• NEW & UPDATED Working on a new layout for 2026 on LearningUkulele.com. It implements light and dark mode site settings. However, it will take a few months to get all the pages working in dark mode. So, for now with the page that use the old layout light mode will render better. Several pages and sections have already been updated to use the new layout: News , Updates , Glossary of Terms , and more….

• NEW & UPDATED LearningUkulele.com has been updated to us tailwindcss v4 . Took a while to get it to actually work as my css style sheets where a mess (self-inflicted). So, there might be a few small formatting and sizing issues as I move forward with the site and updates.
• NEW & UPDATED LearningUkulele.com & Funky Frets will be at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, August 15 to 17 in Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford Township. Presented by the Philadelphia Folksong Society, the festival fosters music discovery in a safe and family-friendly setting with camping, food trucks, educational workshops, a variety of vendors, and activities for all ages.

• NEW & UPDATED songs in the Daily Ukulele Books Harmonic Analysis Series of lessons. Finishing off the songs starting with H .
• UPDATED the Ukulele Festivals Around the World listings with their 2026 dates. Let us know of any we are missing. LearningUkulele.com has a pretty compreshensive listing of festivals.
• UPDATED the Turnbacks entry in the Glossary
• NEW * RMA/HA for the song Runaround for from the Daily Ukulele book , the Yellow Book.
• NEW & UPDATED book: A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions A to Z for the Key of F, ANY Tuning, ANY Instrument – Just the chords with out suggested chord shapes. • A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions A to Z – Key of F
• UPDATED • Added a few more resources to the Amplifying Your Ukulele page. Getting your "acoustic" instrument heard.

• UPDATED & NEW • Hearing the Changes page. Knowing what the chords of a song or chord progressions are and when the when the change. Added new information and links to some great external resources.
• UPDATED • Added Chords, Chords & Chords page. Chords & Chord Progressions — It's what we do the most off — All about the types of chords possible on ukulele.
• UPDATED • Playing by Ear lessons series. Mastering the art of playing music by ear represents the pinnacle of achievement for any aspiring musician. The objective of this lesson series is to guide you towards attaining this goal. Whether it entails mastering melodies or chords, rest assured that it is within your reach.

• UPDATED • Added Kamloops Summer Ukulele Festival to All Ukulele Festivals and Camps page.
• UPDATED • Rocky Top by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 and first recorded by the Osborne Brothers later that same year. This is part of the LearningUkulele.com Harmonic Analysis series of lesson of the songs from the Daily Ukulele (the yellow book) .
• UPDATED • QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Ukulele, C Tuning – Aeolian Scale The FInget One, String Four shape was screwed up. Now fixed. You can proof and look at all of these, all you want and something still get through.
• NEW Added the White Mountain Ukulele Retreat, July 10-13, Albany, New Hampshire to the Ukulele Festivals page.

• UPDATED • Added Pick A Pick to Ukulele Builders Luthiers, & Manufactures.
• UPDATED • Got caught up on just about all of the Ukulele Festivals listed with their 2025 dates.
• NEW Added the Webb-Tigert UKE Duo from Nashville, Tennessee USA and Kirk Jones a Professional FUNsician from Huntsville, Alabama USA the Musicians & Ukulle Teachers pages.
• NEW • Added Ken Mattsson, BeaconBeats Music from Arlington, MA USA to the Musicians and Teachers pages as well as the NEW Additional Information for Ukulele Festivals page. This will be for information on local clubs, jams, related to any festivals in that area.
• NEW • Added the New England Ukulele Fest, May 4th, 2025 in Newton, MA USA to the Ukulele Festivals page
• UPDATED • Several updated lessons. Visit the Lessons Index page.
• UPDATED • Ongoing updates to the underlying site styles (css) (tailwindcss).

• UPDATED / NEW • Not quite spring in the Northern Hemisphere yet — but we're getting a jump on LearningUkulele.com Spring Cleaning with the Lessons , Books , Lessons Series , Songs , Workshops , Videos , index pages have been redesigned and updated. Hopefully, it will be a little easier to see what LearningUkulele.com has to offer.

• UPDATED – Alternating Thumb Fingerpicking on Ukulele Lesson Series to reflect the latest version of the Alternating Thumb Fingerpicking on Ukulele book.
• UPDATED – Chord a Day Series: the next and previous chord navigation and the piano chord example Root Position chord name.
• Thursday, February 6, 13, 20, 27 @ 8PM EST (2000 -5UTC): Triads - You Already Know More Than You Think
• Tuesday, February 11, 18, 25 @ 8PM EST (2000 -5UTC): Alternating Thumb Style for Ukulele

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• The 2025 Workshop schedule for the first four months has been posted.

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