You should see what I can see, when I'm destroying planets...

[ffutures]

Someone on my friends list, and I can't remember who, was looking for interesting ukelele music for a kid who's learning to play. petermorwood found this, and it appears that the whole blog is lots of interesting ukelele pieces. Enjoy!

http://ukulelevideos.blogspot.com/2008/02/kuricorder-quartet-imperial-march.html

beamjockey points out that I can't spell "Ukulele", not even when it's in the damn URL. So it goes...

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Obsp: "ukulele." Not an easy word.

I learned on a baritone, which, in its usual tuning, has the same chords as (four strings of) a guitar.

This meant that I could use guitar sheet music to learn songs, especially the kind where the chords are pictured as little blueberry waffles above the staff.

A tenor is tuned differently, but a good secret is that, in its usual tuning, the same finger positions still make major chords, minor chords, etc.-- just in a different key. So follow the waffles and you'll still be playing the same song.

Once a student learns a few chords, it becomes useful to buy or make a transposing slide rule. This makes it quick to convert music into a key where you already know most of the chords. A chord chart or reference book might be another good gift.

It's never too late to learn. peteralway has taken up the uke in the past couple of years.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

[returns after googling]

Here's a transposing slide rule you can make. The photo it shows of a commercially-printed one is identical to the model I used when I was learning the uke.

I hope you figure out who needed the musical advice, and pass this along.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Many thanks! And thanks for pointing out my crap spelling, I shall have to correct it.