Ukulele for Guitar Players

Why U4GP.com?

UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com

It's surprising how difficult it is to track content from individual creators on YouTube. Finding related videos or older material is often a case of hit and miss.

As a creator, I see it from the other side too. Some of my most engaged followers have been unaware that new content existed, sometimes until years later.

UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com aims to address this. From here content can be explored without losing context or sequencing. Viewers get seamless access to material on YouTube, Vimeo and Patreon.

So who is this site for?

For years I was an avid guitarist, followed by more years without touching a guitar at all. Then by sheer chance I came across the ukulele. I'd never realised it was something I could pick up, start playing and really enjoy.

At first I had the basic skills but little else. Motivation wasn't the issue, just direction. That’s where my ukulele journey began.

Short answer: Someone like me — perhaps someone like you.

If this sounds familiar, you’re probably in the right place.

Discovering Ukulele

My first encounter with a ukulele was on a street corner in Dublin in 2017. I was walking down Dame Street. A student was strumming a ukulele while chatting to friends. As I passed, I spotted a D chord and asked him, "How is that tuned?"

His response: "Think of it as a 4-string guitar at capo 5, with the 4th string tuned one octave higher".

A few months later, again in Dublin, I wandered into this tiny olde-worlde music store. I told the owner I was looking for a ukulele and I wanted to play it like a guitar. She suggested a tenor uke. This particular one had a wound C string and she recommended that we add a Low G to get the full effect.

I bought it and it's still the only ukulele I own. It appears in all of my videos.

How did the U4GP Playing Method come about?

From the outset, I had one simple thing in mind: could I play along with the music I loved and make it sound real — The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, AC/DC and others.

With a guitar background and no exposure to conventional Uke playing, I started to experiment. I tried different hand shapes for strumming and picking, explored ways to mute strings, and worked through chord variations that aren’t always practical on a guitar.

Over 2-3 years, these ideas gradually accumulated. Looking back at videos I’d recorded during that time, a consistent playing style had emerged. I began referring to it as Ukulele for Guitar Players, or simply the U4GP Playing Method.

Despite the name, you don’t need to be an ex guitar player to use it. It's a different approach to playing Ukulele, not about where you are now or where you've come from.

How the site works

UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com is a central hub for accessing learning material for a given song.

This site is the starting point for navigation. Browse the Songbook, select a song and land on a dedicated Song Page. All related learning material is presented in one place.

Here you can branch out to Demo's, Lyric Sheets, Backing Tracks, and Lessons hosted on YouTube or Patreon. Switching between platforms is seamless. Return to the Song Page to move on to the next item.

Everything remains connected. Context is retained. It's easy to focus on what you want to work on next, irrespective of where you are, where you've been or where the material is hosted.

More detail?

Ever Expanding and Evolving

UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com launches with a Songbook of over 60 songs.

Every song already comes with a comprehensive Lyric/Chord Sheet. Many songs also have playing demos, backing tracks and song-specific tutorials.

Behind the scenes, arrangements and backing tracks have been prepared for the entire collection, allowing new material to be released steadily as it’s recorded and edited over time.

Going forward, the focus is on:

• Completing demos and backing tracks across the full Songbook

• Publishing technique tutorials that apply across multiple songs while adding new songs over time

• Responding to ideas and suggestions from the community

The catalogue will grow organically. There’ll always be something new to explore, whether you’re revisiting a familiar song or discovering something you haven’t played before.

The Journey starts here

The best way to get a feel for this approach is quite simply to try it out.

Browse the Songbook, pick a song and view the material. There’s no fixed path — just a growing collection of songs and ideas to explore.