Blues sounds great on any instrument, including ukulele. This is where you'll find articles about blues on ukulele, including 12-bar blues, slide, soloing, songs, and blues ukulele performances.
Ukulele players who started on guitar are inclined to adapt their guitar skills to the ukulele. Here's how to play blues fingerpicking on ukulele.... Read More...
Want to add some blues to your ukulele repertoire? A good place to start is with one of blues' greatest guitarists and performers, Lead Belly.... Read More...
The blues is really play-it-as-you-feel-it music, so in this lesson we’ll look at how to improvise on the ukulele with blues chords, licks and solos.... Read More...
Nearly everything that can be done on slide guitar can be transferred to the ukulele. Here's how to get started with playing bottleneck slide blues on ukulele.... Read More...
Born from the idea that people think of ukulele as a happy instrument incapable of channeling a sad song, Jim Beloff and Herb Ohta wrote "Blues on a Ukulele" in 2003.... Read More...
In this ukulele lesson, you’ll learn how to solo based on an approach inspired by the blues guitar lexicon. It can also come in handy for rock and country soloing.... Read More...
By Fred Sokolow
Using a bottleneck or slide is one of the most soulful, bluesy things a guitarist can do—when it’s done right. Slide sounds great when you’r... Read More...
BY LIL' REV | FROM THE SPRING 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE
Depending on who’s singing it, this song goes by a half-dozen different names, including “In the Pines,” “Th... Read More...
By Greg Olwell
During a recent swing through Northern California, noted blues, jug band, and ragtime ukulele player Del Rey stopped by our studio for a Ukulele ... Read More...