Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime… moi non plus Kasabian – Fire The Platters – Twilight Time (From Only Up) RADWIMPS – Zenzenzense (From Your Name) Colleen Ballinger – Toxic Gossip Train

Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Tab) This arrangement of Green Day’s Good Riddance is played with fingerpicking the whole way through (one finger per string picking style). I love the way the intro sounds played that way and fingerpicking brings out the melody. But I originally arranged it strumming so it’s […]

French luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz makes a ukulele out of mushrooms. Somerset man plays ukulele to surgeons who saved his fingers. A lecturer at UMASS has ditched the piano and is using the ukulele to teach music theory. Possibly the most bizarre story I’ve ever seen in fifteen years of doing this: Colleen “MirandaSings” Ballinger responded […]

Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (Tab) Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black has to be one of the best albums of the noughties. I tabbed Rehab a while back. And it’s high time I tackled the title track. The chord progression is Gm – Cm – Eb – D in the verse and chorus. That […]

Watch on YouTube The art of the ukulele video has taken a real bashing recently, so a good time to run down some of the best uke videos of the year so far. If there’s any that I’ve missed you can shoot me a message here. Tracklist Andy Eastwood and Peter Moss – William Tell […]

Warren Zevon/Steve Winwood – Back in the High Life Again (Tab) Back in the High Life Again was originally by Steve Winwood but my version is much closer to Warren Zevon’s cover. To emphasise the Zevonness, my arrangement kicks off with a loose interpretation of Life’ll Kill Ya‘s intro. So long as you’re working within […]

Watch on YouTube Tracklist Mig Martins – Canoeiro Chardonnay – Sweet Island Music Evan J De Silva – Feeling Good Bobby Alu & Foloi Iulia – Fa’afofoga Maia Samoa KimaMusic & Ju Chuva – The News M.J. – Harmony Steven Warren – Schindler’s List Theme sasha samara – Sobering Up Eugene Kurenko – Prelude n.5

Paul Simon – Graceland (Tab) I’ve already (inevitably) covered Call Me Al from Paul Simon’s Graceland. So it’s a good time to follow up with the title track. Intro: The original starts with a bit of strumming before the picking riff. But on the uke there’s a drop in the energy when you go from […]

Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag (Tab) Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag has become a bit of a uke favourite with the UOGB’s version. I haven’t entirely decided if it’s an irresistible earworm or an irritating song with terrible lyrics. But I did have fun playing it. Intro: Muted strums on the g and C-strings, then extra emphasis on […]

Will putting helium in a guitar turn it into a ukulele? The songs people most want to learn to play on ukulele (#1 will leave you completely unshocked). Ukuleleist Iam Tongi has won American Idol. Window Shopping – RIGuitars Bo Diddley style uke. – Lichty build a family of ukuleles from one tree and a […]