Here's an exercise I FORGOT about from my college guitar days, applied to ʻukulele. Thanks to @Jake Galambos for reminding me! For all my private lesson peeps, please take a look at this and USE it! It literally helps everything with your fretting hand. @Mark Lawrence @Miri L @Joelle Gomez @Rutendo Mazengura @Adam Knight @Dawn Alvan @Lacie Forde @Teddie Vee

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Alright, I did a thing! The Crash Course is now formatted correctly, and you can now use the timestamps! If you don't have much time to sit through it, use those timestamps to navigate to the parts you want/need, past my ramblings. Now that I have it downloaded, I will edit and cut the video to make it look like an actual course for you all. Enjoy! Here's the full link: https://www.skool.com/ukulele-nerds-5804/classroom/7615518f?md=bccf9442a3de46e7ad4eb1ad2ac5cf22

Here’s the re-film of the Crash Course! @Jack Robinson aka Charlie West jumped in at one point to say hi 😂 thanks for that braddah 🤙 I’ll cut this video up and repost it by section for you all in the course. I went into HEAVY detail and took WAYYY longer than usual so I could hit you with as much value as possible. Any feedback is much appreciated! Timestamps: 0:00 Late Start + Apology / Getting Set Up 3:16 Beginner Crash Course Intro (the ‘cuttable’ intro) 4:22 Lesson Roadmap: What We’ll Cover Today 5:00 Grabbing the Other Ukulele 6:05 Ukulele Anatomy 101 (Head/Neck/Body) 13:32 Surprise Guest: Jack Pops In (Skool / insomnia tangent) 20:14 Back to the Lesson: Soundhole ‘Puka’ + Anatomy Recap 21:55 How to Hold the Ukulele (righty/lefty, strap/no strap) 32:45 Strumming Fundamentals (flick + swish, relaxed wrist) 37:32 Tuning + String Names + Counting Strings 39:30 Chord 1: C (finger numbering + chord chart starts) 42:42 Chord 2: A minor + C ↔ Am Switching Drill 49:58 Chord 3: F + Am ↔ F and C ↔ F Drills (plus ‘roll’ strum) 57:42 Chord 4: G7 + Transitions (G7↔F, G7↔C, etc.) 1:01:42 Practice Strategy: Speed Up / ‘Panic Mode’ Drill 1:13:17 Swing Strum Pattern (one-a two-a…) 1:16:23 Song Time: ‘Three Little Birds’ (C–F–G7) 1:18:14 Song Time: ‘Surf’ (C-Am-F-G7) 1:20:28 Wrap-up + Posting/Modules + Outro (name redo + aloha)

Try this and tell me if it helps: Find ways to have your ʻukulele with you as much as possible. Play it when you feel inspired to do so, and/or schedule playtimes throughout your day at work/school/your basement. Here's how this works: One of ʻukulele's main appealing traits for most people has been its portability--use it to your advantage! As a kid, I was known as the ʻukulele guy. As I got older, I'd find more and more ways to always have at least my ʻukulele, or even my guitar, on me all day every day. Of course I didn't always get to do this. Life happens, and projects don't get done while you're jamming the latest country-turned-reggae hit from Maoli. But when you have your ʻukulele with you all day, and it's easy to access, you get to play it more. Sure, you can practice, but playing and practice both accomplish something critical--you get a better FEEL for the ʻukulele. It becomes more intuitive, like an extension of your body. Something you feel naked without, but whole when you're reunited. You can see a random video online or another ʻukulele player doing something you can't/don't do yet, and you can understand and breakdown what's happening without having to look it up!