Abe's Ukulele Podcast

I’m back with another episode about practice and other ways to improve as a musician!

Here is the Great ukulele songs playlist on Spotify.

Bandcamp!

Oddisee is a Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist. You can hear his music here.

The Lone Bellow isn’t exactly country, but alt-country or Brooklyn country.

Allen Stone is definitely an artist to check out.

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts are here. There’s also a video and audio podcast version.

The Rite of Spring is an essential piece of classical music to know.

I also talk about getting stuck in a rut with your own music practice. It’s important to take a break when you need and not place too much stress on yourself about your progress.

Here‘s a pic the Fmaj7 voicing that I like. As you can see, it’s a tough one.

One thing I didn’t mention in the podcast is the power of a teacher. Often if you’re really stuck, get a teacher or just a better player to spend some time with you watching and listening to you play. Many times they’ll be able to pick up one or two things you could change with your playing to make it easier.

When looking at other players, use them as inspiration and learning, not as a measuring stick.

The Ooktown podcast is a must-listen! (But seriously you probably already know about it)

Thank you so much to everyone for listening and sharing the podcast. I’d love to hear what you think! Let me know about your own ukulele journey and what you’re working on.

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You can check out my music and all other projects I’m working on at ukuleleabe.com

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This month I was honored with a chance to interview Jim Beloff.

You can find his music, books, and just plain awesome website for all things ukulele at Flea Market Music.

Here are a few of the artists that were mentioned. We encourage you to check them out!

Uke Mag has a great article on Lyle Ritz here. His album “How About Uke” is on Spotify.

Jim Beloff’s recent album can also be heard on Spotify.

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s album “Facing Future” has lots of incredible songs, including the most famous one Jim mentioned.

You can also hear Herb Ohta’s music on Spotify. You can also see a live recording on Youtube here, although there’s some noise and he starts playing near 40% into the video.

Roy Smeck can be seen here on Youtube. There’s also Joel Eckhaus and Marcy Marxer on Youtube.

Brittni Paiva did a great cover on HiSessions. It’s on Youtube.

Sara Maisel and Craig Chee do some lovely duets. Here’s one of my favorites on YouTube.

James Hill and Jake Shimabukuro…. well I trust you know about these guys if you’re listening to this podcast.

In case you need another instrument to buy here’s the Pono instrument I mentioned being demonstrated in two tunings.

Can you tell I like Spotify? Should I include other links? Let me know!

Great ukulele songs is a Spotify playlist I’m working on. It’ll be regularly updated to included all the greatest songs that I think show off the ukulele’s potential. Be sure to follow it if you can’t get enough uke, but save any songs you love since I can’t promise how long they’ll be on there!

Thanks for listening and aloha!

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Hey everyone!

It’s been a long time, but I’m back. This time I’m talking about practice, teaching, great new ukes, and some ideas for musicians to check out.

Here‘s an article/video about effective practice by NPR and TED-Ed.

The metronome app I use when I practice is Tempo. The Ukulele App is another nice app for practice/learning ukulele. Yousician is another app for learning uke. It also teaches piano, guitar, and bass. There are so many resources out there for learning!

What are your favorites?

Ukulele Fretboard Roadmaps is a book that helps makes sense of knowing the entire fretboard and how to play scales, chords, and melodies everywhere on the fretboard.

Ledward Kaapana and Honoka and Azita are two artists I think you should check out if you haven’t.

Ledward played a concert in July that you can see here. He’s also on Spotify here.

A great resource for hearing ukuleles if you can’t actually play them (great for buying too!) is The Ukulele Site. Another great place to hear ukes and read reviews on them as well is Got a Ukulele.

The GHS baritone-tuned Tenor strings can be found here. Living Water Strings can be found here. There’s many more other special sets than I mentioned on the podcast.

Next month I’ll sit down with the great Jim Beloff to talk about ukulele and orchestras.

Aloha!

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Back in July I got a chance to sit down with James Hill and talk to him about the ukulele.

We talked about teaching our own kids the uke, the future of the ukulele, and how to get started as an ukulele teacher.

You can check out James Hill at

You can learn more about me, including my recent studio album at ukuleleabe.com

Thanks everyone for listening! Let me know what you think and please keep in mind this is a work in progress.

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Here’s the first episode of my ukulele podcast!

It’s mostly just me rambling on about the ukulele. I introduce myself and cover a few topics from new instruments and just starting out as an ukulele teacher.

My goal with this project is to learn more about the ukulele and share that knowledge with you. Of course that means having lot of fun.

As I’ve never done this before and I’ll be learning as I go, it might be a little rough, so I ask for some patience as I perfect my techniques.

I’m really excited to get this started, so check it out and let me know what you think!

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