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- 12 Chinese Zodiac Tunes February 15, 2025
- Guinea Pig for high G ukulele February 14, 2025
- Gift Horse for high G ukulele February 14, 2025
- 100 Days of Ukulele 2024 February 14, 2025
- Monkey Around for high G ukulele February 13, 2025
- Ukulele Chord Chart or Chord Table February 7, 2025
- Doggy Bag for high G ukulele February 7, 2025
- Chopin Waltz in A minor for low G ukulele February 7, 2025
- Chicken Feed for high G ukulele February 6, 2025
- Rat Race for high G ukulele February 6, 2025
- Counting Sheep to Sleep, a lullaby for high G ukulele February 5, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday Anniversary February 5, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday IRISH February 5, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday LOVE February 4, 2025
- Counting Sheep for high G ukulele February 4, 2025
- Can’t Help Falling in Love in F for ukulele February 4, 2025
- As Tears Go By (1964) February 3, 2025
- 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
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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: zoom
3 Chord Thursday Anniversary
3 Chord Thursday 5th Anniversary celebration on 3rd April 2025 in Zoom with dance tunes or music you can dance to Continue reading
World Ukulele Day Workshops 2025
World Ukulele Day Workshops are one-hour classes in Zoom free to those who register in advance with Anne Ku, the instructor. Continue reading
Ukulele Fall 2024 Course
Ukulele course in-person and in-Zoom in Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2024 Continue reading
Ukulele Exercises Series (books)
Experience new ukulele exercises by Anne Ku in a free workshop in Zoom Continue reading
3 Chord Thursday NAMES
Welcome to Autumn 2024 Season, the last three months of the year! On Thursday 3rd October 2024, please join us in Zoom with songs of first names. Recall the early days of 3 Chord Thursday at 3, we devoted an … Continue reading
Ukulele Course: riffs and more!
Besides strumming the chords, what else can you do to accompany a song? Every song has its instantly recognizable riffs, repetitive chord progressions, percussive patterns, and other unique units hidden in the introduction, instrumental interludes, outros, or between verses, refrains, … Continue reading
Piano Accompaniment & Other Skills
Piano Accompaniment & Other Skills classes in Zoom with Anne Ku Continue reading
3 Chord Thursday Farewell
Thursday 20th June 2024 is World Refugee Day and also Summer Solstice. Our theme is farewell. It’s good-bye to Spring and welcome summer in Boston. Can you think of songs to do with parting? Check out our list of suggestions … Continue reading
3 Chord Thursday Multi-Lingual Songs
3 Chord Thursday Multi-Lingual Songs theme in Zoom with French, Spanish, Chinese Mandarin, and other languages. Continue reading
3 Chord Thursday 4th Anniversary
Our 4th anniversary falls on Thursday 4/4/24 which has a nice ring to it and is easy to remember as we end at 4 PM EDT. We will focus on four chord songs with common chord progressions (here’s a list).