About

Thanks for your interest - ukejam.online exists to help Ukulele groups. It is a online tool to maintain ukulele songs and playlists for groups. Anyone can do this by freely adding songs and creating books of songs, for any event. Please be aware the content on here is not moderated.

Please do email me (Mark) with bugs, suggestions, or requests at admin@ukejam.online, or raise an issue on the Gitlab project where the website is developed.

Everything added here is public and kept for ever. What the site keeps about you, and your rights over it, are on the privacy page.

Contributing Advice

Aim to make Ukulele songs fun and easy to read and play. The audience is a beginner playing in a group.

Rules

1. Don't use html, the site rejects any content that contains html.
2. First line must be a short Title - Artist.
3. Songs must fit onto 1 page.
4. Don't use tablature; chords and lyrics only please.
5. Be aware of using :, due to legacy reasons this creates a [label].

Simplicity

1. Use simpler chords.
2. Use fewer chords.
3. Change the key to suit ukulele chords.
4. Have chords follow the lyrics.
5. Simplify or remove instrumental sections.
6. Avoid jumps backwards in songs.

Best Practices

1. Prefer starting new lines when the bar changes, which is typically aligned with a chord change. Exceptions exist, to starting a new line are when lyrics naturally start ahead of the bar change.
2. Chords must be marked using square brackets e.g. [A].
3. Prefer to put chords inline with lyrics, not above the lyrics. They must always be inline on the formatted output.
4. Prefer one chord per square bracket; Instead of [Am-C-G], do [Am][C][G].
5. Indicate a sudden accented stop or single strum on a chord with an asterisk *. E.g. [A]Strumming [A*]Stop.
6. Insert chords just ahead of words, leave a space between the square bracket and the word.
7. When the chord changes with the start of a word, do not leave a space between the square bracket and the word.
8. When a chord changes within a word, insert it just ahead of the syllable change.

Nothing you save is lost

Every save is a new version; nothing is ever overwritten. A song's or a book's history is under Edit, and any version can be diff for changes and restored. If someone else saved the same song while you were editing it, the two sets of changes are put together; only if you both changed the same lines are you asked which to keep.

Unsaved changes stay on your device

Changes you have not saved yet are kept on the phone, tablet or computer you made them on, for seven days, even if the page is closed or the signal drops. Find them again under Create › Drafts. They are not on your other devices.