Looking in the Right Places

1. Work on looking at left hand and breaking the habit of looking at your right. 
2. Make sure your strumming motion and picking is a wrist twist, not an arm motion
3. Focus on intention, the way things feel physically and emotionally, and the way things sound to avoid to much thinking. You want to remember the way things feel when you do them right.  
4. Work on high d and e and Aura Lee. Always be singing the melody for each.  
5. Try to focus on singing from your diaphragm.  

Memorization

1. Memorize melody, vocal, and chords for oh susanna.  
2. Focus on looking at left hand all the time.  
3. Dont look at right hand.  
4. Stop using the page as soon as you start chunks.  
5. Work on new pages.

Singing and Chords

1. Sing the lyrics of Oh Susanna while playing the melody on your ukulele. 
2. Work on the chords.  
3. split each practice between these two activities.  
4. Work on singing the words while playing the chords one you complete the previous two steps.  
5. Look at your left hand when you want to look at your right hand.  

Slow and Steady

1. Practice for 30 minutes minimum at a time.
2. Work on Oh susanna one line per one day this week.  
3. Work on singing each line that day if you master the ukulele part by itself.  
4. Day 5 try to put it all together if you have time after working on that days line.  
5. Download chunk into brain, then look only at left hand while practicing.  
6. Flash cards.  

Singing Along, Part II (updated another time)

1. Refesh page and check for more recent entry. 
2. Practice for 30 minutes minimum at a time. 
3. Practice note values, make or use flash cards. 
4. Write in all beats for Oh Susanna.  
5. Name the notes going up from open (sharps) on all strings and down from the 12th fret (flats). Review rhythm sheet. 
6. Clean up Oh Susanna, singing to the melody and chords. Singing to words while playing the chords should be the final and most important step.  
7. Work on additional pages after Oh Susanna rounds into shape.  
8. Make sure you don’t look at your right hand or post any fingers on the Uke with it.  
9. Work on trusting your hands more to work by feel. 
10. Sing loud all the time!

Singing Along!

1. Clean up oh susanna
2. clean up las on ode with chords.  
3. Keep same pages fresh.  
4. sing oh susanna to chords on la. Then sing it with lyrics instead.  

Form:

1. stay relaxed
2. sing loud
3. play on fingertips
4. hover for next chord.  

Working out Chords

Actions: 

1. Work on Susanna, pickup notes, the c major scale. 
2. Work on chords for ode.  
3. Work on singing melody while playong chords.  

Form and misc:

1. Don’t do robot arm.  
2. Don’t post pinky  
3. plant feet.  
4. Good posture.  
5. use page before and after practice.  

Time Management

1. set and follow practice alarm. 
2. Use page each practice.  
3. Leave brief comment on each practice.  
4. Careful of right hand form.  
5. Work on singing more without letter note, sing on La.  
6. Work on Regular g chord.  
7. Work on Ode chords and same pages.  
8. Make sure to always sing loud.