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Learning – I’m loving Jonathan Lewis’s Irish Tunes for Campanella Ukulele. Here’s the campanella primer he wrote in case you missed it. – Garfunkel & Oates have released two books of sheet music for their songs. – Uke Nut’s tab for Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto Adagio. Videos – SydneyUke is going great guns in the current […]

David Beckingham – Blind Blake (Tab) Here’s another great tab by David Beckingham. This time of a tune by, ragtime blues innovator, Blind Blake. Here are a few notes on the tune from David: The arrangement has Blake’s intro, but I didn’t play it in the clip – mainly ‘cos it’s hard to fit it […]

I’m a big fan of campanella style picking on the ukulele and of Jonathan Lewis’s playing. So it’s no surprise I love Jonathan’s new ebook Irish Tunes for Campanella Ukulele. It’s a great selection of arrangements. I asked Jonathan if he’d like to do a guest post and he was kind enough to agree. So […]

Jonathan Coulton – First of May (Chords) Warning for those who don’t get the name of the blog and complain about the swearing: this song contains multiple uses of the fuck word. Warning for everyone else: the album version of the song is tuned slightly flat. But you can play along with the live version […]

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New Releases A whole lot of new uke records: – Traditionalists The Ukulele Uff and Lonesome Dave Trio’s self titled record. – Two new ones from Seeso: Little Brother and Kuya. – Shredder Danilo Vignola’s Ukulele Revolver. – And the experimental williwaw’s poem tones. Videos – Ben’s Ukulele Road Trips – a worldwide trip meeting […]

Massive Attack – Teardrop (Tab) Teardrop is one of my all time favourite songs. As well as the original Massive Attack version (used as the theme tune to House) there have been a bunch of great covers. The version by Jose Gonzalez and Acoustic Labs’ instrumental guitar take on it had a big influence on […]

The last time I reviewed ukulele chord finder apps back in 2010 I wasn’t that impressed. Time to find out if the situation has improved at all with a review of five apps that have been released since. I’ve scored the apps out of 20 with five points available in each of these categories: Chords: […]

Schmoyoho – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Chords) Netflix’s new comedy show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is absolutely hilarious. And it has an insanely catchy theme tune by songifiers and occasional ukers Schmoyoho which I felt the need to ukeify. First job: put a capo on the first fret. Suggested Strumming I like to do just down strums […]