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- Tulips in Triple Time for high G ukulele April 30, 2025
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- Up the Neck and Back April 21, 2025
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- Z Before A April 18, 2025
- Relative Lives in Parallel Universe April 18, 2025
- The Z Chord or “Zed Chord” April 17, 2025
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- 3 Chord Thursday Festive Full Moon April 14, 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 […]
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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: instrumental
Body Surfing for easy ukulele transposed
Herb Ohta’s ukulele solo instrumental Body Surfing can be simplified fo rthe ukulele in a different key or different register Continue reading
Body Surfing for easy ukulele
Body Surfing is an instrumental solo piece for the ukulele by Herb Ohta that uses the Andalusian cadence and sounds virtuosic when played at a high tempo and up the neck. Continue reading
Happy Birthday for ukulele
One of the most searched phrases that viewers use to find my website is “happy birthday chord melody arrangement.” The term “chord melody arrangement” refers to an instrumental version of a song in which both the melody and chords are … Continue reading
Can’t Help Falling in Love with ukulele
Can’t Help Falling in Love in C major for low G ukulele Continue reading
We Shall Overcome on ukulele
We Shall Overcome in C major lead sheet and chord melody arrangement for high and low G ukulele by Anne Ku Continue reading
Auld Lang Syne in F for low G ukulele
Anne Ku arranges the timeless Auld Lang Syne for ukulele in F and C major with playalong videos and sheet music excerpts Continue reading
Greensleeves or What Child Is This for ukulele
What if …. What if I were to arrange or compose something every single day? A tune a day keeps the …. at bay. A tune a day keeps the …. away. The tune takes over and infests like an … Continue reading
Silent Night for high G ukulele
Silent Night arranged for high G ukulele by Anne Ku instrumental or chord melody with sample score Continue reading
3 Chord Thursday Hooked on Classics
On Thursday 5th September 2024, let’s get hooked on classics. This can be a famous classical music piece (instrumental or sung) or something that sounds classical. We’ve hosted classical music in the past. Jog your memory by visiting our previous … Continue reading