News Round Up 8:45am Hawaii Time (10:45am Pacific)

Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (11AM Pacific)

This is one of Sarah’s favorite holiday classics and she’s excited to share arranging tips for this song! We will start of very simple, and showcase how adding a few chords here and bits of color there can really enhance the sound of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”. It will be fun for all levels and will inspire you to go back and start re-arranging songs you know and love.

Packets available by December 10, 2024: https://www.craigandsarah.com/live

Join us for our monthly Q & A

9-10AM HAWAII TIME (noon Pacific)

We’ve been doing monthly check-ins with our ArtistWorks students for a while, via Zoom, but have decided to open it up to Youtube. Our students submit questions via the AW Forum, and we answer them during this meeting. If we have time, we will open up questions for the general public. This is a great way for us to connect with students and you get to hear some of their awesome and useful questions.

THIS WILL BE RECORDED FOR FUTURE VIEWING

Packets available SOON

News Round Up 8:45am Hawaii Time (11:45am Pacific)
Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (12PM Pacific)

As the holiday season approaches, prepare to reimagine a timeless classic. This workshop will explore the versatility of White Christmas, demonstrating how different strumming and picking patterns can transform the song's mood. From swinging jazz to island rhythms, discover the endless possibilities of this beloved melody.

Packets will be available November 6. More information regarding the Scholar Packet will be available soon.

When packets are available, make sure to get yours from our Livestreams Page!

THIS WILL BE RECORDED FOR FUTURE VIEWING

Join us for our monthly Q & A

9-10AM HAWAII TIME (noon Pacific)

We’ve been doing monthly check-ins with our ArtistWorks students for a while, via Zoom, but have decided to open it up to Youtube. Our students submit questions via the AW Forum, and we answer them during this meeting. If we have time, we will open up questions for the general public. This is a great way for us to connect with students and you get to hear some of their awesome and useful questions.

THIS WILL BE RECORDED FOR FUTURE VIEWING

Packets available NOW

News Round Up 8:45am Hawaii Time (11:45am Pacific)
Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (12PM Pacific)

Halloween is Sarah’s favorite holiday, and we always celebrate it with a free Halloween Jam! Free Packets will be available by October 10. We look forward to sharing some of our favorite spooky tunes with you and having a really fun time together.

To get your free packet, just fill out the form on our Livestreams Page!

THIS WILL BE RECORDED FOR FUTURE VIEWING

We are so excited to be seeing our friends at Island Bazaar, again. We will kick off the evening with a workshop. Join us for a fun and engaging workshop where you'll learn to navigate popular progressions without always needing sheet music for your favorite songs! We'll show you how to incorporate percussive elements to enhance these progressions, adding a unique flair to your jam sessions. This workshop is perfect for advanced beginners and intermediate players looking to elevate their playing and have a great time. Don't miss out on this opportunity to shape your sound and bring more rhythm to your music!

Our dear friend, Abe Lagrimas Jr. will join us for a concert you won’t want to miss! It’s always a treat getting to perform with him and we are lucky to all be in Huntington Beach at the same time! You can purchase tickets by calling Island Bazaar or using their website!

Come and enjoy a free day of ‘ukulele at Kapi’olani Park on July 27, 2024. Craig Chee & Sarah Maisel will be joined by their good friend, Cory Mau, performing on the bandstand. You can come and see all of the amazing artists and keiki groups all day! Other performers include: Kim Shin Bi & Seoul Plumeria (Korea), Poepoe Japan(Japan), Cynthia Lin, Byron Yasui & Benny Chong, Jake Shimabukuro, 1933 Ukulele All Stars, and many many more!

PACKETS AVAILABLE July 11, 2024

Q&A 8:45am Hawaii Time (11:45am Pacific)

Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (NOON Pacific)

This livestream workshop will take us through different comping chords, picking patterns, and even dive into some chord melody for the song, “Leaving on a Jet Plane”. This workshop is perfect for all level of player and allows students to see the different ideas that are possible when arranging a song. 

Though this livestream workshop is free, if you wish to support our work, please consider purchasing a packet. Standard Packet and the upgraded Scholar Packet will be available by July 11 on our Livestream Page.

If you can not afford a packet at this time, please e-mail us to get your free Standard Packet: cheemaisel@gmail.com

Make sure you are subscribed to our youtube channel to ensure that you can join us in the Youtube Live Chat during the stream!

THIS WILL BE RECORDED AND AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE VIEWING

This FREE event will take place at Windward Mall in Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i. Bring your instruments and come jam with us! We’ll have lyrics and chords projected on a large screen and we encourage the whole family to come and join in! Even if you are just singing along, you are still making music with us on this special day - Make Music Hawai'i Day! The jam will be lead by Four String at a Time Founders, Craig Chee & Sarah Maisel, plus their friends Cynthia Lin, Karlie Goya, & Halehaku Seabury. There will be some guest appearances as well, so join us from 5-6:30PM on June 21, at Windward Mall’s center court. This will be live-streamed and recorded for future viewing.

PACKETS AVAILABLE APRIL 20, 2024

Q&A 8:45am Hawaii Time (10:45am Pacific)

Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (NOON Pacific)

Playing your ukulele is a lot of fun, but it can be even more fun when playing with your friends! This workshop will discuss and showcase arranging for two or more ukulele. We will discuss chord substitutions, fills, and more to get your duo sounding amazing!

Make sure you are subscribed to our youtube channel to ensure that you can join us in the Youtube Live Chat during the stream!

Please visit our Livestreams tab to purchase your packet once they are available (April 18)

THIS WILL BE RECORDED AND AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE VIEWING

Join us March 23 at 1PM CENTRAL TIME for a fun Double Workshop, sponsored by The Twin Cities Ukulele Club. You can join via ZOOM from your home, or if you live near the Kenworth Rec Center (in Minnesota) you can meet up with friends in person to learn. The workshops are being livestreamed from Honolulu, HI.

Fee: $45 - 10% of proceeds will go to the nonprofit Four Strings at a Time.

To pre-register, or learn more about the workshops being taught, click on the button below:

Once you have paid for your registration, you will immediately be e-mailed the Zoom link as well as a link to all of your materials including:

• PDFs for each class

• Downloadable Backing Tracks (Doo-Wop Till you Drop Class)

• Hi-Resolution Recordings of both workshops (once they are finished)

• Extra materials (Boot Camp 101, after the workshop has finished)

PACKETS AVAILABLE MARCH 14, 2024

Q&A 8:45am Hawaii Time (10:45am Pacific)

Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (NOON Pacific)

We are excited to be hosting our good friend, Neal Chin, for our next livestream workshop! He is going to take us through some great fingerstyle techniques, utilizing etudes to help us work on picking patterns and single note picking. This is a great workshop for those who are wanting to do more picking. All skill levels are welcome!

Make sure you are subscribed to our youtube channel to ensure that you can join us in the Youtube Live Chat during the stream!

Please visit our Livestreams tab to purchase your packet once they are available (March 14).

THIS WILL BE RECORDED AND AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE VIEWING

PACKETS AVAILABLE DEC 5

Q&A 8:45am Hawaii Time (10:45am Pacific)

Jam Starts 9am Hawaii Time (11AM Pacific)

We are excited to host a FREE Holiday Jam! We’ll have some fun playing songs and getting into the holiday spirit. Free Packets will be available to download by December 5. There might even be some special guests joining us. We will also have a special Holiday Chord Melody Packet available for purchase, for those that want even more music & learning!

Holiday Packet will include:

• Video Lesson of a Holiday Classic and creating a chord melody (song TBD)

• Backing Tracks of various speeds for practice

PACKEST AVAILABLE NOV 15

Q&A 8:45am Hawaii Time (10:45am Pacific)

Workshop Starts 9am Hawaii Time (11AM Pacific)

Our upcoming Livestream is going to go over the song “Here Comes Santa Claus”. We will take this tune and add in chordal movement and texture. It’s going to be a really fun way to get this Holiday Classic sound snazzy!

We will have our Standard Packet ($10) and our Scholar Packet ($25) available on November 15. All materials are shown on screen, however, purchasing a Standard Packet allows us to keep these livestreams free. If you purchase a Scholar Packet, this will allow us to give out FREE packets to those who can not afford them at this time.

The Scholar Packet will include:

• The Standard Packet

• Video Lesson of jazzing up “Here Comes Santa Claus”

• Backing Tracks of various speeds for practice

RSVP for the event, receive FREE sample ukulele lessons, & ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN a 12-month subscription to the ArtistWorks course of your choice: https://hubs.la/Q024w6Hp0

Join us on Tuesday, October 17 at 3:00 pm PT for a live stream event featuring ArtistWorks ukulele masters Craig Chee and Sarah Maisel with special guests Brittni Paiva and Neal Chin! Together, these 4 virtuoso uke players will discuss all things music, share exclusive performances, and answer real-time viewer questions. 🌺🏝️🎶⁣

This event is hosted by ArtistWorks, the online platform for Craig & Sarah’s Online Ukulele Lessons.

Craig and I love hosting our monthly Livestream Workshops! These are great opportunities to learn and have fun with your instrument! These livestreams are FREE and all workshop material are shown on screen. However, if you would like to support our livestreams, please feel free to purchase a packet from our website.

This month’s livestream theme will be Transposing! We’ll play in multiple keys, giving you the opportunity to work on an incredibly useful skill. We’ll also discuss modulation, changing keys within a song, and give you some ideas you can apply to songs you already know and love. There will be LOTS of playing in this one and it’s sure to be a great time you won’t want to miss!

As always, we start at 8:45AM with a Q & A and then the workshop begins at 9AM running until around 10:00/10:30AM.

This will be recorded for future reference and Packets will be available by August 23, 2023.

To kick off our arrival to Southern California, we will doing two concerts with Bryan Tolentino & Herb Ohta Jr at Island Bazaar! The 2nd show is SOLD OUT, but you can still get tickets to the 1st concert. Make sure to book your spot ASAP as there are only a handful left! It will be a really fun show you won’t want to miss.

To kick off our arrival to Southern California, we will doing two concerts with Bryan Tolentino & Herb Ohta Jr at Island Bazaar! The 2nd show is SOLD OUT, but you can still get tickets to the 1st concert. Make sure to book your spot ASAP as there are only a handful left! It will be a really fun show you won’t want to miss.

Craig and I love hosting our monthly Livestream Workshops! These are great opportunities to learn and have fun with your instrument! These livestreams are FREE and all workshop material are shown on screen. However, if you would like to support our livestreams, please feel free to purchase a packet from our website.

This month’s livestream theme will be Muting & Scratching. This technique is one that is a game changer for many players and will allow you to create syncopated rhythms with your fretting hand. Craig will walk through a variety of ways of practicing these new skill sets during the workshop.

As always, we start at 8:45AM with a Q & A and then the workshop begins at 9AM running until around 10:00/10:30AM.

This will be recorded for future reference and Packets will be available by July 19, 2023.

We love getting the opportunity to share amazing artists with you! We are in Season 2 of our Backyard Concert Series, and if you’d like to learn more about how to support our series, please visit our website.

Up next we have Kris Fuchigami for Concert #7! The concert will premiere May 28, 2023 at 9AM on our YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to our channel so you can be a part of the Live Chat and win free goodies from our sponsors!

Born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kris Fuchigami started his ukulele journey at the age of 13. Two years later Kris won the grand prize at the Hamakua Music Scholarship Competition on the Big Island where he competed against classical pianists, singers, drummers, and many other genres of musicians. Kris went on to headline, and perform at many ukulele festivals and has gained recognition throughout the world.

In 2016 he was nominated for the prestigious Na Hoku Hanohano Award in Hawaii for the Instrumental Composition of the Year category with his original composition of Moemoea, which he was inspired to write during a performing tour in Tahiti. In 2018, he was again nominated for the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards for the Ukulele Album of the Year Category with his album entitled "More Than This." In both 2019 & 2021, Kris was awarded the Na Hoku Hanohano Award for "Instrumental Composition of the Year!"

Craig and I love hosting our monthly Livestream Workshops! These are great opportunities to learn and have fun with your instrument! These livestreams are FREE and all workshop material are shown on screen. However, if you would like to support our livestreams, please feel free to purchase a packet from our website.

This month’s livestream theme will be Simplifying Chords! We’ll go through and play a variety of songs in a variety of keys to discuss chord substitutions to make things a bit easier to play. You’ll be surprised with how, with just a TINY bit of theory, you can leave open strings, take away fingers, just to make it through a jam more successfully. This is a great class for all level of player. Break out of the Key of C comfort zone and enjoy playing even more!

As always, we start at 8:45AM with a Q & A and then the workshop begins at 9AM running until around 10:00/10:30AM.

Join us February 19, 2023 at 9AM HAWAII TIME for the Premiere of Brittni Paiva’s Concert! We are incredibly excited to have her joining us and can’t wait to share her music with everyone.

Brittni Paiva is Hawaii's preeminent, award-winning female ukulele artist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Her modern approach to the traditional Hawaiian instrument has gained her a legion of fans. Her ability to bring the ukulele to the forefront of many genres breaks down barriers and changes perceptions of what is possible from this humble instrument. Brittni is also credited with being one of the pioneers of combining ukulele music and the loop pedal, creating beautiful, layered arrangements resulting in her being amongst the most watched ukulele artists on YouTube. 

We are excited to have our friend, Aaron Keim, joining us in studio for a great workshop on Finger Style Ukulele. There will be something for all level of player, and we hope you can join us. Aaron is an inspiration, not only with his teaching and performing, but also his instrument building. You won’t want to miss this workshop, but IF you do, it will be recorded for future viewing!

All materials will be shown on screen, however, if you wish to support our Livestreams, please consider purchasing a packet when they become available, February 18, 2023. Don’t forget, we always start with our Q & A/Sound Check at 8:45AM HAWAII TIME. The workshop will begin at 9AM HAWAII TIME.

Make sure you are subscribed to our Youtube Channel so you can join us in the Live Chat!

Join us January 22, 2023 at 9AM HAWAII TIME for the Premiere of Corey Fujimoto & Kalei Gamiao’s concert. This is an incredible show and we are very fortunate to have these artists joining us.

In 2013, Corey Fujimoto recorded his debut album, Fables. He subsequently began touring, performing in Hawai'i, Taiwan, Japan, and China. He is well known for his ability to blend styles, taking from a wide variety of musical genres. One of his biggest inspirations is guitar virtuoso,Tommy Emmanuel. Corey has been an important figure at The Ukulele Site for over 10 years and can be seen performing during their podcasts. He is also one of the founders of aNueNue USA.

Kalei Gamiao has mesmerized audiences all over the world with his virtuosic playing. He has toured all over the globe including Australia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, and the US. He also joined us for Season 1 of our concert series. In 2020, Kalei began a new journey with the 'ukulele, forming aNueNue USA. His passion for all things 'ukulele, including manufacturing instrument, has given him yet another way to share the joy of the 'ukulele with others.

It’s a brand new year and it’s time to reflect on past goals and create new ones for 2023! We will take some time in this workshop to discuss creating goals, how to stick with them, and creating a practice routine. This is a great workshop for all level of player, so please join us for this fun event.

All materials will be shown on screen, however, if you wish to support our Livestreams, please consider purchasing a packet when they become available, January 18, 2023.

Make sure you are subscribed to our Youtube Channel so you can join us in the Live Chat!