Red Rose Rag (Chords) I never really understood people who get sweaty-palmed over album covers. But I do love to browse the various sheet music cover galleries online. This example of Red Rose Rag is particularly good. It’s sexy in a way that you never see on album covers anymore; it’s relaxed and has an […]

As I mentioned before, even professional writers are unable to spell ukulele correctly. So, it’s no surprise that humble eBay sellers get it wrong too. Luckily, there is a way to exploit the illiteracy and carelessness of others for your own greedy, money-grubbing ends.

A quick round up of my favourite ukulele videos uploaded to YouTube recently (in no particular order). Mark ‘JazzUkes’ Occhionero – A Blossom Fell A version of a song best known, to me at least, in a version by Nat King Cole. The chords for which you can find here. Brian Hefferan – Foggy Mountain […]

Rigk Sauer – Tequila (Tab) There are some occasions so dull that only a significant amount of alcohol can get you through: weddings, baseball games, a day at work. High on the list has to be spelling bees. A group of writers in San Fransisco came to the same conclusion and put together a drunken […]

My belief that the ukulele is a force for goodwill between all in the world rivaled only by industrial quantities of marijuana took a beating today. It was reported that kids at a school in Guam were using ukulele’s to smuggle implements of destruction to mutilate fellow (willing) classmates with. There are no shortage of […]

Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running (Chords) Given Arcade Fire’s penchant for strange instruments such as French horns, the hurdy-gurdy, the sackbut and the Tuvan nose-banjo, it’s a huge oversight of them not to have used a ukulele. Happily for us, their latest single, Keep The Car Running, fits very nicely on the ukulele.

“The ukulele is a noble little instrument… anyone serious about music will eventually come to play one.” Bob Brozman. Like West Ruislip Golf Course Clubhouse, you play ukulele twice in your lifetime; once when you start out and once when you’ve seen it all. Thanks to it’s suitability for tiny fingers, it’s ease of learning […]