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Welcome to Ukulele Tricks’ Brand New Look
Big things are happening here at Ukulele Tricks. As you probably have noticed, we have a completely brand new look! If you’re reading this in your email inbox or RSS reader, be sure to head over to...
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How to Play a C Major Scale on Ukulele
Photo credit Over the next several weeks, we’re going to look at the twelve major scales and how to play those on ukulele. In the most basic way, a scale is a collection of notes arranged in ascending...
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What Is Your Biggest Challenge As a Ukulele Player?
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How to Play a G Major Scale on Ukulele
Photo credit Right now, we are in a big lesson series dedicated to learning the ukulele fretboard. We’re doing this by learning all major scales in the twelve different keys. This is the second lesson...
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How to Play an F Major Scale On Ukulele
Photo credit This lesson is apart of a larger lesson series that will help us learn the ukulele fretboard. So far, we’ve learned how to play a C major scale and a G major scale on ukulele. Now, it’s...
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Tuning Your Ukulele to Low G
For some of my video lessons on Ukulele Tricks, my tenor ukulele is tuned to low G tuning, sometimes referred to as linear tuning. This means, while you and I can play along together using the same...
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Finding an Easier Way to Play a Bb Chord on Ukulele
A common question I see in the Ukulele Strumming Tricks video lesson course, as well as in email, is about how to play a Bb chord. If you aren’t familiar, a Bb chord is played on the ukulele as shown...
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Knowing When to Change Chords While Strumming a Song
Photo credit For the most part, ukulele songs are displayed online and in print using chord charts. A chord chart includes the lyrics of a song with letters above to indicate the chords. Most of the...
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5 Effective Strumming Patterns for Beginners
In this lesson, I show you five strumming patterns you can use to play thousands of different songs on ukulele (I’m not exaggerating!). These are my “go to” strumming patterns. I use them all the time...
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Using Your Baritone Ukulele to Follow Along with My Standard-tuned Lessons
Cordoba 20BM baritone ukulele At the moment, I do not have any songs or lessons that specifically pertain to the baritone ukulele. I realize this is disappointing and a huge bummer for you baritone...
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Announcing my new book Ukulele Exercises For Dummies, plus win a free ukulele
About nine months ago, I embarked on a grand adventure in the world of teaching the ukulele. It’s ended up being one of the most amazing projects I’ve ever had the opportunity of being apart of, and...
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And the winner of the Ukulele Tricks ukulele giveaway is…
Today, April 15th, 2013, I’m celebrating the release of my new book Ukulele Exercises For Dummies by giving away a Kala Archtop KA-JTE tenor ukulele ($300 value). The moment has finally come where I...
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Ukulele Exercises For Dummies now shipping in the US
For the last month, you could get my new book Ukulele Exercises For Dummies in Europe and even the far reaching corners of the world, like Dubai, but you couldn’t get it here in the US – the US release...
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7 Quick Tips to Improve Your Barre Chords on Ukulele
Barre chords can be the hardest kinds of chords to get down on the ukulele, but if you are able to play them, you unlock a whole new selection of chord variations and positions to choose from to add...
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What People Are Saying About Ukulele Exercises For Dummies
Incase you missed it, just more than a month ago, my new book Ukulele Exercises For Dummies released in various places around the world. Ukulele Exercises For Dummies is a practice-based ukulele book...
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A Review of My New Custom M.J. Franks Concert Ukulele
As many of you know, this past year was a busy one for me between writing Ukulele Exercises For Dummies and continuing to provide support and instruction in my online ukulele course Ukulele Strumming...
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Get the brand new, interactive Ukulele Tricks lesson book, designed for the iPad
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on an exciting, new Ukulele Tricks project! Today, I get to reveal it to you. I’m thrilled to announce a new, interactive Ukulele Tricks’ lesson book titled...
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Introducing the ‘Fingerpicking Tricks’ online video lesson course
After more than a year and thousands of hours of work, Fingerpicking Tricks is here. We’re so excited! Fingerpicking Tricks is a brand new online video lesson course giving you an easy-to-follow,...
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Ukulele bringing hope to survivors of human trafficking in India
Today, I bring to you a remarkable story from Laurie Kallevig of the Survivor Girl Ukulele Band project. Survivor Girl Ukulele Band is using the healing power of music and love through the ukulele to...
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7 Tips to Learn to Play Ukulele Faster
Note: This is a guest post from Eduardo Uke of EasyUkuleleSongs.com. Hello my ukulele friends! I have a question for you. Have you ever felt stuck while learning to play the ukulele? Then this is the...
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