SOLO UKULELE INSTRUMENTAL eBook 2013 Enlarged edition in tablature format from UKULELE MIKE LYNCH
Ukulele Solo Instrumentals in both fingerpicking and chord/melody style have been crafted by master Ukulele teacher, arranger and clinician UKULELE MIKE LYNCH. The selections in this book demonstrate a wide range of goes beyond strumming, this book is for you. Clearly notated and in large print for ease of sight. Below is the table of contentsstyles and levels of complexity. Some are challenging for more advanced players while many are attainable by entry level solo players. If you are wanting music that
Selections from this collection such as FINLANDIA, CHERRY BLOSSOMS, PARIS NOCTURNE, CRAZY G, EDELWEISS, & TILL THERE WAS YOU are currently being performed by hundreds of ukulele players throughout the world.
The collection sells for $28.95 and can be purchased by making a payment through the paypal donate button on the Ukulele Mike website: http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com
The eBook will arrive to you in your email box as a pdf file and can be downloaded or transferred to a tablet, computer or other mobile device. The
table of contents and songs are clickable for ease of navigating through the book.
Check out the brand new UKULELE MIKE LYNCH Signature tenor model from Oscar Schmidt. It can be purchased online through Amazon.com, eBay, Ukulele World and many other online sites as well as your local music store.
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UKULELE MIKE “Signature” Tenor Ukulele from Oscar Schmidt now available on Amazon.com, eBay, Ukulele World and other online sites or your local music store
I’m so proud to announce the release of my “signature” tenor ukulele from Oscar Schmidt . . . This has been in the works for over 2 years. Oscar Schmidt generously allowed me to design the specifications of this ukulele from the ground up. I chose solid red cedar because of it’s brightness and
great projection of sound. I had the body designed to be a bit larger than typical plus I had the neck designed to be slightly wider to allow guitar players like myself or anyone with larger hands to handle the chords with comfort. Not too wide though, just the right amount. I also wanted a slotted headstock and gold precision Grover tuners. This will be available through your local music retailers or online. At this time, I have been alerted that it can be purchased through UKULELE WORLD at a great discount price. http://www.ukuleleworld.com/Oscar-Schmidt/
It comes strung with premium Aquila strings and a durable hard shell case.
A big thank you to all of you who have allowed me to make this instrument possible. Thanks also, to Tom Ferrone and all the fine people at Oscar Schmidt for their work and efforts to spread the aloha message of the ukulele throughout the world . . . Happy Strumming Ukulele Mike
Ask for Model OUUM200K when inquiring online or with dealers.
“Let It Be Me” is a popular song originally published in French in 1955 as “Je t’appartiens”. The score was written and first recorded by Gilbert Bécaud. The lyrics were penned in French by Pierre Delanoë. The English language version used lyrics by Mann Curtis and was performed in 1957 by Jill Corey in the television series Climax!. Corey’s version, with orchestration by Jimmy Carroll, was released as a single and was moderately successful.
The most popular version of “Let It Be Me” was released in 1960 by The Everly Brothers. It reached 7th position on the Billboard Hot 100. The harmony arrangement of this version was often emulated in subsequent remakes. This was the first Everly Brothers single to be recorded in New York, and not in Nashville. the musicians that backed up the brothers on the record included Howard Collins, Barry Galbraith and Mundell Lowe on guitar, Lloyd Trotman on Bass, Jerry Allison on drums and Hank Rowland on piano.
In the process of arranging this tune for solo ukulele I decided that it seemed to work best not as a chord/melody arrangement but rather as a fingerpicking style arrangement. The chord progression is simple. . .It’s in the Key of F which is a most apt key for solo uke work. It just cycles through the standard F Bb Dm C chords throughout the piece and in fact much of the left hand is already set once you place the fingers down for those chords. Below is a You Tube video that will illustrate how
I would play this song. Note that the fourth and third strings are exclusively played with the thumb while the index finger plays all the notes on the third string and the middle finger plays all the notes on the first string.
Here is an example of the notated arrangement showing the flowing arppegio style . .
The tablature can be purchased for $5.39 by paying through the paypal button on the Ukulele Mike website: http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com Once purchased, I will personally email it to you as a pdf file for you to download.
Watch and hear the arrangement here
According to WIKIPEDIA “The Prayer” is a popular song written by David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa and Tony Renis. It is most commonly known as a duet between Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. It is the second single from Dion’s Christmas album These Are Special Times and the first from Bocelli’s album Sogno, and was released as a promotional single on March 1, 1999. The song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song from the 1998 film Quest for Camelot. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1999 and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2000.
AN ARRANGER’S THOUGHTS . . .
I’ve personally been a huge fan of David Foster ever since he was producing Chicago back in the 80’s. THE PRAYER is a fine example of his skill at crafting beautiful elegant melodies and the first time I heard Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion sing it as a duet I was knocked out. The fact that so many people have successfully covered it is a testimony to it’s lasting quality as a well composed song.
I’ve wanted to take on this song as a solo ukulele arrangement for many years and over time I’ve tried numerous keys, fingerpicking styles and chord/melody styles. I finally settled on a chord/melody arrangement with use of the thumb only. The next issue I had was how to deal with the bridge section of the song.
The bridge takes the song up into a higher register and it just seemed impractical for ease of playing on the ukulele. It’s always been my goal to design my arrangements to allow the most ease of playing for most players. So often I’ve found published arrangements that are just way to difficult for most people to play. I attempted to make this piece playable and yet not diminish the full richness of the song. Therefore, my ultimate solution was to to use the Key of C. Most ukulele arrangements play better in F or G or even Am but C allowed me to keep the song in a good playable range and then, to deal with the bridge, I merely lowered it an octave. I think it works. . . I hope you do as well.
The entire piece as I mentioned is a Chord/Melody style arrangement. Use the thumb only . . . no fingerpicking is needed. Notice in the video that I play it up on the fingerboard above the sound hole. I’ve discovered that you generally get a warmer,fuller,sweeter tone in that position.
Played on the new Ukulele Mike “signature” tenor ukulele from Oscar Schmidt
Addendum . . .
THE PRAYER is now contained in the newly released CHORD/MELODY eBook.
Here is a video detailing the contents of the pdf book.
The Chord/Melody eBook ONE can be purchased by making a payment (recently reduced) of just $20.00 through the paypal button on the Ukulele Mike Lynch website http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com Once purchased, it will be personally emailed to you within the day.
Each of the Chord/Melody collections can be purchased separately for just $20.00 or all together at the new Combo “TRILOGY” discount of just $50.00
Announcing the release of the NEW Chord melody ebook FOUR $25.95
All 4 of the Chord melody ebooks can be purchased at a combo discount of $70
For information regarding any ukulele product please email TheUkuleleMan2012@hotmail.com
I’m so proud to announce the release of my “signature” tenor ukulele from Oscar Schmidt . . . This has been in the works for over 2 years. Oscar Schmidt generously allowed me to design the specifications of this ukulele from the ground up. I chose solid red cedar because of it’s brightness and
great projection of sound. I had the body designed to be a bit larger than typical plus I had the neck designed to be slightly wider to allow guitar players like myself or anyone with larger hands to handle the chords with comfort. Not too wide though, just the right amount. I also wanted a slotted headstock and gold precision Grover tuners. This will be available through your local music retailers or online. At this time, I have been alerted that it can be purchased through UKULELE WORLD at a great discount price. http://www.ukuleleworld.com/Oscar-Schmidt/
It comes strung with premium Aquila strings and a durable hard shell case.
A big thank you to all of you who have allowed me to make this instrument possible. Thanks also, to Tom Ferrone and all the fine people at Oscar Schmidt for their work and efforts to spread the aloha message of the ukulele throughout the world . . . Happy Strumming Ukulele Mike
Ask for Model OUUM200K when inquiring online or with dealers.
‘TILL THERE WAS YOU from THE MUSIC MAN – Arranged for Ukulele with Low G tuning by Ukulele Mike Lynch
‘TILL THERE WAS YOU from THE MUSIC MAN – Arranged for Ukulele with Low G tuning by Ukulele Mike Lynch
“Till There Was You” is a song written by Meredith Willson for his 1957 musical play The Music Man, and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version. The song is sung by librarian Marian Paroo (Barbara Cook on Broadway, Shirley Jones in the film) to Professor Harold Hill (portrayed by Robert Preston) toward the end of Act Two.
‘TILL THERE WAS YOU – Performed by UKULELE MIKE LYNCH
I arranged this classic melody with my ukulele tuned to a Low G. One of the chief advantages of the Low G tuning is that it allows for a larger range of notes that go below the third string C. As Jake Shimabukuro pointed out in a recent concert, that he is often limited to writing basically for just the…
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Jake Shimabukuro teaches the Triple Strum
Check out this lesson from Jake Shimabukuro on the Triple Strum for the
ukulele
Check out Jake’s tour schedule and definitely plan on going to see him
in your area . . .He’s outstanding . . .
I was pleasantly surprised when I attempted to arrange the Schubert Ave Maria as a chord/melody piece rather than a fingerpicking piece. It really allows it to breathe . . . Sometimes, thinking outside the box is a good idea. . . I need to remind myself to do that more often . .
AVE MARIA by Franz Schubert – Solo Ukulele Arrangement by Ukulele Mike Lynch
The Lady of the Lake and the Ave Maria
According to Wikipedia the piece was composed as a setting of a song from Walter Scott’s popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, in a German translation by Adam Storck (de) (1780–1822), and thus forms part of Schubert’s Liederzyklus vom Fräulein vom See. In Scott’s poem the character Ellen Douglas, the Lady of the Lake (Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands), has gone with her exiled father to stay in the Goblin’s cave as he has declined to join their previous host, Roderick Dhu, in rebellion against King James. Roderick Dhu, the chieftain of Clan Alpine, sets off up the mountain with his warriors, but lingers and hears the distant sound of the harpist Allan-bane, accompanying Ellen who sings a prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary, calling…
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El Condor Pasa – Arranged for Ukulele by UKULELE MIKE LYNCH
El Condor Pasa is contained in my Solo Ukulele eBook Volume 1 Enlarged 2013 Edition – $28.95 . . . Can be purchased through the paypal donate button on the Ukulele Mike website: http://www.ukulelemikelynch.com
El Cóndor Pasa (pronounced: [el ˈkondoɾ ˈpasa], Spanish for “The Condor Passes”) is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes.
It is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide due to a cover version by Simon & Garfunkel in 1970 on their Bridge over Troubled Water album. This cover version is called “El Condor Pasa (If I Could)”.
Paul Simon heard a version called “Paso Del Condor” by Jorge Milchberg, who was head of the group Urubamba (then known as Los Incas), who told Simon that the song was an 18th-century musical composition by an anonymous composer. Simon became interested in the song and composed new lyrics for the melody. The song appeared on Simon and Garfunkel’s 1970 album Bridge over Troubled Water and they used without permission the instrumental version of Los…
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