Aloha Friends! I hope you enjoy this lesson on learning to transpose. I previously did a video explaining this process, but now that I have the set up to use the iPad, I felt it needed an update, perhaps a little clearer if nothing else.

Aloha Friends! I know this might be like beating a dead horse, but it surprises me how many people don’t practice their scales. I have found that it’s usually not for lack of wanting to, but not knowing where to start. Here’s that starting point for you. Have at…

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Aloha Friends! Here’s a beginner friendly lesson of a Hank Williams Classic. Hey Good Lookin’ is one of those tunes that get stuck in your head, which makes it ideal for the advancing beginner to learn. Here, we look at the basic way to play the song, but also add a few ideas to “dress it up” so ...

Aloha Friends! Here’s a lesson that can teach us how to convert the information from sheet music to a useable chord melody. We’re using the song Edelweiss from the Sound of Music as our example. It’s kind of a long video, and sort of assumes that you’ve either been following our lessons for a whi...

Aloha Friends! Been a while since we ventured into the "Advanced" section. Here's a lesson on my approach to scales and melody mapping in general. The exercises are actually pretty simple, but as with most advanced lessons, the pickle is in the concept. You might want to brush up on the scale con...

Aloha Friends! This week we explore the concept of using our Major Scale to come up with some of those "Mayfield" inspired R&B licks. The song we're using as our backdrop is Tupelo Honey from Van Morrison. Keep in mind, however that the point is not to teach you the song, but to explore using the...

Ok Guys, this one is a little different. You're going to need to know a few things for this one to take. We're going to go over "Stocking your Vault" of Ukulele licks. Most of us are "really" improvising a minuscule percent of the time. The rest of the time, we're drawing from things that we've p...

Here's a fun one folks! Last time we talked about Rhythmic Phrasing, but I had folks emailing me that they didn't know what notes to play. This week we go over the "number pictures" that we can use as a template for learning note selection. We're calling this one "Intermediate" so you might want ...

Aloha Folks! Here is the 3rd and Final installment of Mokupuni Nui. Here we go over improvising using our positional Shapes. Keep in mind, that the actual execution of the system is not the "Advanced" part, but conceptualizing it and making it become second nature is ... Hope you enjoyed this lit...

Aloha Friends! It's been a while. I took a break over the Holidays, but we're back to our regularly scheduled program! Here we go over a Chord/Melody lesson for the song, After You've Gone. I'm calling this one an intermediate lesson because of the speed at which the lesson moves as well as some ...