This is my favorite GUGUG....
The Clash: 
YouTube Channel: GUGUG
Chords and Lyrics: The Clash Police and Thieves - Ukulele
Curt Sheller is a great player and teacher. Check out his site for more performances, tabs, tips and information.
Web Site: CurtSheller.com
The video for this Burt Bacharach song played by Thomas Garoche is so well shot that you can really see the notes he is playing.
Burt Bacharach:
Vimeo: ThomasGaroche
Chords and Lyrics: Burt Bacharach What the World Needs Now - Ukuelele
Ukulele - What the world needs now (is love) from Thomas Garoche on Vimeo.
Philip Fernandez was one of the Play it Forward contest winners at www.ukulelereview.com for this incredible lesson.
YouTube Channel: ChronosXD
Another great performance by Kittenmildew....
Cat Power:
YouTube Channel: KittenMildew
Chords and Lyrics: Cat Power Sea of Love Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Merry Christmas! If you got your first ukulele today, check out Woodshed's excellent guide for newbies.
YouTube Channel: Seeso
Aldrine Guerrero of Ukulele Underground brightens the Holidays with this sing-a-long version of Let it Snow.
YouTube Channel:
Website: www.UkuleleUnderground.com
Lovely version of this Sade song....
Sade:
YouTube Channel: SarahKinlaw
Chords and Lyrics: Sade Jezebel Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
I love this Regina Spektor song, and Wade makes it just that much more fun....
Regina Spektor:
YouTube Channel: WadeJohnston
Chords and Lyrics: Regina Spektor On the Radio Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Al Wood, who you probably know better as Woodshed, the prolific author of the Ukulele Hunt website, may be the most important person in the ukulele universe. His daily blog postings, tabs and chord sheets in countless genres, instructional books, video recommendations, interviews, and links to ukulele information both urbane and inane, have made Ukulele Hunt the de facto system of record for all things uke.
In the last few months, Al has published an exceptional book on How to Play Blues Ukulele, compiled, contributed to and promoted a book by well known tabbers to benefit Ukuleles for Peace, and published a free mini-book, So You've Just Got Your First Ukulele, that I wish had been around when I got my first uke.
His fast fingering in this performance of The Pink Panther Theme explains how he can produce so much:
In the last few months, Al has published an exceptional book on How to Play Blues Ukulele
His fast fingering in this performance of The Pink Panther Theme explains how he can produce so much:
Surprisingly, with all this output, Mr. Wood has said very little about himself. Who is the man behind the ukulele? To find out, we asked Al the following questions:
Donnie Bubbles: Of all the musical instruments in the world, you picked the ukulele. What was it that drew you to the ukulele?
Al Wood: I started playing the guitar at about 13 and was a complete addict. A couple of years later I picked up a ukulele. Because I didn't want to waste time not playing something guitar shaped, I mostly played it while I was walking round the house, sat on the lav etc. I ended up playing it more and more.
I think the main appeal of the ukulele is the strings being inside out - much like my brain.
DB: What is your process for writing ukulele tabs? Do you work a song out by ear, start with sheet music for other instruments, talk to the artists?
AW: For chords, I always work by ear. For tabs, I work by ear if it's played on the ukulele (along with a video if there is one) or if the tune is simple.
Other than that, it varies a great deal. It's probably best to illustrate it with two tunes I'm working on right now.
One is a version of Davey Graham's Angi. I used to play it over and over on the guitar, so I'm very familiar with the tune and how it's played. I'm transposing in my head, using my ears and letting the arrangement develop in slowly when I'm playing it. With this one, I'm not tabbing anything until I've got the entire arrangement pretty well set.
The other one I'm working on is Edward's Lullaby from the film Twilight. For this one, I worked out the right hand of the piano on the uke and the left hand (the chords) on the guitar and tabbed them up. I jiggled the tab around a bit using Guitar Pro until I found the key I thought it would work best on. So now I've got the chords and melody in my head and I'm working up an arrangement by playing it over and over and I'll tab it once it's set.
DB: You are prolific, and almost everything you provide to the ukulele community is generously given free of charge. Do you have a day job to support this hobby/habit?
AW: After a number of jobs in accounts departments, it became obvious that I was completely unemployable. I have real authority issues and it became increasingly difficult not to say things like, "Why are we doing this like complete fucking morons?"
So now I have my own Internet business. And the ukulele stuff is a big part of it - hopefully I'll be able to ditch all the boring stuff and just do the music stuff at some point.
I see Uke Hunt as an investment in the future. Right now, the Internet is a massive opportunity for absolutely anyone to establish themselves in any field. That's mostly due to the big companies being completely clueless. Someone like Mel Bay should be working their asses off to make sure they're top of Google for 'ukulele tabs' and 'ukulele chords', but they're nowhere to be seen. And they certainly shouldn't be leaving the entire ukulele ebook sector to some no-talent English boy.
I think now is the time to build something that's the best in the world before the dip gets too big and the established sites are set in stone.
DB: Is there a Woodwife? Little Woodkids? Woodpets?
AW: No, no and no. I'm a loner at heart. I need time by myself and a lot of it.
DB: An intelligent, yet musically ignorant extra-terrestrial species overthrows the earth and abolishes ukuleles. What do you do to fill the void in your life?
AW: Start an underground newspaper and fight for the overthrow of the evil alien overlords.
Oh, the hours I wasted playing this game, only to waste more hours trying to learn how to play the theme on uke....
James Hill:
Website: UkuleleJames
Sure, you can laugh at the Capt`n now, but in 1975 this was a number one hit and won the Grammy for best record.
Captain and Tennille:
YouTube Channel: TheGentleSurprise
Chords and Lyrics: Captain and Tenille Love Will Keep Us Together Chords and Lyrics
Mark Occhionero of Jazz Ukes and Ukulele Noir provides an excellent lesson for this jazz standard.
Ingrid Michaelson:
Great performance and video work in Ken's two ukulele version of Edgar Sampson's Stompin' at the Savoy for the Bushman Contest.
Benny Goodman:
Louis Armstrong:
YouTube Channel: KenMiddletonUkulele
Check out Ukulele Underground for a complete video lesson for this great Cure song.
Aldrine Guerrero:
The Cure:
Video Lesson: Ukulele Lesson 1 - Love Song
From Woodshed at UkuleleHunt/How-To-Play-Ukulele: "Ukuleles for Peace is one of the most deserving charities around. It was set up by Israeli ukulelist Paul Moore to bring together Jewish and Palestinian children into a ukulele orchestra to play together, make friends and build links between the communities that stretch far beyond the group itself.
To keep the project going and expanding, they need funding to provide ukuleles, kazoos and other accoutrements and that’s why the net’s best ukulele tabbers have got together to create an ebook with all the proceeds going directly to Ukuleles for Peace."
Learn more at: http://ukulelesforpeace.com/
My new favorite Bushman Contest entry....
Hall and Oats:
YouTube Channel: daniellesmagic
Chords and Lyrics: Hall and Oates Rich Girl Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Come on, you know you love it....
Village People:
YouTube Channel: ukustanzie
Chords and Lyrics: Village People YMCA Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
I didn`t think this song would work on a uke...it`s not the first time I was wrong....
Boomtown Rats:
YouTube Channel: GrumpyCoyoteTunes
Chords and Lyrics: Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays - Ukulele - Easier
Chords and Lyrics: Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays - Ukulele - Harder
We are living in a ukulele renaissance period. Jake and James are pushing the technical bounds, we have great tabbers like Dom and Woodshed, and more and more people are picking up the instrument.
The thing I am most excited to see is artists pushing the instrument into uncharted sonic areas. One such artist, Merrill Garbus, who performs and records as tUnE-YaRdS, creates music that no one would immediately associate with the ukulele. Her songs rock and swing and kick with all the fun of the first punk wave, and are as abrasive as they are hummable.
This song, Jumping Jack, recorded live at the Forward Music Festival in Madison, WI, can be found on her album BiRd-BrAiNs.
Merrill graciously agree to participate in the following interview:
Donnie Bubbles: First off, what did you do to that ukulele? Is that a pickup under all that duct tape? Did you make other modifications?
Merrill Garbus: Hmm. Well, my original uke was stolen at a show quite a few months ago now, and the mistakes I made on that one I tried not to make again (namely drilling a hole into it.) I have a Schatten autoharp pick-up mounted just below the sound hole. I got the pick-up in a hurry right before a tour, and the autoharp was the only one they had in stock. I have a lot of trouble with feedback (which probably has a lot to do with it being an autoharp pick-up, but I'm sort of attached to the sound now.) Because of the feedback I stuff most of the instrument with paper towels I find in the bathrooms of clubs, and then I use hockey tape to tape up the hole and secure the pick-up wires, etc.
The only other "modification" is that although it's a tenor ukulele, I tune it like a baritone, with the lowest toned string as a G, instead of a C as people tell me tenors should be tuned. My mom picked up my first instrument at an Army/Navy store in Maine and there was no one there to tune it correctly, so I sort of guessed, and then the songs came, and I couldn't turn back. I stick paper underneath some of the strings on the upper bridge because they're a bit loose on the instrument.
DB: Your sound is very unique, but I can't stop thinking of other artists while listening to your album, BiRd-BrAiNs. Songs remind me of Nirvana, Laurie Anderson, Billie Holiday and the Soweto rock of the 90's. Who do you think is the most influential on your musical style?
MG: Those are cool comparisons, and great that they're so disparate. There are many influences that pop into and out of this album. In making it I realized just how much of the 1980's are in my blood, which is maybe why it felt so appropriate to release it on cassette tape. Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual album, Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Graceland, that's all in there. People tend to pick up on the African influence, which includes much music from Kenya and Tanzania where I spent some time, as well as Pygmy music of Central African Republic, dance music from Congo, and Johnny Clegg & Savuka from South Africa. I'm also an a cappella nerd, so anything having to do with multi-layered voices, doo-wop, etc., makes me a little nutso.
So to answer WHO is the biggest influence on this album? M.I.A. If I had to pick one person that made me want to do my own thing as a woman and explode onto recording devices all the sounds I have in my head, it's M.I.A. And Woody Guthrie. See, I can't even pick one person if I try.
DB: When you play live, you build your songs on short loops on stage and then play and sing along with them. When you are writing, do you start with these loops and pull the melody and lyrics out of them, or do you create the other way around?
MG: The loops definitely came out of a need for accompaniment, so I'd say usually I'm writing songs that I will later work out on the looping pedal for the live show. When I write a song I'm thinking about it pretty spatially, as in I'm considering the space it takes up, sonically and even visually. (I don't know if that exactly describes it, but I've been trying to articulate it to myself lately, and that's what I've come up with.) I've found it hard, because of the repetitive nature of the loop, to find the movement and space there, so I tend to work the other way, dealing with the live performance of a song after it's written.
But that said, because I was on tour so much this fall, I got really into improvising live with the looping pedal. I wouldn't say I was writing full songs on it, but I started to experiment with layering vocal lines, and then pounding out beats on the floor tom and looping that, and it was all very satisfying. I did actually come up with a song that way, which is all about repetition and a sort of meditative, driving beat, so I suppose the pedal is influencing me more than I think it is.
DB: At first glance, with the over-modulation and distortion techniques used on many tracks, your music is jarring, yet there are so many sweet, quiet moments on the disc. Do you feel you use these two poles more for balance, or juxtaposition?
MG: Probably a bit of both. I tend to loathe art and music that is oversimplified. Human beings are complex, I'm complex, you're complex. Music that contains no complexity, no tension, doesn't move me or affect me, so I seem to avoid it. I love simplicity, but even the simple moments on that album seem to have some twist to them that makes them weird, or uncomfortable, complicated. I also fear making music that doesn't inspire action in people. I don't want people to fall asleep, I want them to wake the heck up. Whatever that means: dancing, crying, yelling at me, cringing, dreaming, anything but falling into inaction, lifelessness. So spitting an odd sound out here and there and adding some thorns to the rose-songs always seems like a survival mechanism to me as a songwriter.
And balance, yes; perhaps I try to balance things too much, compulsively. But compositionally, whether it's about the composition of the entire album, or one song, or even a verse of a song, I am concerned with balance and proportion. If you work towards balance as a general rule, then you can wield imbalance as a powerful tool whenever you want to.
DB: I have seen footage of you playing violin. Are you classically trained? Did the violin influence your choice to play ukulele, or was it some other factor?
MG: Not classically trained, and you are kind to use the words "playing" and "violin" in reference to me! My dad plays Old Timey fiddle and he taught me after high school. I love playing the fiddle because of the double-stops, or two strings played at once. The fiddle can create this real blanket of sound, through drone and texture. I first started on the uke because I was a puppeteer and writing a puppet opera in which I needed an instrument that would fit in my puppet stage. When I picked up the tenor uke, it had the same power as the fiddle to create sound that was rich and dense at the same time as being flexible and open. I had never thought about the connection between those two instruments before, but they do have that in common. And with both, you don't have to do much to create a sound that is pretty enthralling and even physically pleasing. For someone like me with instrument phobia, both were perfect objects to pick up and play and enjoy, right there on the spot.
Merrill Garbus: Hmm. Well, my original uke was stolen at a show quite a few months ago now, and the mistakes I made on that one I tried not to make again (namely drilling a hole into it.) I have a Schatten autoharp pick-up mounted just below the sound hole. I got the pick-up in a hurry right before a tour, and the autoharp was the only one they had in stock. I have a lot of trouble with feedback (which probably has a lot to do with it being an autoharp pick-up, but I'm sort of attached to the sound now.) Because of the feedback I stuff most of the instrument with paper towels I find in the bathrooms of clubs, and then I use hockey tape to tape up the hole and secure the pick-up wires, etc.
The only other "modification" is that although it's a tenor ukulele, I tune it like a baritone, with the lowest toned string as a G, instead of a C as people tell me tenors should be tuned. My mom picked up my first instrument at an Army/Navy store in Maine and there was no one there to tune it correctly, so I sort of guessed, and then the songs came, and I couldn't turn back. I stick paper underneath some of the strings on the upper bridge because they're a bit loose on the instrument.
DB: Your sound is very unique, but I can't stop thinking of other artists while listening to your album, BiRd-BrAiNs. Songs remind me of Nirvana, Laurie Anderson, Billie Holiday and the Soweto rock of the 90's. Who do you think is the most influential on your musical style?
MG: Those are cool comparisons, and great that they're so disparate. There are many influences that pop into and out of this album. In making it I realized just how much of the 1980's are in my blood, which is maybe why it felt so appropriate to release it on cassette tape. Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual album, Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Graceland, that's all in there. People tend to pick up on the African influence, which includes much music from Kenya and Tanzania where I spent some time, as well as Pygmy music of Central African Republic, dance music from Congo, and Johnny Clegg & Savuka from South Africa. I'm also an a cappella nerd, so anything having to do with multi-layered voices, doo-wop, etc., makes me a little nutso.
So to answer WHO is the biggest influence on this album? M.I.A. If I had to pick one person that made me want to do my own thing as a woman and explode onto recording devices all the sounds I have in my head, it's M.I.A. And Woody Guthrie. See, I can't even pick one person if I try.
DB: When you play live, you build your songs on short loops on stage and then play and sing along with them. When you are writing, do you start with these loops and pull the melody and lyrics out of them, or do you create the other way around?
MG: The loops definitely came out of a need for accompaniment, so I'd say usually I'm writing songs that I will later work out on the looping pedal for the live show. When I write a song I'm thinking about it pretty spatially, as in I'm considering the space it takes up, sonically and even visually. (I don't know if that exactly describes it, but I've been trying to articulate it to myself lately, and that's what I've come up with.) I've found it hard, because of the repetitive nature of the loop, to find the movement and space there, so I tend to work the other way, dealing with the live performance of a song after it's written.
But that said, because I was on tour so much this fall, I got really into improvising live with the looping pedal. I wouldn't say I was writing full songs on it, but I started to experiment with layering vocal lines, and then pounding out beats on the floor tom and looping that, and it was all very satisfying. I did actually come up with a song that way, which is all about repetition and a sort of meditative, driving beat, so I suppose the pedal is influencing me more than I think it is.
DB: At first glance, with the over-modulation and distortion techniques used on many tracks, your music is jarring, yet there are so many sweet, quiet moments on the disc. Do you feel you use these two poles more for balance, or juxtaposition?
MG: Probably a bit of both. I tend to loathe art and music that is oversimplified. Human beings are complex, I'm complex, you're complex. Music that contains no complexity, no tension, doesn't move me or affect me, so I seem to avoid it. I love simplicity, but even the simple moments on that album seem to have some twist to them that makes them weird, or uncomfortable, complicated. I also fear making music that doesn't inspire action in people. I don't want people to fall asleep, I want them to wake the heck up. Whatever that means: dancing, crying, yelling at me, cringing, dreaming, anything but falling into inaction, lifelessness. So spitting an odd sound out here and there and adding some thorns to the rose-songs always seems like a survival mechanism to me as a songwriter.
And balance, yes; perhaps I try to balance things too much, compulsively. But compositionally, whether it's about the composition of the entire album, or one song, or even a verse of a song, I am concerned with balance and proportion. If you work towards balance as a general rule, then you can wield imbalance as a powerful tool whenever you want to.
DB: I have seen footage of you playing violin. Are you classically trained? Did the violin influence your choice to play ukulele, or was it some other factor?
MG: Not classically trained, and you are kind to use the words "playing" and "violin" in reference to me! My dad plays Old Timey fiddle and he taught me after high school. I love playing the fiddle because of the double-stops, or two strings played at once. The fiddle can create this real blanket of sound, through drone and texture. I first started on the uke because I was a puppeteer and writing a puppet opera in which I needed an instrument that would fit in my puppet stage. When I picked up the tenor uke, it had the same power as the fiddle to create sound that was rich and dense at the same time as being flexible and open. I had never thought about the connection between those two instruments before, but they do have that in common. And with both, you don't have to do much to create a sound that is pretty enthralling and even physically pleasing. For someone like me with instrument phobia, both were perfect objects to pick up and play and enjoy, right there on the spot.
In March, Merrill is touring with her other band, Sister Suvi, and then opening for Thao with the Get Down Stay Down in April.
Band Website: myspace
Radiohead is so much about the sound that it's surprising how recognizable their songs are when you strip them down. You could name this tune in three strums.
Radiohead:
YouTube Channel: craigwalkerfromparis
Chords and Lyrics: Radiohead Karma Police Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele - Click More Info
Chords and Lyrics: Radiohead Karma Police Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele - Chordie
The Baron's rock n' roll voice is a great match for the ukulele.
John Lennon:
YouTube Channel: BaronK69
Got to love the Psychedelic Furs...no really, it's a law.
Psychedelic Furs:
YouTube Channel: Ukisociety
Chords and Lyrics: Psychedelic Furs Inside You Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Keonepax, who already had the name uketoob on YouTube (sorry, didn't think to check for it before I bought the domain) includes the chords and lyrics with all of his songs.
Stevie Wonder:
YouTube Channel: keonepax
Ukebucket has a new album for sale and an album of covers to download for free.
Ukebucket:
The Cure:
YouTube Channel: ukebucket
Chords and Lyrics: The Cure Pictures of You Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
One of Joel's many entertainment projects is the "Uke Request the Song" series where he plays your favorite song on the ukulele.
Joel van Vliet:
David Gray:
YouTube Channel: TheJoelvanVlietShow
Website: http://www.joelvanvliet.com/
Chords and Lyrics: David Gray This Year's Love Chord and Lyrics - Ukulele
Steve Martin playing this song in the Jerk (I know, it was really Lyle Ritz) is one of the reason I play a uke.
Lyle Ritz:
YouTube Channel: boozelele
Chords and Lyrics: Tonight You Belong to Me - Ukulele
Chords and Lyrics: Tonight You Belong to Me - UkuleleHunt
Wade was a member of the YouTube Ukulele Orchestra backing up Julia Nunes at the big live event.
Julia Nunes:
YouTube Channel: wadejohnston
Chords and Lyrics: Beatles Across the Universer Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Aldrine Guerrero & Ryan Esaki of the Ukulele Underground throwing down Bodysurfing by legendary ukulele artist, Ohta-san.
Aldrine Guerrero:
Herb Ohta-San:
Website: UkuleleUnderground
If the devil really wanted your soul, he would come to you singing this song with a ukulele, not screaming through $50K worth of amps.
Iron Maiden:
YouTube Channel: BaronK69
Nice little rag from Howlin` Hobbit...
YouTube Channel: howlinhobbit
Website: http://www.howlinhobbit.com/
Incredible technic and amazing soul in everything he plays...
James Hill:
Dick Dale:
Website: www.ukulelejames.com
Tabs: Misirlou Tabs - Ukulele
The Minor Constellations have a new album out now.
Article: PoughkeepsieJournal
Band Website: http://myspace.com/minorconstellations
Da, dunt, da, da, dunt, dunt, dunt, da. Da, dunt, da, da, dunt, dunt, dunt, da...
The Champs:
YouTube Channel: ukulelecoolia
Another Bushman entry and one of my favorite Vampire Weekend songs.
Vampire Weekend:
YouTube Channel: katiephampham
Masterful rendition of this Jimi Hendrix song...
Jimi Hendrix:
YouTube Channel: jasonarimoto
Chords and Lyrics: Jimi Hendrix Little Wing Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Bluesy fingerpicking with a nice swing...
YouTube Channel: nealpaisley
Tip from Neal on playing the song: "It's a pretty simple 'A' progression, easy once you get the right hand to cooperate."
This performance was suggested by Allison R from the fleamarket bulletin board.
It's a classic, and a joke, and you can play it on a ukulele - everyone wins!
YouTube Channel: WeldBurnz
Every version of this song is so different that I had a hard time picking just one.
YouTube Channel: JimKeyes1
Jon Brion, a personal favorite, is one of the most interesting musicians working today, both as a performer and a producer. Based on the web server stats for her last video, sweetafton23 is one of your favorites.
Jon Brion:
YouTube Channel: sweetafton23
I can't decide if Marie Darling reminds me more of Coco Rosie or Regina Specktor...
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/mariedarling
Captain of Uke's Moveable Major Chord Form Lesson is very helpful for growing your chord vocabulary.
YouTube: CaptainofUke
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britian have two new albums coming out this month.
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britian:
Nirvana:
Band Website: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britian
Chords and Lyrics: Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
At Oxford University, Andy Eastwood made history as the first musician ever to give his degree recital on the ukulele. Here, he rips up the banjo uke doing the William Tell Overture.
YouTube Channel: AceMusicOnline
Dominator makes some of the best tabs for ukulele, and his step by step instructions for this great song are fantastic.
Website: http://www.dominator.ukeland.com/
Any man with the gumption to rhyme "beer" with "see her" (say it like Marge Gunderson "be-er") deserves to win the MacArthur Genius Grant. Jacob allows you to download all three of his excellent album from his website for free. My personal favorite song is brains, brains.
YouTube Site: creebobby
Website: http://creebobby.com
Lyrics: You're In Love Again
Interview: ukelelehunt.com
Great original song and fun video from Max the Ukulele Punk Rocker.
YouTube Channel: maxevancejpn
Web Site: http://ukulelepunk.blog60.fc2.com/
Koko Kaina was another performer suggested by Jodi Mathews who has impeccable taste.
YouTube Channel: KokoKaina
Aldrine over at Ukulele Underground posted a great tutorial for the classic ukulele jam song Drop Baby, Drop. This hapakster performance demonstrates the song well.
The Mana'o Company:
YouTube Channel: hapakster
Tutorial: Ukulele Underground
Tabs: The Mana’o Company Drop Baby Drop Tabs - Ukulele - Look for the Poi Dog Post
Applesauce and Sabrina learn about the magic box and sing one of their favorite (Byrds) Dylan songs.
Bob Dylan:
The Byrds:
YouTube Channel: thewoolgatherers
The Gentle Surprise was recommended to me by Jodi Mathews on the Fleamarket Bulletin Board. All their songs are great, but this one has been stuck in my head for weeks now.
YouTube Channel: TheGentleSurprise
The Barnkickers are a musical father-daughter duo performing original songs and familiar classics in a vintage style, utilizing a variety of acoustic instruments.
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bassfiddlesteve
Web Site: http://www.myspace.com/thebarnkickers
Web Site: http://www.myspace.com/
This is one of my favorite tabs - the intro is instantly recognizable on ukulele.
YouTube Channel: seeso
Chords and Lyrics: Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
A flamenco style original from Jake.
James Clem is a famous blues guitarist. He plays with a loose confidence that is inspiring.
YouTube Channel: mrbissonet
Web Site: http://www.jamesclem.com/
Interview: Ukulele Hunt Interview with James Clem
Tabs: Sunny Side of the Street Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
This is the first in Coveywood's excellent series of strum lessons.
YouTube Channel: COVEYWOOD
Start your Halloween off right with this spooky video by Deach.
YouTube Channel: deach69
Lyrics: Type O Negative Love You to Death Lyrics
YouTube Channel: deach69
Lyrics: Type O Negative Love You to Death Lyrics
Michael provides his own rhythm section for this early start on Halloween.
Website: http://www.myspace.com/newamericanfolk
Kids, don`t try this at home....
Website: http://www.myspace.com/victoriavox
YouTube Channel: victoriavox
Steven Sproat of UkeLounge demonstrates the fan stroke with Sweet Georgia Brown.
YouTube Channel: UKELOUNGE
Website: www.ukelounge.com
Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele signed a record deal last week with Paw Tracks, the Animal Collective's imprint.
Website: http://www.myspace.com/dentmay
I am a sucker for Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd. Ukemike says he has another "old Pink" song coming soon with some extra-extra-special effects....
YouTube Channel: Ukemike1
Chords and Lyrics: Pink Floyd Arnold Layne Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Yodel + Ukulele = Yodelele. James is making that lovely noise with two plastic knives and a chopstick. Ralph is channeling a demon of some sort...
We are getting near our storage limit for podcast episodes. It looks like somewhere between 25 to 30 episodes we will have to delete the oldest to publish the newest. If you were holding off on an episode, now is the time.
Donnie Bubbles
EasyUkulele does it again - these clear and concise instructions are spot on.
Favorite Reggae Tab: Bob Marley No Woman Ukulele - Crazy Dawg ( o )==::
This ditty is an original by Amber Nash, better know as Ukebucket. Her husband gets my nod for best supporting actor in a uke video.
YouTube Channel: Ukebucket
Original Song: No Tabs, Chords or Lyrics
More Info: Ukulele Hunt Article
The RISA Uke Solid is the one I have my eye on for when I go electric. Note - if you are into learning the blues, check out Woodshed's new book, How to Play Blues Ukulele.
The Triplet Strum belongs in your "Ukulele Swiss Army Knife." Now matter how many mistakes you make plodding though a song, you can always finish big with this strum.
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Tab: Up Thumb, Down Ring, Down Index, Repeat as Needed!
So far, this is my favorite from this year`s Bushman Video Contest entries. It is going to be a tough competition this year.
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Original Song - No Tabs, Chords or Lyrics
Stuart Crout, who professes to be crazy, set out to prove his point by building the Kazoo-Keylele - a hybrid mini-piano, ukulele and kazoo.
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Chords and Lyrics: Europe The Final Countdown Chords and Lyrics - Ukulele
Lovely song, but it makes my Fluke-Envy itch.
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Chords and Lyrics: Platters Only You Chords and Lyrics
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