Are you ready to learn one of the coolest scales played on the ukulele? In this 4K ukulele tutorial we will dive into the C Minor Pentatonic Scale. This scale is designed to help you improve your technique and give you a tool to start improvising.

Although you can play your soprano, concert or tenor ukulele for this lesson, I do recommend playing it on a uke with a low G. I will be using my KoAloha tenor.

Learning how to play a solo is one of the most common questions students want to know. It’s much easier than many of us imagine but there are a few tips and tricks that I will show you in this video.

First you must get this C Minor Pentatonic Scale memorized. Until you have it both in your fingers and in your ear, it’s hard to use it creatively.

Second, you must play it will good time and feel. It has to be smooth and effortless and that only comes with hard work and practice

Although you can play the C Minor Pentatonic in the open position, I decided to teach this...

Something interesting for all ukulele lovers! Uke Like The Pros brings you a cool tutorial for those ready to learn a Brazilian style rhythm. In this lesson, you will learn how to strum a Bossa Nova pattern.

I know learning fingerstyle ukulele is hard as a beginner. But don’t worry! I’m going to show you the easiest way to strum this Bossa Nova rhythm using the index finger. Be sure to follow fingerings that I give you in the lesson.

Typically, the Bossa Nova pattern will use an alternating bass pattern but this really only sounds good if you have a low G on the 4^th string. What I have done in this lesson is arrange it so it sounds good on any low or high G tenor, soprano or concert ukulele.

Another cool technique is to play the rhythm staccato (short) to help give it an authentic sound.

So, try to catch all the points discussed in the tutorial and once you master the Bossa Nova strumming you can apply this rhythm to any chord progression you like.
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Are you ready to learn easy ukulele chords? The Chord Mania!!! series is back, this time with all 4K videos. In this video tutorial, I am going to discuss how to play the very first chord that most ukulele players learn, the C Major chord.

This is one of the most important chords to play both as a beginner or master. As in the entire Chord Mania!!! series I will show you how to play the chord shape, but also show you all the notes that make up this wonderful chord.

What’s more to learn?

First, you learn the main shape of the C Major chord, followed by the notes that make up the chord. We will also see the relationship between the notes of C Major chord and the C Major scale.

Like other Chord Mania!!! lessons, once we get down the shape of the C chord, I will show you how you can slide up and down the ukulele neck so that you can play any major chord that you need.

Here are the 3 main points you want to take from this lesson: (1) memorize the shape of the C Major chord...

I am very saddened upon hearing the news that Ukulele Ray has passed.

About 6 months ago I started getting replies to some of my Instagram posts from someone named Ukulele Ray. He had seen my Instagram posts and since we were both located in San Diego he invited me up his house to jam.

At the time I had never heard of Ukulele Ray, but based on his posts I could tell he was quite a character. We communicated back and forth, but were unable to get together.

A month later I got another message from him, inviting to come jam with him at a gig he had somewhere in San Diego. It sounded fun, but I was out of town and unable to make it.

Through social media, I was starting to get more familiar with Ukulele Ray. He liked every one of my posts and his photos showed up on my Instagram feed every day.

Around December 2017, he again invited me to come and jam with him at his studio. Again, it was something that interested me, but it just didn't work out.

In January...

Being a ukulele learner you should never stop exploring and should keep asking questions to yourself and your mentors. A few days back, one of my students came up with a great question- What is a 6th?

Well! I hope you have watched all the videos and till now you have also started wondering different things about the ukulele. When the question was asked I instantly thought to make a tutorial explaining it.

Actually, a 6th stands for the interval between 2 notes. But what is an interval? Sounds like a question too! Just watch the complete tutorial and you will find answers to all such questions.

In the tutorial, I have elaborated each and every element by taking a suitable example. Also, it is my advice to all the viewers to only follow the fingers that I am using in the lesson.

Watch the full tutorial and start wondering what your next question is?

Good news for all the ukulele lovers! The Chord Mania series is back, and this time with all the 4K videos. In this particular video tutorial, we are going to discuss one of the very first chords that the newbies tend to learn on a ukulele i.e.”A Minor”.

I know this is one of the easiest chords to play even as a beginner, but this is what the chord mania series is all about. I try to touch every basic element, so as to help you master the things easily.

Like all the Chord Mania lessons, I will try to show you the main shape of the “A Minor”. I will also show you all the notes and the major scales related to it.

The most important part of the lesson is moving the chord about the neck. For being a good ukulele player, it is very important that you master the art of moving the chord up and down as this is very crucial while learning the bar chords.

So, try to master all the points discussed in the tutorial to learn the next chord lessons in an easier way.

Hope...

The Mindset of Success

Beings successful means different things to different people. Some people find success in spending time with their family, some people find success in making a lot of money while others find success if they are playing music or doing the things they love.

Defining what is success will be a topic we dive into later but right now I want to talk about the mindset of success.

I believe this is so important since many of us are still working at life and trying to determine when can you say “I’m Successful.”

I want to tell you that weather you have reached your highest pinnacle or not you can have the mindset of success.

Let me tell you what I mean and give you some examples of it from my own life.

First of all whatever it is you are trying to achieve in life, weather it’s get that perfect body, get that perfect job or change the world, there is already a blueprint out there on how to do it.

There is already someone out there who has done...

It's funny to think that several months ago I remember being at 276 Subscribers and seeing other YouTube Ukulele Channels, like The Ukulele Teacher, and wondering how the heck did he get to over 900,000 subscribers?

Well, I should have guessed what the formula was, I mean people have told me but I guess I didn't want to believe it.

Somehow I expected my channel to go from 276 subscribers to 1,000,000 overnight, but it doesn't happen that way.

Here is what I have done to help the success of my YouTube Channel.

1. Post Great Content - posting videos that provide value to people's lives.
   
   
2. Post Regularly - posting at least 3-5 videos a week, especially early on really helps build your audience and I think YouTube likes when channels post great content regularly.
   
   
3. Titles - How you name your titles really affects how your video shows up on searches. Remember people like you and me are searching YouTube, so when we want to learn how to play "Free Fallin" by Tom...