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- Travis Picking exercises for ukulele January 8, 2025
- Oh Susanna for ukulele January 8, 2025
- Exercise for waltz accompaniment January 7, 2025
- Strum & Fingerpick Exercise in 3/4 Time January 7, 2025
- Accompaniment exercises in 3/4 time for low G ukulele January 7, 2025
- Accompaniment in 3/4 time for high G ukulele January 7, 2025
- Feed the Birds with ukulele January 6, 2025
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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. […]
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Pianists, guitarists, ukulele players: does size matter?
“What is it about guitarists?” I began. “Every guitarist can play the ukulele — BUT only if he wants to.” There seems to be a psychological barrier. It take less than a minute to show guitarists the conversion formula to … Continue reading
Events 2019 and earlier
Less is more. Keep it simple. Prior to 2020, I have been actively involved in the following events. Sunday December 8th, 2019 @ 2:30 – 3:30 PMHoliday concert with piano and ukuleleStandish Village Tuesday December 3rd, 2019 @10:30 – 11:30 … Continue reading
The Choco-leles
What do you get when you get ukulele players to play in what used to be the oldest chocolate factory in the country? “Say chocolate. Say ukulele. Cross chocolate and ukulele and you get choco-lele.” That’s what I said to … Continue reading
Feedback, testimonials, what others said
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Teaching
November 19, 2019 17:00 EST Boston, Massachusetts Another PAGE whose contents are shoved into a blog post so I can free up my website for what I’m currently doing. Yes, I still teach.
Energy: electricity, electric vehicles
November 19, 2019 at 16:55 EST Boston, Massachusetts I am redoing my website so it’s about what I currently do and want to do in the near future. The PAGE tabs will be deleted. Here is what was on the … Continue reading
Business models: my grandfather the entrepreneur
Over the years, I subconsciously collected stories of successful business models with a view to writing and publishing an e-book to share with like-minded individuals. Here’s the story of my late grandfather who built a successful English school in Taiwan.
Easy Beatles Jam Session
As I explore music for ukulele jam sessions, I keep discovering Beatles songs I’ve never heard of before. In London, I chuckled at the politically incorrect “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and the funny “Octopus’s Garden.” George Harrison’s “I’ll Follow the Sun” … Continue reading
Anita Shreve, I never got to meet her
A pop-up window flashed “Anita Shreve dies at 71″ while I was on FaceTime. Suddenly, I felt a pang of regret. I’m attending a major writing conference in Boston next week. I’ve moved to New England, where Shreve had set … Continue reading
All things Dutch and wonderful
When I first visited a local supermarket in the Netherlands, I complained that the only soy sauce was the wrong kind. The bottle was too small, and the soya sauce was Indonesian. I honestly thought I would starve.