As a great admirer of Alfred Deller, the first thing I did when I started to play the ukulele was to look for arrangements of pieces he had sung, especially traditional folksongs and songs by John Dowland that I could picture being played on a ukulele. I did find a few traditional songs at the time but nothing by John Dowland.
Then about a month ago, I discovered Jamie Holding’s arrangements. Jamie Holding, a young musician from near York is initially a guitar and lute player but has recently been smitten by the ukulele virus. To date, he has written 2 e-books, Blame not my uke (30 easy ukulele pieces arranged from the lute) and John Dowland – 18 pieces which you can purchase on his site. He also has quite a few free arrangements (GCEA tuning) from Fernando Sor, Robert de Visee, Bach as well as some Renaissance music pieces.
Sharing Jamie’s interest in Renaissance music and the ukulele, I have asked him a few questions.
- Saturday, 19th September 2009 by Armelle Europe
- Category: Ukulele Beginner
- Tags: beginner, fingerpicking, fingerstyle, Holding, Jamie, Ukulele
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