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Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.

Sandeep posted:

My brother, who has no musical experience, bought a uke for his daughter (8 years old), and since I play bass and guitar, he wants me to try to help her learn. I know how I would teach someone the basics of guitar (start with three open chords, learn a bunch of songs, get most of the non-barre chords learned, then power chords, then barre chords), but I'm not sure that's the best approach here. What's a good way of starting assuming no musical background at all?

That sounds like a good start, make sure she's got a straight left wrist, bends fingers at all the joints, and doesn't claw the neck. Make sure the right hand picking is appropriate (video below), not pen-holding style, and start her off with some basic syncopation. Open chords shouldn't be that complicated if the basics are there, but the basics are the easiest things to overlook with no teaching experience.

Edit: Forgot to link right hand video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhVC0DzfFY

Coohoolin fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Jan 3, 2019

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