I received a tab of Somewhere Over the Rainbow from Glenn Reither this morning. It’s a somewhat simple arrangement, but “simple” is relative because of the jazz chords. Thanks Glenn! Over the Rainbow tab The youth I teach wanted to learn Ehu Girl (it’s the I’m Yours of Hawai’i …now that everyone is tired of [...]
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Daniel Ho has got a new album out titled “Polani”. It seems Daniel records more of his slack key guitar work than his ‘ukulele skills, so coming off of a Grammy-filled slack-key-guitar-albums past couple of years, this is a nice change of pace. All songs are original except for a cover of Queen Lili’uokalani’s “Ahe [...]
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Jake has been quite busy touring around and boosting the popularity of the ‘ukulele. Here are a couple of video interviews he has done recently. I couldn’t get this one to embed: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7340637
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Here are some new blank ‘ukulele chord charts that you can make notes on. There are two sizes – take your pick: Blank Chord Chart (8 boxes wide) Blank Chord Chart (12 boxes wide – landscape)
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Building on yesterday’s post, here are some charts for the minor pentatonic scale. On the left are movable positions, with the highest notes of the first shape being the lowest notes of the next shape (read down the left column and then back up to the right column for the correct order). The hollow dots [...]
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I’ve been sequencing major pentatonic scales quite a lot lately. The sound is really nice to my ears and in order to help myself visualize better, I charted the shapes out. The hollow dot is the root, so the shape can be moved around. Each leads to the next – the highest notes on each [...]
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