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Pick Pluck Play! Series Book 1

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Anne Ku

Pick! Pluck! Play! is a new series of books for fingerstyle (high G) ukulele by Anne Ku. Each book contains 12 original pieces, arranged by skill level. Book 1 is the first. Continue reading →

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The pedal tone applied to a lead sheet for ukulele

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Anne Ku

One way to turn a melody into a chord melody arrangement is to fill with pedal tones to a lead sheet. We show the hymn Bless This House in C for low G ukulele. Continue reading →

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Body Surfing for easy ukulele transposed

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Anne Ku

Herb Ohta’s ukulele solo instrumental Body Surfing can be simplified fo rthe ukulele in a different key or different register Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday for high G ukulele

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Anne Ku

It is entirely possible to play the same tablature written for low G ukulele on the high G ukulele. It will sound different. It is not wrong. In this blog post, I show an example. Then I transpose the popular … Continue reading →

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Left Hand Techniques for ukulele

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Anne Ku

Left Hand Technique (LHT) refers to using the fretting hand and fingers to produce sound on the ukulele, guitar, or other string instruments. Continue reading →

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Auld Lang Syne for high G ukulele

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Anne Ku

Auld Lang Syne in G major arranged for high G ukulele as lead sheet and chord melody (instrumental solo) with video Continue reading →

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Greensleeves or What Child Is This for ukulele

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Anne Ku

Greensleeves or What Child Is This in Em and Fm for high G ukulele as lead sheet and chord melody arrangement Continue reading →

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White Christmas for easy piano

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Anne Ku

For the festive season, my piano students requested Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” along with “Silent Night.” Unlike the famous Christmas carol, “White Christmas” is not a three-chord song. The beauty is in its complex harmony. How does one simplify it … Continue reading →

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Pachelbel Medley (workshops in Zoom)

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Anne Ku

For Pachelbel’s Birthday Party, I made a medley of songs that follow the eight-bar chord progression in Pachelbel’s Canon. In selecting the songs, I noticed that most of the 24 songs I had listed did NOT follow the progression in … Continue reading →

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Songs in the Time of Corona: even dated Fridays

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Anne Ku

Since the launch of this new series on Friday March 27, 2020, we met every Friday afternoon to share songs that reflect our time, our lives and feelings under lockdown for two months, ending in mid-June. After a long lapse, … Continue reading →

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