Core
Music & ukulele
Chords, songs, rhythm, ear training — from your first strum to assembling and tuning your own instrument.
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Old craft. New tech. Each teaches the other.
In a world that keeps getting more digital, ChordSpheres holds the bench and the screen together — wood, paint and strings as the way into modern technology.
Starting with the Maker Ukulele Set, the Van Gogh Explorer Set, and every kit we ship next.
The combination
Two halves. One experience.
Most learning platforms are one-sided — all screen, or all workshop. ChordSpheres treats the screen and the bench as one project, built so neither side is complete without the other.
What you can hold
Wood, paint, strings.
A wooden ukulele to assemble, sand and tune. Brushes and paint to make it yours. Sheet music, a printed booklet, and the hands-on engineering that comes with a real instrument.
Old-craft materials and skills — the kind you can feel, finish, and pass on.
What lives online
Lessons, gallery, animator, AR.
Short lessons on the why behind every project. A permanent gallery page for finished work. An animator that makes the painted version move to music. An AR scene that puts it in the room with you.
Modern technology that takes the finished piece further than the bench alone could.
The wooden ukulele is the way into a lesson on AR. The lesson on AR turns the painted ukulele into something the wooden version alone couldn't be.
Each side teaches the other.
What you'll learn
Six subjects, designed to meet in the middle.
Each course pairs an old-craft skill with a modern-tech one — music with animation, wood with AR, paint with pixels.
Tech
How modern tech works
AR, AI, Web3 and the rest of the alphabet soup, explained calmly in plain language, with examples a ten-year-old can follow.
Art
Visual art & painting
Composition, colour and brushwork, taught through hands-on projects — including one of art history's most famous styles, brush by brush.
Making
Maker skills
Assemble it, wire it, finish it, fix it. The hands-on engineering side that most courses skip.
Motion
Animation & motion
Bring still art to life. Sync visuals to music, time movement to a beat, export a clip your phone can share.
Publishing
Sharing & the creator web
How to publish work, write about it, and link it back to you — because making it is only half the project.
The digital half — Gallery
Every piece you make, with your name on it.
When the lesson ends, the work doesn't disappear into a folder. Each finished project gets a permanent home on a clean page that's yours to share.
The Gallery
The digital half — Animator
Make your work move to your music.
Once you've learned a song and painted a ukulele, this is where the two lessons fuse. A web tool that takes your art and your audio, syncs them, and exports a clip.
The digital half — AR
Point. See. Share.
Once the tech course has explained what AR is, this is where you build one. Hold a phone up to your real, painted ukulele and the animated version appears alongside it.
The physical half
Built around real kits, not just screens.
Every kit is the same shape: something physical to hold, paint and play; a short course teaching the why behind it; and a digital tool that takes the finished piece further.
Maker Ukulele Set
Your first instrument, painted by you.
The flagship pairing. Assemble, paint and tune a real ukulele — then watch every step live on ChordSpheres, from the first brush stroke to the final AR scene.
Van Gogh Explorer Set
Paint like Van Gogh, then animate it.
Guided lessons walk you through the brushwork, palette and composition that defined Post-Impressionism. Apply it to your own canvas, then bring the result into the animator.
More kits in the workshop. Each new one follows the same shape — a hands-on project, a short course teaching the why, and a place on this site for what you make.