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- Exercise for waltz accompaniment January 7, 2025
- Strum & Fingerpick Exercise in 3/4 Time January 7, 2025
- Accompaniment exercises in 3/4 time for low G ukulele January 7, 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
World Ukulele Day Workshops
World Ukulele Day Workshops are one-hour classes in Zoom free to those who register. 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
By popular demand, the next 8-week PIANO COURSE is focussed on accompaniment. As with previous offerings, we will continue to build the important skills of sight reading, harmonization (formation and inversion of block and broken chords), and technique. This course … 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
On Thursday 16th May 2024, we celebrate Multi-Cultural Day (21st May) in advance with songs in different languages. This one-hour song session is in Zoom only. Previously, we held sessions of songs in French, Spanish, Chinese Mandarin, and other languages.
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).
Ukulele Accompaniment Course in Zoom
What’s the strum pattern? If you’re asking this question, you’d be interested in the new Ukulele Accompaniment Course in Zoom. Get introduced to rhythmic patterns for different kinds of songs and occasions.