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Chopin Waltz in A minor for low G ukulele

Posthumous Waltz in A minor by Chopin transcribed to the low G ukulele with some compromises by Anne Ku Continue reading

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Can’t Help Falling in Love in F for ukulele

Can’t Help Falling in Love in F major for low and high G ukulele and video play along Continue reading

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As Tears Go By (1964)

As Tears Go By for ukulele in C and G as given in workshop on World Ukulele Day by Anne Ku Continue reading

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Harmonized major scale exercises for high G ukulele

Harmonizing a major scale on the high G ukulele for chord melody arrangements to make it more fun to play and pleasing to the ear. Examples by Anne Ku. Continue reading

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Simplifying Midnight Diner theme, Omoide 思ひで, for ukulele

The theme to the Netflix series “Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories” on the guitar can be played on the ukulele. Originally in the key of B minor, the transposed tune in A minor presents many possibilities for the ukulele. However, it’s … Continue reading

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Body Surfing for easy ukulele transposed

When we transpose Herb Ohta’s Body Surfing in the original key of G minor to A minor, we can now play the entire piece on a high G ukulele an octave lower and with more familiar chords. Easy ukulele means … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday for high G ukulele

It is entirely possible to play the same tablature written for low G ukulele on the high G ukulele. It will sound different. It is not wrong. In this blog post, I show an example. Then I transpose the popular … Continue reading

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Pachelbel Medley (workshops in Zoom)

For Pachelbel’s Birthday Party, I made a medley of songs that follow the eight-bar chord progression in Pachelbel’s Canon. In selecting the songs, I noticed that most of the 24 songs I had listed did NOT follow the progression in … Continue reading

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Transposing online

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

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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