Three Chord Thursday: Exercise!

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Anne Ku

3rd June 2021 is World Bicycle Day. To celebrate, we will share songs about cycling, running, and physical exercise. Join us for this Three Chord Thursday at 3 pm EDT. Wear your exercise outfit so we can see you are working out! Better yet, stand and move while you play your uke!

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Three Chord Thursday: Songs that rip off classical music

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Anne Ku

For this session (the first of its kind), we are inviting you to experience classical music from a ukulele perspective. We think of classical uke as transcriptions and arrangements of the better-known classical music pieces for the ukulele. In addition to this, many pieces from classical music can be accompanied on the ukulele with chords, if chord diagrams or chord names are specified. Some composers are writing music in the classical style for the ukulele. At the same time, many pop songs have chord progressions, rhythms, or other similar features of classical pieces.

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Three Chord Thursday: Female Composers

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Anne Ku

On the 125th anniversary of Clara Schumann’s death, we dedicate Thursday 20th May 2021 to songs of female composers. Join us for this Three Chord Thursday at 3 pm EDT. We have a special guest, a female composer based in Massachusetts who has just released her first solo album. Erin Ash Sullivan will join us in our Zoom song session after 4 pm EDT. Please stick around to meet her and hear a song she will perform from her new album — as well as get your CD “signed”!

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Three Chord Thursday: Common Chord Progressions

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Anne Ku

You can’t copyright song titles, rhythm, or chord progressions. Many songs use the same chord progressions (chords in the same order). If you’re performing, be prepared to name two other songs that follow the same chord progression that you’re doing. To celebrate these patterns, wear something with a pattern on it. Join us on 13th May 2021 for this Three Chord Thursday theme at 3 pm EDT.

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Three Chord Thursday: Famous Riffs

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Anne Ku

Join us on Thursday 6th May 2021 to hear the performers pluck or strum the famous riffs that are instantly recognizable in these songs of Three Chord Thursday.

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Songs from the Anniversary Ukulele Jeopardy Game in Zoom

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Anne Ku

How does one create and facilitate a jeopardy game online? More specifically, a ukulele jeopardy game in which everyone gets to sing and play as one does in a group song session? Online in Zoom, one microphone is unmuted for the purpose of being heard clearly by everyone else who is muted. How can we make it fun, fair, and fit (within time constraints)? At our Three Chord Thursday first anniversary, our contestants comprised of five teams of five members each (though one had six), randomly assigned into breakout rooms to choose team names and spokespersons. On Thursday 8th April 2021 at 3 pm EDT, we recall some songs from our anniversary jeopardy game of the previous week.

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TAB & PLUCK

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Anne Ku

Do you already play the ukulele but don’t know how to fingerpick or read from tablature? Alternatively, you want to be able to read the tabs a little faster and know which fingers to properly create the sound you want?

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FREE Taster Workshop: music theory and other upcoming courses in Zoom

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Anne Ku

Get a taste of how I teach in a 45 minute free workshop in Zoom. If you have an instrument, bring it. Otherwise, it’s not required. Let’s celebrate St Patrick’s Day with a three chord Irish song.

Tuesday 16th March 2021 from 6:00 pm EDT to 6:45 pm EDT

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Little Donkey

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Anne Ku

Xiao Mao Lu (Little Donkey) is one of many Chinese children’s songs that I grew up singing long before I learned a single word of English. It’s a cute little tune that’s easy to sing and play. I wonder if it has been translated into other languages. This catchy little tune is one in a collection of popular Chinese songs I am arranging and transcribing for the ukulele. I will share and show this song at Three Chord Thursday Year of the Ox on 18th February 2021.

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Three Chord Thursday Dance!

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Anne Ku

We celebrate songs that make you wanna get up and dance. Boogie Nights! Dancing Queen! Dance the Night Away! Sway! Which 10 songs top the list? It just so happens that Thursday 29th April 2021 is International Dance Day. Join us for this Three Chord Thursday at 3 pm EDT. Bring your dancing shoes, hook up your ukulele straps so you can stand up and DANCE!

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