Jayne Henderson discovered her passion (and talent) for making instruments working on a guitar with her father Wayne and went on to found her own company, E.J. Henderson Guitars & Ukuleles.
Technically known as a “modulation,” a step-up key change can significantly raise the emotion and drama of a recording or performance. Here's how to use it in your songwriting.
To celebrate ten years of Ukulele magazine, we put together a few top-ten lists, highlighting the bright spots in ukulele culture.
There's a lot of love for the ukulele in Lansing, Michigan, including the world's largest uke, the week-long Might Uke Day festival, Uke-mecca Elderly Instruments and much more.
Imagine being your own one-person band, comprised entirely of ukuleles! It only takes one small tool: a looper. Here's some advice from the pros on how to use a looper with ukulele.
Learning to play ukulele Hawaiian-style introduces you to skills and a mindset that can improve your all-around musicianship in any genre of music.
In this lesson from our Chord by Chord video series, you'll learn how to play common chord progressions, which will set you up to learn a lot of songs.
In this video lesson by Daniel Ward, learn a low-G chord-melody ukulele arrangement of "Auld Land Syne" that mimics the sound of bagpipes.
This first of a three-part series gets into goal setting and tracking progress, notation, playing cleanly, technique, and more
Though it’s harmonically sophisticated, “La Vie en Rose” translates well to the ukulele and is not too difficult to play. Learn a strummed and chord-melody version.