Transposition is the way music is either performed or written at pitches different than the way it was originally written, by lowering or raising all the notes by the exact same interval throughout...

A chord shape is a left-hand (for right-handed players) position your fingers make on the fret board which produces chords when strummed with the right-hand. The benefit of learning chord shapes...

The four strings on a ukulele are tuned like the four highest sounding strings on a guitar, only 5 steps, or a fourth interval higher. if you know how to play guitar chords, ukulele chords will be...

For this lesson, we’ll only deal with re-entrant GCEA tuning. If you don’t know what this means, don’t worry. Basically, there are different ways to tune the uke, but re-entrant GCEA is the...

I stumbled across these old plans for making a ukulele from a cigar box. Someone may want to actually try this out. If not, it's still very interesting to read. Check it out (I chopped it up...

Now that you've decided that the ukulele is right for you, it's time to buy your first instrument. There are so many ukuleles to choose from, and finding one that fits your needs can be quite the...