Katie DeNure of One School Music posted an awesome YouTube video about her favorite apps for the ukulele for 2019. A list of the individual apps is listed in the ‘more’ section below the video.
‘Rock You Like a Hurricane’ – The Scorpions
Many in my area have spent the last month dealing with Hurricane Florence. #OverIt
In honor of anyone who has dealt with one, here is a fun hurricane song tutorial by The Ukulele Teacher…
Simple trick to create & learn strum patterns
Free Backing Tracks for Bluegrass, Celtic, Gypsy-Jazz, etc.
If you play a string instrument and like any of these styles of music (Bluegrass, Old-Timey, Celtic, Gypsy-Jazz, etc.) you may like this Website – it offers free backing recordings for playing along with. You can slow down or speed them up.
There is also a section of common Chord Progressions to practice.
http://www.fbbts.com/Home.html
This is similar but a little less daunting. It includes the words, but you can’t slow down, etc. https://toneway.com/songs
Technology Tip:
I use Chrome browser on my laptop and my audio volumes were too soft and so I searched for a solution and found this.
It works great!
https://chrome.google.com/…/nfdfiepdkbnoanddpianalelglmfooik
“How to Chuck 3 Different Ways” – One School Music
“How to Get a ‘Chunkier’ Chunk” (Ukulele Webcam Sessions)
Create a ‘Lei’ decoration for the head of your ukulele
Ever seen ukuleles with beautiful flowers adorning the head? Where do people get those!?!
You are in luck! One Music School shares how to make them from inexpensive fake flowers.
Give it a try! https://youtu.be/US-g1dJq8_Q
Here are some other sources:
- Buy a couple hair ties from the dollar store, take them apart and re-string them.
- Buy one from Ukuhappy on Etsy.com
- Buy one from Ukulele Magazine
‘Perfect’ by Ed Sheeran for Ukulele – fingerpicking AND strumming
I love this song – the melody is just beautiful.
I wanted to play it on the ukulele and started searching for good arrangements.
Ran across this tutorial video and love it – a little fingerpicking and a little strumming – neither too hard.
The hard part is that you need a capo on the 1st fret – they cost about $15 for a good one.
The video – https://youtu.be/s8b2xKBj-ao
The printed music/notes for the video are in the comments or here – https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B62zBAbDVZxXeWJxNkdDbVdiUUU/view