Archive for the "Music" Category

Sort by:

Center Stage Boston Wedding Band Brings High Energy to Your Wedding!

Your wedding is the most important day of your life. That’s why it’s so important that you have musicians who convey the magical feeling you want to have on your special day. When you’re searching for a Boston wedding band, there are many options, making your choice a challenge.
Center Stage Boston wedding band has what [...]

Finding a Ukulele Forum

Since the advent of the Internet, people who share interests and hobbies have been able to network and exchange information easier than ever before. While there are, and have been, plenty of people who are into ukuleles, finding a way to connect with other enthusiasts was a bit difficult in the past. One of the [...]

Getting the Best Ukulele Strings

While they are changed regularly, the strings on any instrument are one of its most important pieces where the overall quality of an instrument’s sound is concerned. The best ukulele strings for any player will depend upon several different factors. The reality is, however, that there is no single best brand on the market. As [...]

The Cordoba Brand Ukulele

The Cordoba brand ukulele line of instruments is designed for the more advanced, even professional, player. For those who are looking for a second instrument that they won’t have to upgrade to accommodate their increases in skill, this line provides several options. These instruments are designed to be concert-quality and, to that end, they require [...]

Using a Baritone Ukulele Chord Chart

A baritone ukulele chord chart is not something required only by beginners. In fact, very experienced players oftentimes use these charts. While there are some common chords that any player needs to be able to recall from memory, there are also some very rare chords that most people will not be able to fret without [...]

The Hilo Brand Ukulele

Hilo Ukulele models encompass many of the traits that attract new players to this instrument. While even a very basic guitar will usually run at least a couple of hundred dollars, one can pick up a playable, tunable and good-sounding ukulele for under a hundred. There are also a range of ukuleles available, encompassing all [...]

Tuning a Baritone Ukulele

Most stringed instruments are built in various ranges in terms of the voice they sound. For example, the well-known string instruments that make up the traditional Western string quartet, violin, viola, cello and bass, constitute the soprano, alto, tenor and baritone voices, respectively. Though it is sometimes thought of as a less serious instrument than [...]

Types of Ukulele: Concert and Cutaway

There are several different voices of ukulele and several different body designs. The soprano is the smallest of the models and has the highest voice. The concert model is one size larger, followed by the tenor and the baritone. This is among the best selling sizes for ukuleles. The body is large enough that it [...]

Understanding the Ukulele Fretboard

The ukulele fretboard is one of the elements of this instrument that makes it both accessible to novices and flexible and complex enough for serious musicians. The fretboard is much like that found on a guitar or an electric bass. There are metal bars that separate one fret from the next, which eliminates the need [...]

What is a Ukulele Shirt?

There are two garments that can be referred to as a ukulele shirt. The first would be a standard t-shirt emblazoned with some logo or another that denotes the wearer as a player or aficionado of the ukulele. The other would be a shirt that is appropriate for giving a performance of ukulele music in [...]