practice

How to Make a Practice Routine for Ukulele

It's no secret that the key to getting better on ukulele is practice. Here are some tips to help you come up with a ukulele practice routine that works for you.

How to Practice Ukulele—4 Tips to Get Better Faster

You aren’t just playing the ukulele, you're playing music—so here are some practice tips to not help you become a better ukulele player, but a better musician as well.

Practicing Tips from 5 Ukulele Pros

Here are some ukulele practice tips from five top pros: Jake Shimabukuro, Daniel Ward, Abe Lagrimas, Jr., Neal Chin, and James Hill.

Perfecting Your Practice on Ukulele

Practicing is one of the most important things you can do as a musician, whether you’re an absolute beginner or seasoned professional. Yet, to the detriment of their musicianship, many ukulele players have poor practicing habits—for instance, running through things…

Ukulele Lesson: Learn to Play in Every Key with the Perpetual 5ths Exercise

Playing in the key of C major can be a very comfortable trap for ukulele players. But learning to play in all 12 keys is easy using the Perpetual 5ths Exercise.

The Metronome In Your Head

By Jim D’Ville In the Fall 2019 issue of Ukulele, Grammy award-winning musician Cathy Fink presents a wonderful lesson extolling the virtues of incorporating a metronome into one’s daily practice regimen. She’s right! The metronome is the one true musical…