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I picked up mine, and hung it back on the wall. To collect dust again, next to the ukelele. Wish I had made myself learn music.
I found that rather than 'learning music', it's more fun 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 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/
I started learning about a month ago having never played any instrument. There is no way around practicing. Luckily even with this little time I already see improvements. It's far from great but I can see getting there of I keep at it. I'd say take it down from the wall and do a little bit each day. You'll be surprised how far you can get in only a few weeks time.
Edit: for me it helped going straight to practising whole songs. I'll probably get to the technical basics some time in the future but right now I stay with songs that come to my mind and sound like they should not be too hard to learn.