Dominator Ukulele Tabs

Hey everyone, here is the initial copy of the poster for the Tahoe Area Ukulele festival to be held at the John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks, Nevada. This is going to be an incredible weekend with the best two solo ukulele players alive, in Jake Shimabukuro and James Hill. Click the poster and it will take you to the PlayUke website where you can print off a hi-res copy. We need everyone's help in getting the word out so please place some of the posters on your blogs or in locations that will allow you to do so.
Thanks in advance for the help.

I just want to wish everyone all the best for 2010. It was great to meet many of you last year and I hope I have the opportunity to meet many more of you in 2010.

Happy New Year!

Tis the season once again. The holidays are upon us and before you know it Christmas will be hear and gone. Last season Aldrine Guerrero released a downloadable EP titled “Four Strings of Christmas” consisting of 6 tracks.

1. Sleigh Ride
2. Winter Wonderland
3. The Christmas Song
4. Up on the Housetop
5. Carol of the Bells
6. Schizophrenic Snowflakes

I had intended to transcribe "The Christmas Song" and post a tab but never got around to it. I got an earlier start on it this year but ran into some challenges while entering it into the Powertab editor. I was afraid it would take too long to get the tab completed so I opted for putting together a quick tutorial. Turns out it wasn’t as quick as I had hoped for and extended into a second video. I will continue to work the tab but for now here are Parts 1 and 2 for Aldrine Guerrero’s arrangement of “The Christmas Song”.

The EP is available for download for a mere $6 US at the following LINK:

In the tutorial I don't actually play the song all the way through so I will be uploading a video of me playing it start to finish probably later today. That should help tie it all together.

I hope you enjoy the videos and are able to play this one for friends and family during the upcoming holidays. Merry Christmas to all.

EDIT: 11/29/09
And here is a video I recorded of the song start to finish to help tie the tutorials all together.

Though we had more than our share of rain this year the trip to Kauai` was wonderful. We got to spend some time with Aldrine Guerrero and the rest of the gang from Ukulele Underground as well as our good friend Kirby Keough. Here's a few pics from our music adventures.

Guess who the one is that doesn't live in the tropical sunshine?
The UU gang, Aldrine, Aaron and Ryan

Dinner with our good friend Kirby Keough at Keoki's Paradise

We did manage one nice sunset. This is the view directly accross the road from our place

Dom & Kirby laying down a few tunes at Joe's on the Green

Domintor jamming with Kahalau Leoiki and Keala Kauanui at the Lihue Airport on the way out of town

Here are a couple of videos from the trip.

It's that time of year again. Heading to Kauai` in the morning for a week of relaxation and, of course, loads of ukulele fun. I will be meeting up with my buddy Kirby Keough and hopefully will meet up with Aldrine and the Ukulele Underground crew as well.

I've been working on transcribing Aldrine's version of "The Christmas Song" but it has been very slow due to the work schedule. If I can't get the tab completed then I may do a quick video tutorial when I get back so folks can have time to learn it before the Holidays are firmly upon us.

See you soon.

Tonight I'm posting one from the Ka`au Crater Boys that features some killer licks from the master, Troy Fernandez. I hade completed this tab a number of weeks ago but was waiting to get Troy's approval to post it. He contacted me a couple of weeks ago and gave me the go ahead but with the Southern CA Ukulele Festival and the Wine Country Festival activities going on I haven't had time to get it posted until now.

This is a fun 3 chord jam that you can play with a friend and it's even better if you can sing it. I've provided my interpretation of the rhythm but feel free to chunk away with something that works for you.

Tab is located on the tabs page via the link at the top of the page.

The 2nd Annual Wine Country Ukulele Festival was wonderful experience and great success this year. The festival kicked off on Friday night at the Judd's Hill Hula Party which essentially was a meet and great with great food, outstanding musicians and of course, wine and great music.

Saturday was the big festival day at the Beringer Vineyards that was loaded with ukulele vendors, continuous performances on the Promenade stage and excellent workshops, food and of course, more wine.

The festival couldn't have ended on a better note for us. We participated in the Brunch at Miner Family Vineyards which was such a unique experience. A table for 22 inside the caves with incredible food and wine pairings and the music of James Hill and Kimo Hussey. This was a priceless experience to spend this time enjoying the wine, food and music. You just would have had to be there to get the full impact.

A HUGE Mahalo to Elaine de Man for all her efforts in pulling this amazing event together.

Here are some pictures from the weekend and some videos of my performance on Saturday at Beringer Vineyards on the Promenade stage.

The 8th Annual Southern California Ukulele Festival was held last weekend in Cerritos, California. The crowd may have been slightly smaller than years past but it was jammed packed with enthusiasm and ukulele awesomeness. The Friday night “Club Night” was definitely missed as well as the late night jamming at the Sheraton but all in all it was a wonderful festival.

This was the first year that the peeps from Ukulele Underground were in attendance. They had an open mic with numerous enthusiasts and performers to mesmerize the captive audience. Thanks to Ricdoug for providing the sound equipment.

Here are a few pics from the event. Next stop: Wine Country Ukulele Festival this weekend in the Napa Valley. See you there.

Aldrine with his new Kanile`a Tenor Ukulele by Joe Souza

Aldrine & Dominator at the UU booth

Dom jamming & UU booth

Dom with his spruce top tenor

Gerald Ross getting his sound check

Dominator & Ukulele Bartt

Bruddah Mark and Jeff manning their booth

The extent of the after concert jam at the Sheraton

Jamming with Ali Lexa and Derick Sebastion at the end of Ali's Jazz and Blues Improvisation workshop

Jin Kim sporting a nice Dominator Ukulele Tabs T

I've been holding back from posting this tab for a few months now. I was hoping to post the tab at the same time I uploaded a video of me playing it to Youtube. But I just haven't gotten around to smoothing the song out and getting the video done. Since it's been a while since I posted a new tab I thought I would just go ahead and get Gossip uploaded to the site and worry about the video later.

This is an awesome song written by an extremely talented ukulele player from Wisconsin, Neal Paisley. He can spank the heck out of a soprano uke with the best of them. Check out his VIDEO and be sure to subscribe to his channel.

Tab is located on the TABS page.

Last weekend was a great time filled with lots of music, food, drink and loads of laughter as Aldrine Guerrero was in the bay area to kick off his CA Mini Tour.

Things didn’t start off so good though as the traffic from Sacramento to Berkeley was backed up big time. Normally it takes us about an hour and a half to get to Mike DaSilva’s shop but this day it took us over 3 hours. I missed Deach and Russbuss’ entire set as we strolled down the hallway hearing the audience applause for their last song. I didn’t even get to set my instruments down as I was directed immediately to the stage. My hands were sticky and clammy from the drive so I had Aldrine plug in my uke while I washed up a bit and then it was time to let the music begin. The crowd was great and very receptive which made things a littler easier. Below are a few pics from the night and some video taken by GrumpyCoyoteTunes of Ukulele Underground.

It was awesome to finally meet some members of UU that also have a collaborative YouTube channel known as Uke Crazy Bitches (UCB ). Among those I had never met before were AddelleTheGreat, GrumpyCoyoteTunes and Boozelele


Dom & Russ

Dom & Aldrine

Dom with Addelle and Boozelele

Dom & GrumpyCoyoteTunes

Dom & Deach

Dom & Russbuss415

Dom & Aldrine