Wild Thing (Chords) You wouldn’t believe how many people turn up at this blog after searching for ‘wild thing ukulele tabs‘ and leave disappointed. Well, no more. The song was written by Chip Taylor, later recorded by The Troggs but probably most famous in the guitar-burning Hendrix version. All three of those versions are in […]

Michael Garfield – It Hurts So We’re Not Dead (mp3) Michael Garfield – The Cartographers (mp3) It’s not often you hear the ukulele coupled with keyboards, distorted guitar and crashing drums, but judging by Michael Garfield’s music, it should happen much more often. Michael is something of a 21st Century Renaissance man. He’s an artist, […]

Yo Ho! A Pirates Life for Me (Tab) I get quite a few requests for tabs, but not so many are made by via the medium of blog post. So when Jason requested this tune in his blog, I couldn’t resist. Yo Ho (A Pirates Life for Me) was written by George Bruns specifically for […]

Watch my favourite ukulele videos of the week after the ‘more’ tag including Joe Brown’s appearance on Jools Holland.

Uke Hunt has made it to the top spot of Boat Paddle Ukulele’s Top 50 Ukulele Sites. A huge thanks to everyone who has read, commented and email. I’m chuffed. John King takes a quality over quantity approach to his blogging. He’s just put up his seventh post in a year: A Strum Through Ukulele […]

Ovation’s Applause ukuleles are probably the most popular electric ukes around. Ukulele4u are currently selling the new Applause Tenor ukulele. Personally, I much prefer the natural wood look of these ukes to the black finish of other models. On the Martin front, there’s a Martin 2K and a Martin Tiple. The most unusual uke up […]

If you want to play Street Spirit on the ukulele, just forget it. Impossible. Can’t be done. Having said that… …if you make enough changes, you can move it from ‘impossible’ to the merely ‘too difficult to bother attempting’. With that in mind, I’ve tabbed out a difficult version based on the guitar part and […]

Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs Hammer-Ons Hammer-ons are produced by plucking a note on the uke then ‘hammering on’ a finger at a higher fret – making the sound of the higher note without picking it. You can watch this being done here. Example 1 In tab, hammer-ons are shown by an arch between the two notes […]

Colbie Caillat – Tied Down (Chords) With its laid back island vibes, it no surprise that Colbie Caillat‘s summer hit Bubbly inspired plenty of ukulele covers, despite using the term ‘bubbly face’ as a compliment. Her album also features a similarly laid back catchy tune played on uke: Tied Down. It’s also very simple to […]

I’ve gone and set up a community to run alongside Uke Hunt. It’s called (rather cheesily, I admit) YouKulele. It’s got a bunch of web 2.0 type features. You can see them in action on my profile here. You can upload mp3s, videos and photos, blog and make friends. The message board, and this is […]