THE UKULELE CORNER JOURNAL
Lessons, performances and ideas for your fingerstyle ukulele journey.
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Fingerstyle ukulele is built from a collection of small movements that work together. The way your fingers contact the strings, how your left hand places and releases each note, and…
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Folk songs are a natural bridge from strumming chords to playing fingerstyle ukulele. The melodies are familiar and the chord progressions recognizable. Typically the songs follow a predictable pattern that…
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Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega’s music is timeless and beautiful, and fits nicely on the ukulele. And yet, contrary to a popular opinion, his music is not well-suited for…
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Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) was an Italian guitarist, composer, and teacher. Born in Naples, he first played cello and did not discover the guitar until he was twenty years old. He…
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Performance: Fernando Sor Study in G Lesson: Fernando Sor Study in G Fernando Sor’s Op. 31, No. 3 comes from his 24 Progressive Lessons, Op. 31, a collection first published…
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Isaac Albéniz’s Leyenda is also known by titles such as Prelude and Asturias and was first published as a prelude in Chants d’Espagne in 1892. The piece is strongly influenced…
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Agustín Barrios composed Julia Florida in 1938 and dedicated it to his student Julia Martinez. Written during a difficult period in his life, the piece has a lyrical character that…
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Silvius Leopold Weiss’s Passacaglia brings one of the great Baroque lute traditions into a new setting for classical ukulele. Originally composed for lute in D major, this arrangement transposes the…
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Alman by Robert Johnson is a Renaissance-era piece originally written for lute and arranged here for low-G ukulele. Johnson was an English Renaissance musician, not to be confused with the…
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Isaac Albéniz’s Tango is one of his most familiar works, and it adapts especially well to low-G ukulele. In this arrangement, it pairs naturally with La Paloma. The two pieces…
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