Ask questions about this lesson HERE.
Play-Along with Aldrine HERE.

Alright UUers, we decided to roll out March’s episode of Uke Minutes a day early, just to help kick off your weekend! So here it is, Uke Lesson 15 – “Island In The Sun”.

This song is one of our favorites by the band Weezer and, judging from the repeat questions about it in the Forum and our email boxes, it looks like the song is one of your favorites as well! So sit back, soak it in, and if you’ve got any other questions about the lesson, you know where to find us.

Stay tuned to UU and hang onto your headstocks, kids – we’re about to unveil another Free Ukulele Give-Away Contest in March, as well as announce the date for the UU Online Open Mic (that we weren’t quite able to fit into February’s madness). Thanks for hanging out with us in the Underground! Hope everyone is feeling awesome, practicing like crazy, and jammin’ on … ’til the break of dawn.

Aloha,
-UU Staff

Questions from:
Alex Wang
Nicholas Allen

Where do you get bling?
What are the chords for land down under?

Yook minutes 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRG8Eg…

All these and more on UKE GOT MAIL!

Also THANK YOU! Kat_Naso for the awesome hat!

-UU Staff

We’re back from Oahu just in time for another week of live ukulele lessons! Tune in at 2pm HST to get your ukulele learning on!

>>—————– Live Ukulele Lessons with Aldrine Guerrero ——————-<<

Got questions about this technique? Ask them HERE.

Hey all you UUers!

In last week’s episode of Uke Minutes, Aldrine introduced “One-Handed Harmonics” – which is a cool little ukulele party trick you can use to impress your friends. In this week’s episode, we take this technique to a whole ‘nother level – Artificial Harmonics, here we come!

The concept is pretty simple: the 12th fret gives the loudest harmonic. So if you hold down a certain fret, you could still play the harmonic, as long as you play it 12 frets higher than the fret you’re holding down.

For example, you could play a harmonic on the A string by doing the one-handed harmonic technique on the 12th fret. However if you hold down the 2nd fret using your left hand, you would need to play the one-handed harmonic technique 12 frets higher (on the 14th fret). So basically just add 12 to the fret number that you’re holding down, and you’re all set!

If you have any questions about this (or anything else) check us out in the Forum. And if you figure out anything cool using this technique, please post a link so we all can see!

Hope your weekend is flippin’ fantastic …

Aloha,
-UU Staff

Questions from Lou Kriegisch and Logan Blackwelder

How do get longer sounding notes? what with the glasses? all these answered on this weeks episode of uke got mail.

links!
http://www.ukuleleunderground.com
http://www.bigislandukulele.com

-UU Staff

Tune in this week for another live ukulele lesson session with Aldrine. Starts at 2pm HST, (4pm PST).

>>———– Live Ukulele Lessons with Aldrine Guerrero ————<<

So who won a brand new Kala Koa Concert, Cedar-Top Ukulele?? Click on the video to find out!

A huge MAHALO to MusicGuyMic for providing the ukulele and to everyone who entered! We were amazed by the response and had the pleasure of checking out each one of them (and excruciating pain of trying to pick the winner)! Congrats to the winners and for those of you that didn’t win this time, we’ve got another FREE Ukulele waiting to be won, so keep your eyes peeled for the next UU Contest!

Aloha,
-UU Staff

This week  our MVOW comes from FiPfft. Check out her YouTube channel here.

Sometimes (for some it’s all the time) when you play ukulele, you tend to rock out so hard that you can’t keep still. This video is a perfect example of rocking out with your uke. She ends up in 4-5 different places throughout the video. Enjoy her cover of a Queen song called “Crazy little thing called love” (complete with taxi and motorbike noises) perfect for Valentine’s week. 

Hope you guys all had an awesome Valentine’s day. We all hart you! UU <3 U

-UU staff

Need help with this technique? Ask your questions HERE!

Hey UUers! The time has come, once again, for a brand spankin’ new episode of UKE MINUTES!

This time on Uke Minutes, Aldrine introduces a technique called “One Handed Harmonics” for you to play around with. For a refresher on regular harmonics (the non-one-handed kind) click & watch the replay of the “Harmonics & Palm Muting” Live Uke Lesson from November.

In other news, yesterday’s UU Forum upgrade went through smoother than whipped cream – so feel free to stretch your legs and bask in the newly improved Forum awesomeness *now spam-free*! Check it out, tell us what you think and if you need anything, the we’re always here to help!

Happy Valentine’s Day! UU [hearts] You!

Aloha,
-UU Staff

Hey everybody. We’re doing some site maintenance right now on the forum. We’re getting hit hard by spambots and thats killing our servers. We’ll be back up and running by tonight. Until then, please check out our fine sponsors.

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Thanks people!

-Rayan