UKULELE MIKE LYNCH – All things UKULELE

Live Performance on YouTube

I tackled this piece in several video tutorials a few years back . . . Let me refer you to this blog link to take  peek at those videos

https://allthingsukulele.com/2011/08/08/crazy-g-faster-faster-faster-with-ukulele-mike/

Whenever Jake performs this piece he never does it the same way twice. . . The basic chords for the left hand are clearly spelled out in the tablature in the eBook ONE collection, however the rhythmic figures  of the right hand are not.  You will need to refer to my video tutorials or Jake’s videos to get a feel for that.  The main thing you need to do first is to get a solid understanding of what the left hand does.  . The strumming part will come in time. .  Without a solid left hand foundation for this piece, you’ll be lost. . . This piece may take some time to perfect but it’s totally…

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early 19th-century English poem by Ann Taylor, “The Star”. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann. It is sung to the tune of the French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, which was published in 1761 and later arranged by several composers including Mozart with Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”. The English lyrics have five stanzas, although only the first is widely known. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7666. This song is usually performed in the key of C Major.The song is in the public domain, and has many adaptations around the world.

Although a simple and classic children’s lullaby, this song is…

Melbourne, Australia performance 1989

Some years ago I did a fingerpicking arrangement of this beautiful classic melody. . . This time around I decided to do  Chord/Melody arrangement and found it worked equally as well . . . Try the short excerpts below  . .

Here is a short excerpt from the BRIDGE section . . . ..

“Let It Be Me” is contained in the Ukulele Chord/Melody eBook TWO.  It can be purchased by making a payment of $20.00 through the paypal button on the Ukulele Mike website: http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com   Once purchased, it will be personally emailed to you within the day.

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Each of the Chord/Melody eBooks can be purchased separately for $20.00 or all together at the NEW “TRILOGY” combined discount of just $50.00

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Performance of “The Last Thing On My Mind” by Neil Diamond

An early 1966 performance by Tom Paxton

Performance by Peter, Paul and Mary

“The Last Thing on My Mind” is a song written by Americanmusician and singer-songwriterTom Paxton in the early 1960s and recorded first by Paxton in 1964. The song was released on Paxton’s 1964 album Ramblin’ Boy, which was his first album released on Elektra Records. This song works perfectly as a Chord/Melody arrangement. . . . Below is a short excerpt from the opening of the song.

Below is an excerpt from the BRIDGE section

The “Last Thing On My Mind” is contained in the Chord/Melody eBook THREE and can be purchased by making a payment of $20.00  through the paypal button on the Ukulele Mike website: http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com  Once purchased, it will be emailed to you personally within the day.

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According to Wikipedia . . .”Annie’s Song” (also known as “Annie’s Song (You Fill Up My Senses)”) is a folk rockcountry song recorded and written by singer-songwriterJohn Denver. The song was released as a single from Denver’s album, Back Home Again. It was his second number-one song in the United States, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. “Annie’s Song” also went to number one on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1974.It went to number one in the United Kingdom, where it was Denver’s only major hit single (many of Denver’s American hits were more familiar in the UK through cover versions by other artists). Four years later, an instrumental version also became flutist James Galway‘s only major British hit.

“Annie’s Song” was written as an ode to Denver’s wife at the time, Annie…

Orchestral performance of the most elegant 2nd Movement of the “New World” Symphony “Going Home”

I did a FINGERPICKING version of “Going Home” several years ago and it is found in my Solo Ukulele Instrumentals Fingerpicking collection Enhanced Edition . . . Here is a blog which gives some of the back story of “Going Home” as well as details regarding that earlier arrangement . . .

https://allthingsukulele.com/2013/07/14/going-home-by-antonin-dvorak-arranged-for-ukulele-by-ukulele-mike-lynch/f

Below are 2 short excerpts from my Chord/Melody arrangement of “Going Home”

An excerpt from the BRIDGE section:

“Going Home” is contained in the Ukulele Chord/Melody eBook TWO.  The collection is now reduced to $20 . . . Simply pay through the paypal button on the Ukulele Mike website: http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com    Once purchased, it will be emailed to you within the day.

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Each of the Chord/Melody collections can be purchased separately or all together at a new “TRILOGY combined discount of $50.00

“O Mio Babbino Caro” (“Oh My Beloved Father”) is a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918), by Giacomo Puccini, to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi and the family of Rinuccio, the boy she loves, have reached a breaking point that threatens to separate her from Rinuccio. It provides an interlude expressing lyrical simplicity and single-hearted love in contrast with the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing and feuding in the medieval Florence of Puccini’s only comedy, and it provides the only set-piece in the through-composed opera.
The aria was first performed at the premiere of Gianni Schicchi on 14 December 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York by the popular Victorian English soprano Florence Easton. It has been sung subsequently by many sopranos. Dame Joan Hammond won a Gold Record in 1969 for 1 million sold copies…

Performance by Jake Shimabukuro from the “GRAND UKULELE” CD

My arrangement of “AKAKA FALLS” was inspired by Jake but is a bit more scaled down for the average player . . . It is a fingerpicking arrangement unlike the many Chord/Melody tunes I’ve done most recently.  Below are several short excerpts for you to try. . .

Example ONE

Notice the “Hammer On” in the first measure . . . This is done by playing the 5th fret note on the second string, then striking the 7th fret following that without picking it. . . It takes some patience and lot’s of practice to get that technique. . . I’ll be doing a YouTube video on both the “Hammer On” and the “Pull Off” soon.

Example TWO

Those squiggly lines simply tell us to slowly roll those chords. . . starting from the 4th string and ascending to the first…