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Zathras Approved 
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Just thought it would be interesting to see what everyone is working on here in beginner land. Lately I've been working on: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" from the Lyle Ritz Solos book (it's the easiest in there) - I pretty much have the first half of it down and in memory and am ready to work on the second half. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" from Ukulele Favorites - to work on barre finger strength and "Don't Want to Say Aloha" I've been plunking away at this one since I first heard it slowly increasing speed. I am primarily working on moving up the fretboard more accurately on the quick pluck parts.
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UkeForever Approved 
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Those aren't so beginner... What I love about Jim Beloff's songs is that they teach one about that fretboard. I've built on many of his shapes for other music I have played. I suppose it's the same with most any song that moves around; it becomes a good teacher. For the next month I'm going to be orchestrating/recording Li'l Abner for the school musical. Since the jazz band director won't help the theatre director (politics), this lone English teacher will come in and turn a piano score into a Karaoke orchestra on CD... Fun. The soundtrack is a challenge, but I think I'm up to it, and of course the uke will be prominently featured. I'm going to use my low-g tuned tenor uke and baritone like tenor guitars for fill, and the little soprano on some podunk numbers. Well, that's what I'm working on... I'll post samples every now and then.
____________________ Don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya. John Rockwell's Crazy Songs 
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liquifried Approved 
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I've been working on a few from ezfolk - the amazing grace and twinkle twinkle fingerpicking numbers, and 'Hone A Ka Wai' from Mel Bay's 'Famous Solos and Duets' book. I have some sort of issue when it comes to learning songs (whether guitar, banjo, uke) - I can't seem to concentrate on just one at a time. It is hard to divide up practice time like this - maybe my (belated) new years resolution should be to master one tune at a time. UF and Zath - what's the word on the Beloff non-tab books? I can't read music, but I have a pretty good feel for music theory (chord construction, etc.). I could probably hack my way through reading standard notation, but I would worry about being incorrect, etc. Will these books do someone like me any good? (solos and duets has both notation and tab). Jason
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Suomipoika Approved 
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To do my practice and just having fun, I take my CD player and swich on some rock, folk, country, whatever music and start to play karaoke with my favorits. I don't have chance to play with a band and this has been my choice. I don't either have any chords or tabs ready, but its quite simple to "copy" those just listening several times. I really recommend this method to everyone, who has similar "lonely" situation. Maybe this is common way to play, but I haven't seen people mentioning it? Sepi 
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1four5 Approved 
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Quite simply, I'm trying to learn how to strum and go back and forth between strumming and throwing some fingerpicking into the mix with my strumming, such as base note-strum or a hammer-pulloff-strum. I'm also trying to break up my pentitonic scale intravals by throwing some chromatic notes in between, or skipping strings to make the intravals more dramatic. I'm also working on learning all possible chord locations on the entire fret board for one chord, example: finding every E chord position from open to 15th fret, and every E chord in between...so that I can hit a low one, nail one in between, then slide to a high one then dive back low within on bar. Unless my jamming buddies have a paticular song they want to play (or an ezFolk co-op song), when I practice, I stick with 1-4-5 blues and work on technique, improv, speed and accuracy. I did finally get my uke version of Knowbody knows you when you're down and out posted yesterday for the ezFolk co-op Last edited on Wed Feb 16th, 2005 05:27 pm by 1four5 ____________________ These are the good times! |
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Zathras Approved
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Liquifried - the "normal" books are set up a bit like fake books with the melody line im musical notation and the uke chords named and diagrammed above. So you don't have to read the music. UF definately keep us posted on Lil' Abner sounds like quite a project. Oh and recommend they do Guys and Dolls next year. Hmmmm "Fuge for Tin Horns" on uke........
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gbu Approved 
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I've mostly been working on the Joseph Todaro tabs (my favorites are the Sor and Bach ones and "Drowsy Maggie"), but sometimes also work on some of the Famous Ukulele Solos and Duets, and sometimes play around with Fun with Strums stuff.
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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When I drag out the uke, I usually try to work on the couple I do know ("Wildwood Flower," "Will The Circle Be Unbroken") and try to figure out a couple of others (currently "You Are My Sunshine," "Beautiful Brown Eyes"), and work on memorizing a couple of more chords. Sometimes I drag out the song book and try to play and sing a couple of the oldies in it. Then I give up and put on my IZ cd   Keep on pickin'Brad
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bellamira Approved 
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I seem to be all over the place with my music selection. Some Leonard Cohen tunes (Bird On A Wire, Dance Me to the End of Love)via Madeliene Peyroux's latest album, Eagle's Hotel California is too cool, Beatle's Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Squirrle nut Zipper's Hell, etc. I love this thing!  Mark in Portland spank that uke!
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Zathras Approved
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Lots of people working on Todaro tabs I see. I've slowly plucked through the Dill Pickle Rag a time or two but haven't looked through the others. Any recommendations for good ones to start with over there?
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jef Approved
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Zathras wrote:Lots of people working on Todaro tabs I see. I've slowly plucked through the Dill Pickle Rag a time or two but haven't looked through the others. Any recommendations for good ones to start with over there? Heh, I'm trying to 'learn' that one. I can play it no problem, I just can't seem to remember the whole thing so I can play it up to speed without the music. I've been playing some old Hawaiian standards with a local group here, nothing too difficult though. -Jef
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MonkeyToes Approved 
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I'm working on tabbing my own version of 'Here comes the Sun.' I have the official guitar tab to work off of. Converting it to ukulele and adding your own twists and little changes is a lot of fun. It's time consuming, but well worth the effort. I suggest that all beginners give it a try. It's making me learn scales and new chord shapes. My wife said it sounded good for the first time last night.
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dominator Approved
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Congrats Monkey Toes, that's great that you are working out your own transcription/arrangement. It is VERY time consuming and at times can having you pulling your hair out........(hmm maybe that's where all my hair went ). People have said more than once that they think I'm crazy for doing it but there are many more folks that are glad I do. Here Comes the Sun is one I was planning to get around to as I have had a number of requests for it. I would be interested in seeing your tab when it is complete. Keep plugging away.Dominator http://www.rockslide.org/ukulele_tab.html
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MonkeyToes Approved
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Count me as one that is glad you do it. I think I've printed out all that you have posted, although I can't play most of them yet. I was watching Saturday Night Live reruns and they showed a clip of George Harrison and Paul Simon playing "Here Comes the Sun" and I noticed they had a capo on the seventh fret. Seventh fret? That's just about right for the ukulele! Hopefully I'll have it done sometime next week and I'll share with the group.
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UkeForever Approved
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Here's where I am so far in the Abner orchestration. Used uke on quite a few of these tracks, especially in "Past Your Prime" (tenor electric) and "The Country's..." (Harmony soprano). The uke works really well for this era of muzak. Jubilation T. Cornpone Corn Encore Druthers Druthers Encore Namely You Past Your Prime The Country's In the Very Best of Hands The show starts earlier than I thought...so I'm getting these done as quickly as possible. Ugh. Last edited on Mon Feb 28th, 2005 09:56 am by UkeForever ____________________ Don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya. John Rockwell's Crazy Songs
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Suomipoika Approved
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Gute! I mean, your last melody (Country's In the Very Best of Hands)must be inspired by the German beer?  Sepi
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UkeForever Approved
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Which German beer are we talking about? Is there a similar melody for an advertisement? This musical was written in the 50s or 60s.
____________________ Don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya. John Rockwell's Crazy Songs
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MonkeyToes Approved
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I finished my transcription of "Here Comes the Sun." It's posted over at 4th Peg if anyone's interested. It's not Dominator quality, but it'll do. Here's a link: http://www.4thpeg.com/Documents/index.php?file=index&start=Rock&func=dlfile&target=&filename=Here_Comes_The_Sun.txt
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Pauline Leland Approved 
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MT, thanks. It's just in time for spring.
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dominator Approved
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MT, Nothing wrong with that tab. I messed with it just a bit and sounds like you got it nailed. Any chance you plan on recording it? You probably wouldn't post in the mp3 section here cause of the copyright issue but I am sure everyone would like to hear it. You could post an outside link. Ok Pauline, help me twist his arm.  Dominator
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