I’m not sure why I’d not seen this before but today I stumbled upon Phil Doleman’s Two Minute Tips playlist on YouTube. I’ve got to say it’s a brilliant resource for ukulele players and there’s some great tips there covering everything from holding your uke to getting to grips with the dreaded E chord.
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The Grand Northern Ukulele Festival 2015
I’ve been debating over whether to go to the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival in May. It’s not a debate over whether I want to go or not, it’s more a case of logistics.
How To Sing and Play Ukulele At The Same Time
Once you’ve gotten a few chords under your belt and started to get to grips with strumming your ukulele one of the next things you will probably want to do is learn how to sing and play ukulele at the same time. The good news is it’s not that difficult all it takes is a little practice.
Playing Ukulele With Arthritis
A few weeks back my dad mentioned that he’d been looking at some ukuleles in a shop and was considering buying one and he wanted my opinion. My dad suffers from rheumatoid arthritis quite badly, particularly in his hands and he wasn’t sure whether he’d able to play or not. Initially I wasn’t sure either if I’m completely honest.
Ukulele Fingerpicking For Beginners
Fingerpicking can be a little bit daunting if you’re only used to strumming chords on your ukulele. Here’s my approach to get you started with ukulele fingerpicking the simple way. You’ll be up and running in no time. It’s easy when you know how…
The Best Custom Painted Ukuleles
I have to say I’m dying to get myself a white ukulele and take a sharpie marker to it to see what it comes out like (EDIT, I did this you can check it out here). I keep seeing custom paint jobs that I think look amazing and I really want to have a blast myself. I’m thinking I might go for a white Octopus or a Makala Dolphin (cheap enough to mess up but something that sounds decent enough to play if it works out well). For now though here’s some of the best I’ve seen on Pinterest…
Follow NoVolume’s board Custom Ukuleles on Pinterest.
If you like the board, give it a follow on Pinterest as I’ll keep adding more as I see them, and maybe even one of my own will appear on it one day!
The Top 50 Ukulele Sites
The guys over at Boatpaddle Ukuleles have a section on their website that lists the top ukulele websites. It’s called the top 50 ukulele sites although there are closer to 200 listed now. I submitted Ukulele Go! to the listing around a week ago and I’m pleased to say it’s made the grade. Continue reading
Recording Your Ukulele
If you’ve been digging around this website you’ll know that I tinker around recording my ukulele now and again. At the moment I’m using trial and error on all the devices that I own and hoping that I’ll land on a winner.
EDIT: I’ve since bought a Blue Snowball Ice microphone that I’m using to record with Continue reading
How To Pronounce Ukulele
So you’ve got a ukulele, you know a few songs but wait a minute, you don’t even know how to say it? How embarrassing. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, almost everyone says it wrong (myself included). Continue reading
The Most Important Strumming Pattern You’ll Ever Learn
If you were only ever going to learn one strumming pattern assuming that you’ve got a few basic strumming patterns down, I’d definitely recommend you make it this one. I’ve heard this strumming pattern referred to as ‘old faithful‘ in the past because of it’s versatility. It works on just about any song and is a great pattern to default back to if you’re not sure what pattern you should be playing… Continue reading