This week I tried learning from a new website called Booster Uke. This is definitely not a website to try if it your first time learning the instrument, you need to have some basic knowledge of the ukulele before you begin. This is a premium program that offers 10 lessons with access to a video and interactive sheet music for each lesson. I tried the free trial, which gave me access to one of their lessons at random. The lesson I was able to try was lesson 5, so that may be why I thought that you need prior knowledge of how to play the instrument before using this website.

The person instructing the video did not do a very good job, just basically explained the cords and started playing a song at a fast pace that was extremely hard to keep up to.  He didn’t teach me how to do the weird strumming pattern he was doing. So, I think the instructional video did not help me at all. The interactive sheet music on the other hand was better. I thought it was better then 8notes sheet music. It had the guy playing the song with lyrics instead of just a beat to play to. The only thing was that, sometimes the music did not match the sheet music, which threw me for a loop.

BoosterUke Lesson (youtube.com)

I would not recommend this website, especially for a beginner. This website would be good if you already knew how to play the ukulele and were looking for new challenging songs and strumming patterns.