Your Ukulele Can Help You Conquer Stage Fright
One of the first things you might notice when you attend a ukulele festival is how many new players there are, and how happy they seem
James Hill’s Arrangement for Ukulele Orchestra
BY JAMES HILL // FROM THE FALL 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Theme from La Réjouissance (G. F. Handel), arr. J. Hill These days anyone can access original manuscripts for most public-domain works. The free Petrucci Music Library made it…
Ukulele Lesson: Daniel Ward’s Backwards Method for Learning Songs
BY DANIEL WARD | FROM THE FALL 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE This is it. Stepping out onto the stage, you know this is no group sing-along. You are solo. Perhaps it’s a new arrangement by James Hill, a cool…
Unlock the Truth of A Song with Only 3 Chords
BY JIM D’VILLE | FROM THE SUMMER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard wrote and co-wrote thousands of three-chord country gems including “Heartaches by the Number,” “I Fall to Pieces,” and “I’ve Got a Tiger by the…
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Uke Tales: Ukulele Number One
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy Since this is my first installment for this new online feature, I thought it appropriate to tell the story of my very first ukulele. In 1956, when I was just two-and-a-half years old, my mother, father and I…
Nailing It: A Revealing Look at the Hands of Top Ukulele Players
Here, the ukulele’s right-hand women and men share the long and short of their rhythm styles and manicure strategies for a wide variety of musical styles.
Why I Uke: Cynthia Kinnunen’s Soul-Nourishing Return to Ukulele
It was entirely because of the ukulele that I came back to playing piano and singing, and have become so passionate about sharing music with others through teaching and hosting events.
Get Great Time: How to Use a Metronome—and Enjoy It
However you feel about the metronome, spending some quality time with one will not hurt.
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The Ukulele World Congress Turns X!
Words by Jim D’Ville // Photos by author unless noted When the glaciers from the last Ice Age ceased their advance in south central Indiana some 12,000 years ago, the geologic upheaval created the magnificent sylvan paradise that is now…