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March Ukulele World Tour : Fingerstyle Uke

Armelle Europe — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:56:45 +0000

The focus of this will be mainly on instrumental fingerstyle ukulele from around the world but I’ve also featured a couple of other videos with singing.

1. Poland

Pawel‘s ukulele arrangement of Sen o Warszawie (The dream about Warsaw) by Czesław Niemen performed on a Makapili koa tenor ukulele.

Herman Vandecauter invites us to

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What do Ukulele Players Eat ? Find out with Rose Turtle Ertler from Australia

Armelle Europe — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:57:54 +0000

At the other end of the world from France, Rose Turtle Ertler, an Australian ukulele player has decided to bring together two of her passions : ukulele and cooking. The result of this combination is a book titled What Do Ukulele Players Eat ? in which Rose has compiled recipes from ukulele players around the world.

Rose has been very kind to answer a few questions which tell us more about the ukulele in Australia…

Blues Ukulele Original : I Ain’t Got The Blues

Armelle Europe — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:10:48 +0000

My friend Ganymede Gwilym and I have been experimenting playing the blues on the ukulele. After trying many different things, we’ve created a quick and easy song with improvised lyrics called I Ain’t Got The Blues !

We played the song on a concert Kala KA-CEM and Concert Fluke.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSqyxQBQfE

If you’d like to learn some ukulele blues techniques, we strongly recommend Al‘s ebook How To Play Blues Ukulele in which we learnt many things we use in the video.

Germany Ukulele Sessions – Kleinholz

Armelle Europe — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:14:13 +0000

Al from Uke Hunt recently sent me a link to a German Ukulele YouTube Channel called VISIONSMagazin. The channel features ukulele sessions from the Kleinholz project (new ukulele videos every Monday). The concept is to ask various artists normally playing the guitar to play one of their songs on the ukulele.

Here are some sample videos from the channel in various styles and languages.…

Truss rods on Pono ukuleles

Armelle Europe — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:06:07 +0000

I never knew my Pono baritone ukulele had a truss rod until a couple of weeks ago. I suddendly noticed, much to my horror, that my Pono had started to buzz badly when I played certain strings. I knew the strings were not to blame as I had changed them shortly before the buzz first occurred.

I couldn’t understand what caused the sudden change in the sound. I hadn’t dropped my ukulele and it had received no shock, nor did I leave…

UK ukulele tour

Armelle Europe — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:31:32 +0000

For those of you looking for an alternative to Christmas ukulele music, I’ve decided to put up a post focusing on ukulele videos from the United-Kingdom.

The first video is performed by my friend Lou aka Bossarocker who really has a rich and soulful voice. I wish she’d make more videos and I really hope that her EP will come out soon.

Lou performs Bob Dylan‘s In My Time Of Dying on her new cigar box ukulele.

Al covers Bert…

Tab for Maelström, ukulele original

Armelle Europe — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:34:48 +0000

I was at the same time pleased and embarrassed when I was asked for the tab for my original tune Maelström. Pleased in the sense that it felt great to hear that a piece of music I had written was appreciated and embarrassed because I had never thought of ever tabbing Maelström, having but very little knowledge of music theory.

I have written Maelström completely ‘by ear’, relying only on how…

Norway, Canada, Italy, Brazil, Australia: Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:53:16 +0000

You’re in for a really international feel today as our ukulele trip will take us all around the globe: this will take you to Norway for some singing in Russian, to Canada for some West African Guitar Style strumming applied to the ukulele, to Italy for a classic and finally to Brazil and Australia with local singers and ukulele players Rick Melo and Tyrone.

Country: Norway / Language: Russian

Mr Arvemann and Line Mehlum from Norway sing Миленький ты мой, a Russian folk song…

HappySad, Maja Koman, Ukulele and Polish

Armelle Europe — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:39:50 +0000

Let me invite you to a trip to Poland today where you’ll get to hear two Polish ukulele players in two different styles. Tune your ears to the Polish language while listening to the songs and the interviews…

HappySad is a popular Polish rock band formed in 2001. In the following acoustic live session for Balcony TV Poznan, two members of the band perform the song Kostuchna from their album Mów mi dobrze on ukulele and guitar. Check out the steady ukulele…

Ukulele Online Magazine : Pluck n°2

Armelle Europe — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:31:08 +0000

Why not learn French while reading about your favourite subject _ the ukulele ?

The PLUCK is an online ukulele magazine created by a team of French ukulele aficionados, dealing with a wide variety of ukulele aspects and very neatly laid out. At the moment, the PLUCK is all in French but the PLUCK team has already announced that they would work on an English translation.

Here is an overview of what you can find in the PLUCK n° 2:…