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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. […]
Tag Archives: songs
Three Chord Thursday: SEUPMK
What are the songs every ukulele player must know ? Come to Three Chord Thursday to find out. Continue reading
Tip jar for musicians
A tip jar gives feedback to a musician and frees up time to do what he or she is best at. Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday: pluck & strum songs
Three Chord Thursday session dedicated to songs that involve plucking and strumming Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday: same one word title, different songs
Can you think of songs with the same title that has just one word but which are completely different? Join us on 3rd September for Three Chord Thursday at 3 pm EDT. Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday: nonlexical vocables
In this Three Chord Thursday song session, we aim to sing and play songs that make extensive use of so-called nonlexical vocables, syllables chosen for their sound rather than meaning. Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday Challenge
Submission guidelines for Three Chord Thursday Challenge and ukulele courses and workshops in Zoom Continue reading
Pluck and Strum: authentic replication
Ever wanted to play the intro riff that makes a song so recognizable? To replicate a song authentically, in the way we know it from the artists that made it famous, often we need to use both plucking and strumming … Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday at Three: 50th birthday
Which three chord songs from 1970 have made it to 2020? Celebrate their 50th birthday at Three Chord Thursday at Three on August 13. Continue reading
Three Chord Thursdays at Three: one word titled songs
So many songs with only one word in their titles but how many are truly three chords and interesting to play? No proper nouns, hence no names of people or places. Not done in previous Thursday sessions. Continue reading
Three Chord Thursdays: dawn to dusk, sunrise to sunset
During the lockdown, time seems to pass somewhat differently than life as we once knew it. Let’s share three chord songs about time in a bubble, from morning to night on Thursday July 16, 2020 at 3 pm EDT (8 … Continue reading