You can use any finger to mute... even use your strumming hand if that’s more comfortable. The technique is more of a “means to an end” sort of thing. Play how you’re comfortable!
I have the same problem - my pinky is too short, and it's hard to use other fingers...So I try to use the strumming hand to mute, and it's somewhat similar. Still, long months to go till I get it right.
Aloha Aaron! This is really great stuff. I really want to learn this style but I dont have a low G yet, I have a standard so picking the G string doesn't work for now.
What would you rec instead? Picking the C string?
Just change the tuning of the g string, right?
@@pearllee4168 I tried that and it just made the string too loose to play
Awesome! No one else covers this left hand muting! But I don't understand how the right hand is muting too - You say to mute with left hand, but you don't actually explain how or when.
This what I got (t = thumb, m = pinky mute)
t-DUmUDU
When and how do you add in the left hand mute pleeeeeeease? Thank you :)
John Jamieson Aloha John! At 2 :07 you can see how I use the Pinky finger of my fretting hand to mute the strings. It’s explained further at 3:34 or so as well. All you want to do is stop the strings from vibrating. Don’t need to press hard, a simple touch suffices. Hope that helps!
Aloha @@HawaiiMusicSchool. Awesome you answered, thank you!
Sorry I made a mistake when I said "You say to mute with left hand, but you don't actually explain... " - I meant "You say to mute with RIGHT hand..."!
Because at 2:59 you say: "I'm muting it by putting my PALM across the strings." So it seems like you are muting with right palm as well as with left pinky (which I totally get!)
... you then go on to demo ALL strings muted with right hand and the ringing open strings ( 3:02 - 3:10 ) BEFORE saying add in the left pinky to mute
If you ARE muting (all strings) with right palm, my question is still WHEN do you mute with right palm? It can't be same as when you mute with left pinky, otherwise there would be no point in the pinky mute!
-- confused, but very grateful for your help, 'cos thanks to you I've finally nearly cracked it :)
Aloha again@@HawaiiMusicSchool
Ok, I think I get it now - the right palm was a red herring - that was just to demo muting - the ONLY muting is the pinky and that's across all four strings. (for some reason, I thought pinky was only being used to mute the low G!!)
The the pinky mute only happens once per bar (on the stop, as you call it) - as per t-DUmUDU
... relieved now
i have really small hands so i am wondering what finger to use if i cant use my pinky?
Amazinggg 🤙🏼
finally the real thing! thanks man!
Thanks for the video. I do have one question, when you strum are you just strumming using CEA or are you strumming all the strings GCEA? In the video I could not hear the low g except on the bass. And also does it make a different if the mute is done with the right palm? Can you still get the same sound?
how do i tune mu ukulele to the low g i cant seem to find out how
Sure you've figured it out by now but you need to replace the high G with a low G string
Wait so the mute happens with just the pinky or both the pinky or the palm? At the end he makes it sound like you need both, but where in the vido where do you explain the palm mute?
you can do either muting techniques, but for me the pinky version is much easier for an upstrum. I tried the palm muting (just search YT for it, there are plenty tutorials) after the upstrum but somehow i loose my smooth right mand motion and it sounds very bad.
But for a downstrum i use the palm muting (chunk) instead usually
Edit: in the video version only the pinky mute is used
What is your top G string tuned to? Mine sounds much higher and is tuned standard GCEA, thanks
You need to replace the high G string with a low G string
This is the one
Can you please tell me what brand this uke is?
Aloha Czarek! It's a Ko'olau CS. They're built to order, so expect about 9 months build time... Well worth it IMHO!
Hi, I love your lessons, thank you. I see you from Mexico City. I have a doubt. What kind of ukulele are you playing? I have a tenor fender, but the fourth string sounds more like bass in your ukulele than mine. Do you use a different string from the standard?
Karla Angulo Sorry for the late response. It’s a Ko’olau C.S. I use a wound low G from Thomastik Infeld to get that Low sound without to much squeak(it’s flat wound)
@@HawaiiMusicSchool thank you :)
Are you just muting the g string or all strings??
What size/type uke?
Slappy it’s a Ko’olau CS. Tenor size, strung up with a low G.
💘❤💘
Brah, I don't know how it's possible but I think you went and improved it. Listening to Braddah Iz's version and watching his old videos and he doesn't do the pinky mute just the right hand mute. The double mute you do gives it even more of that reggae vibe. Much mahalo on improving a classic. Didn't think it was possible.
Aloha Aaron i have a question!
I like the sound of the low g, its sounds warm and Hawaiian. However when i play with a low G it doesnt sound verry good.
I like to play with lots of dynamics from soft to loud. But it sounds only good when i play soft, otherwhise it dominates the other strings. It sounds to boomy.
I used the d'addario and the aquila low g strings (wound) on a koa tenor ukulele.
Is there a way to fix this and make the low g more in balance with the rest of the strings even when you play really fast and hard ?
Different low g strings ?
Different ukulele made of spruce/maple with maybe a cutaway ?
Putting a sock in the soundhole ?
Timo Teernstra Aloha Timo! I know how you feel. In fact, I felt the same way. For a long time I avoided Low G for just this reason. What I found is it depends on the strings. It varies instrument to instrument. It took me a year or 2 of searching, but I found a string combo that works for my uke... try mixing strings from different brands!
Then i will keep looking for different strings.
Just orded the Fremont soloist, curious how that sound :)
And a super big thank you for making those video. Becouse of you i want to play with the low G, you make it sound so warm and good.
And becouse of you i try to incorparate some licks, in the songs that i play to make them more unique and give them my own flavour.
Mahalo Aaron
@@timoteernstra3990 I'm on the fremont soloist and love it, I was on the Aquila sugar wound low g and that was too boomy. But with Aquila Sugar and Fremont soloist is an awesome combo for my zebra wood tenor
Can I just mute with my right hand?
As always, with music,there are no absolutes. Any way that you can get the mute with the timing will work!
I just discovered your channel this week.....I've been missing out! I play this song all the time, but not like this!!
Shucks I can't do it I have high g.
pinky mute is hell, lol
Witch tune do you use?
its gCEA (low G)
Low g doesnt work bruh it sounds like russian music
Well, you’d have to take it up with Braddah IZ... song was recorded with a low G...
please make another slower more detailed video for stupid people like me
Thank you !