I’m sure you all know who Bosko and Honey are. Their Ukulele Safari has been the uke highlight of the year so far. What you might not know is that they have just released an album Just Quietly. The album features six of Bosko and Honey’s original instrumental tracks including the blistering Black Mountain Breakdown. […]
Archive for 2008
Eddie Vedder – Rise (Complicated Chords) Eddie Vedder – Rise (Basic Chords) I was all ready to write up Pearl Jam’s ukulele song Soon Forget, until I started getting harassed for Rise from the soundtrack of Into the Wild. And why not? It’s a magnificent song. Rise is played on the mandolin. The mandolin is […]
Ukulele videos from The Be Arthurs, Ukulele Bartt, Ukulele Ike and Ukuelelezaza and others.
And the winner is *Trumpets Blaze*: Bill Weigel for his review of the Ohana CK-50G Concert Ukulele. It was a really tough decision. There were a load of great entires – I wanted at least six people to win the uke. I have to give special mention to Roberto Katigbak and Ken Middleton for their […]
Some dizzyingly expensive instruments from MGM this week: a pair of Lyon and Healy 5k ukuleles $22,000 the pair, and a John D’Angelico Tiple at $30,000. On the subject of tiples, there’s a Kamaka Tiple up for sale. The cavalcade of oddly shaped Lyon and Healy ukuleles continues this week with a Lyon and Healy […]
Chord diagrams, new blogs and other ukulele news.
Bishop Allen – Butterfly Nets (Chords) There are a couple of great ukulele tunes on Bishop Allen’s The Broken String album: Click, Click, Click, Click (which you can download on their website) and Butterfly Net. Of the two, Butterfly Nets is by far the easiest to play – all baby’s first ukulele chords. The version […]
The Blues Scale is very similar to the minor pentatonic scale. There’s only one new note: the flattened fifth (also known as the devil’s interval). C Blues Scale The extra note fits in to the minor pentatonic like this: Looks like this in tab: And sounds like this: C Blues Scale Here’s me having a […]
The Beatles – Girl (Chords) When Amber requested this one, my first thought was, “More Beatles ukulele? There must be chords up for this somewhere.” I had a search around and didn’t much much like what I found. Besides, who could say no to that face? It might be a little redundant to say, but […]
Competition update: The ‘Review Your Ukulele’ contest is now closed. There have been loads of great entries. I’ll be looking over all of them and will announce the result on Friday (probably – it’ll be a tough decision). Everyone who entered should have their Rick tab. If you didn’t get it something must have got […]
