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50 Blues Ukulele Licks

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Welcome to my very first post for this new blog!
Today’s post goes out to ukulele players. =)

As part of preparing for the Thailand Ukulele Festival 4 last year, I started a new practice routine. It basically involved me creating and recording a blues ukulele lick every day for 50 days. Here are the 50 licks, compiled here for the first time from the original Instagram posts.

In each video, I play the lick firstly at performance tempo and then slower. As a secret challenge to myself, I made all the licks exclusively as C7 licks. Enjoy!

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Blues ukulele lick #1

Blues ukulele lick #giveit100 #azukulele #practice #ukulele #music #jams #lanikai #malaysia

A video posted by azsamad (@azsamad) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:59pm PDT

Blues ukulele lick #2

Blues ukulele lick #2 #giveit100 #azukulele #practice #ukulele #music #jams #lanikai #malaysia #blues #jazz   A video posted by azsamad (@azsamad) on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:06pm PDT

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Blues ukulele lick #4 #giveit100 #azukulele #practice #ukulele #music #jams #lanikai #malaysia #blues #jazz   A video posted by azsamad (@azsamad) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:32pm PDT

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Blues ukulele lick #6 #giveit100 #azukulele #practice #ukulele #music #jams #lanikai #malaysia #blues #jazz   A video posted by azsamad (@azsamad) on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:13pm PDT

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Day 50, inspired by a Sam Whiting video I just watched. Thanks to everyone who’s been following this ukulele lesson series. I wanted to write 50 blues ukulele licks to prepare for my #thailandukulelefestival performance and this project became much more than that. I learned a lot about the uke fretboard, got me outside of my comfort zone and challenged me. For those who tried the licks, I hope these helped you learn new ideas for the ukulele. They were all C7 blues lick by the way, one key! =) Thank you to Yin and my parents for being there as I experimented and practiced on this new instrument. Thank you to my uke friends all around the world for checking out this series. Thank you Malaysia Ukulele Group for the feedback and love too. Stay tuned for something different sometime soon. =) Blues ukulele lick #50 #giveit100 #azukulele #practice #ukulele #music #jams #lanikai #malaysia #blues #jazz #instasong #15secondsong #education #bluesuke #soul #emotion #art #hawaii #expression #licks #melody #strings #ukejams #uke #kualalumpur #melodies #jamming #learning   A video posted by azsamad (@azsamad) on Jan 2, 2015 at 9:52pm PST

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