4th Peg forum to close this year

Sad news. The 4th Peg forum was always quite active and chock full of news. It'll be sad to see it go.

Ukulele? Yes!

Ukulele Yes!, the online publication for uke instructors edited by teacher and extraordinary uke player James Hill, has a new issue out. If you're an instructor (or if you just want a glimpse into the shadowy world of uke instructors), check it out.

Douglas Wolk on the uke

Part 1, and part 2. Some video from the recent Portland Uke Fest; definitely worth checking out the articles just for that.

Rock!

After years of waiting (years!), the ukulele documentary Rock That Uke is FINALLY going on sale this week. Supposedly. Maybe. Right now there's a page up at Elderly Instruments where you can order it, but on the page it says that it's still on backorder. So it's not actually at the store yet, I guess. I think I'll wait until the on-order message disappears before I actually order my copy.

Uke article in the Tribune

Check it out here. And, of course, the story follows the rule that any ukulele-related article needs to mention the name Tiny Tim....

Ukulele chords deluxe

One of my favorite ukulele chord-finding pages has been seriously updated recently. This chord generator page displays chords by actually calculating the notes in the chords (using the good old music theory formulas that you learn when you're first putting major and minor chords together), and shows them on a tablature grid. The amazing new feature is that it will automatically display which string is playing the root note, which one if playing the 3rd note, the 5th note, the minor or 5th flat note, or whatever you need to know. That's a really cool feature to have if you're working on your chords. You can even keep track of a list of chords that you want to have, and print out a cheat sheet with these chords on it! Plus, all this stuff runs in JavaScript, which is extremely cool. So check it out, I tell you now.