Three Chord Thursday Irish Songs

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Anne Ku

In anticipation of St Patrick’s Day, we will celebrate well-known Irish songs, many of which require only three chords. Please join us at our Three Chord Thursday session on March 11th, 2021 at 3 pm ET. Wear a solid GREEN of any shade!

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Three Chord Thursday Make It Count (World Maths Day)

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Anne Ku

For World Maths Day, we celebrate songs about counting, numbers, arithmetic, and mathematics. Please join us at our Three Chord Thursday session on March 4th, 2021 at 3 pm ET. Wear something with a number or numbers or mathematics on it!

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Three Chord Thursday: Word painting, a musical technique

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Anne Ku

Can you describe the words you’re singing with music? Such is word painting, a musical technique first employed in the Renaissance period that led to programmatic music and eventually the fabric of film music. An example of singing “climbing up the stairs” would be going up the musical scale in pitch. Please join us at Three Chord Thursday  to celebrate Renoir’s 180th birthday on February 25, 2021 at 3 pm ET. Wear the colors of Renoir’s paintings…..!

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Three Chord Thursday Year of the Ox

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Anne Ku

To celebrate the lunar new year, we will wear RED to welcome happiness, good luck and fortune, as well as share three chord songs about ox, oxen, cows, and other bovine creatures on Thursday February 18th, 2021.

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Three Chord Thursday Timeless Love Songs

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Anne Ku

In the run up to Valentine’s Day, we invite you to choose love songs that can be strummed, plucked, or arranged as chord melody for instrumental ukulele in my online classes. On Thursday 11th February 2021, we will sing and play three chord songs that fall in this category.

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Three Chord Thursday: Weather

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Anne Ku

Whither, whether, weather? It’s that time of the year when we’re tired of staying indoors because of the cold weather, though we’re probably used it by now. In any case, despite the days growing longer (in the northern hemisphere), we have much ado about the weather. On 4th February 2021, we sing and play three chord songs about the weather.

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Three Chord Thursday Full Moon

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Anne Ku

The next full moon is on 24th June 2021 which is already scheduled for Cars & Driving. We will reschedule the Full Moon theme on a future date (part 2 to the first celebration in late January 2021). We will sing and play three chord songs about the moon.

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Three Chord Thursday 1920’s

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Anne Ku

A hundred years ago, the roaring twenties witnessed the birth of the Charleston and the Lindy Hop (which became the Jitterbug in the fifties). It was a time of economic boom, accompanied by the exciting music of jazz, blues, swing, dance band, and ragtime. We are pleased to have Chuck Goldstone, a specialist in the music of 1920’s on the ukulele, join our Three Chord Thursday session on January 21st, 2021 at 3 pm ET.

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Three Chord Thursday 2021: Wishin’ and Hopin’

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Anne Ku

Welcome to the first song session of the new year on 14th January 2021 at 3 pm Eastern Time! Three Chord Thursday themes for 2021 begins with your wishes, hopes, dreams, goals, plans, wants, and desires. Wear something NEW!

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2020: the year of NOT (events)

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Anne Ku

This time last year (December 2019), I was house sitting two homes and three cats in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each day, I cycled to nearby YMCAs for exercise and dined at Japanese and Korean restaurants near Porter Square T-station. I was practising the ukulele, guitar, and piano. I went to bed listening to a meditation series from the Daily OM.

I had no idea that 2020 would be spectacularly different from 2019.

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