Theory? - Not really theory, it's pretty much how music works. So it more of the Principles of Music.

Understanding the fundamentals of how music works. How Harmony, Melody and Rhythm work goes a long way in increasing your enjoyment of music and learning the `Ukulele. It's NOT magic i it's how it all goes together. It's just the study of the practices and possibilities of music.

This workshops gets you off to a good start in building a foundation of how it all ties together.

The Fundamentals of Music include: Pitch, Scales and Modes, Consonance and Dissonance, Rhythm, Melody, Chords, Harmony, Dynamics, Articulation, Form, Notation, Analysis, ...

In this workshop we'll pick and choose what is most beneficial when learning to make music with ukulele.

• Notes, Pitch, Tempo and Direction in Music
• Scales, Intervals, Arpeggios, Sequences
• Chords - Names, building and where do they actually come from.
• Rhythm - And how it relates to strums

Don't know what to play or tired of playing the same old down-up-down-up strums?

One of the first skills a ukulele player learns is the art and craft of strumming, playing rhythm. This refers to an accompaniment technique suitable for the singer - songwriter or someone who plays a support role for another instrument.

Strumming requires a specific set of skills. They are: 1) Memorization of chords 2) The ability to switch chords smoothly and 3) The ability to choose and execute a suitable rhythmic strum. It is this 3rd skill that is our focus in A Guide to Ukulele Strums.

Though strumming looks natural to the casual observer, it is anything but natural to the beginning ukulele player. Even experienced players have difficulty in identifying and executing certain strums. Though this is one of those topics that is typically taken for granted, there is much to learn about rhythmic feels, accents, dynamics, strum direction, feel, percussive accents, idiomatic styles and tempo variation.

Learn These Essential Strums and a lot more:

Exploring Basic Fingerstyle on Ukulele. Classical and Alternating Thumb style fingerstyle technique applied to ukulele.

This is now an entire series of lessons and books dedicated to exploring fingerpicking on ukulele. The first book in the series is for Alternating Thumb Fingerpicking style. A systematic approach covering ALL aspects of this style.

This workshops starts with the fundamental alternating thumb part and builds from there.

Exploring contemporary 4-part, a.k.a. "Jazz" chord on ukulele all start with the Big Six, Core Chords. You most likely know the open position chords they're based on.

From the Six core chords that are the Big Six and the principles of chord construction along with learning the notes of the ukulele fingerboard, you WILL be able to create ANY chord you come across just from the name.

These jazz chords are simply 4-part contemporary chords that find their way in a lot of music - not just jazz.

The Big Six Core Chords are: Seventh, Minor Seventh, Major Seventh, Diminished Seventh, Half-Diminished Seventh, Augmented Seventh

From these six chords you'll never be at a loss looking for that individual chord you need.

Don't know what to play or Tired of playing the same old songs and licks?

Here is a workshop for any level ukulele player on creating fun stuff to play. Making you own music, taking what you already know and creating music.

From a few SIMPLE chords and a few single notes you can create music and entertain yourself for hours.

You actually know more than you think!!!

This is my road to “Hours of Ukulele Fun” workshop.

Building Left Hand Technique explores what it takes to build killer left hand chops on the ukulele.

Single string left hand technique, open string, repeated notes, variations, intervals, double stops, triple stops, chord switching, rhythmic variations, skipping strings, legato and staccato technique.

You'll never be better than you what you can actually pull off what you want with your hands. And, luckily our left hand - ALL of our fingers can be trained to a pretty high level allowing you to pull off what you would like to do.

With this workshop will cover and explore the many possible ways to get the strings moving with the Right Hand. From using the thumb for a mellow picking and strumming style to using felt and plastic picks and we'll explore traditional and alternating thumb fingerpicking.

Exploring the Chords, Notes, Scales and Feel of the Blues on `Ukulele.

A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele from A to Z explores the “Blues” chord progressions. The Blues are at the heart of all American music. It has influenced Country, Rock, Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass and just about every form of American music we listen to today.

Understanding Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele takes you through what makes a blues progression a blues progression.

Memorizing The Notes Of The Ukulele Fingerboard Is Not As Hard As One Would Think.

Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard - It is astonishing that on any other instrument it would be silly and not accepted to not know the names of the notes and where they are on your own instrument. But - on the ukulele, guitar and most fretted instruments their players do not know the names intuitively - they can figure them out but that takes way too long. Granted it's not as easy as the piano where higher and lower notes move in one direction only, are color coded and even at different heights. Anyone after the first or second lesson can instantly name any key on the piano.

For a liberating moment in learning the ukulele – this is a BIG one!!!

On ukulele as well as the guitar there are duplicate notes - the same note on different strings and music can mover horizontally along a string as well as vertically across the strings. Make for a lot of flexibility for note choices and there in lies the problem - the choices.

This workshop is guaranteed to take the mystery out of the ukulele fingerboard and have you a lot closer to actually knowing the name of every note on the fingerboard and instantly recall it.

Memorizing the notes of the ukulele fingerboard is not as hard as one would think. Although there doesn't seem to be any pattern and the same letter can be found on every string. There is a systematic approach that can be used to help remember the notes.

You'll get more out of actually knowing the names of the notes of the fingerboard than most things you have to memorize. It will actually cut out the number of shapes you have to memorize.

You might already know more than you think!

Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar player to the ukulele.

Covers chords, scales, reading and the three most common ukulele tunings.

Ukulele for Guitar Players is for current and former guitar players discovering the ukulele for the first time or returning to the instrument.

Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar played to the ukulele. Or exploring the possibilities that the ukulele offer. Covers chords, scale and an introduction to reading standard music notation on ukulele.

The ukulele is both a different instrument than the guitar and at the same time a lot like the guitar.

Guitar players that also play the ukulele find that it gives them a different and fresh look at how they also approach the guitar.