Take that headline with a massive dollop of salt! The lady featured in this report undertook a Slimming World diet and decided on the ukulele as a side hobby, learning a total of 1 song. We fully support the ukulele playing, but we’d add syllabus with a LOT more than just one song, and perhaps not use the […]
This was a recent TED-Ed Article: How playing an instrument benefits your brain – Anita Collins Watch the video here: And read the transcript here: Did you know that every time musicians pick up their instruments there are fireworks going off all over their brain?On the outside they may look calm and focused, reading the music […]
Why reinvent the wheel? That’s what I say. There is a perfectly good post showing you how to play the E chord on the ukulele on the Ukulele Hunt Site, here. See the photos and descriptions that Al wrote back in 2009. All I wanted to add to that, were, should you wish to practice […]
Let’s make this easy. A# (A sharp) and Bb (said B flat, not ‘bee bee’) are exactly the same thing. You do the same thing with your fingers for both chords. They are “enharmonic”. In modern musical notation and tuning, an enharmonic equivalent is a note, interval, chord or key signature that is equivalent to some other note, […]