MP3 Probably the most famous chord riff ever and very popular on the ukulele thanks to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain version. These chords are in the same key as those used in the UOGB version.

Sophie Madeleine – Take Your Love With Me (The Ukulele Song)(MP3) can be downloaded on Bandcamp Turns out my prediction that Rocky and Balls would be on Boing Boing in three weeks was wrong – it took three days (I may have hastened that process). It turns out that Sophie Madeleine – the Balls half […]

MP3 With Mmmbop fever gripping the ukenets, this one was an inevitable inclusion. It’s really important that you let the notes in this riff ring into each other and you need to keep your middle finger glued to the C string (requiring some pinky action of the G chord shape).

I never thought it would happen but there’s a ukulele cover of The Beatles I like. But you still won’t find it in this week’s roundup as she also has a heartbreakingly brilliant original song. As much as I like light-hearted ditties about facial hair and bunnies, I love it when people sing a song […]

With all the excitement over the new Flea and Fluke designs last week, I completely the missed the new mahogany Flea and Fluke ukes. I don’t know why more people don’t include sound and video clips in their uke sales. It certain helps if you’re a shit-hot player: it must help Jake Wildwood – add […]

You can listen to excerpts from James Hill’s upcoming album True Love Don’t Weep on his website. Chalmers Doane has posted all nine of his and the Halifax’s uke albums on his site. And the music is as kitsch as the covers. (Via HUG). And related to both those, the new edition of Ukulele Yes! […]

MP3 The Beastie Boys’ Fight for Your Right is pretty much the first bar of Smoke on the Water over and over. They’re all power chords, so you can play them on all four strings or, if you want to keep it simple, just on the G and C strings like the Smoke riff.

A link section of the site is probably long overdue. I was working on the assumption that I could just mention interesting sites as they came along. But I’ve been convinced of the benefit of something more permanent where people can go to find out what’s worth reading on the web. With that in mind […]

MP3 Time for another series of guitar riffs for the ukulele. The idea with these riffs isn’t to play the whole song, but to throw them in to your playing for a bit of light relief (like the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on Orange Blossom) or just to prove that the ukulele can do […]

Hot Potato Syncopators – I’m in the Mood for Love (MP3) Hot Potato Syncopators – Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (MP3) Hot Potato Syncopators – Bye Bye Blues (MP3) via their website. Some traditional ukulele fare from the Hot Potato Syncopators. The Hot Potato’s Duke Marmapantz is something of a ukulele legend being an […]