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I’ve been creating The Ukulele Technique Compendium. Hope you like it! ukuleletechnique.online
get out your ukulele and strum "yearning just for you" along with me :)
youtu.be/H_Pgk7irV50
#ukulele #minilesson #strumalong #ukulelelesson #swing
here's a podcast episode that morphs into a full-on songwriting workshop at the 16 minute mark. are you up for some songwriting homework? youtu.be/A8xO9cHCbww
i was inspired to write a 2015 style blog post with my suggestions of 5 v. easy things you can do like right now to be playing more ukulele and having more funnnnn
www.ukuleleswingschool.com/2025/12/09/f...
#ukulele #ukulelelesson #strumalong #goldenerajazz #greatamericansongbook #music
strum along with me??
grab your soprano and/or baritone ukulele and let's play "tonight you belong to me," written by Billy Rose and Lee David in 1926
if you end up strumming along, will you please tell me how it went? 💖
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDnu...
dang! was not expecting this plot twist! i will stay tuned xx
have you done it? no pressure just curious 😇
i'm not sure how many hours i've logged toward understanding what Lyle Ritz was doing in his ukulele playing in that Bernadette Peters / Steve Martin scene in that one movie but I've gotten as close as I can to making an arrangement that normal people can also play ;)
youtube.com/shorts/pP0hZ...
you can learn this arrangement inside the Swing Ukulele Academy, details here: www.ukuleleswingschool.com
or PM me <3
tonight you belong to me, a tune from 1926 made perfect on the ukulele sometime after 1956 (according to my copious research--a podcast episode on the topic is coming soon)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw03...
linky link where you can register for class: www.ukuleleswingschool.com/popup/
tomorrow! sunday, 6pm CET ✨ pop up workshop!
theme: a very fun uke arrangement for #tonightyoubelongtome
attn: we do fun tunes like this all the time in the Swing Ukulele Academy 💖
youtube.com/shorts/kFUb3...
#ukulele #jazz #swing #ukulelelesson #goldenjazzera #swinguke #greatamericansongbook
this is a short video in which i implore you to try "object writing" as a daily exercise to get your creativity floooooowing tomorrow: coffee pen paper, sounds dreamy, no?? youtube.com/shorts/umgzr... #songwriting #songwritingexercise #objectwriting
lovely!! <3
made a little chord melody arrangement for "please don't talk about me when i'm gone" written sometime in the 1930s if i remember correctly
here you go www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovy...
p.s. you can learn this arrangement inside ukuleleswingschool.com it's super fun there if i do say so myself!
a little chord melody arrangement for soprano ukulele
( i teach this inside ukuleleswingschool.com )💖
youtu.be/B-UqOOQuFd4?...
not to be dramtic or anything but
premature inner critiquing spells death
#songwriter #ukulele #jazz #swing #ukulelelesson #songwritingtips #songwritingworkshop #songwritinglessons
oh btw get on the waitlist and be the first to know when doors open for my songwriting mentorship program, so you can finally write your ukulele album 🥲💖 ukuleleswingschool.kit.com/493278894a
part two! #songwritingtips to help you get started
commit to a couple words
a little slip of a melody
maybe come back and figure out what the chords are later
youtube.com/shorts/Nt84e...
#songwriter #ukulele #jazz #swing #ukulelelesson #songwritingtips #songwritingworkshop #songwritinglessons
here is a micro-workshop on how good repetition is for your songwriting ;)
get yourself on the waitlist for my year-long group Songwriting Mentorship Program, so you can finally write your ukulele album <3 ukuleleswingschool.kit.com/493278894a
giving a livestream concert tomorrow and you're invited <3
Tuesday 14 October, 8pm CET (that's paris time)
jazz standards, original numbers, ukulele magic, goosebumps
streaming live on youtube here: www.youtube.com/live/OYoDqtB...
there will come soft rains, a poem that poet sara teasdale wrote about a hundred years ago
my friend meredith wilder and i wrote the music to it and while it feels like that happened a hundred years ago it was really only ten or so
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNd0...
last month, i taught songwriting at a ukulele camp ;)
here are the results of our hour or two together: a verse with some really evocative imagery and hauntingly beautiful music ...
a special kind of #ukulele #magic happens inside a #songwriting #workshop
youtube.com/shorts/hqG-K...
bei mir bist du schön in my cavernously empty souding new apartment youtu.be/srPm4Eo8klM?...
we're counting on you for this one, bb
thanks for sharing this, your voice is lovely! would love to see your not smiling face sometime ;)
dooooooo it
