What do you get when you cross ukuleles, vaseline, high heels, and nail-breaking?! Seeso’s hilarious original tune called “I’m a Queen” From the site of the Ukulele World Congress, Seeso gives us a taste of his delicious blues riffs.

Lots of ukulele related events went down this weekend. We had both the Ukulele World Congress and also the Bushman Luau 2.5 on the same weekend. There are threads for both events so if you have comments, pictures, or videos from any event; post them on those threads found on our magical forum.

Cheers to the friends we’ve made through this humble instrument! Let’s all have one more drink in one hand and our ukes on the other. Rock out like the neighbors are away on vacation.

-UU Staff

Hey UUers! Here in the Underground, we are strong supporters of the idea that the ukulele can, and should, be used for absolutely any style of music that an ukulele player can dream of. “If you can dream it, uke can do it!”

That said, we’ve also gotten a lot of questions about more traditional Hawaiian ukulele songs, which are awesome too. So in this week’s episode of Uke Minutes, we introduce the most basic component of many traditional Hawaiian songs played on the ukulele – the Hawaiian Vamp. Read more

Got questions about this lesson? Post them HERE.
Watch the PLAY-ALONG!

What’s up Uke Playas!?

The new month brings another new, totally freaking free episode of Uke Lessons in the Underground! Check it out to learn the song “Gives You Hell” by The All American Rejects.

Chords: E, C#m7, A, A7, B, F#m, G#m
Picking Pattern 1 (verse): [C] [C] [EA] [E]
Picking Pattern 2 (bridge): [CEA] [C] [E] [A] [E] [C]
Strumming Pattern (chorus): DD (DUDU)*
*muted strum

For the solo picking (and much more) check out the video!

Last Saturday, we held another UU Internet Open Mic! It was 10 bundles of fun and everyone had a blast watching all the fine young uke players doing their thing on our internet stage. What, you missed the stream?? We got you covered – click to watch the replay! *Part 1, Part 2, Part 3*

Have fun, try new things, push your limits, ask questions, and be a better ukulele player than you were the day before! Did we mention “have fun”?

Aloha,
-UU Staff

Hey Everybody!

Be sure to stop by right here today at 3pm Hawaii time for another awesome open mic! For those of you who are playing (UkuleleHill, UkuleleD, CoLmes, thejumpingflea, mctrmt, thejumpingflea’s friend, CitizenSnips, Pat Rock, GrumpyCoyote, bornagainjeeper and anyone who wants to jump in!) check in starts at 2pm. (If you wanna watch, show starts at 3pm)

It’s gonna be a blast! See you there …

Aloha,
-UU Staff