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Jake Shimabukuro's Ukulele Rasgueados [Ten-Finger Strum]
Transcript
00:00Now, we're going to do something a little bit more, something a little bit more unnatural.
00:06This is called the Ten Finger Strum, okay?
00:10The Ten Finger Strum.
00:12All right.
00:13It's very simple.
00:14All you're going to do is you're going to use your right hand, okay?
00:16Just your right hand like this.
00:17And it's called the Ten Finger Strum because what it is is basically, basically, you're
00:24using all five fingers twice, okay?
00:29So you're going to come up with all five fingers, starting with your thumb, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
00:37and then come back down, starting with your baby finger, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
00:43So 5 and 5 is 10.
00:45So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, okay?
00:52Got it?
00:53Let's try this, all right?
00:54Hold your A chord for me.
00:55Get ready.
00:56Get psyched up.
00:57All right, here we go.
00:581, 2, 3, 4, 5, down, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, okay?
01:07So this is what it looks like fast.
01:09Watch.
01:10Okay?
01:11Got it?
01:12Got it?
01:13Okay?
01:14Now, what we're going to do is we're just going to go in between chords like this.
01:17And I'm going to keep it rolling.
01:19I'm going to come up like this, come back down, come up, come back down, come up, come
01:23back down.
01:24Okay, watch this.
01:25Got it?
01:29Got it?
01:33And that's the 10 finger roll.
01:35Strum.
01:36Or roll.
01:37Whichever roll.
01:38You can call it what you want.
01:3910 fingers.
01:40Hey.
01:41Here's a combination of techniques.
01:43Ah!
01:44Ah!

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