I know, I know, MVOW, super late. My bad. On this belated Member Video of the Week, we are featuring Ukesista with her arrangement for Carlos Santana’s Europa Intro. Aldrine and I play this song all the time and it was refreshing to hear a different arrangement.

T-Shirt update : For everyone who ordered a t-shirt or hoodie, they are still being printed right now. It’s taking a little while to print because the order was so huge. We will let everyone know as soon as they come in.

UU Tour: Don’t forget, we’re heading to California next month! July 18-23. We need your help finding places to play if you live in the Bay Area, San Diego, or Orange County or L.A. Please check the thread for more details.

Hey everyone. We have some big news. The UU dudes, Aldrine, Rayan, and Aaron are planning to make a trip San Francisco and San Diego! The tentative date for our visit is July 17-24. We realize a lot of people who come to our website don’t visit our forum but please if you live in these areas, please check out this thread. We need your help. Thank you very much!

So here we are again, friends. The time has come for us to hang out together, happily enjoying yet another: UKE MINUTES! This time, we’ve brought y’all some Movable Chord Shapes to play around with.

Just in case you missed that 3-second bubbly image of basic Major Chord Shapes and Minor Chord Shapes, here it is again:

*Remember* This process works for all chord types, too, not just majors and minors. You can use it on 7ths, 9ths, Major7ths, diminshed-ths - whatever you want! Any chord that you know can be moved up or down the fretboard (as far as you fretboard allows). Moving a chord shape up one fret raises the key a half step. Two frets up raises the key a whole step.

For your reference, here are all the note names in half-step intervals:

C | C#(Db) | D | D#(Eb) | E | F | F#(Gb) | G | G#(Ab) | A | A#(Bb) | B

Once you get to the end (B), it loops around back to the beginning (C). For example, if you held a Bb chord (3211) and moved the entire chord shape up a half step - or one fret (4322) - then the chord would become a B. If you moved it another fret up (5433), it would become a C. This fingering would be an “alternate fingering” for your standard C chord (0003).

Thanks a lot, everyone. If you have any questions, comments, ideas, things to chime in, please post away at the FORUM! Let the discussions begin!

Love Always,
- UU Stafff

This week’s pick was as easy as they come. Four all star members from the UU forums together in one place made it an easy choice. Seeso, Dustin aka tsud123, Jason aka Facemeltinguke, and Phil aka Chronos were all invited to the Bushman Uke luau. Here they are all together playing the uke classic Elephant Town.

In other news, Forum member Woodshed from ukulelehunt.com is giving away a Kala Pineapple uke to a lucky person who enters his contest. To enter you have to submit your review of your ukulele. For more details check out his website.