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Here's the second installment of our much-loved (if occasionally irreverent) holiday video series for 2023
![BUGS ukulele group](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BUGS-ukulele.jpeg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1)
The group is known for hosting the popular central Oregon festival from 2012–2019 and sponsoring ukulele education in local schools
![Anarchy in the Ukulele christmas performance](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/holiday-spirit-2023-1-e1701472121986.png?fit=768%2C466&ssl=1)
You never know where a new Christmas favorite will come from—sometimes it may be right under your feet!
![Moveable Chord Shapes ukulele lesson with Daniel Ward](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ukulele-Lesson-Learn-Moveable-Chord-Shapes-and-Playing-up-the-Neck-with-Daniel-Ward-e1701368189767.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1)
Exploring chords in the open first position and then moving them up the fretboard to understand which fingerings are needed to recreate the same shapes in closed position
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Enter now for your chance to win two All Access subscriptions to Ukulele magazine – one for you and one for a friend!
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This beautifully simple tune, written around 1888 by Black songwriter Gussie Lord Davis, adapts well to the ukulele
![Uke Chord by Chord Lesson 12](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/rev-Uke-Chord-by-Chord-Lesson-12.jpg?fit=755%2C500&ssl=1)
In this lesson from our Chord by Chord series, you'll learn about alternate chord voicings (and why they're so cool.)
![Kawai Carvahlo and his Coast ukuleles](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kawai-Carvalho-Coast-Ukulele-Blossoms-Out-of-a-Family-Tragedy-e1698857352305.jpg?fit=768%2C537&ssl=1)
'I was blown away by how I felt building these instruments, how connected I felt to them, how there was this calming energy to making them.'
![victoria vox grooving in 3 ukulele lesson](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Groove-3-Vox-HD-720p.00_01_19_12.Still001-e1698856195633.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1)
Learn to play waltz, doo-wop, gospel, swinging blues, soul, and other styles in 3/4, 6/8, and 12/8 time signatures
![Jake shimabukuro with ukulele](https://i0.wp.com/ukulelemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jake-Hisashi-Uchida-AIV4307.jpg?fit=768%2C480&ssl=1)
This 22-song album includes friends, influences, and colleagues dating all the way back to his teen years at Kaimuki High School in Honolulu