Ukulele Practice Tips From Daniel Ward
Here are some practice tips you can apply while learning any piece of music on ukulele, as well as a few tips on how to practice ukulele.
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Quality Tuners Can Make Any Ukulele—Old or New—Sound and Play Better
Whether you have a collectible vintage ukulele or a new, factory-made instrument, quality tuning pegs are important to get your strings in-tune quickly and reliably.
Learn to Play “Drowsy Maggie,” a Traditional Irish Reel That Works Great on Baritone Uke
From the Spring 2017 issue of Ukulele | BY BRIAN FOX Resolved: The ukulele is the fiddle of the 21st century. While that claim might raise the hackles of the bow-and-rosin set, there’s a mighty argument to be made.…
How to Get the Most out of Your Online Ukulele Lessons
Learning ukulele through online classes or live video lessons with teachers has become part of the norm
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How to Sing and Play Ukulele at the Same Time: Practice Tips from James Hill
Are you struggling to sing and strum at the same time? Don’t worry, James Hill says, everyone has trouble at first. Remember, you’re trying to do three things at once: You’re trying to sing the melody, say the words, and…
America’s Got Talent’s ‘Uke Girl’ Receives Pleasant Surprise Lesson—From Her Teacher
By Greg Olwell Showing the speed of the contemporary culture, online ukulele video instructor John Atkins has already posted a lesson of last week’s viral video by 12-year-old Grace VanderWaal on America’s Got Talent. Under his YouTube channel, The Ukulele Teacher,…
How to Get the Most out of Your Ukulele Workshop
With great teachers from around the world teaching compelling classes at the same time, the question becomes, “How to choose?”
Loosening the Keys: An Introduction to Slack-Key-Style Ukulele
This lesson will introduce you to the sound of slack key as well as one of the open tunings, some new chord shapes, and picking patterns on ukulele.
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Learn Jake’s Triple-Strum Technique
By Greg Olwell In this video clip, Jake Shimabukuro demonstrates how to play a triple strum. It’s a fast, flashy strum, which he thoroughly and patiently breaks down into an easy-to-follow three-step motion. Jake originally filmed this lesson for…
Learn the ‘Arrested Development’ Theme Song
By Greg Olwell In some corners of the world, folks will claim that Arrested Development was one of the all-time funniest TV shows. The show, which was about the highly dysfunctional Bluth family, spent three seasons on Fox before it…