A Fun & Fabulous Ukulele Blog
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am migrating my old NooodleZoo.com site over to Ukelectik since the topic is related. The site started as a “21 Day Project” back in 2024. I created ukulele “nooodles” inspired by animals. Let us remember… Today’s creature is the …
It’s funny how the internet gives us knowledge of the entire planet but somehow a local gem often slips through the cracks. This was the case for me while watching an episode of The Southern Ukulele Store’s weekly demos on YouTube. The video described octave …
Sometimes our best experiences are the result of circumstances beyond our control. These can be situations of perceived hardship, lack of freedom, illness, and various other limitations. In and around spring of 2022, a couple of these circumstances merged into one big, beautiful, experience. That …
After a false start at the end of 2017, I began my ukulele journey “full bore” in 2018. Knowing that I was going to make the instrument a prominent part of my musical learning adventure, I spent a lot of time researching the instrument and …
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am migrating my old NooodleZoo.com site over to Ukelectik since the topic is related. The site started as a “21 Day Project” back in 2024. I created ukulele “nooodles” inspired by animals. Let us remember… The first …
Those of us alive in 2020 will remember it as the year that kicked off the Covid lock-down. It was a pivotal period of time that enabled us to work from home, attend music festivals and classes on Zoom, and convert our canceled vacation expenses …
Wonderful things are a delight to hold. They defy the category of their “thingness” and are remarkable specimens of human spirit and potential. The moment I saw the Anuenue Moonbird, I knew I wanted one. It was different. It was bold in a sophisticated and …
Happy new gear day!! Well I finally did it. I got my first ukulele with a fan fretboard. I had been looking for one of these for awhile, but they were always sold out on Reverb and the custom made ones were not in scope …
I am sure I am not alone in saying that “I am a Domain Name Hoarder.” I think many of us who were designing websites during the “dawning of the internet,” circa 1990s, developed the habit of buying cool names for websites. Back then it …
Today I want to share a little DIY project that might be useful to some of you especially if you are having problems with your plucking hands or fingers. Over the last few years I have been developing a bad “trigger finger” thumb on my …
Over the last 5 weeks I have had the pleasure of attending Sammy Turton’s (a.k.a. 4stringboy) Fingerstyle Composition course. Every week we have been introduced to important aspects of composing fingerstyle music for ukulele including theory, patterns and harmony. As I write this, that final …