Free sheet music at https://www.patreon.com/posts/let-us-be-102788622 Happiness is so dependent on our thoughts, and thoughts of gratitude and contentment for the things we have make up a great portion of that good feeling. People living in impoverished nations consistently rank higher in studies of happiness than we do in the states, not because they have more, but because they’re happy with what they have. Striving has been a great source of stress and unhappiness in my life, and though it was a hard pill to swallow, I have tried to let this verse seep into my heart. 1 Timothy 6 : 6-8 But g ..read more

In honor of the Easter season we’ll be doing the classics Amazing Grace, Ride On King Jesus, and a new song from the 2024 youth album Disciple of Christ: Savior of My Soul. RSVP for April 10th, 6:30-7:30pm at https://forms.gle/ApNxYUkJZsw6oiLV9 and download the free music to bring on your device or print. If there’s extra time we’ll tackle more of Blue Skies ..read more

Utah County Ukulele Club: With Spring in full swing, we’ll be visiting a few songs with a focus on the change of the seasons. RSVP for March 27th, 6:30-7:30pm at https://forms.gle/ApNxYUkJZsw6oiLV9 and download the free music at https://www.patreon.com/posts/100862693 to bring on your device or print. We’ll tackle a medley of super easy ‘primary songs’ that evoke melting snow, rain falling, the return of birds, and the life-giving effects of little streams. Then we’ll visit the well-known Spanish folk song De Colores, which celebrates the return of the Spring’s colors. Wrapping up, we’ll begin ..read more

The online version of Ukulele Bootcamp is where you will learn all about ukuleles, how to learn a song, stretches and warmups, tuning, holding the ukulele, how to read chords, strumming, tablature, the C scale, your first chords and a dozen songs. Over a decade of ukulele teaching went into creating this course and now you can enjoy it for free ..read more

With a moderate swing … “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Visit Project Paul for free sheet music for this and all my other settings released so far of verses from Paul’s letters ..read more

Another setting from Project Paul (now with 10 songs posted), The Household of God, is now available as a free sheet music download at https://www.patreon.com/posts/household-of-god-92032444 along with a demonstration video. You don’t need to be a patron to download this music, though support is appreciated. Enjoy! Ryan ..read more

I wrote these settings of Paul’s epistles hoping to get to know him and his writings better. I’m sharing them freely (videos, mp3s, PDFs, chord chart). The first 8 of the settings are now available at bit.ly/projectpaulmusic ..read more

I began writing these scripture settings last year, focusing on the epistles of Paul, simply because I’ve always found his writings a little difficult and I wanted to lean in and understand them better. Looking for scriptures to set to music really makes you slow down and read carefully … something beautiful, uplifting and concise. I thought this scripture particularly, the latest I’ve set, would make a good introduction to Paul and his letters. Free sheet music at  https://www.patreon.com/posts/82809358  ..read more

If you’re wondering where I disappeared to, and how you can help, if you’re able, please see https://gofund.me/4b2c52c3. Anyone that contributes $50 or more and emails me (mryantaylor@gmail.com) will get a complete digital bundle of all my songbooks for ukulele (a $100 value ..read more

I generally don’t mind most holiday songs (with the exception of ‘Last Christmas’ which sounds like it was written by a tween – the inclusion of the word ‘special’ really gets my goat), and generally I am a sucker for the romantic ones that aren’t really about Christmas at all (I’ve got Your Love to Keep me Warm – Ella & Satchmo have got my number). Before going through this data though, I had never heard of many of these songs before. Instead of dwelling on the bad pennies, some surprised me by being clever, poignant or well-written … AND I was glad to see a trend of more actual Christma ..read more