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Tavana

Tavana is one of our favorite musician/songwriters on the island. Catch Tavana him around Honolulu about 4 nights a week. He really puts on a diverse solo show with electric and acoustic instruments including lap steel, banjo, and more. Learn more at his website – http://www.tavana808.com/ This is a new original song from Tavana. He’s using his Pono and Roland …

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Benny Chong

Jazz is a thinking man’s music. There’s so much in Benny’s music , subtle but thick in harmonic tension and release, implied tones and rhythms are the cornerstone, melodies and bass lines throughout. Benny Chong is one of the best Jazz Uke players in the world and I want to thank him for sharing his music! “Benny Chong has been …

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Taimane

Taimane is a Kamaka artist and performs regularly in Honolulu with her band and around the world sometimes too. She also writes and produces some great music so keep in touch at http://taimane.com/ This one is an original instrumental recorded acoustic (just mics) and on a mahogany Pono baritone tuned B F# B F#. Taimane’s custom Kamaka tenor is a …

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Kalei Gamiao

We have Kalei on many of the sound samples here and at our website (The Ukulele Site). He’s also in a number of our podcasts you can find here and shares plenty of good info with customers at the shop 5 days a week (when he’s not on tour). Speaking of which, if you want to see where he’s going …

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Corey Fujimoto

We have tons of videos with Corey. Well over 1,000 actually at our Vimeo Channel because he does so many sound samples. And you can see many of them at the various posts here. But we’ll feature a few together here. This is a dry sound sample for a Ko’olau T100. The recording is “dry” because that’s how we do …

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Mike Love

Mike Love is an incredible musician with some truly beautiful albums you can find at his website here – mikelovemusic.com. He normally plays guitar but here’s a few videos featuring him on ukulele. The ukulele backs up a singer/ songwriter in a totally unique and wonderful way and Mike showcases that well here. Mike has new songs every time I …

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Styles/ Techniques/ Theory

Here a HI Sessions recording of James playing this original piece with his DaSilva signature tenor and his wife Anne, impressively on cello- One way to get better on ukulele is to listen to great ukulele players. Discover fantastic music at James Hill Website. Imua is one of the most amazing artists and producers in the islands. He recorded the …

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Kimo Hussey Styles

Aloha friends, we will continue to add to this page as we do more lessons with Kimo. To the right and above are transcriptions given to us by Bertrand Le Nistour. He gives us some more insight into understanding the tabs and also how to approach learning Kimo’s style. So here is a write up from Bertrand- Download and print …

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Beginner Lessons

MGM Gives Two Classic Beginner Lessons 12 Beginner Lessons From Aaron Crowell Strumming with Kimo We have more lessons with Kimmo Hussey here. In fact there is a whole page dedicated to his lessons. Check that out here- Kimo Hussey Style Corey Shows a Few Classics For Beginners