Uke Minutes 65 – A&C String Harmony
Got a question about this technique? Post it HERE! Hey UUers! Looking for an easy way to add harmony to your ukulele solos? Check out this week’s episode of Uke Minutes for a quick way to add C string harmony to melodies played on your A string! Memorize the pattern and slide it up and [...]
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 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 Lesson 16 – Stuck On You
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
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 [...]
Uke Minutes 41 – Muted Octave Strum
Got questions about this technique? Post them HERE! Hey all you UUers! Who’s up for another round of Uke Minutes?? Here we go … In this week’s episode, Aldrine explains the simple – yet oh, so powerful – Muted Octave Strum. It is a variation of another simple technique, introduced in Uke Minutes 26, called [...]
Uke Minutes 40 – First Beat C-String Bass
Got a question? Discuss this technique HERE. Hey-lo UUers! Several weeks back we introduced the “C String Bass Technique” (see Uke Minutes 35 for more) as applied to finger picking. In this week’s episode we take that technique one step further and apply it to strumming patterns. Here’s what you do: 1. Take any strumming [...]
Uke Minutes 39 – Left Hand Exercise I
Got a question about this exercise? Post it HERE. Hello UUers! Recently there was some discussion on the Forum about which way to hold an ukulele. Normally we assign your dominant hand to be the strumming hand, but what about your other hand? Holding down notes and switching chords is important, too! So in this [...]
Uke Minutes 38 – Artificial Harmonics
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, [...]
Uke Minutes 36 – 3 Finger Chunk
Ask questions (and get answers!) about this technique HERE. Hey UUers! Thanks for swinging by – you’re just in time for an episode of UKE MINUTES! Last week, Aldrine introduced an awesome three-finger picking technique to emphasize your C string when you are playing a chord (if you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to [...]