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LIVE LESSON: Saint Anne's Reel - Fiddle tunes for ukulele
In this fun live lesson we’re going to work out a song by ear together live. You’ll learn all about chord personalities, all the...
Matt Stead
Apr 171 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Work out a song by ear - LIVE!
In this fun live lesson we’re going to work out a song by ear together live. You’ll learn all about chord personalities, all the...
Matt Stead
Apr 41 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Nashville numbers and how Matt’s Kanikapila works
In this epic, fun and informative lesson I’ll talk through a lot of the background theory needed to play by ear and take part in...
Matt Stead
Mar 211 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Night and Day - Jazz chords and comping
It'll be a bit longer until my next Live Lesson as I'm away teaching on the cruise for the next couple of weeks. It'll be worth the wait...
Matt Stead
Feb 201 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Nashville numbers and how Matt’s Kanikapila works
In this epic, fun and informative lesson I’ll talk through a lot of the background theory needed to play by ear and take part in...
Matt Stead
Feb 201 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Live Q&A with Matt - Let’s Talk Learning
Do you sometimes lack motivation or wonder how much to practice uke? Have you hit a plateau and want to work our where to go next? As...
Matt Stead
Feb 71 min read
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LIVE LESSON: 12th Street Rag - Mastering the split strum
For this lesson we’re going to concentrate on a specific and very fun technique; the split strum. Used by all kinds of artists from...
Matt Stead
Jan 241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Fiddle Tunes - Red Haired Boy
Everyone seemed to really enjoy learning the fiddle tune at the last Live Lesson so I thought we should do another! This time we’ll be...
Matt Stead
Jan 91 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Fiddle Tunes - The Blackest Crow
For the first ukulele live lesson of the year I’m going to teach you a really hauntingly beautiful fiddle tune ballad The Blackest Crow....
Matt Stead
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Christmas Special! Away In A Manger
For this year’s Christmas special I’m going to teach you a beautiful yet simple fingerstyle chord melody version of Away In A Manger....
Matt Stead
Dec 5, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Live ukulele Q&A with Matt - Let’s talk ukes!
We’re going to do something a little different for our next live lesson with a live Q&A and show and tell of my personal collection....
Matt Stead
Nov 22, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Moveable open chords - Green Day Good Riddance
In this lesson we’ll take a look at Green Day’s fabulous acoustic hit Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). I’ll show you the basics and...
Matt Stead
Nov 8, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Isa Lei - Double stops and chord melody
In this lesson we’ll have a look at double stops, a really common way of adding two part harmony to pieces of music. We’ll learn a...
Matt Stead
Oct 24, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Penny Lane by The Beatles - Song analysis
In this lesson we’ll take a look at The Beatles fabulous Penny Lane. We’ll analyse what McCartney was doing with the clever key changes...
Matt Stead
Oct 10, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: God Only Knows - key changes and lush chords!
In this lesson I’ll teach you the Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, which I believe to be the most beautiful and harmonically...
Matt Stead
Sep 26, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Ei Nei, Ernest Ka'aai - Fingerstyle chord melody
In this lesson I teach you a simple but beautiful Hawaiian tune written by the fabulous Ernest Ka'aai; one of the most prolific and...
Matt Stead
Sep 13, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Hanalei Moon - Fingerstyle chord melody
In this lesson I teach you the beautiful Hanalei Moon. The song was written by Bob Nelson and made famous by Dennis Pavao. We’ll learn...
Matt Stead
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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I'm back!!
Thanks for all your patience with me whilst we had our summer break so I could be on official festival duty. A massive thank you to...
Matt Stead
Aug 7, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Showboating skills - Crazy G!
By popular demand I’m bringing back my showboating workshop for the next live lesson. This one is heaps of fun. I’ll teach you loads of...
Matt Stead
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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LIVE LESSON: Clawhammer Ukulele - Wildwood Flower
For my next live lesson we’ll take another look at Clawhammer Ukulele. I’ll go over basic clawhammer techniques, show you how to take a...
Matt Stead
Jun 27, 20241 min read
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