A Guide to Ukulele Strums

Common Styles to Add to Your Repertoire.

Alternating Thumb Fingerpicking on Ukulele

The common alternating thumb and two finger strumming style utilizing the thumb, index and middle fingers.

Basic Ukulele Chords Charts

The basic chords ALL ukulele players should know.

Before You Pick Up Your Uke, Getting Started Basics

Getting Started with Ukulele for Every Ukulele Player.

Blues Chord Progressions

26 Blues Chord Progressions, Extracted from My Book "Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele from A To Z".

BOGUS Lesson Series for tEstInG

The BOGUS Lesson Series for tEstInG is just what it is for - testing.

Bossa Nova

The Best Known Style Of Brazilian Music Popularized In The 1950s And 1960s.

Building Your Core Strums for Ukulele

Rhythm is In-separately Linked to Strums

Chord a Day - February

Learn a New Chord a Day for the Month of February.

Chord a Day - January

Learn a New Chord a Day for the Month of January.

Chord a Day - March

Learn a New Chord a Day for the Month of March.

Chord Switching, Barre Drills for Ukulele

An Essential Technique for Chords as Well Single Notes And Double Stops.

Chord Switching, Double Stop Drills for Ukulele

Switching Chords is All About Finger Independence and Working Together.

Classic Song Endings
Common Chord Progressions and Remembering Songs

There's a lot more in common between songs than one might think.

Common Ukulele Tunings

Three Somewhat Common Tunings In Popular Use Today.

Cool Chords

Those crazy chords you won't find in a chord dictionary, software, or chord chart.

Core “Jazz” Ukulele Chords - The Big Six

From four F7 chord voicings or shapes, your can build your massive 4-part, a.k.a., “jazz” chord vocabulary.

Creating Introductions and Turnarounds for `Ukulele

Intriduction are for Setting the Stage fo a Song or Composition.

Exploring Fingerpicking Technique on `Ukulele

Explore the Common Fingerpicking Styles.

Exploring Improvisation Using Tetrachords
Getting Started Series of `Ukulele Lessons

This series of lessons is intended to take a beginning ukulele player, just Getting Started through the basics.

Harmonic Analysis for Scale and Chord Selection

Harmonic Analysis is the process used to determine the harmonic function of chords.

Improvisation - Improv - Solos

The Art of Sponteneous Composition, Creating Solos, Licks and Riffs.

Introduction to Soloing on `Ukulele Using Scales and Triads Plus One

Using Scales and Triads + 1 for Creating Composed and Improvised Melodies

Jazz Standard Chord Progressions

Chord Progressions, Extracted from My Book "Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele."

Key Signatures

The 15 Major and Their Relative Minor Key Signatures.

Key Signatures - A Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of A Major.

Key Signatures - Ab Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of A Flat Major.

Key Signatures - B Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of B Major.

Key Signatures - Bb Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of B Flat Major.

Key Signatures - C Major

A key signature is a summary of the sharps or flats in a Major or it's relative Natural Minor scale.

Key Signatures - C# Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of C Sharp Major.

Key Signatures - Cb Major

Primary and Secondary Chords for the Key of Cb Major

Key Signatures - D Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of D Major.

Key Signatures - Db Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of D Flat Major.

Key Signatures - E Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of E Major.

Key Signatures - Eb Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of E Flat Major.

Key Signatures - F Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of F Major.

Key Signatures - F# Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of F Sharp Major.

Key Signatures - G Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of G Major.

Key Signatures - Gb Major

The Primary and Secondary Chords in the Key of G Flat Major.

Learning the Guitar Fingerboard

A step-by-step approach to finally learning the fingerboard.

Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard

This series takes a step-by-step approach to finally learning the fingerboard.

Miscellaneous Chord Information

Chord Material Not Found in the Other Chord Series and Lessons.

Modes

Just What is a Mode?

Modular Phonetic Rhythm by Chuck Anderson

Modular Phonetic Rhythm Represents A Significant Advance In The Teaching And Application Of Rhythm.

Movable Form Ukulele Chords

Chords Without Open Strings That Can Be Transposed To Any Key Up And Down The Fingerboard.

Music Basics

The Prinicples of How Music Works.

Open Position Chords and Their Movable Forms

Open Position Chords and Their Movable Form Chords.

Pass Gymnastics for Ukulele

Navigating Beyond The Basic Four Fret Fingering Position.

Piano for Ukulele Players

I know you always wanted to do something on a piano?

Playing by Ear

The Ultimate Goal When Learning Any Musical Instrument.

QuickStart Chord Progressions Play-along Series

24 Unique Styles Designed for Contemporary Musician.

QuickStart Scale and Arpeggio Fingering Series

A Concise, Well-organized Series of Books And Lessons Ideal for Any Ukulele, Guitar or Fretted String Player.

QuickStart Scale Fingering For Guitar Summary Charts - Key of A
QuickStart Scale Fingering For Guitar Summary Charts - Key of C
Reading for Ukulele - The Next Steps

Take your reading to a pro level.

Reading Music on Ukulele - Primer

Learning to read standard music notation is actually not that hard.

Reading Standard Music Notation for Ukulele

What They Look Like and Where Are They.

Selecting a Ukulele

Exploring Your Options for Selecting Your First or Next Ukulele,

Six Essential Ukulele Scales

Based on the fingering principles from my series of books in the QuickStart Scale and Arpeggio Fingerings series.

Slide Gymnastics for Ukulele

Navigating Beyond the Basic Four Fret Fingering Position.

Solo Ukulele - Creating Melody and Chord Arrangements

The Art and Craft of Melody and Chord.

Technique

The Physical Aspect of Playing 1 Musical Instrument.

The Big Six Core Chords - Level Four

Alternations and Extensions to the Level I, II and III Chords.

The Big Six Core Chords - Level One

The Must Know Basic 4-part Chords.

The Big Six Core Chords - Level Three

The Remaining 4-part Diminished and Augmented Core Chords.

The Big Six Core Chords - Level Two

Expanding and building on the Core Big Six Core Chords.

The Blues Progression in Common Keys

Common Blues Chord Progressions Uses the Seventh Chord.

The Daily Ukulele a.k.a., The "Yellow" Book

365 Songs for Better Living

The Seven Modes of the Major Scale

The Seven Scale Modes, Their History And Examples In C.

Triads - Traditional and Contemporary Triads

A triad is a three note chord.

Types of Chords Available on Ukulele

Organizing your Ukulele chords.

Ukulele Fingering Gymnastics - Basic

Develops your finger independence, strength and motor skills.

Ukulele Fingering Gymnastics - Developing Technique

An Introduction to Proper Hand Placement fof Left hand Technique on Uulele.

Ukulele Fingering Gymnastics - Repeating Notes

Repeating Single Note Fingering Drills.

Ukulele Strums - Getting Started

Strums Are Are In-separately Linked To Rhythm.

Understanding Intervals

An interval is the distance between two notes.

Warm Up Routines

Just What to Do for Getting Warmed Up.

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