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- Tulips in Triple Time for high G ukulele April 30, 2025
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- Glistening Glass for high G ukulele April 21, 2025
- Up the Neck and Back April 21, 2025
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- Relative Lives in Parallel Universe April 18, 2025
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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) . […]
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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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Tag Archives: pattern
Up the Neck and Back
“Up the Neck and Back” is a short solo instrumental piece for high G ukulele making use of moveable chord shapes and predictable fingerpicking patterns. Continue reading
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Tagged back, chord, chords, composition, fingerpicking, fingerstyle, instrumental, melody, moveable, music, neck, pattern, shape, study, uke, ukulele, work
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Thrice Blinded by Mice for high G ukulele
“Thrice Blinded by Mice” for high G ukulele by Anne Ku exercises two fingers moving up and down the fretboard in repetiitive fashion. Continue reading
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Tagged fingerpicking, fretboard, high G, mice, neck, nursery rhyme, pattern, repetition, repetitive, strings, uke, ukulele
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Puff the Magic Dragon Travis Picking Variations
RIP Peter Yarrow (1938 – 2025) who wrote Puff the Magic Dragon. Practice the seven variations of travis picking on the chord progression from the song on ukulele. Continue reading
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Tagged accompaniment, chord progression, chords, dragon, exercise, fingerpicking, music, pattern, RIP, song, songs, Travis picking, uke, ukulele
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Travis Picking exercises for ukulele
Exercises on Travis Picking variations with easy common chords for high G and low G ukulele by Anne Ku Continue reading
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Tagged accompaniment, accompany, alternating, bass, bass line, chords, exercise, exercises, fingerpicking, fingerstyle, folk songs, guitar, pattern, pima, thumb, Travis, Travis picking, uke, ukulele
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Ukulele Fall 2024 Course
Ukulele course in-person and in-Zoom in Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2024 Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, book, books, class, course, diagnostics, exercise, fingerpicking, hybrid, level, music, order, pattern, practice, registration, rehearsal, riffs, session, skills, strum, tablature, testimonial, theme, theory, ukulele, workshop, zoom
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