New Premium Lesson Series for Ukulele and General Music
With the amount of work that goes in to preparing quality material and lessons for the site, I've elected to limit the downloads to active students and site members. Visitors can still view the download file images at a reduces size. Members and Students can view larger on-line images when signed in. The actual download will contain the latest and most updated version of the lesson. Curt
Building Your Core Strums for Ukulele - This series explores the common four strums that every ukulele player should know and builds on these to expands you strumming vocabulary to over 70 basic patterns. It all starts with this basic Quarter Note Strum

Fingerpicking on Ukulele - Alternating Thumb Style - This series explores fingerpicking styles on ukulele starting with a through look at the Alternating Thumb style. This style was made famous by guitarists Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. You'll find this series of lessons to be the most complete and organized series of lessons offered anywhere, GUARANTEED.
Harmonic Analysis - Harmonic Analysis is the process used to determine the harmonic function of chords within a chord progression or song. A chord progression is defined as a sequence of chords, each chord has a root and is a particular chord type. The relationship of a chord's to a scale determines its function within that scale's tonality.
QuickStart Chord Progressions - The QUICKSTART Rhythm Section Play-along Tracks are 24 unique styles designed for learning to solo in variety of contemporary styles. Each track is devoted to a scale covered in the QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar (suitable for ANY instrument). There are four background tracks for each scale featuring the chords of the scale. These tracks give you the opportunity to explore the sound of each scale in a lead setting.
Core Chords for Ukulele, The Big Six - From four F7 chord voicings or shapes, your can build your massive 4-part, a.k.a., “jazz” chord vocabulary. Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords. There are just too many chords shapes too memorize. Learning the principles of how chords are constructed and the ukulele fingerboard are the way to go. Then you can create more advanced chords like 9#11, 7#5-9, 13b5, 7+9 on the fly as needed.
`Ukulele Tweets
SophiaWebber: I can play duet with myself on ukulele now, I just need to get the chords better bc in shit
GoMusicStL: After the cool ukulele show tonight, come check out our Lanikai ukes! They sound great and are very reasonably priced.
GoMusicStL: RT @oldrockhousestl: Tonight: a Benefit for @kdhx 88.1 FM -
The Whole Earth Nuclear Ukulele Orchestra
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KathleensSpleen: The only good thing about rain is that its perfect weather for just sitting by a window and playing ukulele and drinking tea
DontCryAboutIt: "coming out of my cage.." you know what to do ;) - Mr Brightside #SoundCloud https://t.co/jH9vfVafrG
sarahbaluchi: @ElNimery Seems like I'm Mrs. A lot of things today? Yes, and I play on the ukulele. (Not bragging, not at all)
bazmaz_ukulele: RT @NantwichNUkes: Page 2 of our #ukulele piece in Cheshire Life http://t.co/ZetihFOvV3
bazmaz_ukulele: RT @NantwichNUkes: Page 1 of our article in this months Cheshire Life! #ukulele http://t.co/itVSWO3OWh
leha_583: Czech police are looking for a US man suspected of killing a family of four, including two ukulele musicians, in the southern city of Brno.
KingColin12: Thank you so much for playing the same three chords on your ukulele over and over again. You show so much originality...
Helen_NERD: RT @davejgiles: Would You Like Me To Make You A Ukulele? - COMPETITION TIME http://t.co/9migZBCfhA
trishhyy_: Next year's talent show, my art teacher and I will do a mashup of Lil Wayne's, Drake's, Wiz Khalifa's, and etc song together on the ukulele.
Sonnys_ukulele: @campbell_alix dont take it personally alix im onli messin k ?? ur prob just as much of a fan as i am
Ukulele blogs around the web
- Ukulele Social Club - The Ukulele Place To Meet And Greet!
A place to celebrate the ukulele and the people who play them! The Ukulele Social Club network is a great place to share, learn and meet other players. The Ukulele Social Club welcomes instrumentalists, singers, kids, seniors and everybody in between.
- BUKE - DGBE
For The Baritone Ukulele - And All DGBE Tuned Instruments
- ChiyoDad Learns Ukulele and Guitar
- Classical TABs for Ukulele
- Eastern Ukuleles JPN
- EL FRIKI DEL UKELELE
¿Te gustaria aprender un poco mas sobre el ukelele/ukulele/uke? Has llegado a buen puerto, amigo friki.
- Rose Turtle Ertler (Ukulele Land) (AUS)
- The Flea Museum - link
A fan-site compendium of all the groovy designs and styles of the famous Flea Ukulele!
- The Fluke Museum - link
A fan-site compendium of all the wonderful styles and designs of the best little ukulele in the whole darn world, the Fluke!
- Italian Ukulele Commitee
- Live Ukulele
- Mr. ZZ'S Ukulele Songs And Humor
- My Little Grass Shack
- Papa Beansprout
This blog is about Aaron Kim's life building instruments (mostly ukuleles and banjos) and touring with his band boulder acoustic society.
- Play Ukulele By Ear by Jim D'ville- link
- Craig Robertson's Music BLOG
- Sacred Uke
- UK UKES
- Uke Hunt
- Uke Plucks - ukeplucks.blogspot.com
Random ramblings of Mark Levine on his favorite subject, The Ukulele.
- Uke Toob
- Uke Sounds Sentinel
- UkeDaily
- UkeLand - www.UkeLand.com
Ukeland is about learning to play what I consider to be the funnest, most accessible and happiest instrument out there - the ukulele. Using the links above you will find reviews of uke learning resources such as DVDs and songbooks, mp3s and videos of uke players, and a whole bevy of links to help you on your journey!
- UkeWarehouse.com’s Blog
- Ukulala
- Ukulele Brasil
First Brazilian Ukulele Blog. News about Ukulele culture in portuguese. Tudo sobre a cultura do Ukulele em portugus.
- The Ukulele Evangelist
- Ukulele Ghetto (Woodbury, MN)
- Ukulele Languages
- Ukulele Revolution - link
- Ukulele Secrets
- Ukulele Tonya
- Ukulele Perspective
Seeing the world through strumming a ukulele.
- Vo-do-de-o Days
A ukulele player's look at jazz and popular songs of the early 20th Century by Tim Hatcher















