
What’s Your Ukulele Skill Level?
Here's a guide for skill levels from Canadian ukulele school Ruby's Ukes
Here's a guide for skill levels from Canadian ukulele school Ruby's Ukes
Grace VanderWaal captured the imagination of seemingly every audience member the moment when the ‘tween walked onstage with a ukulele to sing a song for her audition on America’s Got Talent. Now, the 13-year-old singer-songwriter, and winner of the popular…
Best known as a master slack-key guitarist, Kaapana always plays the ukulele in performances. He contends that the two instruments can do the same things.
Ledward Kaapana’s prodigious ukulele chops are in full force on “Glass Ball Slack Key,” a spirited showstopper that he sometimes calls “Chicken in the Straw.”
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This transcription is good introduction for players wanting to learn classic 1920s-style strumming and picking
Frank Ferera was the first to record solo ukulele
By Greg Olwell One of the best things that happens with working on a magazine about ukuleles are the family stories that keep popping up. Several times now, it’s happened that I’m visiting a friend and suddenly an old family ukulele is remembered. Sometimes…
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED One lucky winner will receive this gorgeous Ortega Acacia Series RUACA-CC Ukulele. Specs: All Acacia – Open Pore Finish Concert Size Solid Acacia Top & Bottom Acacia Sides Okoume Neck Gold Die Cast Tuners w/ Black Buttons…
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Tremolo, as played on nylon-stringed instruments like the ukulele, is a technique of single-string repetitions that is usually combined with a thumb arpeggio outlining the harmony.
By Jim D’Ville // Photos by Duncan Berry There are tunes you sing for breakfast, And tunes that you sing after noon. But the best tunes of all, are the tunes that you sing, The tunes that you sing in…