Who the f**k are you and why are you eating ukuleles?
I’m Stan. I run EatMyUke on my own, out of a room in the UK. No, I don’t eat ukuleles.
Why the ukulele, of all things
It was a total accident. In the early days of my band Bud Sugar we would just hang out and jam — guitars, bongos, laptops. Things got serious and we needed promo shots, so we gathered up every instrument we could find and buried ourselves in them.
I borrowed a cheap, bright blue ukulele off a family member. It sounded terrible. It looked great in the photos. I had no intention of ever actually playing it, because it would not stay in tune for more than about a minute.
Then my mate Bax tuned it up, got it to hold, and wrote a song on it called Ya Life’s Happenin’. It sounded perfect. I went out and bought a Kala tenor.
It stuck to me like glue. I have been the ukulele player ever since.
Since then I have arranged whole albums for it — a full album, every week, for a year, and then I carried on. It is over 160 now. Rumours, OK Computer, Toxicity, Appetite For Destruction, each one cut down to a single medley and played on four strings.
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The ukuleles I actually play
All Kala, all tenors
Why tenor,
not soprano
The size everyone buys first is a soprano, and it is the wrong shape for what I do. A tenor gives you more space between the frets, more range, and enough body to hold its own in a mix. If you have watched a riff on here and wondered why it will not sit right on your uke, this is very often the answer.
Honest bit: some of the links above are Amazon affiliate links, so I earn a small commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. It goes straight back into the £3.52 a day it costs to keep this site online. I only ever list gear I actually own and play.
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I read all of itThat is me. If you want a song tabbing out, spotted something broken, fancy working together, or just want to tell me the Toxicity medley is an abomination — the form is right there.
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