Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2026 Save the Dates for Upcoming BUG Jams! Mark your calendars to remind you when the BUG Jams are and when you can purchase tickets - it's not ALWAYS the same!
Featured BUG Jam 01/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! January 14, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2026 BUG Really Small, REALLY SLOW Jam with Sue & Mark! January 24, 2026 Beginners! Mark and I are holding a ukulele slow jam in our home. Come join us!
Featured BUG Jam 02/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! February 11, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! Photos - December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
Featured BUG Jam Videos 10 December 2025 2025 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam recorded on December 10, 2025, with a full house of festive ukers despite our first major snowstorm of the year! We're in Ottawa Ontario Canada - join us to strum, sing, and be merry! It's FUN! And you don't need to be any good.
Tips & Help 24 March 2022 Beginner video lessons - Bernadette Teaches Music Bernadette Plazola is a very popular online music teacher! She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Music and a Masters in Education and a teaching credential in music.
Tips & Help 8 January 2022 Tablature - how to read ukulele tabs DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENTHow To Read Tab Put together with the help of some info and photos from a Zing Instruments blog.
Tips & Help 31 January 2021 Bass Ukulele - The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Bass Ukulele DOWNLOAD THE HANDOUTSNotes on the Neck of the Bass Ukulele Musical Notes for all Major Scales UBass Patterns and Theory Roots and Fifths, Patterns and
Tips & Help 3 January 2021 Tune your ukulele Tune your uke before you jam, by ear or microphone, with the UkeBudy ukulele tuner.
Tips & Help 24 December 2020 Beginner - Strum and sing at the same time Video tutorial about how to sing and strum at the same time
Photos 8 February 2020 Really Slow Jam with Sue & Mark's at Home February 2020 Sue and Mark held two REALLY SLOW JAMS for beginners in our home. It’s a great way to be able to learn, ask questions, review body posture and technique, and play together in a relaxed, intimate way! We look forward to doing this again sometime in the new year.
Tips & Help 4 July 2018 Beginners - to get you started! Tuning, strumming, tutorials, etc. BEGINNERS - to get you started! Tuning, strumming, tutorials, etc.
Tips & Help 10 March 2018 Beginners - get your strum going! Here's some information, especially for beginner ukers, taking you from your first strum onward. Check it out!
Tips & Help 3 January 2017 Beginner video lessons - Ukulele Underground Welcome to UUU 100! In this first lesson, Aldrine will guide you step by step on your journey to getting started with the ukulele. You'll learn how to properly hold your ukulele, the basics of strumming, your first chord and your first song. Let's jump right in!
Tips & Help 19 December 2015 Beginner video lessons - Cynthia Lin Here are a series of beginner video lessons courtesy of Cynthia Lin
Tips & Help 16 January 2014 Chord charts, how to read chord charts, tune your uke, strumming patterns... Chord charts and lots of links to valuable online ukulele resources
