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:
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