Here’s a useful site that’ll help you transfer guitar tabs to ukulele. Obviously, it’ll take a bit of reworking afterwards but it looks very useful. Eleuke USA are on a big publicity drive at the moment and they’ve just announced a new contest that starts in June. It’s the usual video contest affair. The big [...]

Train – Hey Soul Sister (Chords) Yes, I’ve finally caved. The endless requests, the hundreds of people turning up at the site looking for it, Ritek making me feel guilty about it, ukulele-tabs.com getting ganked. And then there’s the sensible part of me that thinks, “It’s only a damn song. If people just want to [...]

A few ideas for people who want to start making their own arrangements of tunes. For this post I’ll be using Ode to Joy because the melody is very simple and you can play it against one chord (in this case C). Here’s the snippet: MP3 You’ll have to forgive any sniffles, coughs and hocked [...]

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Anarchy in the UK (Chords) I was tempted to bust out some Boyoyo Boys licks, but this was the only choice for the Malcolm McLaren tribute post. Twiddly Bits The chords for this one are pretty simple, but there are plenty of opportunities for showing off as well There’s [...]

The idea behind these little snippets is that you memorize them and roll them out at an appropriate moment to make yourself look like you have a quick wit and a huge repertoire (or make yourself look like a smart-alec knob). Cheesy Joke MP3 If you had a drum you’d go ba-dun tsss. But you’ve [...]

I’m not quite sure if I’m allowed to post Buke & Gass. The ‘Buke’ part of the name comes from the modified baritone ukulele they use. It might not be a ukulele but I’m willing to overlook the ’4 strings good, 6 strings bad’ commandment because they make a wonderful racket. Also this week: the [...]

The more I hear of Mya-Moe resonator ukes, the more I’m dying to have one. Particularly the lap-steels. There’s this non-lap tenor up on eBay at the moment. Another name that’s been gradually moving up my gimme-list is Gibson. This Gibson Uke 1 is beautiful. At the other end of the condition scale, this beaten [...]

Jake plays for Google, chats ukulele and – my favourite part – does a Q&A in this hour long appearance at GoogleTalks. Ukulele April Fool of the year goes to this article from NPR about the discovery of demos from a very young Kurt Cobain including, “”Nixon Must Die (Or Resign)”… “Shazam!”; and the collection’s [...]

I thought while I had my baritone out for the Jonsi tab, I’d do a long overdue post of Patrick Wolf’s Gypsy King. The first thing you’ll have to do is retune the uke. The tuning is DGCE – so you need to tune the B-string up a semitone. The time signature of it is [...]

The ukulele seems to attract more than its share of bullshit. So here’s a list of stuff – much of which I may have propagated at some point – that whiffs heavily of balls. Some of these are written from a devil’s-advocate perspective and I haven’t made my mind up on some issues. So feel [...]