Ukulele Love Songs for Valentines Day! Ukulele Lesson and Jam [Part 1] ❤️ 🎶🤙

Play ukulele with and learn these fun love songs for Valentines day...or any time of year! Learn how to strum ukulele and play special melodic riffs too. A ukulele jam and lessons for beginners and all levels. FREE ukulele songbook for this lesson available at link below.

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~ Nat King Cole "L-O-V-E":    • L-O-V-E  
~ Bob Marley "Waiting in Vain":    • Видео  
(Rare acoustic version):    • Bob Marley - Waiting in Vain - Rare A...  

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☯︎ CHAPTERS & TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
4:10 L-O-V-E Overview & Beginner's version
7:20 L-O-V-E Advanced Beginner Strum
10:25 L-O-V-E Rhythm trick "chord slides"
13:37 L-O-V-E Jazz Chord Turnaround #1
18:00 Important Livestream Announcement
19:12 L-O-V-E Jazz Chord Turnaround #2
22:00 L-O-V-E Final Jam with Stu's Chord Solo
25:30 Zen Practice Tip / Q&A
29:10 Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain" Overview
31:10 "Waiting in Vain" Beginner's Tip (just C & F)
32:38 "Waiting in Vain" C & F embellished
37:00 "Waiting in Vain" Bridge section + Zen Practice Tips
41:41 "Waiting in Vain" Advanced Strum Lesson
45:58 "Waiting in Vain" Final Jam
56:36 Mindfulness Meditation w/ a Ukulele (Improvising)

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Stu Fuchs is an award winning musician and teaching artist, empowering people of all backgrounds to express themselves through creative play. A “classically trained, improvisational freed multi-instrumentalist”, his music spans many styles — he playfully weaves virtuosity, humor, mindfulness and audience participation in his uplifting performances.

His true passion is to help others make a personal music practice part of their daily lives for self expression, stress relief, joy and well-being. A long time practitioner of yoga and meditation, Stu blends holistic music instruction with practical mediative exercises through an open hearted teaching style.

Over a 25 year career, Stu has performed gypsy jazz with symphony orchestras, presented workshops at ukulele festivals worldwide, facilitated drumming & music improvisation for everyone from children to inmates, to Fortune 500 CEOs.

In 2014 he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to create music & films documenting his healing music therapy as artist-in-residence at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

He offers music retreats, clinics and concerts worldwide and also performed guitar with renowned sacred chant artist Snatam Kaur. He recorded on her Grammy-nominated 2018 release “Beloved”.

Stu continues to offer weekly lessons and music inspiration at his YouTube channel "Ukulele Zen”. He and presents his music workshops and retreats at music festivals holistic centers around the world. www.stufuchs.com

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