What’s Your Ukulele Skill Level?
Here's a guide for skill levels from Canadian ukulele school Ruby's Ukes
Grace VanderWaal Inks Endorsement Deal with Fender
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…
‘You Can Do Anything on the Ukulele’ Lessons from Living Legend Led Kaapana
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.
Learn to Play ‘Glass Ball Slack Key’ from Led Kaapana
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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Gods of Uke: Frank Ferera, an Early Star of Hawaiian Music
Frank Ferera was the first to record solo ukulele
Ukulele Archaeology
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…
Enter to Win This Ortega Acacia Series Ukulele!
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…
Learn to Play the Tremolo Technique on Ukulele
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.
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Tunes In The Dunes 2017 Wrap-up
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…
Tiki Expert Sven Kirsten Traces the Evolution of the Art Form
From the Fall 2017 issue of Ukulele | BY SVEN KIRSTEN The current craze of applying the term “tiki” to everything from Hawaii, or anything made from bamboo, is most unfortunate. It didn’t used to be that way. When I…