Daily Ukulele: Pineapple Pete's Uke School

[newredshoes]

I found UkeSchool.com when I was looking for help with fingerpicking, and I definitely found it -- their drills are really straightforward and useful. But the rest of the lessons are equally clear and useful, if you find learning from text, charts and images helpful. To top it off (er, literally), there's a tuner embedded in the header material, so you'll never have to search around for your GCEA. Best of all -- yes indeed! -- it's all free.

Anyone else have any online lessons/classes/schools you enjoy?

Comments

[saphyria]

Pineapple Pete's Ukulele School has really helped me with my strumming, the weakest part of my playing. Keeping the rhythm is harder than I expected it to be!

[newredshoes]

There was a question about that recently! I'm also not tops at strumming (or changing chords, to be completely honest) -- which links did you find most helpful?

[saphyria]

The lessons at the Uke School kind of explain it well. That keeping a good strumming rhythm is about rewiring your brain so that you don't have to think about it. Endless repetition at different speeds helped me a lot, not even playing a song, but playing easy chord changes so I could focus my attention on keeping the strumming rhythm steady. And then I could try switching from one rhythm to another, and another, careful to keep them steady. It's like learning any other instrument, really. Repetition and concentration until things become second nature.