Ultimate Ukulele Beginners Guide

If you're thinking about playing or learning more about the ukulele then this post is for you!

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Schools are finding that a ukulele program is an extraordinary way to get students started in playing an instrument and learning about music.

Here you'll find a collection of links to articles for beginners.

The ukulele is a great gateway into the wonderful world of music

With the ukulele strumming, chords and basic music theory can easily be learned, while note reading and an understanding of basic music notation can be studied as well.

It's the perfect starter instrument!  

Here are are some articles for those thinking about playing the uke:

• Why play Uke? - 7 reasons to choose the uke as your first instrument.
• Everyone should play the Uke - George Harrison explains why everyone should play the ukulele!
• Do you play guitar?  - Great ukulele news for guitarists! You'll be able to play the uke instantly -  tunings the same - the chords just have different names.

So, if I want to get started, what kind of uke do I buy?

You've decided to play the uke!

There are lot's choices out there for a new ukulele, they are all fairly similar and the sound quality is close.

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There are some ukes that represent the best value and consistency. They are also the most recommended by teachers and professionals...

Learn about some of the most popular ukes and see my recommendations:

• Kala Beginner Ukulele Review and Recommendations - Learn more about the most popular starter ukes for beginners.
• Best Beginner Ukes - Good, Better, Best  - Here are the ukes I recommend.

What size ukulele do I get? Learn about ukulele sizes and learn the parts of the uke 

If  you've looked at ukuleles, I bet you noticed there are different sizes.

It's likely you were wondering - like all beginners do - what size to I get?

I help you with that here and teach you the parts of the uke that you'll need to know to understand basic lessons:

• All about Ukulele Sizes  - What size do I get? What's the difference.
• Why Do I Recommend Tenors for Beginners? - Lean the advantages of starting out on a tenor uke.
• Anatomy of the uke - Learn the parts of the ukulele  - you'll need to know them to understand basic ukulele lessons.

Care and Feeding, what do you need to go with the new uke, and what strings to use...

Now that you've got your new uke -  you'll need to know how to take care of it and you may want to know what cool stuff you'll need to go with that new uke:

• Care and Feeding of the Ukulele! - Changing strings, fretboard care, cleaning and more.
• What Strings Should I Get? - Learn all about the different materials used for ukulele strings and how they sound so you can make an informed choice when you get a new set of strings.
• What accessories do I need? - Here's the 'must have' stuff.
• More Cool Stuff you Might Want - You'll find more cool stuff here and some great gift Ideas for that ukulele Played on your Christmas list!

Now it's time to tune and learn to hold your new uke

Tuning your new ukulele an be frustrating. The new strings may not hold a tuning at first so here are some tips and tricks to help you keep it in tune and prevent you from smashing it to pieces out of frustration...

• Tuning tips and tricks - 3 Tricks to tune your uke and keep it in tune.
• 3 Secrets - Learn and play faster with these tricks.
• Are you Holding the Uke Wrong? - Avoid these mistakes.
• 3 More Tricks to Help You hold the Uke - 3 more tricks to help you hold the uke - it's a balancing act!
• DON'T SQUEEZE the JUICE out of your UKE! - Avoid these three mistakes an you'll sound better!

Let's get to strumming

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All you need to get started strumming are a few simple strums that can be used for almost any song and you'll be ready for that uke club -  or you could get the band started up and book some shows!

You'll find some neat tricks and chord progressions here too:

• START PLAYING INSTANTLY - GRAB MY FREE eBOOK  to get rolling - Learn basics, sizes, simple music chart reading, chords and strums...
• Top 5 Strums (2 VIDEOS) - Here are the 'must know' strums - you'll be fine if you just know these!
• Easy Way to Play the ISLAND STRUM (SHORT VIDEO) - Here's the easy way to play the Island strum - cool trick.
• Easy Reggae Strum - Great for Beginners - FUN and EASY - Great for beginners - also learn the SKA and ROCK STEADY strums here too...
• Johnny Cash Card Trick - You'll always want to keep a playing card in your uke case!
• 12 Bar Blues (2 VIDEOS) - Learn these fun, easy 12 bar blues progressions.
• Is This The Most Beautiful Chord Progression?? - It could be - you've heard it.
• STUM LIKE A PRO - Instantly make your strums sound better and more professional -  it's easy...

Chord Tricks

I have some amazing chord tricks on the website - here they are:

• 5 HARDEST CHORDS MADE EASY (7 VIDEOS) - Here we simplify the 5 hardest chords with tricks from my "Ukulele Chord Tricks: Simplify Any Chord" book.
• The Real Easy E chord (VIDEO) - this is it the 'real' easy E.
• Easy Way to Play the D Chord (VIDEO) - Awesome D chord trick - makes playing in the key of D easier!
• Better Barre Chords in 7 Days (VIDEO) - Learn the building blocks of barre chords and some simple exercises.
• Faster Chord Changes in 7 days - 5 VIDEO SERIES with PDF! - Learn little known secrets for fast chord changes.

Getting into Fingerstyle and Chord Melody

Find all my fingerstyle and chord melody stuff here:

• FINGERSTYLE and CHORD MELODY SOLOS

More Chord Stuff

Here's some more chord stuff, a lot of it more advanced:

• Chord Tips and Tricks - Find all the chord stuff on the website here.
• FREE Chord Book - Learn all the most popular chords all the way up the neck.
• Major and Minor Scales Harmonized with chords - You'll find Scales harmonized with regular chords and 7th chords here.

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In the free eBook you will learn:

• A little bit about ukulele sizes 
• A number of easy ways to tune the ukulele 
• How to hold the ukulele
• How to strum the ukulele, a basic strum you will be able to play instantly
• A little bit about how music is written
• How to strum and count in a few basic time signatures
• A few chords, how to make them and some tricks to playing them cleanly and clearly
• And finally you'll play a few songs

Find out for yourself how fun and easy it is to play ukulele using the play ukulele NOW method!

eBook updated 10/05/2016

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