If you’re looking for some Halloween themed tunes to play on your uke, there’s a full list of the Halloween stuff on this blog here: Halloween tabs and chords But if you’re looking for someone else to do all the hard work, you absolutely have to pick up a copy of Mad Tea Party’s Crampstastic […]

MP3 I surprised I haven’t been knocked up side the head for not featuring this one yet. What was I thinking doing Enter Sandman before this? It’s easily one of the best riffs of all time. I believe the correct word is ‘immense’. And the bigger a riff is the more fun it is to […]

This week’s must-subscribe channel is spankyukes. As well as being incredible strummers themselves, they roped in Zoe Lewis. Other videos include high slapping fun from Polka Dot Dot Dot (who seem to be keen hamboners), Victoria Vox hooking up with Boulder Acoustic Society, Ingrid Michaelson, Mad Tea Party and plenty more.

I’ve given the Buy a Ukulele section an overhaul. The used for that section stopped being updated and I haven’t been able to change anything on it for a long time. So I’ve switched the whole thing over to WordPress. I’ll probably be adding to it and messing around with the layout in the next […]

What do ukulele players like to eat? Rose Turle Ertler has answers from James Hill, Cat Green Bike, Jen Kwok and many others. Voting has started for Bosko and Honey’s Join the Safari Contest. The process of selecting a winner is closely modelled on that of the election of the Doge of Venice; I think […]

MP3 I might have mentioned it before but it bears repeating, Tom Morello is an incredible guitar player. Or electric-guitarist at least. I can’t get into the Watchman stuff. He makes me want to buy a bunch of effects pedals and mess around with them. Part of the Guitar Riffs for Ukulele series.

Jim D’Ville recently released a DVD teaching you how to Play Ukulele By Ear and has been blogging helpful hints and interviews with ukers from the hugely knowledgeable to the clueless but handsome. So I turned the tables on him and coaxed a few my tips out of him. What does ‘playing by ear’ mean? […]

Wisdom Tooth – Twenty Sixty Four (MP3) Wisdom Tooth – Cathedral Park (MP3) Wisdom Tooth – I’ll Be Around If You Want to Talk (MP3) Via CLLCT I featured Wisdom Tooth a while back but, with her having a Google-proof name, I’d given up on hearing anything from her again. Luckily, Tinyfolk Tweeted to let […]

MP3 “Hey, they took my riff, made it a whole lot better and introduced it to a new generation. Sue them!” The picking on this one is quite tricky. I’m playing the first half of it bass-style – alternate picking with index and middle fingers. But switching to using thumb and middle finger for the […]

This week’s picks includes Argentine ukulele from Coqui Reca, Max the Ukulele Punk Rocker being his usual calm and restrained self in hospital, Craig Robertson playing with the lights on, Aaron Keim doing a suspiciously complicated “two chord” song, Dr Dre remixed and plenty more.