Celebrate Stevie Wonder’s Birthday with Ukulele Bass

Hi,

It has been quite a long time since I posted here so it’s definitely time to start doing it again more frequently!

Please let me know in the comments if there are any specific topics you want me to cover!

Happy Birthday to Stevie Wonder!

I know Mr. Wonder had his birthday yesterday but why not celebrate him and his music today too…and tomorrow and…

Besides playing ukulele bass one of my main day job has been as a music educator at a Swedish high school with an arts program.

The students in the second year are just about to finish a project playing, you guessed it, Stevie Wonder songs!

The group that I’m mentoring has decided to play two real classics, Sir Duke and Master Blaster.

Both these tunes have really nice unison interludes. Maybe I should do a ukulele bass cover of Sir Duke and show how I play it!? Because the ukulele bass has a shorter scale length there can be options available for playing some of the sections in ways not possible on a regular scale bass. It’s always nice to try and find more than one way of playing a bass part even if it’s just a small section that will benefit from a way of playing that suits YOUR playing!

I have made a couple of video lessons playing Stevie Wonder here on this blog. Let’s revisit them!

And please don’t hesitate to comment below and let me know what you want me to cover on this blog hereafter!

Take care and play your ukulele bass every day!

Master Blaster (Ukulele Bass Video lesson)