
Uke Scene: A Triumphant Return to the Las Cruces UkeFest
For the 4-piece band the Smoking Jackets, seeing how Las Cruces Ukes nourished its members—even while they were just tiny boxes on a screen—made this year’s festival feel so triumphant.
For the 4-piece band the Smoking Jackets, seeing how Las Cruces Ukes nourished its members—even while they were just tiny boxes on a screen—made this year’s festival feel so triumphant.
In this lesson from our Chord by Chord video series, you'll learn how to borrow chords from outside keys to add a little bit of electricity to your music.
Playing in chord melody style can make one person sound like a full band
In this round of Uke Tales, the ukulele leads to a hair-changing experience; a 1930s Martin Soprano helps memories live on; and ukulele groupies can be found in all ages.
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Having only three chords and a strumming pattern that repeats throughout makes Bob Dylan's "You Aint Goin Nowhere" a perfect song for ukulele players of all ability levels.
Trinidad and Tobago–style calypso is quite different from the “island-style” strum that many ukulele folks use to play some calypso songs
This arrangement uses common chords in non-common fingerings to connect the transitions.
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The ukulele and slack-key guitar virtuoso is dazzling in almost any genre
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!