To all the Ukulelists out there...

Posted by Paul Waring on 12 July 2008 - 10:26am.

The other week at Glastonbury, just before Neil Diamond, I realised that the one thing that I really, really needed to buy for the boy and myself was a ukulele each. Be advised that drink had been taken.

Anyway I did. By lucky hap managed to avoid the temptation to buy a drum as well.

Now, having got the thing home, and got both Glastonbury and Cornbury out of the way, I thought I'd better start trying to do something with the thing.

Now I know that there are reams and reams of lern yerself uke sites on t'internet, along with loads of uke tab sites - but which ones are the best? Where do I start?

TIA chaps

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Beware, Its adictive!!

Hi Paul. Are you London based per chance? There's a great little set up going just off of Tottenham Court Road called "Ukulele Wednesdays". Its free to attend and they get around 30 to 40 people turn up on a wednesday evening of all abilities just to strum along. I've been a few times myself. Great fun.

If not then there is a wealth of internet support available.
Here are a few links

http://www.ukulelecosmos.com/phpBB2/index.php

http://ukuleleunderground.com/

and this video is great no matter what you think of the ukulele. He's playing a slightly bigger Uke than you have probably brought but its inspirational stuff.

I'd also recommend some tutorial dvd's by a chap called Ralph Shaw.

Enjoy!

Martin

Martin Simmonds | 12 July 2008 - 11:37am

Thanks Martin

Based oop north, so sessions off TCR not an option I'm afraid. But thanks for the links - just got the little beggar properly tuned (and re-tuned, and re-tuned...) and happily knocking a few chords out.

Top fun!

Not sure the GLW agrees - just disappeared off upstairs with iPod...

Paul Waring | 12 July 2008 - 3:56pm

This lot

apart from being a magnificent live band, have a whole load of useful link on their website, for ukulelists and would-be ukulelists:

http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/home.aspx

For learning to play, this one looks pretty good:

http://www.ukeschool.com/

And if you want to push the boat out and buy something spiffy, like an electric uke, this is the place to browse:

http://www.theukuleleshop.co.uk/index.html

Paul Vincent | 14 July 2008 - 9:24am