Category Archives: Videos

Alan Soo Ukulele Music
24
Jun

Hi everyone,

If you wish to watch some of my leisure Facebook Live videos, here is the link to all the episodes.

:: Christmas Episode ::

Cheers and enjoy!

Happy New Year 2009~
1
Jan

Hi everyone,

 

I’d like to wish everybody a very Happy New Year for 2009~!

May everyone stay happy, healthy and improve on the ukulele~ Do make ‘improve on the ukulele’ as one of your new year’s resolutions, if there’s still space to squeeze into the list!

Just for your info, I’m still in Singapore, all the way until the Chinese New year. So we should be able to meet up for the third jamming session!

Meanwhile, I’ll leave you all with a nice video lesson by Aldrine Guerrero. It’s Alicia Key’s – Ain’t Got You. Very nice song. Hope you guys enjoy learning it, as much as I did. You can also visit his ukulele website at www.ukuleleunderground.com. Have fun~

Next Ukulabu Meeting’s Jam List
24
Nov

I’d like to post a small shoutout to everyone~

I was playing my ukulele when I suddenly thought of the next Ukulabu meeting (I can’t wait to see everyone and other new folks too). The next thing which came to my mind was the jam session. It’ll be a good idea if we could start planning for the jam session, as in what songs we are going to play.

All in favour? I came across this song from Dominator’s site, and I hope we can jam to it. Dominator has got tabs for it as well. You can download it here. Although I have not gone through his tab, but I feel the rhythm of the songs should be quite manageable. There are lead parts and solos as well. I can take on those parts.

Here’s the video of the song. Do let me know how you all feel about it. Lyrics can be obtained here:

Please feel free to suggest any songs which you all wish to include in the next jam session.

Amazing Ukulele Percussions
8
Oct

Hi everyone,

So far, when it comes to ukulele playing, James Hill has been absolutely amazing with getting different sounds out from an amplified ukulele. Check out his percussion-ukulele piece below:

PS: It does not sound ukulele at all, its either you like it, or you don’t!

As for Jake, less fancy, but amazing as well. Check out the mid interval of Me and Shirley T.

I so MUST get my ukulele amplified.

Dominator’s Spruce Top Tenor Ukulele
28
Sep

Hi folks,

Been rather busy with other activities recently. So I apologize for not posting up any playing/listening/tabbed material on ukulabu.com. However, I did do my usual YouTube surfing, and I found out that Mr Dominator has completed his Spruce Top Tenor ukulele, for his coming stage performance for 7th Annual Ukulele Festival in Southern California! Well done Dominator! Let’s give him a round of applause~

Check out his video below:

It sounds really great. Dominator has been making many quite a number of ukuleles for others and himself. I’d love to meet him to look at those ukuleles! For those of you who don’t know who Dominator is, check him out by looking through his tabs library here.

Jake Shimabukuro and Tommy Emmanuel Jam
24
Sep

Good evening folks!

I’d like to introduce under an Ukulabu shoutout, an amazing guitar player, whom I’ve only got to know who he is today…. His name is Tommy Emmanuel from Australia. I was doing the usual surfing around YouTube, and I came across this great jam involving Jake Shimabukuro and Tommy Emmanuel. They were playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Jake was awesome, and Tommy totally matched his awesome-ness!

This is the first time I saw Tommy play, and I have to say, that when I was still playing guitar back in the past, I liked to play songs to which you can be like a “one man show” kinda thing. The ability to play the melody, backup and percussion, (while using only one instrument) always facinates me.

To better explain what I mean, check out Tommy’s video on the song Angelina:

Amazing isn’t it?
Do check out Tommy’s official website here.

Young Ukulele Virtuosos
17
Sep

I came across some young ukulele players while surfing around YouTube for ukulele players, and these 2 young players are definitely worth watching.

First up is young Ryan Imamura. He has also jammed with Jake Shimabukuro before. Here he is, playing Jake’s Me and Shirley T.

Next up is Ryo Natoyama. He is playing an improvised version of Jake’s song named Blue Roses Falling. His video had a lower quality sound, which I feel that it just doesn’t do him any justice!

Both are already playing at professional level! I really hope they make a name for themselves soon. The world needs such talent!

Ryan and Ryo, all the best to the both of you!

James Hill – One Note Samba
10
Sep

I was surfing around YouTube for the usual ukulele video watching, and I came across this nice video of James Hill playing a song named “One Note Samba”.

A very good performance by James, so I thought I’d share it with you all. Take some time to watch it below:

ICHIGO ICHIE LIVE 2007
8
Sep

I was surfing YouTube the few days back and I stumbled across a Japanese guy with the nickname artkazu8, who has various musicians’ live performance videos in his upload list. And Jake was one of them!

The concert name was ジェイク　シマブクロ ／一期一会　ICHIGO ICHIE LIVE 2007. This is after quite some time, whereby I have seen Jake play life with a full band behind him.

I could recognise a few songs, such as First Love by Utada Hikaru and サボテ ンの花 (I first saw him play this song on a Japanese live morning show on YouTube).

Take some time to watch the videos of the concert below. (Thanks artkazu8~!)

雪の華
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kRKp_yEhY

First Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbu01WuasJ0

ロビン ソン
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn0kn2Hnh7I

I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EsFO3aU-Q

Sweet Memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT76xl0t53M

見上げ てごらん夜の星
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs8EB11rIwI

さよな ら
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_G7Xvfun0

秋桜
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbiBf3OYnBU

オリビ アを聞きながら
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJHQyRC9OlY

卒業写 真
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzPfPq4NgrA

時の過 ぎゆくままに
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2VNiU_zyRw

サボテ ンの花
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH0CnYhW24c