It takes me exactly 8 minutes to ride from our home to one of my fave spots by nearby #ColquitzRiver. I have a few fave spots around this local nature park. It connects with several other local #Saanich parks.
First track in the can! Danny Gotham and I are hoping to release our new album sometime in late summer. Mostly acoustic instruments, #mandolin, #classical and steel string #guitar, #ukulele, #lute, a little electric guitar and lap steel, too. Nice variety of material, too! Big honor to get to do this with Danny, who’s one of the best pickers this side of the Mississippi.
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
No sheet music for the next song, since Cliff wrote it and he really seems to have had an extremely relaxed approach to publishing and copyright where his own compositions were concerned.
Bit of an experiment here: I've taken the chords from Chordify (no sheet music to work from, you see) and left them in the original key. That means you can play along with Cliff's performance, but it also means that they are slightly more complicated chords. The fact that they are mostly closed chords (no unfretted strings) does mean that it's possible to get that swinging, jazzy sound by slightly releasing the pressure after each strum, which is far harder to do with open chords. In that respect it's a lot closer to how Cliff played, but transposing to a different key is always an option if this looks a bit daunting. It's certainly going to take me a while.
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.