Rllink
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I started just like you did, I bought a ukulele, learned four chords, found hundreds of songs with those four chords, and started playing. I am a singer first, a ukulele player for the accompaniment. I would suppose that if one wants to do something different one's approach would be different. I am nine years into it. You asked about mistakes that we made as a beginner, so I won't give you advise on what you should do. You are getting plenty of good advise already. My biggest mistakes was thinking that it was going to be easy to play the ukulele. It hasn't been. It was easy to learn four chords and play them. Beyond that there has been some struggles. The second was learning things I was never going to use. I've been off in never never land and had to come back. That doesn't mean you shouldn't get out of your box and learn new things, it means that there are some chords that you are never going to see in Rockabilly. If you are going to play Rockabilly there are a lot better uses of your time than learning obscure jazz chords that you will never see anywhere else. Just an example.