Several right and left hand skills to enhance the songs you already know and to help add some color to your playing. Skills include; a tremolo strum (often used by mandolin players), natural harmonics on the ukulele, palm muting, fretting hand muting tricks, and the power of thumb strumming / playing.
Let Russ help you unlock the rest of your fretboard. No, pirates don't live there so don't be scared! With some simple explanation, Russ will show you how you can use the tools you already know from the first four frets and extrapolate it to the rest of your instrument. You paid for the whole fretboard, use it! This also includes a crash course in basic music theory which you can use with any instrument, but will help unlock your ukulele with basic music math!
The Blues aren’t just for guitars and piano. Ukuleles can have the blues as well. Russ explains simple 1-4-5 blues progressions in a couple of keys and also gives you some licks and turnarounds to give you that full bluesy sound. You'll be on your way to singing your troubles away in no time!
Russ explains the math behind major chords and shows you how to extrapolate that concept for C Major to the whole fretboard of the ukulele. Little did you know that there are so many different C Major chords that are all shapes you already are familiar with.