Now you’ve got your suggestive zither costume together, here are some tunes you may wish to bone up on before the big night. Addams Family Theme Tune Black Sabbath – Paranoid Chopin – Funeral March Jonathan Coulton – Re: Your Brains Dance Macabre The Decemberists – Shankill Butchers The Doors – People Are Strange The […]

Early in lockdown I published five free tab ebooks to help people keep themselves busy. With restrictions being reintroduced where I am, I thought I’d get ahead of the second wave and put together a few more. Links to the individual posts are below. Or you can download all of them in one zip file […]

If the number of “I bought your ebook 10 years ago and I lost it” emails I’ve got is anything to go by, a whole lot of people are using the lockdown to brush up on their ukulele skills. So I thought I’d gather together some of the tabs I’ve done over the years into […]

I like to keep a list of songs that use just the most common ukulele chords. Arranged by the order people usually learn them in. And with people panic buying ukuleles, I thought it was about time for an update. C, F and G (or G7) If you prefer, you can use G7 in the […]

When I started Uke Hunt back in 2007, the ukulele scene was tiny and largely consisted of weirdos like myself. My goal in starting the blog was to push myself to improve my own playing and pass everything I’d learned onto others. Since then, the ukulele world has boomed in a way that I didn’t […]

We’re about a month out from Christmas so time to start polishing up the festive tunes and learning a few new ones. Here’s a rundown of everything Christmassy on the site. Christmas eBooks I’ve written 3 collections of easy Christmas tabs: How to Play Christmas Ukulele, Christmas Ukulele 2 and Christmas Ukulele 3. You can […]

Now you’ve got your immoral zamboni costume together, here are some tunes you may wish to bone up on before the big night. Addams Family Theme Tune Chopin – Funeral March Jonathan Coulton – Re: Your Brains Dance Macabre The Doors – People Are Strange The Fall – Mansion The Gothic Archies – Freakshow Halloween […]

Warning: This post started out as a bit of fun and ended up breaking my brain. Playing a Round Alone I while back Guido Heistek posted a challenge to play a song in the round by yourself. A round is where the same melody is performed over itself with a different starting point. For example, […]

This post is adapted from my How to Play Blues Ukulele ebook. So if you like these there’s a whole lot more to learn in there. As always, I highly recommend using this as a jumping off point. Play around with these shapes and ideas and see what you can come up with. Outro #1 […]

Uke Hunt turned 12 this month. According to WebMD a 12 year old’s, “brain is able to handle more complex thinking now. This goes hand in hand with his expanding vocabulary. He’s better at putting what he’s feeling into words.” It’s about damn time. Here’s a round-up of the goings-on of the last year. May […]