Guitar Techniques

FOOD FOR thought

Have you ever picked up a ukulele? I know this is a guitar magazine but ukes are super cool and dead easy to play if you have some experience with guitar. I’ve spent much of the last month exploring ukulele for a new book of children’s songs that I just published and thought I’d share some of the basics and get you going.

There are four common sizes of ukulele and the intervallic jumps between the string notes on all of them is the same as the thinnest four

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