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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
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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) . […]
Tag Archives: transpose
How to Play A-ha’s Take on Me riffs on ukulele
How to play the famous riff from Aha’s “Take On Me” on the ukulele Continue reading
A Minor Motif for high G ukulele
“A Minor Motif” for high G ukulele takes a sticky minor tune and transposes and reharmonizes it. Continue reading
Chopin Waltz in A minor for low G ukulele
Posthumous Waltz in A minor by Chopin transcribed to the low G ukulele with some compromises by Anne Ku Continue reading
Can’t Help Falling in Love in F for ukulele
Can’t Help Falling in Love in F major for low and high G ukulele and video play along Continue reading
As Tears Go By (1964)
As Tears Go By for ukulele in C and G as given in workshop on World Ukulele Day by Anne Ku Continue reading
Harmonized major scale exercises for high G ukulele
Harmonizing a major scale on the high G ukulele for chord melody arrangements to make it more fun to play and pleasing to the ear. Examples by Anne Ku. Continue reading
Simplifying Midnight Diner theme, Omoide 思ひで, for ukulele
Omoide, the theme to Midnight Dinner, arranged for ukulele in original and transposed keys Continue reading
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
Happy Birthday for high G ukulele
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
Pachelbel Medley (workshops in Zoom)
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