March 19th Updates
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With our family Funky Frets Music Store ➜ closed due to a Pennslyvania State Mandate that all non-essential businesses remain closed because of the COVID-19 Virus. I have a lot of time to dedicate to this LearningUkulele.com website. Even more than the normal massive amout of time I spend on it. The drawback is I've had to cancel most of my 40+ student's private one-on-one in-store lessons. And, only a handful few have been able to do Skype or Facetime lessons.
So I'm available for more Skype / Facetime Private Lessons ➜. Book a single lesson for one hour, and I can guarantee you'll get several months of material to work on and a real plan for self-learning.
I've been a full-time private music teacher focusing on ukulele and guitar students from beginner to advanced students for the last 20 years or so. I'm not big on tooting my own horn, but people have said some good things about my playing and teaching. And, yes, I can, in-detail if needed, explain on many different levels exactly everything I play or have written.
The site has 600+ lessons, 100+ videos, ALL my, over 40 books, over 100 songs, and a lot of ukulele information. I don't just teach you how to play a song - I show you how to learn songs.
At times I had up to 70 students a week. So, there is a lot of experience here. I took private lessons for 30 years with one of the best teachers around - Chuck Anderson. We covered everything, even how to teach private lessons - he had 100 students a week at times and stated when he was 16. Chuck studied with Dennis Sandole. Look Dennis Sandole up, and you'll see quite a few people you have heard about studied with Dennis. I'm not just now jumping on the bandwagon - this is my career and dedication to helping people learn the ukulele and have a lifetime of joy.
See my Teaching Philosophy ➜ page and the links below for how I approach lessons and students.
- 3 Ways to Study with Curt ➜
- What's Different About LearningUkulele.com? ➜
- Private Lessons ➜
- The Elements of a Successful Music Program ➜
- The Study of Music Today ➜
Lil' Rev wrote an article about me for the 2019 Summer Issue of Ukulele Magazine.
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Forever Access - With Forever Premium Access, you get ALL the benefits of a Premium Access Subscription such as Unlimited 24/7 access to ALL lessons, downloads, songs, play-along jam tracks, videos, email access to Curt, resources, related assets, and ALL books by Curt as FREE downloads. Pretty much everything on the site, and NEVER worry about a subscription or surprise payment again. And jump the queue for responding to any questions.
If you're anything like me (Curt) and getting Subscription overloaded with everything and everybody on-line wanting money from you once a month — I'm with you. For like-minded individuals, this forever plan is a pay once, and you're done.
The price for Unlimited Forever access is right around the cost of a few months of private lessons. I can guarantee there is more than enough material on-line to keep you busy for a long, long time. And, you get all of my books for FREE. That alone is more than the cost of this plan.
Basic Access - A limited selection of basic lessons — ( currently over 140 ) and 100+ songs for ukulele as well as basic general music reference material — Completely FREE — Simply Register/Signup. HOWEVER - I've been doing ukulele and LearningUkulele.com since 2003 and probably have given too much away already - as reflected in my income from the site in relationship to the time spent on the site. So help support this site and its continued development by signing up for one of the below Premium Access Plans or buy a few of my books. - Thanks, Curt
NOTE: Each higher access level includes ALL the benefits of the lower levels. Private Lessons include all the benefits of a Premium Access Plans as long as you remain a student on the schedule.
Just browsing over both books, they look fantastic! I'm a guitarist and uke player for over 25 years and was thinking about writing a ukulele book but you've already written what I think are the best, most comprehensive and thorough books I've ever seen for the instrument. I just might end up buying every book you've written and I'll be giving my highest recommendation for your books to my friends and students. Thank you so much for taking the time to write such great books! — Peter Rhee
Aloha, Curt, All I can say is WOW! What you have accomplished is simply incredible! All the best — Glen Hirabayashi, The Aloha Boys
Folks, if you haven't stopped by Curt's site, do so right now! ..And get his books, they are fantastic. This guy knows his stuff and is able to pass it along too. — Alan Johnson Proprietor, The 4th Peg
I can highly recommend Curt's Uke books — I have four of them and they are excellent. — fatveg — Portland
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LearningUkulele.com has one of the largest collections of lessons, songs, and TABS, Luthiers, ukulele builders, ukulele festival and club information, and, ukulele links on the web. Curt has been on the ®Internet since the early 1990's and This site just never stops growing!!!
Content is added and updated daily — so check back often. I really do need to get out more ;-)