Unlock Your Ukulele Solo Potential: Try This Today!

A simple, beginner-friendly ukulele lesson on taking an improvised solo. Focus your ideas with this powerful practice hack! Get a PDF of Scale Map & Improv Tips with your membership: www.patreon.com/posts/unlock-your-with-88434401
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► CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:25 Making Simple Phrases & Singing Them Back
2:22 Going Deeper
3:45 Copying Subtle Details
4:08 Silence is Your Friend!
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Stu Fuchs is a lifelong musician, award-winning ukulele artist and teacher of mindfulness through creative play. He has performed gypsy jazz guitar with symphony orchestras and facilitated holistic music clinics worldwide. Stu was artist-in-residence at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo NY and was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work bringing healing music to cancer patients and their families. He recorded and toured worldwide with renowned sacred chant artist Snatam Kaur, performing guitar on the Grammy nominated Best New Age album “Beloved”. A long-time practitioner of yoga and meditation, his focus is to teach people from all backgrounds to develop a music practice for joy, freedom, and self expression.
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[@UkuleleZen]

*Please leave a comment and let me know: * How is this practice tip working for you? Any Questions? Happy Jamming, Stu

[@agnelogomes9591]

😊❤🎉🎸Stu Sir. U r the Best music juggler... Super Duper Uke wizard... U r awesome & undisputed King of Uke. Keep 😊 🪕🎹🎼🎧🎶🎵👍🌹💐🙏

[@ukulelejoy8334]

You got first comment -- nice!

[@UkuleleZen]

Wow, thanks! I appreciate you joining in! All the best and keep on jamming 🎶😃🤙

[@IThinkImGonnaUke]

Thanks so much for this helpful tip. This really helped with my solos.

[@UkuleleZen]

Great to hear! I’m glad you found it helpful 😊🎶🤙 Keep on jamming

[@AUSomeOpossum]

Congrats on 100k! Been away for too long but can't wait to see what I missed out on.

[@Myaccisbanned]

You can see Jimi Hendrix doing this in "Hear my train a comin'" on the acoustic version

[@emilythesongbird2306]

Thanks so much Stu for this wonderful way to solo and sing! I have been enjoying my solo playing on the uke and love the idea of singing to the solo as a way to be more present. I'm grateful for your encouragement to dive into the meditative and healing power of music. Also I love the reminder to smile as we sing and play. Many Blessings! Emily the Songbird

[@UkuleleZen]

Thank you so much, Emily… I’m glad that you got something good out of this lesson! Have a good time, exploring this technique, and making your own music up on the spot 😊🎶🤙

[@annwilson3469]

Hi Stu: I love your lessons they are getting beautifully focused. The coordinated lessons around La Bamba are most beneficial. Thanks so much. It's such a benefit to be a patron. Your octogenarian patron Ann Marie, Waterloo, ON, CND

[@UkuleleZen]

Thanks very much Ann! Have fun following your improvisational journey 😀

[@anarlia22]

Thanks for all of your vids excellent

[@UkuleleZen]

I’m so glad you find them helpful 🎶🤙😊 Thanks for watching and joining in!

[@ukulelejoy8334]

Nice tutorial!! Thanks SO much

[@UkuleleZen]

You are so welcome! Gladit was helpful :-)

[@ukulelebutterfly]

Most helpful in my Ukulele Journey. Thank you again and again!✌️❤️ ~🦋

[@UkuleleZen]

Thanks so much Mary! ❤️🙏🎶

[@gyanissimo]

Hi Stu, you really are the best uke player, teacher, friend. I'm always behind with a delay because I've got so much going on at the moment. Try to catch up because everything is so relaxed with you. Thank you for everything. C'ya Gyani ❤

[@UkuleleZen]

Many thanks Gyani! I have fun, exploring your own improvisations… It’s a wonderful way to be with the instrument in a free way. Wishing you all the best! 🙏🎶🤙❤️

[@annanikia7949]

Wonderful idea!

[@UkuleleZen]

Thank you Anna! Have fun trying it out and seeing hwere it goes 😀

[@reckonimokie123]

Can you do a tutorial on Eric Clapton’s “Nobody Knows When You’re Down & Out” please 😊

[@UkuleleZen]

Yes! Would love to - it’s been on my list for a while…stay tuned 😊🎶🤙

[@JohannesHeld]

That's a cool tip. Because, if I'm able to sing it back, the melody has some "resingability" and isn't some note shredding. Also. I do use rests more consciously.

[@UkuleleZen]

Yes! That’s great to hear Johannes… awareness of our note choices, and the space for putting into our phrases really can make our playing much more musical. Have fun exploring this technique… Thank you so much for watching in joining in!

[@leslielindeman8908]

OK, Stu. I will give it a try. Sounds like a good idea, even though I may never actually improvise on my uke. Thanks for all you do forus.

[@UkuleleZen]

Go for it Leslie! Happy playing 😊🤙🎶

[@jjgrande1]

Stu, been wondering what brand Uke with G on headstock you use often?? I never come across it…thx! Oh and luv all your lessons, it’s helped me elevate for sure!

[@marymadalenem2351]

Love

[@UkuleleZen]

Love right back!

[@MyKlasika]

what purpose of the scale in the video?

[@UkuleleZen]

The purpose of the scale is to first of all, teach you an easy way to begin to make melodies, secondly, to develop some technique, and to have a clear framework to exercise this principle shown in the video… Thanks for watching wishing you all the best please subscribe for more videos like this one. 🎶😊

[@user-qf8sq6lr5t]

Van Damme ukulele teacher?!🤔

[@UkuleleZen]

Van Damme?

[@biblestudyforyou]

He was a muscular actor rather like your playing.