Ukulele Online

I’ve seen Christofer Drew Ingle of nevershoutnever! (I always want to write Never Shout Never) playing a few different ukuleles, most of them seem to be tenor ukuleles.

His most common brand seems to be Kala ukuleles. He’s using one in the photo in this video and in the video above he’s using a rather fetching Kala Archtop ukulele.

Scrubs is one of my favourite comedy shows and it just went up even further in my estimation now that they’ve recruited a ukulele girl to be Ted’s sweetheart in the episode

Who was the ukulele girl on Scrubs?

The character of Stephanie Gooch (the Scrubs ukulele girl) is played by Kate Micucci. She’s been a comedy actor for a number of years having appeared in small roles in Malcolm in the Middle, How I Met Your Mother and Four Kings.

She’s also the ukulele half of the duo Garfunkel and Oates with fellow comedy actress Riki Lindhome (Pushing Daisies, Life is Short).

It’s great to see Kate – and the ukulele – getting exposure on Scrubs. Let’s hope it’s the start of big things for her.

There are plenty of ukulele chord charts online for standard soprano tuning (gCEA re-entrant). You can find chord charts in both PDF, doc and jpg format on this page. But my favourite is this ukulele chord chart which gives you the fingerings for the chords in the fretboard dots and also arranges them according to how often you are likely to need them to play songs. Very useful for beginners.

For a more interactive and decorative chord chart (of sorts) check out Sheep Entertainment. But be careful with the tuning as the default is D tuning.

Ukulele Chord Books

The online chord charts are perfectly adequate for beginners. But if you want something entirely comprehensive, it’s worth investing in a ukulele chord book. At $5 and 1,000 chord shapes, the Hal Leonard Ukulele Chord Finder is well worth the investment for ukers looking to expand their chord vocabulary.

I’ve been answering people’s ukulele related questions on Yahoo! Answers for a while now and I see the same, or similar, questions cropping up over and over. So, I decided to answer these questions once a for all so that I can point people in the direction of the posts whenever these questions come up.

All the posts on this blog will be inspired by questions that real people have asked, whether that be on Yahoo! Answers or in emails and messages to me. I hoping that this will make it easy for people to find answers to the most commonly asked ukulele questions.