UD#38 Sixteen Beat Strum: Steal My Kisses

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UD#38 Sixteen Beat Strum: Steal My Kisses (Ben Harper)
from Ukulele in the Dark w/ Guido Heistek

 

OKAY, let’s look at Steal My Kisses by Ben Harper. The song has three chords in it: G C6 and D6. Here are the chords in open position on the uke:

And here are the chords “up the neck”:

NOTE: The D6 up the neck needs to be played at the 5th fret. There’s a little 5 there at the top of the diagram that is hard to see.

The progression goes like this:

| G                 |  C6                |  D6                    |  G                       |

Here is the song:

OKAY LET’S LEARN THE STRUMMING GROOVE:
Here is a recording of me on guitar playing the basic strumming groove on a G chord. Listen to it a few times and then go on to the video below and I’ll teach the strum using the Hear the Strum approach:

Slow version:

Fast version:

Here’s a video of me teaching this strumming groove:

 

And a video showing how to put all the chords together. Enjoy!

 

That’s all for this week! See you in a couple of weeks.

All the best,

Guido

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Guido Heistek holds a B.F.A. Music from Concordia University in Montreal and is a CANSTAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. He makes his home in Vancouver, BC.  Guido has performed in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe, and has worked as both an arranger and consultant for stage and film. Guido teaches private and small group lessons at his downtown studio: Yaletown Music . In 2011, Guido released Hear the Strum,  an instructional DVD which teaches ukulele students how to strum by ear and from the heart. In 2013 he released a CD, Guido Heistek – Solo Ukulele. In 2016, Guido released The Chord Melody Book for Ukulele.

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