Celebrate Ten Years Of Ukulele Magazine with Iconic Uke Artists, Albums, and Words of Wisdom

To celebrate ten years of Ukulele magazine, we put together a few top-ten lists, highlighting the bright spots in ukulele culture.

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.
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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.
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Want to add some blues to your ukulele repertoire? A good place to start is with one of blues' greatest guitarists and performers, Lead Belly.

Ukulele mecca Elderly Instruments of Lansing, Michigan, celebrated its 50th anniversary this year with a street party in June.