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Body Surfing for easy ukulele

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Anne Ku

Virtuosic instrumental ukulele performances woo and awe us. Master ukulele shredders like Taimane and Jake Shimabukuro play so fast and furiously that sometimes you can’t see the fingers at all. They play up and down the neck, covering the entire … Continue reading →

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Friday I’m in Love for ukulele

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Anne Ku

The first thing I heard on Facebook this morning was a YouTube cover of The Cure’s 1992 hit “Friday I’m in Love.” A couple played and sang the four chord song in the key of G. This reminded me that … Continue reading →

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We Shall Overcome on ukulele

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Anne Ku

We Shall Overcome in C major lead sheet and chord melody arrangement for ukulele Continue reading →

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Accompaniment exercises in 3/4 time for low G ukulele

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Anne Ku

This blog post is about a fingerstyle ukulele exercise for low G ukulele in the key of A minor. The time signature is 3/4 which means a count of three. The exercise supports the song “Feed the Birds” in a … Continue reading →

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On Top of Spaghetti in C for high G ukulele

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Anne Ku

On Top of Spaghetti is a parody on the traditional tune of “On Top of Old Smokey” accompanied as a waltz or ballad with three chords, arranged for easy and fun fingerstyle ukulele chord melody instrumental solo by Anne Ku, with video and tabs. Continue reading →

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Greensleeves or What Child Is This for ukulele

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Anne Ku

What if …. What if I were to arrange or compose something every single day? A tune a day keeps the …. at bay. A tune a day keeps the …. away. The tune takes over and infests like an … Continue reading →

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Brown Eyed Girl double stops in Margaritaville

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Anne Ku

Catchy instrumental introductions hook you in, especially if they return as an instrumental interlude later in the song. Without these intros and interludes, the song seems incomplete. Such is the case of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” and Jimmy Buffett’s … Continue reading →

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Music Theory MELODY

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Anne Ku

Of the essential elements of music, melody is the single most important ingredient in a song. You can think of melody as a series of notes, one after another, defined by the distance in pitch (interval) and duration. What makes … Continue reading →

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Transposing online

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Anne Ku

We are very fortunate to have websites that provide free transposition. Just choose the new key or interval, press a button. Voila! The entire song sheet gets new chords!

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Transposing by hand

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Anne Ku

Thanks to automatic transposition algorithms offered on websites like Ozbcoz.com, we don’t think twice about what’s involved in transposing a song manually. Without such options, how do we transpose all the chords for a given song by hand? To transpose … Continue reading →

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