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- 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
- The Five Note Dance duet for high G ukulele January 24, 2025
- Fill and connect melody with passing notes January 23, 2025
- The pedal tone applied to a lead sheet for ukulele January 23, 2025
- Harmonized major scale exercises for high G ukulele January 23, 2025
- Dance on Mostly Open Strings for high G ukulele January 22, 2025
- Dance on Open Strings for high G ukulele January 22, 2025
- Simplifying Midnight Diner theme, Omoide 思ひで, for ukulele January 21, 2025
- Body Surfing for easy ukulele transposed January 20, 2025
- Daily Music Writing Project January 20, 2025
- Body Surfing for easy ukulele January 19, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday 2025 Ukulele + January 15, 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. […]
Tag Archives: recording
Dance on Open Strings for high G ukulele
What’s the easiest and quickest way to get someone to fingerpick, strum and have fun with the ukulele? Years ago, my piano guitar duo partner and I wrote a short ukulele duet in which one person only uses one hand. … Continue reading
Auld Lang Syne in F for low G ukulele
The experience of writing for low G ukulele is entirely different from writing for high ukulele. Playing the arrangement is also something else. I daresay Auld Lang Syne in F on low G ukulele is easier to play than that … Continue reading
3 Chord Thurs: VACATION
Join us on Thursday 29th July 2021 for a 3 Chord Thursday thematic song session of songs about taking a vacation or going on holiday. Some of these may overlap with other themes such as travel, to the beach, or on … Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday: NO THEME a.k.a. ANYTHING GOES!
Finally a no theme song session on 17th June 2021. Three Chord Thursday is a weekly song session with a different theme each time. Continue reading
Spice it up with suspended chords: free taster ukulele workshop
Suspended chords can spice up a song. Attend this free taster workshop of forthcoming ukulele strum series. Continue reading
Songs in the Time of Corona: even dated Fridays
Since the launch of this new series on Friday March 27, 2020, we met every Friday afternoon to share songs that reflect our time, our lives and feelings under lockdown for two months, ending in mid-June. After a long lapse, … Continue reading
New music to calm your soul: Giovanni Allevi
The piano solo music of Giovanni Allevi is so addictive that I had to find the sheet music and play it. Once I got started, I couldn’t stop. It’s like an ear worm that digs into the core of you.
How to write music people want to play
Times have changed. Perhaps it’s the instant gratification of search engines and the availability of free online videos. To write sheet music that people want to play, it has to be readable, printable, and playable.