Compared to tabs, reading standard notation is a complete pain in the arse. For some reason, there are a few ukulele books that use only standard notation (such as the Jumpin’ Jim books and some of the Ukulele Masters series). I thought I’d knock together a short post in the hope of making all those […]

Beirut – Hallelujah (Chords) Zach Condon quite often finishes off Beirut gigs with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Although his version is closer to Jeff Buckley’s (one of the best cover versions ever recorded). The chords are fairly simple. One thing he does a few times in the song (and loads of times in […]

You probably already familiar with Aldrine Guerrero from his YouTube videos and his lessons on Ukulele Underground. Aldrine has just released his debut CD, Suite 409, and Ryan from UU (the album’s Executive Producer) was brave enough to send me a copy for review. The Good Stuff Bandito Tyler (Unplugged): A phenomenal tune. A stone-cold […]

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Chords) Boo to you, Major League Baseball. BOOOO!!! Baby Ruth held a contest to celebrate the 100th birthday of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Entrants sent in their rendition of the song and the winner was decided by public vote. Obviously, the winner was a ukulelist, […]

This week’s UkeTube is nothing but the girls (ah-ah-ah-ahh-ah-ah-ah). Including Anna Van Riel, Julia Nunes, Brittni Paiva and plenty more. Click ‘more’ to watch them.

Duane Heilman of Black Bear has made some strange ukuleles in the past, but he’s completely lost his mind with his latest ukulele. Inspired by the equally nutty Novax guitars, it’s a tenor scale ukulele on the upper edge of the fretboard and concert scale ukulele on bottom. I hate to think of the maths […]

Buke shuts down, Italian ukulele, Mirah’s new album and other developments in the uke world.

Rilo Kiley – Ripchord (Chords) There’s no ukulele on the album version of Rilo Kiley’s Ripchord but, judging by the clips on YouTube, it’s become a ukulele mainstay in their live show with their guitarist Blake Sennett taking on uke and vocal duties. It seems that guitarists playing the uke move up and down the […]

Power chords are about the simplest chords to play – so simple the experts don’t really consider them chords at all. They’re made up of just two notes: the root and the fifth (which is why you’ll often see them referred to as C5, D5 etc). You can find the fifth of any note by […]

Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 (Chords) This song is the latest colloboration between Uke Hunt and Ukulala. So here’s Laz’s video tutorial: