Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel,
today's video is my first tutorial ever.
I decided to show how to play Mystery of Love
by Sufjan Stevens, I hope that's how it's pronounced...
I did a cover of this song and under that video
I was asked to explain chords and strum pattern
and I also noticed that there are some baritone uke tutorials
but not a lot of soprano uke ones, and I used the latter
so here is the video!
The video will be devided in two parts:
in the first one I show an easier way to play the song
and in the second I explain how I played the song myself
in the cover, which is a little bit more difficult
since I don't use the basic position of the chords.
So if you think you're not a total begginer,
you can try the second part of this tutorial
which will be on a different video. You can find its link
in the description box.
Also, if you don't understand italian
you can turn on the English subtitles. I hope
they will be clear enough for you to follow the tutorial :)
So just push the subtitles button!
Let's start with this first tutorial!
For this song you will need the following chords:
C chords, which is done by playing the 2nd fret of the 1st string
with your ring finger or the one you're more comfortable with.
We count the strings starting from the one at the bottom
and then we go up counting 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
So, when I say 1st string I mean the one down here.
Then you need the D chord, which you can do by playing
the 2nd fret of 2nd 3rd and 4th strings,
using your index, middle and ring finger.
Then the E minor, which is played
with the index on the 2nd fret of the 1st string,
the middle finger on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string,
and the ring finger on the 4th fret of the 3rd string.
We also need the A minor, which you can do by playing
the 2nd fret of the 4th string with your middle finger
or the one you're most comfortable with.
Lastly we need the G, which is played with the
index finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string,
the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the 1st string,
and the ring finger on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string.
These are all the chords of the song,
now we can start
learning it, one piece at a time.
I devided it in three parts: the intro and verse,
the chorus, and a small instrumental.
Intro and verse
*music*
This is the first part of the song,
intro and verse have the same chords and fingerpicking.
The chords are C, D, Em, D
and this is the fingerpicking sequence:
For the C you play the strings 3rd 2nd 4th 2nd 3rd,
and you do it twice.
As you may have noticed I'm not using my left hand on the uke,
this is because for the C chord I would put
my finger on the 1st string, but this string is never played
in our sequence, so you can also leave your hand on the side.
Then with the D chord you have to play the following strings:
3rd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
and you have to do this twice.
Then we have the E minor, and we have to play the same strings,
3rd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, again twice.
in the same way as before. At the end we have the D, and we play again the chord
in the same way as before.
This is the intro, just these four chords,
here it is played slowly.
And now faster.
Once you're done with the intro, the verse is played
in the exact same way. You have to repeat these four chords
four times. So you have to play them a once for the intro
and then for four times while you sing
Chorus
*music*
This is the second part of the song, it's the chorus
and its chords are the A minor, the D and the E minor.
At the beggining of the chorus you strum the A minor twice
and then you stop the strings.
Then you play the D chord with the same fingerpicking
of the verse, 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd string.
After this you have to play fast one after the other
the following chords: Em, D, Em, Em, D.
I usually pluck the strings but you can also just strum them.
So here is the sequence Em D Em Em D
And then you do this all twice.
Here it is slowly.
I end here this section because when we go low
(which is actually
a little bit too low for my voice lol)
the instrumental part begins,
and we will see it in a second.
I just want to do the chorus once again, at normal speed.
Instrumental
*music*
Now let's see the last part of this song
which starts when we go low with our voice
and sing *mystery of LOVE*
(wow, I hit the note)
In that moment we start again with the fingerpicking
and we play the chords: C, G, D
(blabbering)
With the C chord we do the same string sequence of the verse
3rd, 2nd, 4th, 2nd, 3rd
and we do this twice
Then we do the G chord
and we play the following strings: 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd
and we do this only once
because we change immediately to the D chord
and we do again 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd string
We do these three chords twice after the first chorus
and four times after the other two choruses
Here it is slowly
C chord
G chord
D chord
This is how it sounds faster
I guess this is it for this first tutorial
just one last note
if you want to add some dynamic in the song
the last verse can be played without the fingerpicking
and you can just strum the chords
four times
I think we can end this video here
I hope it's understandable
write me in the comments if you have any doubts
and also let me know if you enjoy
this kind of content
Now we can go to the second part of this tutorial
(stay tuned, it will be available in some days!)
