The Ukulele Brain Podcast

By: Douglas Reynolds
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  • Note: On hiatus until after our Reno Ukulele Festival. See you in October! (Although I might sneak one in over the summer.) Improve your playing skills and shorten your learning curves by exploring the cerebral side of your ukulele journey. “The Ukulele Brain” delves into the processes your brain uses to learn tasks. By combining brain-training exercises with insight from interviews with uke artists, you’ll learn to cooperate with your Ukulele Brain!
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Episodes
  • Episode 4: Dani Joy & Perry Stauffer

    Episode 4: Dani Joy & Perry Stauffer
    May 2 2021

    In this episode, we discuss the uBass family of instruments and techniques for playing them, chord variations, and Dani Joy's online ukulele academy. The episode begins with another brain training exercise for newbies, connecting the EF and BC notes that we covered in episode 3.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 3: Lil Rev, Right Hand Techniques, Neck Muting, and a little bit of the Blues!

    Episode 3: Lil Rev, Right Hand Techniques, Neck Muting, and a little bit of the Blues!
    Apr 16 2021

    Rev and I discuss traditional American songs and muted strumming styles. There's much to explore with this master multi-instrumentalist. Plus more brain-training exercises; barre chords for newbies and the first steps for ingraining the notes of the neck into your ukulele brain!
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    51 mins
  • Episode 2: Victoria Vox, Jack Maher, and Percussive Strumming Brain Training

    Episode 2: Victoria Vox, Jack Maher, and Percussive Strumming Brain Training
    Mar 28 2021

    Singer-Songwriter Victoria Vox and husband/musical partner Jack Maher discuss their thoughts on songwriting, percussive strumming, their time together as songwriting majors at Berklee College of Music, and their friendship with fellow-student-turned-guitar-superstar John Mayer. They also address a listener's question about soloing on the ukulele. The episode begins with a REVISED Percussive Strumming Brain-Training exercise for newer players. (I left a big chunk of it out the first time I posted!)
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    1 hr and 7 mins

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