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Sharing The Love Of The Happiest Instrument In the World
Sharing The Love Of The Happiest Instrument In the World
By Matt Hicks There’s something strange happening in the ukulele world online. Swathes of ukulele players have joined a very special community that has developed over the last 6 months. The brain child of singer songwriter and front man for…
An original ukulele folk song about two lads trying to find greatness.
Introduced by Jamie Houston. Original Article by Ralph Shaw. Have you ever wondered what question you would ask if you had the chance to ask some of the world’s top ukulele teachers and educators one question? Well recently Ralph Shaw…
Thanks so much to Alfredo Canopin Sr and his wife Jovina for recording and sharing this video of Alfredo performing The Shadow of Your Smile with us. His beautiful chord melody style of playing is just beautiful and he plays…
By Ralph Shaw Last time I gave you the first five of ten things you can do to improve your songwriting. Here are the final five tips to help you master melody manipulation and wonderful word weaving: 6) Write From…
By Ralph Shaw Today I offer five songwriting tips to help lift your lyrics and make new and mesmerizing melodies. When a fan of my albums Love and Laughter wrote to tell me that he appreciates my “clever songwriting and…
Following the launch of our latest Limited Edition T-Shirt titled “UKES NOT NUKES!”, we were sent a link to this great song by one of our members and prolific singer/songwriter Mookx Hanley of Byron Bay, Australia. We think it is very…
By Matt Hicks So you’ve been playing the uke for a while. You’re pretty happy because every time you video a cover of a song YouTube fires back that it recognises it as a possible infringement on copyright. You’re there.…
Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova is one of my favourite songs – from the movie “Once” (2000) If you haven’t watched this movie I highly recommend it. Here is some info about it from Wikipedia:Once is a 2007 Irish musical film written and…
Did you know that the LOVE MY UKULELE CLUB is run 100% by me, Jamie Houston – that’s me in the photo. I live in Wellington, which is the capital city of New Zealand, and I have a huge passion…
By Cliff Adams. It’s only rock and roll… yet it moves people since… well, name your year between 1942 and 1954. One of the classic rock backgrounds is what can be called the Chuck Berry rhythm. My example will be…
By Ralph Shaw – Professional Full-time Ukulele Entertainer Last time, I gave you some basic tips when getting and using your first P.A. Today we’re looking at important choices to be made when purchasing microphones to plug into your P.A. Before we discuss…
By Ralph Shaw – Professional Full-time Ukulele Entertainer If you’ve been playing for a while you may be getting to the point where you need to supply your own Public Address system, or P.A. This can be a daunting prospect if…
By Marylou Stout Dempler Now that you have your ukulele, you can learn to play it in just two minutes without reading music or tablature. Just follow these easy steps: Hold Your Ukulele Hold the neck of the soprano, concert,…
The founder of LOVE MY UKULELE, Jamie Houston talks about the growth of this community thanks to all the wonderful members.
