Some more music for you - I was one of about 100 ukulele players on James Hill's #UkeHeads. The album comes out Friday, and there's a single out today with a video premiering in about ten minutes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eLr2uEE2JY
I’m relearning Beginning To See The Light. here’s the plain vanilla chords from Ralph Patt’s site. it all sounds good except for the E flat 7th chord (I’m using the 0,3,3,4 fingering). it barely sounds OK. it just seems to fail on the harmony with the lyrics as I sing them.
anyone have an idea of what substitute chord would work here?
Another song added to my Cliff Edwards Project folder, this one a very catchy Irving Berlin number also performed by Doris Day and many others. Unfortunately, the 1927 original includes some racially offensive lyrics, and later versions changed those to terms which didn't age as well as they might have hoped, so I've had to make a couple of very small tweaks. For that reason I'm not linking to Cliff's performance.
Day two of the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival in Huddersfield today. Lots of workshops and performances to look forward to, as well as the whole social anxiety thing to keep in check.
I'm slowly putting together individual ukulele sheets for (almost) every song that Cliff Edwards recorded in his annoyingly prolific career. You can find the completed sheets, as well as the titles I'll be adding to the pile, here:
For today's 2 chord, Gm7, we'll be using a Bb triad based on an open A triad. This puts our b3(Bb) on strings 4 & 1, our 5(D) on string 3, & our b7(F) on string 2. Remember, context is everything. In a vacuum, this is just a Bb chord, but in context it can work as a Gm7.
Play on! #JazzUkeChords#ukulele
Tea break this morning involved a spot of plinking and strumming on my Ohana O'Nino sopranissimo. I've settled on CDAF tuning for this one, which sounds good and has also improved the intonation (always a problem with fretted instruments of this size). Pretty happy with it.
Ech, niełatwo jest wracać do ukulele, zwłaszcza, gdy nigdy się dobrze nie grało. Z jednej strony podoba mi się, że brzmienia Siouxsie and The Banshees nie da się sprowadzić do Em + Am + C + G/D (niepotrzebne skreślić), z drugiej... łat de fakt, co to za taby, czemu wszystko na barach, co to jest Bb7sus4??? 😅 #ukulele#muzyka@postpunk
Tackling chores in the morning leaves me completely unable to focus on doing stuff for myself in the afternoon (or anything at all: I generally fall asleep), so today I'm being a little self-indulgent and working on some Cliff Edwards Project tunes first.
“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?”
(I've seen "ukalele" and "ukelele" in print before, but this is a new one to me. Saves on printers' ink, I suppose. The picture was posted on the Ukulele Underground forum by Jerryc41 earlier today and I'm pinching it).
My new book is out today, with arrangements of five famous classical pieces for a "ukulele quartet" of soprano, tenor and baritone ukuleles and classical guitar. The arrangements have been deliberately kept simple, to be accessible to the widest range of players. Find out more or get your copy in print or as a pay-what-you-like ebook at https://preecemusic.com/simple-ukulele-quartets
After trying unsuccessfully to find the sheet music for this tune over several years, yesterday I spotted it on a university archive: music from 1928 entered the public domain in America this year, so many of these wonderful collections have been able to allow access to songs like this one. And it includes ukulele chords!
It's not much remembered today, so here's a performance by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians: