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 obvious strategies to make ...
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 improvisation and comp...
By Ange...
Burnout has always been a danger for teachers. No...
So, where to start on this listening and tone journey to sound better on the ukul...
At that time there was no YouTube 😮 and the third wave of ukulele hadn't really started yet so I was always getting emails from people saying, "Help! I want to learn ukulele but there's nothing out there." Now things are ...
Stretch it out!
It's February and for many of us in the colder climates, that means we’re looking a...
Your ukulele warms you three times: once when you get your fingers going and you get that blood flowing into your hands and you start...
By James Hill
It's been almost a decade since my dad and I developed the James Hill Ukulele Initiative (which most of us now call JHUI). The idea was to support the growing community of ukulele teachers. The format of JHUI, our ukulele teacher program, has never changed: we start with a two-day in-person institu...
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 lesson I'll share some ...
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