
Online Mini ‘Ukulele Festival – Saturday, April 11, 2020
- 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
- 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Mountain Time
- 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM Central Time
- 7:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Playing and enjoying the ukulele together!
As part of her #30DayUkuleleChallenge ‘Bernadette Teaches Music’ provided a YouTube video listing and demonstrating the most important ukulele chords.
Of course, most of them are the common ones. A few of them , however, are good alternate chords by moving a barr chord up the fretboard (example: moving B flat up to form C, D and E.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most famous pieces of classical music of all time. In this lesson, Ukulenny teaches us how to play Canon in the key of C.https://kalabrand.com/products/canon-tutorial
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.
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