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- Star of the County Down for high G ukulele – with slurs and strums February 3, 2026
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- Snow White Waltz for high G ukulele December 15, 2025
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- About Pick Pluck Play! December 7, 2025
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March 2026 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Recent Posts: Concert Blog
Fingerstyle Ukulele for Beginners: Reviews and Insights
My first ukulele book in a new series on Amazon will be released in mid-October. Read the advance reviews from published and established ukulele composers.
REVIEW: My Fair Lady in Galveston
What’s the next best thing to seeing the musical “My Fair Lady” ? Get invited backstage, meet the band and production staff, and attend the dress rehearsal.
REVIEW: Loveless, Texas
Anne Ku reviews “Loveless, Texas” a concert presentation in Galveston, Texas of the musical first debut in New York
Writing music every day
What happens when you start writing music every single day?
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) . […]
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Mish Mash Monster Bash
Mish Mash Monster Bash by Anne Ku is a mash up of tunes for Halloween for high G ukulele with chords to accompany Continue reading
Pick Pluck Play! Book 2
Book 2 of the Pick! Pluck! Play! series for high G ukulele by Anne Ku table of contents and book order form 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
Friday I’m in Love for ukulele
Friday I’m in Love has an instrumental riff as intro and interlude that’s fun to play on the high G ukulele. Continue reading
Greensleeves or What Child Is This for ukulele
Greensleeves or What Child Is This in Em and Fm for high G ukulele as lead sheet and chord melody arrangement Continue reading
Brown Eyed Girl double stops in Margaritaville
Catchy instrumental introductions hook you in, especially if they return as an instrumental interlude later in the song. Without these intros and interludes, the song seems incomplete. Such is the case of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” and Jimmy Buffett’s … Continue reading
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Who wrote the original tune to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? The same melody used in the alphabet song “A, B, C, D, E, F, G”? The popular nursery rhyme “Baa, baa black sheep, have you any wool” also uses this … Continue reading
3 Chord Thursday: instrumental ukulele (Ode to Joy)
On Thursday 24th March 2022, we introduce instrumental ukulele, what is fingerpicked, plucked, or known as fingerstyle ukulele. We welcome other instrumentalists to join us because you can always play along muted. We have the chord diagrams so you can … Continue reading
Beatles love songs for Valentine’s Day
Every year I try to select songs to fit the annual occasions, such as love songs for Valentine’s, Irish songs for St Patrick’s, nature songs for Earth Day, etc. In my deep dive Beatles songs for my ukulele classes in … Continue reading