Scotland the Brave (Tab) UPDATE: Scotland the Brave (Tab – Full Version) (midi) It’s Burns Night on Friday and Andy (who you might know as zym if you’ve been following the comments) requested a tab of Scotland the Brave for his Burns night turn. When I was researching the song (believe it or not, I […]

Say Hello to Mr Snake (mp3) Snake Suspenderz – Get It Right the First Time (mp3) That’s How Judy (mp3) Keeping Up with My Jones (mp3) via their website. If you’ve been hanging around the online ukulele community for any length of time, you’ll have come across Howlin’ Hobbit. He’s one of the biggest ukulele […]

The Last of the Summer Wine (tab) The saddest passing of 2007 was that of theme tune legend Ronnie Hazlehurst. He wrote the theme tunes of a great raft of shows from the 70s and 80s (none of which will mean much to you if you live outside the UK). Watch Matt Berry (IT Crowd, […]

The winner of the 2007 Online Ukulele Video of the year.

The most head-turning uke on eBay at the moment is this 1930’s Abbott Monarch banjo ukulele. It’s pretty much identical to the one made for George Formby and was part of the near mythical Akira Tsumura collection (I’m going to throw a few allegedlies in at this point just to be safe: allegedly, allegedly). Tsumura […]

Ukulele Underground is up and running with monthly lessons and weekly ‘uke minutes’ from Aldrine Guerrero. James Hill and J Chalmers Doane‘s Ukulele in the Classroom should be out any day now. UPDATE: It’s now up and running. Amy Crehore will be selling Tickler T-shirts on her site from next week. There’ll also be a […]

Lucky Soul – Lips Are Unhappy (Chords) Last.fm’s attempt to get Lucky Soul to Christmas number one might have been a compete disaster, but they did produce my favourite album of last year, The Great Unwanted. Lucky Soul are a modish London band who packed their debut album with perfect pop Motown tunes. It’s a […]

Fingering Positions When the fingering of a certain passage is important, tab will give a guide as to which fingers should be used both for fretting and picking. Fretting Hand The fretting hand (the left hand for right-handed players) is indicated by numbers in circles underneath the tab. The index finger is 1, middle finger […]

Beirut – St Apollonia (Chords) It probably won’t come as a huge shock to you that I enjoyed Beirut’s Flying Club Cup. Ukuleles, brass bands, pretentiousness; what’s not to love? Better still, it came with a website full of videos of the band performing tracks in various rundown areas. There are a couple of uke-heavy […]

It takes a fair bit of gumption to invited comparison to one of the heroes of the ukulele. Luckily for me, Mike was willing to send me a CD so I could check it out. Mike’s been playing ukulele for 35 years and had a knack for it from the start. As a lad, he […]