A student of mine is doing "Unforgiven" and "Nothing else matters" on the Ukulele. Sounds surprisingly well, especially with an added rhythm guitar.

As a person who grew up in Honolulu and loves Metallica, I feel like this video is totally relevant to my life. I am actually wanting to get the ukulele I had as a kid from my brother’s house so I can try this!!

It looks like you chose a soprano ukulele, I think a tenor might have given you a better tone and playability. You will also have a broader selection of linear strings low G rather than reentrant tuning standard on ukes.

I remember I had a tiny ukelele like that. My dad gave it to me when I was like 5 or something, and it looked gigantic to me. It felt like staring up at a huge ukelele-shaped statue. Now that I'm much older, Looking at the ukelele I'm like "bruh this is smaller than my breakfast"

3:06 when you're singing and you have to change octaves for the notes outside of your pitch range

i NEVER thought I'd be headbanging to ukulele stuff as much as i did in this video, but i loved the vid, mike! 🤘🔥

Given the Ukuleles tonal restrictions (and it being at least an Octave too high compared to Guitar), I thought this was pretty cool. The songs are recognizable and “fun”, which is why the Uke is such a fun instrument.

Imagine if Megadeth made one.............

Nice, do a mandolin next please!! I bet you could do a whole album on one and it would sound great! I would get some electric ones, a banjo, a mandolin and an electric ukulele.

Oh, what fun! Mike, I noticed that you discovered that inverting the 5ths on the ukulele helps fatten the chords. Dropping the C string a 1/2 step to B also works well for many songs in the keys of E and E minor, as well as B and many others. Cheers from the Green Bay Ukulele Club!

I love all of the songs normally, and while none sound better on uke, they all sound pretty good. My reaction to a lot of the riffs was that I thought they sounded “cuter” and “tingier.” Fade to black’s solo sounded a lot happier as well

8:46 That pic of James with the big ukulele is going to haunt my mind forever, haha.

Advice: You need a low g string on that uke. Perhaps also wound strings. Also, if you had an acoustic-electric uke, you could plug into an amp to use distortion and other pedals to help with sustain and the tone.

I love your channel Mike. This was lots of fun!

I’m surprised that The Call Of Ktulu didn’t make it in. It is fun to play on ukulele, and sounds pretty good on it.

This was really cool! Always fun to hear something so familiar played in a wacky fashion

"You remember fun don't you? You're suppose to enjoy it!" Great stuff, greatly enjoyed. Thank you.

Just low key dropping he plays guitar, drums, keyboard, violin and cello like it's nbd. Mike you know we need a violin video now, right?

Man, I'd love to hear that with distortion. A uke, with a pickup and distorted would be awesome, maybe.....

As a guitar player when I play ukelele i use these things called low g strings, basically the string become arranged the way a guitar would though it’s tuned to like g standard still makes it easy and fun though

interesting and funny, kept smiling though whole video :). And you play so good this tiny ukulele.

Thank you Mike for inspiring me take out my ole Uke that I have and play it again. Its actually a lot of fun. 🤘🎸

I thought all the originally-acoustic lines sounded good on Ukulele.. Fade To Black, One, The Unforgiven, Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam are my favourites. The heavy parts of Wherever I May Roam and For Whom The Bell Tolls sound really good - the former as it has a Flamenco vibe and the latter as it sounds entertaining :0 This was a great video idea!

They do say that metal without distortion sounds a lot like surf music so perhaps this video reinforces that idea... Kirk Hammett be like "What, no wah?" ;)

"little flameco there for you in the end" soo relatable, made my day

Okay I started cracking up hearing the machine-gun riff from One, way too happy sounding 😂

Loved the machine gun part. Also thanks for that little taste of traditional Korean music

Great video! I have the Uke Can Play Led Zeppelin book. It's pretty fun to play even though the tiny frets make it a challenge.

The interlude to master of puppets sounds great on the uke too🤘

Awesome vid Mike 👍

I love Metallica and it is inspiring me to learn to play my Ukelele. I want to play these songs! Thanks for the book referral. If you swap the high G string for Low G string you get better sound (more like a guitar) and it will give you 5 more notes that you wont get with the hig G string. Electric ukeleles have a lot more options for playing these songs also.

This actually made me really wanna pick up a uke again.

Nice video! I try to translate heavy music on my uke, some songs can be played smoothly in the original tuning, others have to be transported to another key.

Surprised you didnt go over Orion (if the book even had it). StateofMercury did a mini cover of the interlude part and I think it sounded awesome

My wife got a uke in Hawaii. Once I figured out that the top 2 strings are E and A, I figured out most of these

I love this video keep up the good work

sounds cool. i saw a video where these guys played metallica on a cello. seen someone play slayer on banjo.

Dude you need to try a solid body steel string electric uke - Flight Pathfinder, Risa Electric, or anything by Fanner Electric Ukulele - they will blow your mind

I learned on the ukulele in intermediate school and transitioned to the guitar because I felt shredding on the ukulele just wasn’t enough for me. It’s still a really good instrument though and people like Jake Shimabukaro and Honoka and Azita can do some pretty amazing stuff on it. edit: I wanted to mention that you should’ve gotten yourself a tenor ukulele as it’s bigger and more comfortable to play than the concert uke you have. Also, you should get yourself a string set with a low G so you have better range.

Dang - I was hoping you'd play To live is to die - it's one of my favorite metallica songs.

My honest opinion. That machine gun part on One sounded the heaviest on this vid . Sounds awesome. I have a 19 fret ukulele which im going to try learning Metallica on . With ukulele it sounds all choppy in sound which makes it difficult. I play Metallica on electric and a bit of bass electric aswell .

I really like clean guitar, so for me almost everything you played sound good

My daughter loves metallica....and plays a ukulele and i play guitar....this is gonna be fun lol

Aloha 🌺 try the baritone or concert you will love it.

Hey Mike. Can you do some maybe black metal or crust tutorials? I think the theory side of things for that would be super interesting.

I like it. Sounds interesting, I don't have any access to a ukelele. Nice choice of songs. "Twisted music box" lol

Your videos rule!! Thanks!!

I bought a uke about a week ago. I've learned Psychosicial and Wait and Bleed

Very impressive like always :D.

Awesome vid!

There's a girl on YT that owns it on Ukulele. Her yt is Taimane and she's done some crazy stuff on Ukulele.

when you played nothing else matters it reminded me the steve seagulls cover, you should check it out!

Very fun video

That was cool man

I died when he said "no offense" to his ukulele 😆🤣

Ukulele Fade to Black is the soundtrack to being very sad on the beach with a Pina Colada.

Anything in the lower register sounds great.

Mike you rock.. even on a Uke!

So as I was waiting to watch this a yousician ad for Metallica songs came on ... weird ...nice video bro

Bleeding me and low man's lyric!! Try those!! Lol

odd...I don't remember March of the SOD on Headbanger's Ball, but I do remember Chromatic Death and the crashing train footage in black & white. Not saying it wasn't, mind you, I guess just musing about my crappy memory lol

Love it! Fresh!😊

Banger video

I wonder if you could tune it differently, like to D standard, i.e. like a guitar but without the A and low E strings. Not exactly the most revolutionary thing in the world, but given its medium to high pitched nature he may be good for licks and harmonies.

Reminds me of the banjo slayer video from back in the day

Y'know there IS such thing as steel stringed electric Ukuleles? Right? Try these songs with them and add a few pedal or more and an amp and you'll be golden! PS: As a Metallica fan who also lives in Hawai'i AND have two electric ukes, I'm going to try find this book, and learn them uke style.

Great Akulele ... love it

My favorites honestly where sad but true and the unforgiven

Sounded pretty good

I love it! I like them all!

This was a fun vid

It sounds really good for some unplugged stuff.

Now I've seen everything!😆😆😆😆

It sounds cool

i really did not expect to see this video

Those are definitely cool.

I would like to hear Through the Never I think it would sound cool on the uke

Whichever ones have a clean guitar or acoustic sounds great on uke

Jump in the Fire is finger gymnastics.

Luna Lee does kick ass rock covers on her gayageum.

What was the music played at 1:55 ?! That was actually pretty sweet (Edit): I literally just found the video by searching Korean traditional music

I thought the tapping part of the solo in One sounded great 👍👍

I wonder if a tenor Uke would sound better or even an proper electric Uke !

Cool video Mike but you didn't downpick MOP! LOL

Sesrch for MK Ukulele Academy (or maybe MK Fingerstyle Academy) and check out his version of Nothing Else Matters. Its so fuckin good. Most of these probably could have sounded better on a low g tenor uke rather than that high g concert. Or I'd bet the baritone would be really good. Still great playing though! Loved the video. Ive seen that book in the library and have wondered if it was any good, so thanks!

Would be cool to hear this on an electric ukelele.

You need a tenor uke my dude, I have the same problem playing concert size or smaller. I normally play bass lmao

I have a Led Zeppelin ukulele tab book that is pretty good..I’m not a big fan of Zeppelin but I have a ukulele that was passed down to me from a great man in my life who passed away..Anyway I seen the book and figured why not and to my surprise Zeppelin actually rocks on the ukulele lol…

I just wanna say hell yeah!

You Rock 🤘

Haha, great video 👍

Probably just saved me $100. Thanks!

I still want to hear a sanitarium uke cover

Is that a sign from a Robotron cabinet on the floor?

At first I thought that was some sort of truss rod adjustment sticking out of the headstock. 😂

it sounds good, I must say

imagin it with an electric ukulele and an amp ... would be cool

I don't have morbid curiosity. I have morbin curiosity

Kirk and James on ukulele, Robert on tea-chest bass and Lars on saucepans - new Metallica album??? Ride The Dishwasher :)

the first solo on master of puppets would be cool. at least I would think so.