Welcome to this is an introductory course to the basic fundamental skills that you need to be able to begin your finger picking. There are a couple of things I want to draw your attention to before we get started. First of all the Facebook group there's a free exclusive Facebook group for members of this course where you can share videos and we can have watch parties and discuss other things about a lady so if your Facebook have a look at the link in the course materials and send me a request. There are two handouts as well but I want to draw your attention to to get started. First of all are the chords referred to In this call, so if you've not done any chord playing before, then have a look at that and download that before we get started so that you're not worrying about your fretting hand, just quickly, they are good old C, A minor, F, G, G seven, and a minus M, which is sometimes confusing, because there's nothing on this and it's all open strings, a minus seven.

So if you're not sure about any of those chords, go and have a look at the handout and have a practice of those. So this course is about finger picking. So hopefully, that's what you were expecting. I wanted to explain about my method for an introductory way of approaching finger picking. Now because on the ukulele, we have more fingers than we have strings, and there are a couple of different options for how to approach this. So and I want to show you My way, you'll see various different methods written in different books and things.

This is this is what I think is the best way to start. And everything else is is learnable. So you'll see, fingers refer to as various different things. And I'm using the method of calling this your thumb, index, middle finger, ring finger. So that's T, by m, our thumb, index, middle finger, ring finger, and they pop onto the strings. index, middle ring.

So that's the way that I write them down. If you see T or MIT or M I've written down anywhere, that's what that means it's referring to the fingers because the fingers don't move that incidentally tells you which stream you should be playing one note which notes you should play. So hopefully that makes sense. Go have a download of that handout and just have that so you can refer to it. So let's get cracking. We're gonna dive straight into a six eight finger picking pattern and get those fingers moving.

Have fun