
A Beginner’s Guide to Good Ukulele Technique
These tips will help you avoid developing bad habits

These tips will help you avoid developing bad habits

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
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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
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This arrangement uses common chords in non-common fingerings to connect the transitions.

The ukulele and slack-key guitar virtuoso is dazzling in almost any genre