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- Ukulele Chord Chart or Chord Table February 7, 2025
- Doggy Bag for high G ukulele February 7, 2025
- Chopin Waltz in A minor for low G ukulele February 7, 2025
- Chicken Feed for high G ukulele February 6, 2025
- Rat Race for high G ukulele February 6, 2025
- Counting Sheep to Sleep, a lullaby for high G ukulele February 5, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday Anniversary February 5, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday IRISH February 5, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday LOVE February 4, 2025
- Counting Sheep for high G ukulele February 4, 2025
- Can’t Help Falling in Love in F for ukulele February 4, 2025
- As Tears Go By (1964) February 3, 2025
- Holy Cow for high G ukulele January 30, 2025
- Two Tigers for high G ukulele January 29, 2025
- Rabbit Hole for high G ukulele January 29, 2025
- Dragon Born for high G ukulele January 27, 2025
- Year of the Snake for high G ukulele January 27, 2025
- Music terminology January 25, 2025
- Homage to Carcassi for low G ukulele January 25, 2025
- Take Five on Five ukulele duet January 24, 2025
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Recent Posts: Concert Blog
REVIEW: Discovering Fingerstyle Ukulele Songbook by Colin Tribe
Colin Tribe’s new book offers new possibilities for ukulele players who aspire to fingerpick their way through thirty of the most popular songs of all time. These chord melody arrangements show a variety of ways the high G ukulele can be used for instrumental solo or duet (such as chord accompaniment and melodic fingerpicking) . […]
REVIEW: Piano Animals (duet) by Heleen Verleur
This 31-page book of four hand piano music is sheer FUN with a capital F. The composer Heleen Verleur knows just what pianists love playing: music that is easy to read, sounds hard to play, but is so much fun that you don’t want to stop until it ends.
REVIEW: Ukulele Picking Tunes Classical Gems by Paul Mansell
This 40-page book is the latest contribution to the ukulele repertoire by the UK-based ukulele and guitar composer Paul Mansell. Guitarists who play the ukulele are few and far between, for many adult learners pick up the ukulele without knowing the guitar. Yet it takes a guitarist who understands the possibilities of the re-entrant tuned […]
REVIEW: Modern Pieces for Ukulele by Paul Mansell
Review of first three pieces from the new book Modern Pieces for Ukulele by Paul Mansell
Group piano class in Zoom
Introducing my group piano class online: Group Piano Class in Zoom. The first series of seven weekly one-hour class started in June 2021. The second (continuation of the first) started in October 2021 at alternating weeks, until end of December (seven sessions). The third series of 16 consecutive weeks started at the beginning of 2022. […]
Daily Archives: January 16, 2022
3 Chord Thursday: ukulele all over the world
On Thursday 3rd February 2022, we celebrate World Ukulele Day which falls on 2/2/2022 (in fact, 2nd day of the 2nd month every year). We will share songs about the joy of playing the ukulele in any language or culture. Songs … Continue reading
Ukulele Jeopardy Winners & Losers
At the last 3 Chord Thursday session in 2021, we played our third ukulele jeopardy game in Zoom. I invited a co-host to help me test the game beforehand and teach the ukulele jeopardy theme tune “Think!” in the beginning … Continue reading
Kanikapila in Hawai’i (part 4)
There’s something different and special about jamming with other ladies (in contrast with an all male or a mixed gender group). It feels like going to an all-female luxury spa, such as the Korean body scrub spa in Seattle some … Continue reading
$99 Music Classes in Zoom
Choose the first four classes for $99 Applies to all classes AND the new PERFORMANCE SERIES on Tuesdays. Continue reading
In-person music classes
Prior to the pandemic, we assumed all classes were given in-person. Only online classes needed to be labelled. Now that we are STILL in the worldwide pandemic, we have to label classes that are given in-person. Are we ready for … Continue reading