Psychobilly on the uke

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Hi all,
Always loved my psychobilly and play it a lot on bass but it is mainly walking basslines. I'm wanting to learn more of the lead/rhythm stuff on uke for a bit of fun. If anyone hasn't heard of it, its like rockabilly but a hell of a lot more pumped up and faster. Finding likeminded people who enjoy it is difficult in the UK locally so I thought I'd reach out to you guys and girls for help.

Can anyone suggest chords/tabs/ scales etc to help me start off learning or set me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
Lloyd
 
I’ve been researching Rockabilly for awhile. I recommend the Easy Ed’s Variety Hour podcast, the Rockabilly & Blues podcast, the Rockabilly DJ podcast, and Rusty and Ginger’s Rockabilly Rumble podcast (they’ve stopped creating new episodes, but the existing episodes are great).

Stuart Fuch has a couple of boogie/rockabily videos for ‘ukulele on YouTube;
https://youtu.be/nbgAfAGvJ9w

https://youtu.be/iyVE5DXC860

TenThumbs also has a few videos. Here’s one;
https://youtu.be/CfO2E6PGwo8

Ukulele Mike created several videos about Travis picking, which I believe will be useful.

Realistically, most of the videos I found have been for guitar. If you have a baritone ‘ukulele you can try to follow along with the guitar tutorials for rockabilly.

You’ll want to install a pickup, and get a delay pedal. That’s important to the sound.

I don’t know how much you want to spend on an ‘ukulele, but if I ever hit a jackpot I’ll be calling Jonathan Mann for one of these;
http://www.manndolins.com/raptor-tenor-or-baritone.html

In the meantime, I’m experimenting with my Epiphone Roadie.
 
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