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Recently I’ve been teaching my 10 year old son to play ukulele, as I’ve been teaching him I’ve spotted some of the mistakes that he’s been making that are very common among beginners and others that I’ve taught to play. Today we’re going to look at some of those mistakes and work out why they […]
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Moving from strumming to fingerpicking is when you know that you’re starting to get a little bit more serious with ukulele. In this lesson I look at 5 fingerpicking patterns that you can use as a starting point to move your fingerpicking skills forwards. Before we get started, the chords I’m using in the video […]
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In this lesson I’ll walk you through a simple solo ukulele arrangement of the nursery rhyme Itsy Bitsy spider (or as I knew it growing up, Incy Wincy Spider). This simple arrangement was taken from David Lawson’s excellent Ebook Fingerstyle Classics. It’s quite a simple one to learn so if you’ve never done any fingerpicking […]
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Often I’ll be noodling around on the ukulele, strumming chords I know and I find it very easy to stay in the comfort zone and play something that really doesn’t require much effort on my part. SO I set myself a little challenge to come up with something using C, F and G that sounded […]
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Today we’re going to take a look at a classic beginners song that is on pretty much every guitar course out there, House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals. Now House Of The Rising Sun is famous for it’s arpeggiated chords, but we’re going to start with a very simple strummed version to begin […]
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If you’re interested in learning scales on your ukulele, and you should be, where better to start than the easiest scale of all? The minor pentatonic scale. The minor pentatonic scale is the easiest scale to learn because it contains just five notes, and we can all learn five notes right? That isn’t the only […]
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Today we’re going to learn how to play Mad World by Tears For Fears, or Gary Jules if you’re not a big 80s fan (shame on you). Slight confession before we get started, I’m not sure that I’d ever heard the Tears For Fears version before Gary Jules covered it and topped the charts back […]
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Learn how to play the YouTube smash Can’t Help Falling in Love by Twenty One Pilots on ukulele in this easy to follow lesson with strumming pattern and chord boxes to help you learn. Twenty One Pilot’s cover of Elvis’s Can’t Help Falling in Love has racked up just the 15 million views on Youtube. […]
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Campanella is a style of playing ukulele that attempts to get multiple notes ringing out at the same time – a little like bells. Campanella actually means ‘Little Bell’. When you’re playing campanella picking on ukulele you’re trying to avoid playing two notes sequentially on the same string where possible. The result of this is […]
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Getting to grips with the blues scale on ukulele is a great way to add a little improvisation to your routine. It’s nice to get a little free with your playing from time to time and just do what you like. Let’s take a look at the blues scale to get you started. The word improvisation can […]
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