THE UKULELE CORNER JOURNAL
Lessons, performances and ideas for your fingerstyle ukulele journey.
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Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane (Op. 50), has a long, unbroken melodic line and a restrained sense of motion that suits the classical ukulele especially well. In this low-G arrangement, the piece…
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“My Yellow Ginger Lei” is a graceful Hawaiian standard arranged here in the style of Dennis Pavao. This lesson blends strumming and fingerstyle, so you can carry the melody and…
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Por Ti Mi Corazón is one of Manuel María Ponce’s most intimate short works for guitar. Though modest in scale, it demanding in terms of tone control, pulse, and phrasing.…
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El Testament d’Amelia is one of the best-known Catalan folk melodies to enter the classical plucked-string repertoire. Many players first encounter it through Miguel Llobet’s guitar setting, where a simple…
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Erik Satie composed the Trois Gymnopédies in 1888, early in his career as a composer and pianist working in Paris. Gymnopédie No. 1 was published that year in La Musique…
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How well do you know your chords on ukulele? In this blog we'll walk you through the most common chord families on ukulele, with chord charts for each one. You…
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José Ferrer was an accomplished Spanish guitarist, composer, and educator who worked between Barcelona and Paris in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He taught at the Comédie Française…
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Bach’s famous chorale Sleepers Awake from Cantata BWV 140 is a perfect fit for classical ukulele. Jeff's arrangement in F major lets the instrument’s natural warmth support the noble, processional…
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I grew up on the island of Maui just starting to play music. And I really wanted to learn, but there weren’t many teachers around. My dad loved playing Hawaiian…
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Beethoven’s Minuet in G is one of those timeless pieces that translates beautifully to classical ukulele. In this lesson, we explore the work in low G tuning, played in the…
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