William Chatterton Dix wrote the lyrics for "What Child is This" in 1865. Dix worked as the manager of an insurance company at the time he wrote the carol and had been struck with a serious illness.
12/19/17
Ukulele Fingerstyle: What Child is This? Left Hand Position - D Chord Trick
12/14/17
What accessories do I really need to go with my ukulele and why?
You may not need all of them, and you may be able to get by with none of them.
12/8/17
Fingerstyle Ukulele: The First Noel - Two Arrangements
English speakers borrowed the word noel from French.
It can be traced further back to the Latin word natalis, which can mean "birthday" as a noun or "of or relating to birth" as an adjective.
12/6/17
Ukulele fingerstyle: Silent Night - Two More Challenging Arrangements
Here is in case you missed it:
Silent Night - Easy Fingerstyle Arrangement
Here's two more challenging arrangements!
12/4/17
Ukulele Fingerstyle: Play Jingle Bells
It was inspired by annual one-horse open-sleigh races that took place on Salem and Pleasant Streets between Medford Square and Malden Square.
Check out this great fingerstyle arrangement...
11/25/17
Fingerstyle Ukulele: Play O Come, All Ye Faithful
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Ukulele tips: Play Little Drummer Boy. Learn "D" or English Tuning
Little Drummer Boy consists of no less than 21 rum pum pum pum'
7/6/17
Silent Night for Ukulele: Easy Fingerstyle with TAB
It is reputed that the organ at St. Nicholas Church had broken. Joseph Mohr gave the poem of Silent Night to his friend Franz Xavier Gruber and the melody for Silent Night was composed with this in mind.
5/4/17
Ukulele Tricks: Easy Capo Trick - Play Ghost Riders in the Sky
One warns him that if he does not change his ways, he will be doomed to join them, forever "trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies".
4/27/17
Ukulele Tricks: The secret to great sounding Hammer-ons and Pull-offs
As a young player in the 80's I had trouble getting hammer-ons and pull-offs to sound loud and clear, like the record.
What was I missing?
4/3/17
Kala Beginner Ukulele Review and Recommendations: Makala MK-S; Kala KA-15S; Kala KA-S
After starting Kala, Mike quickly established the new ukulele manufacturer as the leader in the market by providing the best and most consistent instruments in the price range.
3/18/17
Ukulele Strums: Backbeat Chop, Bluegrass Chop
In bluegrass music there is typically no drummer, so to keep the group together and in time, the bass player plays on beats 1 and 3, and the mandolin player plays a chop on the back-beat or the off beat, 2 and 4.
Basically, the bass player takes the place of the kick drum and the mandolin chop takes the place of the snare drum. The Banjo then plays the melody using 8th notes.
3/10/17
Easily play chords all the way up the neck on the ukulele
The idea when playing a fretted instrument and arranging a song for it, is to move the left hand as little as possible. Since there are 4 different forms for each chord, it is possible to find chords that are very close together requiring very little left hand movement to play the entire song!
With these new chord forms you will you be able to play any song, in any key, anywhere on the neck.
3/2/17
More Reggae Strums: Reggae Scratch and Skank Strum
The great thing about these strums is - they can be used to spice up any song. You'll learn later that these reggae strums or variations of them are used in other types of music as well.
Various accents on beats 2 and 4 are actually fairly common, the Reggae strum is just one of the many ways to do it.
2/21/17
New Strums: Reggae Strum, Ska Strum, Rock Steady Strum
It will give the song that fun island sound.
2/18/17
3 Tricks to tune your ukulele and keep it in tune
This is because nylon strings stretch allot more than steel strings do, especially when they are new. You may get a new ukulele and think there is a problem with it and it won't hold a tuning.
Don't worry, after you learn these tips and tricks you will be able to properly tune your ukulele and keep it in tune longer.
3 Secrets to learn and play ukulele faster
Take it slow and easy!
These 3 things are something teachers always find themselves reminding their students.
2/17/17
George Harrison explains why everyone should play the ukulele!
Check this out...
2/16/17
Transposing Music, Changing the key a song is in for ukulele
Feel free to post any questions you might have about it.
2/15/17
Great Ukulele News for Guitarists: Guitar Players, Play Uke instantly!
They make the perfect travel instrument for a guitar player or a perfect beginner instrument for someone that might like to play guitar someday. Ukulele is the ultimate beginner instrument because it is the easiest instrument in the world to play.
2/13/17
Why play uke? 7 reasons to choose ukulele as your first instrument
Ukulele IS the perfect beginner instrument, here's why:
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