This 1 Ukulele Blues Riff Makes You Sound Pro
It’s fun to play the 12-bar blues on ukulele but it’s even more fun to add riffs! A great place to add a riff in the 12-bar blues is at the very end during the turnaround section. That’s exactly what...
View Article3 Easy Ukulele Songs Any Beginner Can Play (The Beatles Edition)
What’s amazing about learning to play ukulele is that there are easy ukulele songs you can start playing today… even if you’re brand new! The Beatles wrote some of the most timeless tunes ever, and...
View ArticleAll I Want For Christmas Is You Ukulele Chords & Lesson
Every year around this time, it doesn’t matter where I’m at – the grocery store, in the car, or at the coffee shop – Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You is inescapable! Is this song...
View Article3 Ukulele Exercises to Improve Your Dexterity
Should you practice ukulele exercises if you’re a beginner? Yes! Ukulele exercises are designed to warm up your fingers, increase the coordination between your fingers and mind, and build strength in...
View Article1 Major Scale Pattern to Play Ukulele Melodies
Plucking out a melody on your ukulele is a whole lot of fun. It all begins with the major scale! In this new video, I show you how with just 1 major scale pattern you can pluck the opening melody of...
View Article4 Easy Ukulele Strumming Patterns For Beginners
One of the hardest things to figure out as a new ukulele player is the strumming pattern for a song. Nowadays it’s fairly easy to look up the chords online and you’ll get a chord chart where chord...
View ArticleDon’t Make These 3 Mistakes Teaching Yourself Ukulele
You’ve been teaching yourself ukulele for a couple months now and play religiously every day. You even know a handful of beginner ukulele chords and a strumming pattern. You want to continue to see...
View ArticleHow to Learn Ukulele in 2024
Will this be the year you finally learn ukulele? It can be… by focusing on the right things! No, you don’t need to memorize hundreds of ukulele chords to start playing actual music. It’s better to take...
View ArticleHow Often Should I Practice My Ukulele?
Making the decision to learn a musical instrument like the ukulele is exciting, however as a beginner, you might be wondering: “How often should I practice?” How you answer this question lays the...
View Article3 Strumming Exercises to Improve Your Feel For Rhythm
How do you “feel” the rhythm? Finding the groove when strumming your ukulele can be difficult but there is a way to improve. It starts with building what I like to call a “Strumming Vocabulary” where...
View Article5 Health Benefits of Learning Ukulele Backed by Science
Being able to make music is a fulfilling and enriching endeavor regardless of age. But if you’re thinking about learning an instrument later in life, it’s important to know that engaging in this...
View ArticleThe Most Important Things to Practice If You’re a Beginning Ukulele Player
Learning to play an instrument as an adult shouldn’t be the same as when you were a kid. If you learned music as a kid, there was probably a big focus on traditional music education. You know what I’m...
View ArticleBest Ukulele Strumming Pattern to Learn a New Song
Strumming patterns are the bread and butter of playing ukulele. And they can also make or break you. “If only I could figure out the strumming pattern to this song.” What if I told you there isn’t a...
View ArticleUkulele vs. Guitar: Complete Guide to Decide Which to Learn
Yes, this is Ukulele Tricks, a website that helps you become a better ukulele player, but… Spoiler alert: I’m not just going to tell you to learn to play ukulele! Contrary to popular belief, ukulele...
View ArticleHow to Play the E Major Chord on Ukulele the Easy Way
It doesn’t matter if you’ve been playing ukulele for a month or a decade… The E major chord is one of the worst chords to play! And by worst, I mean hardest. But yet, there are SO MANY songs with E...
View ArticleHow to Practice Ukulele and Lose Track of Time
In my 30 years of playing music, there’s one trait that’s helped me practice ukulele and improve the most as a musician. It’s helped me so much so that I… Lose track of the time when I practice… Have...
View Article3 Ukulele Strumming Tricks to Instantly Add Energy to a Rock Song
It’s true that with just a few chords and a simple strumming pattern you can play hundreds of songs on ukulele. But maybe you’ve noticed it’s one thing to strum the chords and another thing to sound...
View ArticleThis Is the Solo Ukulele Tab For Adele’s “Easy On Me”
This was the most fun I’ve had in awhile arranging a solo ukulele arrangement of a popular song. Adele’s Easy On Me took the world by storm late 2021 and now you can play it on ukulele. In this video,...
View ArticleSolo Ukulele Tab For Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license”
In this video, I perform my ukulele tab arrangement of Olivia Rodrigo’s drivers license solo on ukulele. This was a really fun song to arrange the ukulele tab where I combine single-note melody,...
View ArticleStrum & Fingerpick This Improvised Moody-Sounding Chord Melody Vamp on Ukulele
Chord melody is a style of ukulele playing where you strum the chords and fingerpick the melody at the same time. Often chord melody arrangements feature modern pop songs you would normally sing but...
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