Category Archives: review

Fun with Uke Book

Hot off the cyberpress, “Fun with Uke” is a new compilation of illustrated, arrangements of 24 well-known, popular children’s songs based on nursery rhymes. Coloring book. To find out more, join 3 Chord Thursday Nursery Rhymes song session. Check out … Continue reading

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Homage to Carcassi and Carulli

Music and memory are intricately connected. The last classical guitar solo piece I loved playing in my teenage years was one by Carcassi in 3/4 time in a minor key. The nylon string guitar my mother bought from a music … Continue reading

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Do Re Mi for ukulele

Do Re Mi was originally sung in Bb major. It’s much easier for beginners to learn it in C major. Continue reading

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Three Chord Thursdays at Three: Boys Names

On Thursday April 23rd, 2020, about 30 participants from Hawaii to Italy gathered online in ZOOM to sing and play the ukulele. The theme for this one-hour session was songs of names of boys or guys, as the previous one … Continue reading

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Mauro Giuliani Polonoise or Polonaise from Op. 65

Should it be “polonoise” as printed on the title page of the sheet music or “polonaise” as we know it?

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Of guitar quartets and ensemble playing

In January 2018, I started a new ukulele group and joined the Boston Guitar Orchestra. For the latter, I begged the conductor to translate the notated sheet music for guitar part four into tablature so that I could read it. … Continue reading

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Call and response workshop

One of many ways to lead a group of performers is the so-called “call and response,” which is actually a compositional technique. The leader “calls” by singing and/or playing a musical phrase. The “other” (be it students, audience, or someone … Continue reading

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20th anniversary analyticalQ

Was I tempting fate by launching my first website on the Ides of March twenty years ago today? Just two years prior, I composed “Ides of March” after experiencing driving through a flood in Houston. It was so horrific that … Continue reading

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Songs from Ireland: Ride On

Tonight we will be playing and singing songs from Ireland at the local library and going to a nearby pub afterwards — in Historic Lower Mills, a unique part of Boston, Massachusetts. One of these Irish songs is “Ride On” — … Continue reading

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Business models: my grandfather the entrepreneur

Over the years, I subconsciously collected stories of successful business models with a view to writing and publishing an e-book to share with like-minded individuals. Here’s the story of my late grandfather who built a successful English school in Taiwan.

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