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 happen and how to correct them.
Continue readingMoving 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.
Continue readingIn 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.
Continue readingOften 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 rather nice but was also relatively simple for beginners to get to grips with.
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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.
Continue readingIf 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?
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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).
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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.
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’.
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.
