Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Ukulele-ing: One of the many things I shouldn't be giving advice about

My high school violin didn't make it with me to college, due to the fact that my parents worried some crazy person in my dorm would do something unspeakable to it in an act of drunken buffoonery. But I still felt the need to be musical and recently picked up a ukulele, since it's smaller than a guitar and because I felt the need to separate myself from the guitar-playing masses.

I'm certainly no insert-name-of-"famous"-uke-player-here, but if you're interested in playing yourself, here are three sites I'd recommend.

Ukulele Beatles Fun!
The site takes you step by step through songs, allowing you to hear them as you play them. It offers instructions on over 60 Beatles songs, including some of my favorites: All My Loving, Help and Something.

Ukulele Hunt
Good advice for the beginner, with info on how to purchase your first instrument, strumming, reading tabs, etc. Some great tabs, too.

UkuleleSongs.com

A great list of other classic songs that generally require a couple more chords.

Seventh String Tuner
I'm a fan of this tuner, both for ukuleles and instrument tuning as a whole. It's the only free online tuner I'm aware of that let's you play your instrument into a microphone and then tells you what note your playing. Good for tuning your uke the first few times.

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