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Free Online Ukulele Lessons From Tuning, Chord Progressions to Advanced Strum Techniques.


Pahuki'i - New Online Community Made For Hawaii Opens It's Site

 Honolulu - A new online social community site called Pahuki'i (Hawaiian for Picture Box) has just opened and is already filling up with members and media.

The site features a mash-up of YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook and Xanga with everything from customizable profile and privacy features to embedding and uploading videos and music.

The site's uploading features strong encoding and offers a better-than-YouTube quality experience.  Pahuki'i is also closely monitored to keep the Aloha of the site as well as the mission in tack; built for Hawaii.

Take a look around on www.pahukii.com

How To Tune and Hold Your Ukulele

Aaron shows you the correct tuning of the Ukulele as well as he techniques for holding the Ukulele.

Yes, there are a few ways to tune the Ukulele but this is the most used tuning.  In the future Aaron will be talking about the other tunings and the many ways that you can take advantage of them.

 

 
How To Place Your Left Hand On The Ukulele

In This Ukulele Lessons, Aaron shows you the best way to position your left hand. 

Most beginners of the Ukulele will "buzz' their strings because of reasons such as not enough pressure or wrong finger placement on the fret.

 

 
Ukulele Strumming - The Basics

In this free Ukulele lesson, Aaron shows you a very basic strum for you to use while learning how to play. Also Aaron helps out with rhythm with a very cool method.

Take your time with this and make sure you're doing it right.  At the beginning it's not about speed but about correct techniques.  Once you feel comfortable then it's on to the next video.

 
The Seven Major Chords On The Ukulele

Now that you feel comfortable with the ukulele lessons that have learned form the above videos, it's time to learn some chords.

In this free ukulele lesson, Aaron shows you the 7 basic major chords A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.

 
Ukulele Lesson - The Basic Minor Chords

This Ukulele lesson Aaron shows you the minor chords of the same chords as above A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

After you feel good about the chords from this and the last video it's time to go on to fun chord progressions and songs.

 
Fun Ukulele Chord Progression!

Now it's time to really start having some fun.  In this online ukulele lesson Aaron shows you one of the most used chord progressions that you can use in just about any style of music writing.

Watch Aaron carefully and take your time with it.  Once you get these ukulele chords down you're on your way to writing your own songs.

 
The Traditional Hawaiian Vamp On the Ukulele

For those of you who are addicted to the ukulele styling of Hawaii, Aaron shows you in this ukulele lesson the traditional vamp or turn around used in most of the Hawaiian music.

 
Advanced Ukulele Lesson - Chucking

In most cases when your playing the ukulele it's by yourself or with a friend.  These advanced strumming techniques that Aaron is going to show you will help you add rhythm to your playing.