Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’s recent ukulele session for Le Soir featured a cover of Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. and it was a bit of a cracker. The requests came in and here it is. The first thing you’ll have to do to play this is to start attacking the tuning pegs. He’s in a tuning that […]

The second in the ‘What ukulele do they play?’ series. The good news: if you want to play the same ukuleles as Zach Condon, you won’t have to spend anywhere near as much as if you wanted Jake Shimabukuro’s ukulele. They’re actually fairly bog-standard ukuleles, not that expensive and would be a good choice for […]

Basia Bulat – Before I Knew (Chords) UPDATE: YouTube are featuring ukulele videos today. And totally stealing my shit. More Canadian ukulele. Basia Bulat’s debut album, Oh, My Darling, kicks of with this short and sweet ukulele ditty. The intro is pretty simple. You’re just playing the G,C and E strings open and sliding down […]

Having founded the New York Ukulele Ensemble and the New York Ukulele Festival, Uke Jackson is a bit of a ukulele legend. His latest project is the musical Sex! Drugs! & Ukuleles! written with Ragtime musician and historian Terry Waldo. I drilled him for more info. Where did the idea for a ukulele musical come […]

Lyle Ritz, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters – Tonight You Belong to Me (Tab/Chords) This is one of the definitive ukulele songs, yet it no two tab/chords seem to agree how to play it. There are at least two videos (1, 2) declaring that everyone else’s version are wrong and theirs is right. Well, everyone else […]

Videos this week from Kelli Rae Powell, The Jack Lords, Mark Occhionero and many more. Kelli Rae Powell – Some Bridges are Good to Burn

There’s a new book in the Jumpin’ Jim/Lyle Ritz Ukulele Masters series just out: Lyle Lite. As the name suggests, it’s aimed a little lower than his other books at the beginner/intermediate level. You can pick one up from FMM for $25, on Amazon for $18.80 (but they’re currently out of stock), or there’s one […]

A look at Chicago’s Windy City Ukulele Festival and more links.

COMPETITION CLOSED I’m jumping on the ukulele giveaway bandwagon and starting up a competition. The prizes are: First prize: A Kala Pineapple soprano courtesy of ukulele for sale. Ten Runners Up: One of my ukulele ebooks (your choice). Everyone Who Enters Gets: Tab for my solo arrangement of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up […]

Indiana Jones Theme (Tab) Before we get down to business, James Hill’s new website/ezine Ukulele, Yes! is up and running. I still haven’t managed to successfully sign up for the ezine itself, but it looks like it’s all online anyway. A bunch of good stuff in the first issue including an interview with Peter Luongo, […]