Alistair Wood

The more songs you play on the ukulele, the more the common chord progressions start to feel, like old shoes you can slip into easily. But as comfortable as they are, sometimes the occasion calls for something fancier and dazzling. That’s when you’ll want to pull out one of the great-sounding chords in this article.

Restringing your ukulele can seem like one of those jobs to put off as long as possible, like homework, exercising, or visiting the dentist. But changing the strings isn’t as bad a job as it seems, and you’ll feel better afterwards (and unlike those other jobs, it adds to, rather than takes away from, valuable ukuleling time).

One of the best things about playing the ukulele is the community associated with it. Perhaps because the ukulele has been so disparaged in the past, all players are very supportive of each other. A friendly culture surrounds the ukulele that you don’t get with many other instruments.If you ever need a question answered, some inspiration, or just an encouraging comment, you can find it in the ukulele community.

The holiday season can be the a fun but slightly daunting time to be a ukulele player (uker). It’s the time of year you’re most likely to be called on by your family and friends to provide the entertainment and to lead the singing. So, this article has some tunes to get you through Christmas and New Year.Christmas songs are also great for practicing new techniques.

Classical music is one of the last things people expect to hear coming out of a ukulele, which is what makes classical music so much fun to play on the uke. Perform a classical piece and people think, “I didn’t know you could do that on a ukulele!” This article shows you how to go about creating this surprised response in listeners.

Practising with ukulele exercises helps you take your ukulele playing to the next level. Wherever you are in your ukulele playing career, the information in this Cheat Sheet helps you develop your chord playing still further.Mastering the Most Common Ukulele ChordsTo make the most of your ukulele exercises, you need to learn how to play the most common chords on the ukulele fretboard.

To enable you to translate music on the page into music that you play on your ukulele, chord diagrams and tablature – or ‘tab’ – help to make life easier. This Cheat Sheet explains these handy helpers and serves up a selection of the chords you’re most likely to use when playing your uke.Relating Chord Diagrams and Tab to the UkuleleYou don’t need to be able to read music in order to play the ukulele.

You can use a number of different ways to tune your ukulele, depending on what you have available and who you’re playing with. When you play alone, you only have to be in tune with yourself. When you play with other musicians, you need to make sure that you’re all in tune with each other.In tuning instructions — and in the real world — you encounter a couple of key terms: Open string: A string you play without holding the string down.