Jelly Baby Song – Ukuleles to help cure Type 1 Diabetes
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“…we’ve written and recorded this song with a number of our young music students as toe-tapping, fun, family-and-ukulele-friendly song which is available online as a digital single with iTunes and CD Baby.
95% of all sales go to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)”
Nick Night‘s insight:
Buy the single, download the free sheet music and play this song to help find a cure!
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How to play The Cave (Mumford and Sons) ukulele tutorial
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She is charming… and looks to be a good tutorial host! Looking forward to more.
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Playable Lego Ukulele
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Ross Crawford’s brick ukulele can be played and its four strings are tuned to C, F, A and D. This model has to be able to withstand the tension of 4 fairly tight strings without exploding. I ended …
Nick Night‘s insight:
Would this be a Legolele? Or a Ukulelego?
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Life on Four Strings – Jake Shimabukuro PBS doc airs tomorrow May 10
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A documentary film of an inspiring, inventive, and transformative ukulele virtuouso, Jake Shimabukuro
Nick Night‘s insight:
Make sure to set your DVR for PBS tomorrow night for the premiere of the documentary on Jake Shimabukuro: Life On Four Strings.
CLICK TO SEE TRAILER NOW!
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BeatNik Exclusive Interview: Alfa – Simply Charming!
Every once in a while, this blog brings me in touch with some amazing artists I might never have had the chance to discover. The internet is a noisy place, and too many times we realize late in the game that our “new” favorites have been around for a quite a while.
Such was the case when I “discovered” Alfa – the beautiful, soulful and exceedingly charming singer-songwriter whose song and video for Blue left me slack-jawed and wanting more!
I was lucky enough to contact her personally and she kindly agreed to grant me this interview.
Blogging has its perks! 
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BeatNik: When did you start playing ukulele?
Alfa: I taught myself ukulele in 2010, I believe. I was just curious about it, and thought it was a really cute instrument…not to mention, a little easier to carry around than my guitar or keyboard.
That is a beautiful instrument! Tell us a little about your Mya-Moe?
Thank you! I love my Mya-Moe…it goes by its other name: “the uke of destiny.” J It’s a tenor uke, with master grade koa on the entire body, mahogany neck, ebony fretboard with an abalone rosette. It has a direct pickup, which was a must for me…and a cutaway, so I can do some crazy high-register solos when I finally learn how.
Apart from the uke, I see you play guitar and a mean kazoo! What other instruments do you play?
I also play piano and violin.
Alfa – Photo by David Speranza
You’ve recently moved to Los Angeles from New York, but you are originally from the Philippines, correct? Tell us a little about how you got where you are today.
Yes, I was born in southern Philippines, on the island of Mindanao. I started learning piano shortly after emigrating to New York and hated it at first. A lot of people in my family play music, so I didn’t think music was anything special and wanted to do something entirely different. Like dentistry (seriously, I wanted to be a dentist when I was 5). I got into the violin in 4th grade and absolutely fell in love. I played in some orchestras and got to tour a little as a kid, which was really fun for me. I started songwriting when I was 13, because I was going through a bit of an angst-ridden teenage phase and connected with a lot of music that I wanted to play. Eventually, though, I realized I couldn’t sing a lot of those songs I liked so I figured I’d make up my own songs instead! So, I started songwriting and eventually got up the courage to record, and eventually got up even more courage to play in front of people, and pretty soon it was pretty obvious what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. At least, it was obvious to everyone else…it took me a little longer to really figure it out. After graduating college, I decided to record my first full-length album, so I did that while I was working a full-time job as a journalist. I left that job 3 years later, moved to LA, and haven’t looked back since.
Where can my readers go to see you perform live?
It really depends on my schedule… you can always see where I’m playing on my website, alfa-music.com.
Would you consider performing at some ukulele music festivals?
Of course! I’d love to play a uke festival. Although I’m sure I’d be in awe of everyone there… I still consider myself a ukulele noob.
(BeatNik: You heard it here first, folks! Who will start the festival invitations?)
How many songs on the new album feature the uke, and can we expect to hear more like “Blue” in the future?
It’s just “Blue” with the uke, and if you can believe it, it’s the first song I ever wrote on uke. Prior to that, I’d just been playing covers and adding them to my live shows to mix things up a bit. I was really happy that “Blue” came out of my uke. It took about 15 minutes to finish it.
I heard you do a fantastic cover of Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister” in your concerts. What artists inspire your music?
BeatNik Goes Mobile!
Hey gang – you have been asking for this a loooooong time…
I’m very happy to announce that it is now here – The Ultimate Ukulele Songbook AND The “Tut Hut” are now available for iPad! Click either image above to learn more.
Every purchase comes with both Desktop (Mac/PC) and Mobile (iPad) compatibility on the Revizzit App!
Spoiler alert: You can purchase these as a bundle and save big! You will get the upgrade offer after you click the Add to Cart button!
And don’t worry – I didn’t forget about Speak Ukulele. It is taking a bit longer to convert from Flash based architecture to something compatible with iPad. But it’s almost ready!!
James Hill Ukulele Initiative – Teacher Certification Program
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The purpose of the JHUI Teacher Certification Program is to raise the level of ukulele teaching worldwide and to foster an international community of ukulele teachers.
A Teacher Certificate recognizes the attainment of knowledge and performance skills as well as a pedagogical understanding of the James Hill Ukulele Method. While not a qualification per se, certification provides acknowledgement of an ability to teach music literacy through the ukulele, providing tangible evidence of achievement to employers and/or students.
Nick Night‘s insight:
James Hill is one of the most amazing ukulele players on the planet! If you’ve ever wanted to teach ukulele, or just improve your technique to an instructor level, this is for you!
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A ukulele primer: Eddie Vedder, Tiny Tim, Roy Smeck and more
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In honor of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s April tour of California, we’ve put together this little primer to help you get to get to grips with the main players and styles in the ukulele scene.
Nick Night‘s insight:
Ukulele history in a Los Angeles minute…
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Ukulele Scooter. Nothin’ But Awesome!
Not sure who is responsible for this – but it’s AWESOME!
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Web Extra: Jake Shimabukuro’s Famous Ukulele Covers
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In this web-exclusive clip, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro tells Fuse News’ Liz which covers are his favorite and which are most challenging to translate using solely the ukulele.
Nick Night‘s insight:
The king of ukulele cool, Jake talks about his challenges – but inadvertently makes everything look so easy!
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