“All Things Reggae” Ukulele Give-Away WINNER!!
Alright guys, it’s waaay overdue, but we have it right here! The Winner of the Ukulele Underground “All Things Reggae” ukulele give-away video contest … sponsored by Mainland Ukes … and winner of the brand new Concert Mahogany Mainland Ukulele (+ hardshell tweed case) is … [click the video to find out]!! Congrats! Be sure [...]
Uke Minutes 47 – How to Bend a Note
Got questions about Bending or Pre-Bending? Post them HERE. Hey Everybody! Do you smell that!? The warm Saturday breeze is blowing down the lane and around the bend to bring you the fresh scent of UKE MINUTES through the holes in your internet machine! This week’s episode: “How to Bend a Note” (AKA Bends & [...]
Uke Minutes 46 – How to hold Barre (Bar) Chords!
Got questions/comments about this lesson? Post them HERE! Hey UUers from across the land! This new Saturday brings yet another exciting episode of Uke Minutes! We’ve been quite a few emails lately asking about barre chords (or “bar chords“, depending on your pronunciation of the word “tomato”) and how to hold them. The term barre [...]
Uke Minutes 45 – Diminished Chords
Got questions about this episode, post them HERE! Hey UUers! It’s time for another episode of Uke Minutes! In this week’s episode, Aldrine gives you all the ingredients you need for a good old-fashioned diminished chord. Basically it goes a-like-a-this: 1. Use the fretboard diagram to choose any note on your fretboard. 2. Place the [...]
Uke Lesson 17 – 1234 (Plain White T’s)
Got questions about this lesson? Post them HERE. Play-Along with Aldrine on this song HERE! Hey UUers! It’s the first of May and that can mean only one thing – (May Fools? nope!) a brand new episode of Uke Lessons! This time it’s “1234″ by the Plain White T’s – chickity, check it out!! There [...]
Uke Minutes 44 – Hammer-On Chords
Got a question about this technique? Post it HERE! Well hello there UUers! You may have heard it before: at the start of a song or just before a player changes chords while strumming – that infamous, undeniable, BA-Dooom. It’s a very simple technique that is often overlooked (and sometimes created by accident) but if [...]
Uke Minutes 43 – Suspended Chords
Got questions about -sus chords? Ask them HERE! Hey all you UUers & UUerettes, it’s time for Uke Minutes! In this week’s episode, Aldrine goes over some basic music theory with an explanation of suspended chords and the difference between -sus2 and -sus4. Way back in Uke Minutes 8, we learned how to create a [...]
Uke Minutes 42 – Left Hand Exercise II *and* The KoAloha Ukulele Story
Hey UUers! Do you ever get that left hand ache after playing chords for a long period of time? Have you ever mixed up which fingers to use on a picking? Check out this week’s episode of Uke Minutes to cure what ails ya! This exercise not only strengthens the left hand, but by inverting [...]
Uke Lesson 16 – Stuck On You (Lionel Richie)
Want to discuss this lesson? Discuss away! Check out the Play-Along HERE. Hi there UUers! In the futile attempt to make up for the trauma we caused you all during our April Fools prank, we present to you the real April episode of Uke Lessons (with Aldrine Guerrero) – “Stuck on You” by Lionel Richie. [...]
Uke Lesson 16 – Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down (ALO)
Got Questions about this lesson? Post them HERE. Play-Along with Rayan HERE. Hey UUers!! The past 48 hours have been a mad scramble in the Underground. As many of you may already have heard, due to the terms of a recent contractual agreement, UU is no longer able to feature the name or likeness of [...]