I asked my wife of 10+ years of she could go get some strings for my wife’s classical guitar today, because I wanted to start paying again after a long depression. I’ve finally got some of my artistic side back.
Set the new strings and started playing. I couldn’t remember much from 25 years, but after a little while, my wife asked “How long did you play?”, because I was better than she thought I would be. Maybe because she’s never heard me play. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking suck balls, but I do remember some tabs. Hopefully, I’ll get better and not give up.


I found that rather than ‘learning music’, it’s more fun and engaging to learn songs. When it’s fun, you’re more likely to stick with it than learning scales or whatever. You can do that later if you want.
Grab that Uke. Get the Uchord app. Go to Ultimate-Guitar.com (you can switch between guitar and uke tabs), pick a song you know and like, play the track in the background and practice playing the chords. Pause when you encounter a tricky chord change, stop the track and practice going back and forth between those two chords until it’s fluent. Continue and repeat until you can play the whole song without the background music. Note UG will show you chord patterns, but Uchord will show you all the inversions as well. Sometimes a different inversion makes for an easier chord change.
Each time you learn a new song, the next one gets easier and faster to learn.
That’s how I did it, anyway, when I picked up ukulele as an aging adult.
Hope that gives you a bit of inspiration to try.
Laughing at “aging adult” . I’m retired. Very very close to 70. Thanks for the suggestions! Will do!
I don’t know where you’re located, but around here there’s monthly ukulele meetups where they meet at a sports club or RSL and have a sing/play along, and sometimes offer beginners courses. They’re pretty popular with retirees especially. They’re a good night out.
https://www.brisbaneukulele.com/