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Something - The Beatles
Today we are going to learn how to play "Something" by The Beatles on the Ukulele. The song is a jazzy style song with an AABA style chord progression format, something that you would see from songs like "What a Wonderful World" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" one of the lit...
Make Your Blues Jazzy
Today we are going to learn how to take a 12 bar blues in the key of F and transform into a jazz based blues in the key of F. To do this we are going to start in the key of F and strum through a 12 bar, once we have that we are going to modify it so it sounds jazzy. Each of the modifications will be...
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
Make sure you download the backing tracks. One is just the bass and drums, the other has the melody to play along with. Today I am going to teach you how to play "Sunny" by Bobby Hepp. The song changes key 3 times for a total of 4 different keys in the song, each time going up a half step an...
Soul Rhythm like a Professional Session Musician
Today we are going to play some soul music. I am going to take 5 basic chord progressions that you are familiar with and transform them into professional sounding soul rhythm, the kind of session work you might hear from legends like Steve Cropper, David Williams, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield or ev...
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder/Red Hot Chili Peppers
Today we are going to learn how to play "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder and covered masterfully by Red Hot Chili Peppers. This particular tutorial combines both versions and really focuses on the common points that they have. One of the bigger differences in the two songs in that Stevie'...
No, You Are Not Tone Deaf - Beginner Ear Training
In addition to the PDF there is another attachment of empty tabs. The first page has two measures a stanza and the second page has 4. Print these out and take them to your ukulele class and pass them around. Your club will love you for it!Today we are going to work on our ear. Perfect pitch is somet...
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Today we are going learn how to play "The Gambler" as performed by Kenny Rogers. "The Gambler" was written by Don Schlitz and besides Kenny there have been numerous other artists that have recorded the song, one of them was Bobby Bare who is one of my Grandmother's favorite singe...
Coolest and Most Fun Groove For Baritone... of All Time!
Today we are going to learn how to play a shuffle, not just any shuffle, a full blown chord shuffle, and not just any chord shuffle, a chord shuffle that has riffs mixed in, chromatic movements, ascending and descending lines, it just just a very cool, fun and unique groove that I had a ton of fun p...
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Beginner Tutorial with Riffs
This is designed as a beginner lesson but the riffs and melody will keep intermediate players entertained, too. Today we are going to learn how to play The Lions Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens. This is a great first song to learn as it is just one chord progression, three chords, one strum pattern and...
How to play a Gospel/Country inspired Blues Shuffle
Today we are going to do a rhythm tutorial based in fingerpicking, but a very different fingerpicking than just arpeggiating a chord, it is a shuffle. A shuffle is fingerpicking that has some movement in it, make a static chord like G, move and change while still have the same harmonic integrity to ...
Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down
Today we are going to learn how to play "Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra. I've been wanting to teach this song for a long time and I am happy to have finally done it, but in fair warning I do not sing it very well. The song can be played as an easy beginner song to s...
Ragtime Fingerpickin' Doc Watson Style
Today we are going to play some ragtime style jamming that was influenced by the great Doc Watson. You can use this exercise just as a fun fingerpicking exercise, the base for a country blues in A, you can apply it to your song writing and you can do it as a chord study. There is a lot of applicatio...
The Offspring - Gone Away
Download the backing track to practice the intro riff!Today we are going to learn how to play "Gone Away" by The Offspring. This song is just 4 chords that go in a circle for the entire song but the rhythm does change up a little bit and we have a riff. The song just has one chord progressio...
Advanced Piano to Ukulele Transcription
Today I am going to show you how to take sheet music that is written for the piano and turn it into an Ukulele arrangement with tabs. After this lesson you will be able to play piano music on the ukulele. This will be an advanced ukulele lesson and you will need some background information to nail i...
Daydream - Lovin' Spoonful - Song and Melody
Today we are going to learn how to play the song Daydream by Spoonful of Lovin' on the Ukulele. The song might not have the name recognition but just about everybody knows the melody and knows how to sing the song and the best part is... it is an easy beginner song! The song only has easy chords...
Baritone - Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Today we are going to learn how to play "Hit the Road Jack" a standard made famous and written by Ray Charles. The song has only four chords but the distinctive walking bass line is what makes it so cool so we will walk you through all the chords, an easy strum version and at the end of the ...
Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft
Today we are going to learn how to play a summer classic, Summer Breeze, written by Seals and Croft with a lovely cover performed by the Isley brothers. The song has an iconic riff in the intro that works as a melody and a bridge as well as an outro with an equally lovely riff that is played in the ...
5 Djanjo Style Gypsy Jazz Licks
5 Django Reinhardt Style Gypsy Jazz Licks on Ukulele and the theory behind them. Every single lick in this one is pretty elaborate, leaving the standard scales that you may use to create melody and adds lovely color tones, passing tones and neighboring tones for an even greater degree of color and t...
Alice in Chains UNPLUGGED - Down in a Hole
Today we are going to learn how to play "Down in a Hole" by Alice in Chains on the Ukulele. This particular tutorial was built after the acoustic version from the MTV unplugged album, if you have never listened to the album you should, especially if Alice in Chains ins't your vibe, that ...
In My Life - The Beatles
For today's song we are going to learn how to play In My Life by The Beatles with tabs and the lovely intro riff. The song is basically a large chord progression that repeats three times with the same riff in between the verses and at the outro. aka coda. At the end of the song we will play thro...
The Hawaiian Turnaround
I know it is Friday not Wednesday, I am in Hawaii and I just haven't had good enough internet thanks to the tremendous storm in Hilo that had left me without power. Apologies.Saturday's lesson MIGHT be up Sunday as well, we will see I am doing my best to get it up.Today I am going to show yo...
Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hey eveyrone, I am on vacation with my family and traveled all day yesterday and I wasn't able to get this up, sorry for the delay.Today we are going to learn how to play "Lookin' Out My Back Door" by Creedence Clear Water Revival. The song has a key change from Bb to C moving up a w...
You VERY FIRST Solo - Blues Ukulele
Make sure you download the backing track with this lesson, too.Today we are going to learn how to play an easy solo on the ukulele, but don't be fooled, it may be easy but it is a professional solo that is dressed to impress! Triplets, double stops, half step slides, minor to major 3rd hammer on...
Louie Louie - Easy Beginner Rock'n'Roll Ukulele
Today we are going to learn how to play a classic and one hit wonder from The Kingsmen written and recorded by Richard Berry before that. The song only has 3 chords and it is very easy to play, tricky to sing and play but what you should do once you get the rhythm down is take the song and put it in...
How to Make Fills Using Chords
Anybody like the thumbnail? I drew it myself. Very close to getting a new computer, still fighting this slow one thank you for the patience, everything takes longer than it should at the moment.A lot of times when you are strumming the ukulele there are some empty spaces. Maybe you do four strum pat...
Just the Two of Us - Chord Melody Tutorial
For today's tutorial we are going to learn how to play "Just the Two of Us" in the chord melody/fingerstyle where the ukulele plays the chords and melody at the same time! This style has a lot of chord changes packed into little places with some measures having as many as 3 chords so the...
Hallelujah - Baritone Tutorial
Sorry for the delays again, still no new computer. Doing my best to get things back on track.Today we are going to learn how to play "Hallelujah" on the baritone ukulele. This song is in 6/8 and has a very cool finger picking groove we are going to explore. The song also has a very cool chor...
Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer
Full tutorial with melody and backing track.Today we are going to learn how to play Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer. This is a full ukulele tutorial meaning we will not only learn how to strum the song and sing it but we will also learn how to play the melody and then we will play through the melody at...
Groovy Blues in A
Thank you for your patience, until I am able to upgrade my computer I will be doing my best to keep with schedule, but the next two or three weeks might be a little tricky.New Ukulele Tutorials every Wednesday and Saturday. Today we are talking about rhythm, grooves and how simply strumming is limit...
Tech Issues
Hey everyone I have had a lot of computer issues this week, look for today's lesson tomorrow. I will get it posted as early as I can. Thank you for your patience.Your buddy,TenThumbs
