By Vinícius Vivas
Have you wondered about how to play and teach complex jazz chords on the ukulele? Or how to make simple chords sound even better?
Sometimes we fall into teaching chords in the same way that we learned them, even when there may be a better way. Perhaps we need to try less...
by Cynthia Kinnunen, a Music Educator from Guelph, Ontario who's part of Team Uketropolis, offering online ukulele lessons!
Last month, music educator Angela Dwyer gave us some great ideas about introducing...
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So, where to start on this listening and tone journey to...
Stretch it out!
It's February and for many of us in the colder climates, that means we’re...
By James Hill, founder of Uketropolis, online ukelele lessons.
How many times have you had trouble getting a song started? The more players there are, the more challenging it seems to get that first word, note or chord to happen at the right time. So in this short...
Our main goal as music instructors is to teach musicianship, so every single exercise we do should sound musical and rhythmically “in the pocket” from the first lesson onward. Rhythm needs to be integral to everything else we...
Ukulele has been hands down the BEST instrument I have used to build music literacy skills in the classroom. After hearing about James Hill’s Ukulele in the Classroom (UITC) series from a friend, I looked into the level one books and decided it would fit really well with my...
By Angela Dwyer
(Psst... If you're looking for online ukulele lessons then head to the Uketropolis homepage to find the best beginner ukulele courses up to advanced levels!)
It’s September! Here in Canada it means that beach days and bar-b-ques are replaced by school days and...
I entered the JHUI Teacher Certification program in the summer 2017 and it had an immediate impact on my teaching. I was not only gaining ukulele-specific teaching skills, also a new understanding of pedagogy and how to develop it.
While working through the three years of the of the JHUI program...
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