There is a site run by "gambaole" called "Ukulele Kingdom" that offers free online ukulele lessons in Japanese. It has about 40 hints or lessons presently. These are arranged from introductory to pro-level. Most deal with a particular technique or trick eg., hammering or sweep picking. Some offer more general information, such as the "right way to buy music scores". It offers also different fingering exercises to limber up those stiff joints. There is a heavy emphasis on classical music, with Bach, Mozart, and Chopin putting in appearances, with other styles like swing popping up at various intervals.
All of the examples are accompanied by tabs rather than normal musical notations, easing access for those without notational knowledge or the right software to read notations.
"Right, well, that is nice, but, why should I bother if it is in Japanese?" peeps the cynical voice of the solitary reader of this blog.....
As an experiment, I ran the contents through an online translation software. As can be expected, the translation was horrid indeed. But, the point is learning how to do something. The main ideas of the lessons I mashed through the software were visible in the murk of garbled verbage. Accordingly, the logic is that if one wants to save a little dough, rather than buying a techniques book, one could presumably work one’s way through these lessons mangled by some translation software and still come out ahead. Taking the lesson on one at a time will probably be worthwhile, assuming the learner is not more advanced than the lessons.
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