Videos Concerto for Ukulele Featuring Jake Shimabukuro. Ukes – People have been busy trying strings this week. GotAUkulele tries using fishing line for strings (and The Ukulele Blog considers it). While Uke Nut has a more conventional string comparison. – KoAloha Naupaka. Mango and koa wood, live together in perfect harmony, side by side on […]

Sounds Irish Melody (Tab) A guest tab from Sam Muir today. It’s her simple but effective arrangement of a tune from The Guitarist’s Way by Peter Nuttall and John Whitworth. The tune works well as a solo piece but it’s a perfect piece for ukulele groups as it has parts for all abilities: simple chords […]

Ukulele players love to blow chnks all over the place. It’s a useful technique to have in your arsenal. But it takes some practice to get down. I wrote a full guide to playing them in How to Play Ukulele Strums. But while you’re trying to get them down, here are a few alternatives you […]

Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves a Woman (Chords) It’s been a sad few weeks with three music legends dying: BB King, Ben E King and Percy Sledge. In tribute to Percy Sledge I had to write up one of the greatest cheating songs: When A Man Loves a Woman. Bang a capo on […]

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Learning – Ukulele in the Dark on building fluidity. – Ukulele Go! on learning faster. New Releases – Brendan Maclean’s Thought I’d Cry for You EP (pay what you like) including a track with Neil Gaiman. – Gracie Terzian’s Saints and Poets. Ukes – Kala’s new range of US made ukes: Petaluma. – Cheezy ukuleles. […]

France Gall – Poupée de cire, Poupée de son (Tab) Following on from ABBA, my other favourite Eurovision song is Luxembourg’s 1965 winner: France Gall’s Poupée de cire, Poupée de son (written by Serge Gainsbourg). The only tricky part in this arrangement is the intro. Here I’m picking the A-string with my middle finger and […]

I can’t believe I’m still getting away with this! I started the site on 12th May 2007 without particularly high expectations. I certainly didn’t expect to still be here eight years later with the site close to 100 million page views. That’s a mind-blowing amount to me. I count myself incredibly lucky and privileged to […]

Uke Hunt is eight years old. Apparently eight year olds should be able to form, “complex sentences with few grammatical errors”. I wouldn’t hold your breath for that. Here’s a selection of the stuff I managed to cobble together from half-formed sentences full of grammatical errors in the last year: May 2014 – I released […]

ABBA – Waterloo (Chords) It’s Eurovision next week, so I’m doing my two favourite Eurovision songs this week. I’ll level with you, there are only two Eurovision winners I’d say were great. And the first one is blindingly obvious: Sweden’s 1974 winner by ABBA. Suggested Strumming The main thing: swing your strumming (so the down […]