BY FRED SOKOLOW | FROM THE SPRING 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE
Chords tend to move in certain predictable patterns, and when you’re aware of these patterns you recogn... Read More...
BY DANIEL WARD | FROM THE SPRING 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE
In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for “tied together”; French lié; German gebunden) ind... Read More...
Last Friday, Ukulele magazine hosted our 3rd Annual Holiday Strum Along. We invited anyone local to the San Francisco Bay Area to come join us at Kaleidoscope C... Read More...
BY HEIDI SWEDBERG | FROM THE WINTER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
For years, I didn’t use a strap on my ukulele. Why on earth would I need one on such a tiny thing? Th... Read More...
BY HEIDI SWEDBERG with PHOTOS STEVE SZILAGYI| FROM THE WINTER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
Ready for a strap? Some straps don’t require buttons, but most do. You can ... Read More...
3 New Uke CDs Reviewed
Jake Shimabukuro
The Greatest Day
Given how Jake’s groundbreaking, off-the-cuff recording of him playing George Harrison’s “While My ... Read More...
BY AARON KEIM | FROM THE WINTER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
I have a fondness for objects that last, the kinds of things that are made to outlive their first few own... Read More...
BY JAMES HILL
Whether you’re a strummer, a hummer, a picker, or a singer, you need to know the pentatonic scale. The good news is it’s easy to play and it’s fo... Read More...
BY JIM D'VILLE | FROM THE WINTER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
The technique of solfège involves assigning the notes of a scale a particular syllable, and then practic... Read More...
BY GREG OLWELL | FROM THE WINTER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
The joy of playing ukulele is palpable in this pair of images taken by the War Department’s Bureau of Pu... Read More...
