Watch the video lesson to learn the strumming. Blame It On My Youth (Nat King Cole/Sinatra) s BAR. Basin Street Blues/Birth of the Blues medley s BAR. The most popular size in Hawaii today is the 4-string tenor. Get the ukulele chords for Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwoole. Birth of the Blues (Sammy Davis, Jr./Frank Sinatra) s BAR 109. There are also 6-string (the C strings and A strings are an octave apart) and 8-string (the G-strings are an octave apart, the C strings are an octave apart, the E strings are unison, and the A strings are unison). Typically they have 4 strings, but often the tenor has 5 (the two A strings are in unison). Modern ukuleles come in 4 sizes, soprano (or standard), concert, tenor and baritone. The ukulele became a common instrument used in Hawaiian style music and is still growing in popularity. Ukulele Boogaloo The site includes links to organizations and clubs, performers' websites, instructional information. The Hawaiians were impressed by the speed of the musicians fingers as they moved across the finger board creating beautiful music and called the instrument a ukulele which translates as “jumping flea” because that is what the musicians fingers looked like when playing. The two most notable features of this model are the cutaway body, and the unique soundhole designed to resist acoustic feedback. The Portuguese call the ukulele ‘braguinha’. Created specifically for the legend himself, the Kala Hutch Hutchinson Signature bass ukulele offers a cool spin on the classic Kala U-Bass.
Ukulele Resources Many people associate the ukulele with Hawaii but did you know this mini guitar like instrument was actually brought to the Hawaiian Islands by the Portuguese who came to work the sugar cane fields in 1879.