
Fingerstyle Uke Bootcamp: Get Your Fingers in Shape
These fingerstyle ukulele examples use one chord progression to teach several picking patterns that you can apply to your own music later on.
These fingerstyle ukulele examples use one chord progression to teach several picking patterns that you can apply to your own music later on.
After more than 100 years of tropical weather in Honolulus Makiki Cemetery, the inscription on the gravestone of Augusto Dias is barely legible: AUGUSTO DIAS FALECEO/A 5 DE FEVE DE 1915 COM 73 ANNOS DE EDADE Thats why a group…
BY BILL LEIGH | FROM THE SUMMER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE Ovation has been offering its distinctive bowl-back guitars for more than 50 years. Made of a composite material they call Lyrachord, the round-bodied shape was designed by Charles Kaman—an…
BY GREG OLWELL | FROM THE SUMMER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE One of the first things to know about Pepe Romero Jr. is that he is a member of the illustrious Romero family of classical guitarists. However, instead of following…
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Two things make for a solid strum: You have to hear it and you need to be able to play it.
BY ADAM PERLMUTTER | FROM THE SUMMER 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE During the swing era, guitarists played simple but effective accompaniment—mainly two- and three-note chord voicings, played squarely on downbeats, four strums per bar. The guitar is a considerably larger…