Learn Beautiful Holiday Instrumentals
In this course, you'll learn 5 classic holiday songs and develop your fingerstyle chord melody techniques. A chord melody allows you to create peaceful sounds on the ukulele by playing melodic lines over chords.
About Brian
Brian has been playing the ukulele for over 20 years, learning from ukulele masters in Hawai'i such as Jake Shimabukuro and Troy Fernandez. He studied jazz and music production at the Berklee College of Music. Brian is a music educator and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn 5 Holiday Songs
Develop your fingerstyle playing with five timeless melodies.
Printable Tabs
For each song, a high resolution PDF of the written music and ukulele tablature (aka TAB) is available. Students are encouraged to print out the TAB and follow along with the video instruction.
Curriculum Preview
In this course, you'll learn 5 songs of increasing difficulty: Silent Night, Silver Bells, Winter Wonderland, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Auld Lang Syne. With each song, the following topics are explained: Fingerpicking, Chord Inversions, Embellishments, and Jazz Chords.
Testimonials
"I love your kind, calm and methodical approach to teaching. Not to mention that your skills are really inspiring!" - Jo S.
"Brian is an amazing ukulele teacher!" - Judy B.
"I think Brian's teaching method is effective and engaging." - Jim G