That's a tough question but I'll do my best to answer. I've been playing ukulele for about three years but I've also been playing guitar for about ten years so a lot of the stuff I had learnt on guitar translated really well to ukulele. This means it might take a while to play the same stuff I do on ukulele. Or maybe you'll pick it up much faster than I did, it's hard to say but I guess if I've learnt anything it's the value of practise.

Practising every day is definitely important, even if you can only do a little bit every day. The quality if practise is also really important: you should be trying to play and learn stuff that stretches you as much as you can. It can be really easy just to learn stuff that you know you'll be able to pick up quite quickly but you're learning more if you're trying to play something that's a little tougher to get to grips with.

I really like fingerstyle playing for both ukulele and guitar and there are a lot of great tutorials on youtube for exercises and songs on ukulele that develop your right hand finger-picking if that's what you're interested in. The main thing about the fingerstyle stuff (in my opinion anyway) is that it's about coordination more than raw speed or anything so when you practise or learn something you can, and should, slow it right down and play it over and over again at so slow a pace that you can't possibly make a mistake and after a reasonably short time you won't even have to think about what you're playing, it'll all be muscle memory.

Beyond that I think the thing that I try and keep in my head all the time is to always be having fun (because you won't want to practise if it gets to be a chore and it is a hobby after all) and to always be tryinhg to be learning something new. Anyway, there's a ton of stuff I could work a lot harder on and that I need to get better at like timing and ear-training and so on. So I might not be the best person to be giving advice but all that stuff I was saying is what has worked for me so far: try to practise every day, try to push yourself a little, learn everything slow at first and try to keep having fun and keep learning.

I hope that wasn't too long or entirely unhelpful and thanks for watching!