How to Smooth Out Your Ukulele Transitions Using Legato Techniques
Learning to play smoothly and connecting your notes is one of the most enlightened paths to becoming a better musician, on ukulele or any other instrument.... Read More...
Lessons and Advice
Oh, The Humidity! How to Avoid Ukulele Disaster by Using Humidifiers
By Ukulele StaffHumidity is a bugaboo of the ukulele universe. It’s this invisible force that can wreck your ukulele over time without you even being aware... Read More...
Things About Strings: What You Need to Know About This Vital Part of Your Ukulele
Strings can be a fun and affordable way to conduct your own tone experiments on your ukulele, and not every type of string will sound the same on every ukulele.... Read More...
Daniel Ward Uke Lesson: Get a Handle on Standard and Baritone Chord Shapes
BY DANIEL WARD | FROM THE SPRING 2021 ISSUE OF UKULELEMany famous musicians have lived their entire professional lives using only chord shapes to guide the... Read More...
Jimmie Rodgers’ Hawaiian Music Advocacy + a Ukulele Arrangement of ‘In The Jailhouse Now’
BY AARON KEIM | FROM THE SPRING 2021 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINEJimmie Rodgers (1897–1933) is widely regarded as the “father of country music.” He rose to wi... Read More...
Learn to Improvise the Blues on Ukulele with Chords, Licks, and Solos
By Fred SokolowContemporary ukulele virtuosos like Jake Shimabukuro, James Hill, and Herb Ohta have made it clear that just about any type of music can be ... Read More...
How to Play Bottleneck Blues with Slide on Ukulele
By Fred SokolowUsing a bottleneck or slide is one of the most soulful, bluesy things a guitarist can do—when it’s done right. Slide sounds great when you’r... Read More...
Learn Samantha Muir’s Ukulele Arrangement of ‘Danse Paysanne,’ a Classical Guitar Staple
"Danse Paysanne" is a simple but effective classical piece by the Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) that translates nicely to ukulele in reentrant or low-G tuning.... Read More...
How to Play Earl Scruggs–Style Banjo Rolls on the Ukulele
Because the banjo and the ukulele share a common high G string, right-hand techniques like "Scruggs style" rolls for banjo sound great on the uke!... Read More...
Learn All The Notes in Advance: A Chromatic Scale Solfege Ukulele Lesson
BY JIM D'VILLE | FROM THE WINTER 2020 ISSUE OF UKULELEFirst off, let’s define what solfege is. Simply put, solfege, from the Italian solfeggio, is applying... Read More...