Book 1 of The Ukulele Way starts with an introduction to essential chords, strums, picking and scales. However, it's best if you have some familiarity with the basics before you begin. If you're a beginner, we strongly recommend starting with our $1 absolute-beginner course Ready, Steady, UKULELE!

If you're already a confident beginner, we recommend the 10-lesson BOOSTER UKE series which teaches the magic of Chord Twins. BOOSTER UKE is one of our most popular courses, a great way for beginners and intermediates to gain confidence before embarking on their journey through The Ukulele Way.

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 performance.

The Ukulele Way, on the other hand, is designed for individual players to master the art of solo ukulele. It's a step-by-step for learning to play all the parts (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.

Note: books are optional and are sold separately.

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. 

See for yourself: click on the FREE LESSONS button above to test-drive 3 lessons from The Ukulele Way!

Looking for baritone resources? Check out Baritone Ukulele Jazz!

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.