The ukulele show Bossarocker did for Chorlton Arts Radio is now available to listen online. You can hear two hours of ukulele goodness including sessions from Pyjama Party and David Leech on her new website. Dhani ‘son of George’ Harrison is busting out his Dad’s ukes on his new album. Last week‘s video of Peter […]
Archive for June, 2011
I’ve had quite a few people contact me recently with barre chord problems. My main advice is: practice and lots of it. But here are a few more pointers to help you on the way. What’s a Barre Chord? A barre chord is any chord that involves playing more than one string with the same […]
The Vaccines – Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra) Posting So Long and Thanks for All the Fish put my chords-per-song average way out of whack. So time for something nice and simple. Three chords. 80 seconds. Bosh! The original is in Eb, if you want to make it even simpler you can move it down […]
Right bunch of bloody weirdos this week.
After a week looking at cheap ukuleles, back to the ukes only those of you with vast resources who lounge in their ukulele-shaped pool wearing diamond ukulele necklaces. Starting off with a Kamaka signed by Eddie Vedder and used on his album. It’s being auctioned off for charity (read the details here) and has already […]
The outbreak of ukulele stories from last week rolled on. According to the BBC, Steven Sproat reckons too many people are playing the ukulele. A decent article (i.e. Formby is given more suitable prominence) on the Duke of Uke’s troubles (and Neil ‘Mr Amanda Palmer’ Gaiman, Iain Lee and Jeremy Warmsley have been tweeting their […]
Ian Freebairn-Smith – Magnum P.I. Theme (Tab) This one is a complete pain in arse to play. I was originally trying to get it together for Movember. And I still can’t play it properly.
Back when I first started the blog I would bemoan the lack of beginner ukulele books. The situation has improved since then. But I still felt like there wasn’t a definitive book that covered all the important aspects of ukulele playing – particularly the way the ukulele is being played currently. Last year the people […]
Neil Hannon and Joby Talbot – So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (Chords) This has the longest chord list of any song I’ve done. That’s thanks to a key change, a choromatic middle section, some essential inversions and lashings of jazziness. I wrote it up at the behest of Ukulelezo. She, quite sensibly, […]
