# Learn Ukulele — Drills

> Interactive page: [`drills.html`](drills.html)

Short **practice loops** that wake the hands and name the neck on **GCEA** (four strings). These are not songs. Evenness beats speed. Use the metronome — start near 60.

**Technique path:** Drills · [Exercises](exercises.md) · style pages ([Folk](drills-folk.md) · [Classical](drills-classical.md) · [Island strum](strumming.md) · [Fingerpicking](fingerstyle.md)).

Where a drill is a shape or a picking pattern, **TAB** sits next to the explanation (**A on top**, then E, C, G). How to read it: [Foundations · TAB](foundations.md).

**Ten-minute path** — pick a track. On the HTML page, Play becomes Stop on the same button.

- **Beginner** — 2 min chromatic · 2 min open-string names · 4 min island or folk boom-chick · 2 min stretch. Stay near 60.
- **Intermediate** — 2 min chromatic reverse · 2 min find-every-natural · 4 min Classical i–m or fingerpicking · 2 min hammer-ons.
- **Advanced** — 2 min 16th pulse on open C · 2 min first-position scales at tempo · 4 min movable shapes · 2 min clean changes.

**Sources:** standard four-string chromatic and open-position reading · locking the right hand to a click · classical left-hand habits (one finger per fret, i–m) · common ukulele first-position scales (not guitar CAGED).

## Hands

**Chromatic 1-2-3-4** — frets 1-2-3-4 on every string, G up to A. Reverse 4-3-2-1, A down to G.

**Spider** — one finger per fret across all four strings (A→E→C→G), then reverse.

**Stretch** — index fret 1, pinky fret 4; walk G→A.

**Alternate / cross** — eighths on open **C** (lowest pitch on high-G uke), then G→C→E→A→E→C→G.

Interactive TAB and Play: [drills.html#hands](drills.html#hands).

## Notes and the neck

**Open strings** — G C E A (G is reentrant).

**Naturals 0–12** on each of the four strings.

**First-position scale walks** — C major, G major, F major, A minor across GCEA (not guitar CAGED boxes).

**Find every natural** — every C, D, E, F, G, A, B in frets 0–12, plus a short quiz.

## By style

- [Folk drills](drills-folk.md)
- [Island strum](strumming.md)
- [Fingerpicking](fingerstyle.md)
- [Classical drills](drills-classical.md)
- [Scales](scales.md) · [Movable shapes](movable.md)
- [Break rut](break-rut.md) (optional — uneven island, mute/ghost, campanella, thumb, chord-melody)

Longer gym: [Exercises](exercises.md) · Play along: [songs](songs.md) · Game: [Quest](quest.md).