r/ukulele

I am a complete beginner and I am solely gonna rely on yt and reddit to learn uke. I have learnt the c chord family (still finding difficulty to play G chord instantly). You pros have any tips or guide me on how I should proceed? Will help me a lot!

I started recently playing the uke and following tutorials, it's going well but I don't understand if I'm doing something wrong or not.

When I press down the A string on the fretboard from the 5th fret on, I can't hit the string anymore when strumming and just miss it. It's as if the string goes too low for me to comfortably hit unless I purposely angle the strumming hand to go further inside the uke to hit it or strum harder but it sounds and feels worse overall.

And on top of that, the A string sounds very weak (I don't how to better describe it), even when finger picking without pressing any notes. Even when I manage to hit all strings it's as if the A string is barely playing or not playing at all (and I always check for muted strings). Though this may just be normal uke behavior but I have no way to compare it with other ukes in person.

I've tried "noodling" by playing around the A string but if I can't strum it or hear it it's kinda hard to do..

I have iphone XR and a sonyZV E10. Any mic that works with them and can record clear sounds and cancel the bg buzzing noise? I tried to record it at night when its quiet but still got the buzz bg sound idk. I need a good mic pls help.

I am new to playing the Ukulele. Maybe 15 months. I have joined in with a few ukulele group sessions and have found a trend. So many ukulele players seem to be frustraed guitar players. The put a low G string on their ukulele to make it sound like a guitar. They buy Fender or Gibson style ukukuleles to make their ukulele look like a Les Paul or a Jazzman.

The area I live in seems to have a lack of players who love "the ukulele" in all of it's glory with a high G setting and the ability to play traditional hawaian style tunes. I find the ukulele to be such a beautiful sounding instrument but in all of these groups I end up playing the Eagles or James Taylor etc...

Has any one else encountered this trend or is it just me?

how do i even learn strumming patterns? the first two times repeating them seems easy but after that my brain goes boom and smh i just cant do the thing i was doing a few seconds ago/ this smh pisses me off. the problem gets even bigger if i dare to switch chords and not look at my strumming hand. (yes i am a beginner as you can see)

I recently added a banjolele to my mix of instruments. I'm still learning the picking and strumming patterns for banjo. To get a cleaner sound I bought a cheap set of finger pics off of Amazon. The strings that came on the instrument are nylgut. I popped the number one string almost right away when I was starting with the finger picks. I wrote it off as a bad string and replaced it.

I'm on day two of a new set of strings and I have noticed that my number one and number two strings are already buggered up. They aren't gonna last very long. I need to order new strings now.

I'm thinking about getting one of the Flight steel strings, probably the Maia, maybe even the eight string. anyone who has a steel string uke, do you use a pick of some kind, or just start gently and let your fingers toughen up?