Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Anne Ku

For participants in my half-hour workshop at Port Townsend virtual ukulele festival 2020, I gave a 14-page slide presentation of the hit song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” from the movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It won an Oscar for best song.

The introductory tune was played on a ukulele. The one page song sheet of my arrangement of”Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” is given on page 13 of the festival booklet (or just click on the sample image below). If you like pluck & strum, please join me at Three Chord Thursday on 17th September 2020 in Zoom for a performance of this song. This is the kind of song I teach in my Bootcamp course in Zoom.

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Moonshadow

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Anne Ku

For participants who attended my half-hour workshop at Port Townsend virtual ukulele festival today, I gave a 15-page slide presentation on how to create and play the arrangement for song Moonshadow by Cat Stevens, who released it as a single in the UK in 1970 and the USA in 1971. The one page song sheet of my arrangement of Moonshadow is given in page 12 of the festival booklet. If you like pluck & strum, please join me at Three Chord Thursday on 17th September 2020 in Zoom for a performance of this song.

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Three Chord Thursday: pluck & strum songs

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Anne Ku

For Thursday 17th September, we explore three chord songs that are performed by both plucking and strumming, as celebration and acknowledgement of the end of the first Pluck & Strum Series (a seven-week summer course) and the launch of the another series (eight-week autumn course). As usual to participate, please register in advance to get the Zoom details unless you’ve registered previously and have the zoom meeting info. If you register an hour or less before we start or after we start, it will be too late to get the details needed to get into the session.

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Ukulele Taster Workshops: educate, engage, experience

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Anne Ku

Experience what it’s like to take an online ukulele class in Zoom by joining a taster workshop. How else will you know if the class is the right fit for your skill level and goals? You can read about it, watch videos, or drop into one class. But how do you sample different classes at once?

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Early Bird Registration for ukulele courses 1st Sept

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Anne Ku

Here is the e-mail sent to my Thematic Ukulele mailing list about the deadline and new offerings.

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Three Chord Thursday Break until Sept 3, 2020

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Anne Ku

After 20 consecutive weeks in Zoom, we are taking a short break from Three Chord Thursday. We will resume on 3rd September 2020. Meanwhile, don’t miss the free taster workshops on 2nd, 3rd, and 7th September. These are free sessions in Zoom to inform and give you a taste of upcoming ukulele courses starting in September with early bird discounts. Register in advance to get details.

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Three Chord Thursday: same one word title, different songs

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Anne Ku

Given that there are numerous songs with only a single word in their titles, let us narrow the list down and explore songs that have the same one word title but are completely different songs. Different lyrics. Different melodies. Different chords. These are not different covers of the same song but actually different songs, same title.

To fit them into our usual one hour in Zoom on Three Chord Thursday, we welcome performers to choose five one-word song titles so that we can hear the different songs on Thursday 3rd September 2020 – our 21st song session since we began this series.

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Three Chord Thursday: nonlexical vocables

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Anne Ku

Have you ever sung a song that used nonsensical words that didn’t add anything to the lyrics but provided fuel for sound? In this session of Three Chord Thursday on September 10, 2020, we share songs that make extensive use of such meaningless vocables. Part 2 is scheduled for November 12, 2020 – selected songs in green font.

As usual, please register in advance to get the Zoom meeting link and ID to join this session, unless you have already previously registered and received the link with ID and password. You’ll get an e-mail before the session of the line-up and any other important information. From August 2020, all sessions will be recorded, edited, and replayed on Brookline television. If you don’t want to appear, you can always switch OFF your video.

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Three Chord Thursday Challenge

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Anne Ku

Congratulations to Bruce for winning the contest for the best chord placements for the following medley of extracts of lyrics from popular songs on Thursday 30th July 2020. Here is his four-page song sheet. See below for guidelines of this contest.

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Spice it up with suspended chords: free taster ukulele workshop

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Anne Ku

When a single chord is displayed for a long stretch of time, you can switch to its suspended chords to spice it up. Register in advance to attend this free ukulele workshop after Three Chord Thursday song session. The only pre-requisite is that you can read chord diagrams, such as fingering and switching the chords displayed in this blog post.

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