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Recently, the Berkeley Ukulele Club message board disappeared and took along with it the excellent list of the best ukulele videos in various categories. The list was compiled by Jeff West of the Berkeley Ukulele Club, the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz and the Deutscher Ukulelenclub. He’s very kindly supplied me with the lists and […]

Revolution is in the air again in Boston. Not content with the seditious act of adding tea to water, Viva La Revo-UKE-tion will be kicking off on Monday with the fantastically named The East Boston Make-Out Club Band, the equally fantastic but more boringly named Michael Wagner, Ed White and Ian Schwartz. All you non-Massachusettsians […]

Musicguymic boasts that the Kiwaya KTS-7 Mahogany Soprano Ukulele, “has the tone and sound rivaling any Martin ukulele. In fact I think its sounds more like a Martin should than many vintage Martins do.” There’s no doubt it’s as good looking as the Martin Style 3. Custom uke with a soundhole on the side. I […]

Here’s the complete lineup of the top 10 (or 11 if you’re going to be pedantic about it): 1. Sweet Child O’ Mine. 1.5 Back In Black. 2. Whole Lotta Love. 3. Paranoid. 4. Seven Nation Army. 5. Smoke On The Water. 6. Sunshine of Your Love. 7. Le Freak. 8. Satisfaction. 9. Gay Bar. […]

Sweet Child of Mine midi Even on guitar, this riff is a real finger-twister. Even Slash himself had trouble with this one. It took him a number of retakes in the studio before he could get it right. Transferring it to the uke certainly doesn’t make it any easier. Gio Gaynor struggles with it in […]

Back In Black midi AC/DC are the gods of riff. They’ve continually churned them out over their 70-year long career and this riff has to be the best of them. The opening riff, I’ve tabbed in the key of A (it’s the same shapes as the original transposed onto the uke). Not content with one […]

Whole Lotta Love midi Almost universally referred to as ‘The Mighty Zeppelin’, anyone who says they’re not the greatest band ever to walk the earth is just plain wrong. The news that they are to reform is about the most pant-wettingly exciting thing to happen since the discovery of fire. If you’re not familiar with […]

The final part of my list tracks you might want to grab as your free tracks when you sign up for eMusic. Josephine Foster 21. Celebrants Song A particularly out-there freak folk multi-instrumentalist. On this track, baritone uke notes splatter themselves against the wall while her voice mumbles something medieval sounding. It’s quite something to […]