this is a short video in which i implore you to try "object writing" as a daily exercise to get your creativity floooooowing tomorrow: coffee pen paper, sounds dreamy, no?? youtube.com/shorts/umgzr... #songwriting #songwritingexercise #objectwriting

made a little chord melody arrangement for "please don't talk about me when i'm gone" written sometime in the 1930s if i remember correctly

here you go www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovy...

p.s. you can learn this arrangement inside ukuleleswingschool.com it's super fun there if i do say so myself!

a little chord melody arrangement for soprano ukulele

( i teach this inside ukuleleswingschool.com )💖

youtu.be/B-UqOOQuFd4?...

not to be dramtic or anything but

premature inner critiquing spells death

#songwriter #ukulele #jazz #swing #ukulelelesson #songwritingtips #songwritingworkshop #songwritinglessons

part two! #songwritingtips to help you get started

commit to a couple words
a little slip of a melody
maybe come back and figure out what the chords are later

youtube.com/shorts/Nt84e...

#songwriter #ukulele #jazz #swing #ukulelelesson #songwritingtips #songwritingworkshop #songwritinglessons

here is a micro-workshop on how good repetition is for your songwriting ;)

get yourself on the waitlist for my year-long group Songwriting Mentorship Program, so you can finally write your ukulele album <3 ukuleleswingschool.kit.com/493278894a

giving a livestream concert tomorrow and you're invited <3

Tuesday 14 October, 8pm CET (that's paris time)

jazz standards, original numbers, ukulele magic, goosebumps

streaming live on youtube here: www.youtube.com/live/OYoDqtB...

there will come soft rains, a poem that poet sara teasdale wrote about a hundred years ago

my friend meredith wilder and i wrote the music to it and while it feels like that happened a hundred years ago it was really only ten or so

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNd0...

last month, i taught songwriting at a ukulele camp ;)

here are the results of our hour or two together: a verse with some really evocative imagery and hauntingly beautiful music ...

a special kind of #ukulele #magic happens inside a #songwriting #workshop

youtube.com/shorts/hqG-K...

bei mir bist du schön in my cavernously empty souding new apartment youtu.be/srPm4Eo8klM?...

i have strong opinions about the first ukulele chord melody you should learn, i guess you could say ;)

#ukulele #jazz #lessons

www.youtube.com/shorts/S9e3b...

in 24 hours we will get started with my favorite arrangement to teach to those who are new to ukulele chord melody.

after that, we'll sing a hot jazz tune, where i'll be sharing my favorite ways to feel the swing and strum ex-cell-ent-ly!

register here:
www.ukuleleswingschool.com/popup

an original song about where a meet-cute in a cozy little bookshop could lead, for instance ...
youtu.be/Ts8gwAoMOqc

this is "when i get low i get high," a tune written by marion sunshine (oh what a name!) in 1936, performed on my 1950s plastic carnival ukulele (oh what a cutie)

youtube.com/shorts/MAx2V...

i'm a swing ukulele teacher, and this weekend i'm doing something i've never done before.

i'm offering some pop-up uke workshops this sunday, so that you can

- play your first ukulele chord melody arrangement
- swing, sing and strum with more confidence

register: ukuleleswingschool.com

this is a tiny version of "freight train," written by an 11 year old elizabeth cotten in 1912, on a tiny plastic 1950s carnival ukulele
youtube.com/shorts/fzu16...

hi, i'm sage, a singer and ukulele player. i'm in love with great american songbook adjacent tunes. ☀️ here's an example of what i do youtube.com/shorts/pfSfD...