F.A.Q.

Ukulele in the Classroom (UITC) is a powerful learning platform for group teaching environments. Most pieces in UITC are arranged for two or three ukulele parts. In other words, students work together to create a complete musical whole.

The Ukulele Way, on the other hand, is designed for individual players. The Ukulele Way is a step-by-step method that guides you as you explore the art and science of playing melody, harmony and rhythm simultaneously on a single ukulele.

Yes. All exercises, arrangements and text found in the physical books are displayed online. Essentially, the physical books are for those who prefer to have a 'real' book to read! Order books here.

No. You must register here for the online course. Once you register you'll have full access to all lesson videos, interactive scores and the online community platform.

The physical books are sold separately. All content from the physical books (and more) will be displayed on your screen so you only need to buy the books if you prefer paper to pixels! Click here to order books.

Yes! There are 61 lessons in The Ukulele Way, each with video lessons in both re-entrant and linear tunings for a total of 122 unique video lessons.

In general terms, Books 1 and 2 are at a Beginner level, Books 3 and 4 are Intermediate and Books 5 and 6 are Advanced.  More specifically, Book 1 starts with the basics of open strings and posture while Book 6 ends with challenging blues, jazz and classical fingerstyle arrangements.

C6 tuning (g, c, e, a) is the most popular ukulele tuning in the world today. Select this tuning if you're unsure which tuning to choose. D6 tuning (a, d, f#, b) is a brighter-sounding ukulele tuning. Once common throughout Canada, Europe, and US, it remains popular among classroom teachers and those wanting to play with other stringed instruments. The fact that it 'plays well with others' is perhaps the biggest asset of the D6 tuning: the 'easy' keys in D6 tuning (e.g. the keys of D, G, A and E) are the same as the 'easy' keys for violin, banjo, mandolin, bass and guitar.

Each book of The Ukulele Way contains two separate editions: a re-entrant (high-4th-string) edition AND a linear (low-4th-string) edition. That's right: you don't have to choose, you get both! What you'll find is that some arrangements lend themselves well to re-entrant tuning while others work best in linear tuning. We've even created separate video tutorials for re-entrant and linear tunings and your membership gives you acces to both (just look for the 'tuning toggle' on the video page of each lesson).

There are no lessons specifically for baritone ukulele in The Ukulele Way. However, baritone players can still benefit from the lessons on this site. There are three approaches for adapting the lesson materials:

1. Play your baritone as if it were tuned G-C-E-A. This means when you play along with James it will be out of key, but when you play by yourself it will sound right, only lower. This is the most straightforward method.
   
   
2. Use a capo to temporarily change your baritone into G-C-E-A tuning. Place the capo on the 5th fret. Then just pretend the capo is the "nut" and play all the shapes and patterns as shown. They will all sound in tune. (Once you've learned the song you can continue to play it with a capo or you can remove the capo and shift your left hand down five frets!) This approach gives you the best bang-for-your-buck, but doesn't really help you to learn notes and chords in baritone tuning.
   
   
3. The most challenging method is to transpose everything James does note-for-note onto the baritone. This will render the chords and notes correctly, but will change the shapes and patterns that James uses in the lessons. Recommended for advanced players only.

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No, but you can access free sample lessons for nearly every Uketropolis course. See the Uketropolis home page for links to all free lessons.

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