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Fingerstyle ukulele videos by Herman and Wilfried

Armelle Europe — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:30:08 +0000

New classical fingerstyle ukulele videos uploaded by Herman Vandecauter and Wilfried Welti. Ukulele tabs for Sea of Nectar.

3 Ukulele Tutorials : Chunk, Barre chords and Picking

Armelle Europe — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:01:20 +0000

If you’re looking into ways of spicing up your ukulele playing, here are 3 tutorials that will teach you how to chunk to give your ukulele a percussive sound, play a cool barre chord progression or if you are using a low G uke, a nice fingerpicking technique.

1. The Chunk by Stuart aka Stukulele

Here is a very nice tutorial which teaches you how to chunk properly. The great thing about this tutorial is that it…

Francesco Molino: Andante tabbed by Herman Vandecauter

Armelle Europe — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:00:26 +0000

Today, classical string instruments specialist Herman Vandecauter kindly shares the ukulele tab for a solo piece by Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Molino (1775 – 1847).

Download Herman’s arrangement of Andante Vivace by Francesco Molino

Listen to the Andante Vivace performed by

Here is some extra information kindly provided by Herman.

Francesco Molino arranged this small happy dancing solo piece written for guitar from his 19th century guitar method. I have

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Schmitt Courante by Herman Vandecauter

Armelle Europe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:00:17 +0000

Herman Vandecauter has recently uploaded a new video in which he performs a Courante he has arranged for the ukulele. A ‘courante’ is a tripple meter dance from the late Renaissance or the Baroque music era.

I have asked Herman for more information about the piece, but let’s first listen to and enjoy the Schmitt Courante beautifully performed on a soprano Ohana SK 100G.

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Classical fingerpicking ukulele videos

Armelle Europe — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:00:19 +0000

Today’s post will focus on fingerstyle or classical ukulele with beautiful playing from Herman Vandecauter, Wilfried Welti, Josh Skaja and Ken Middleton.

Check out the end of this post to find out about the latest releases of classical style ukulele ebooks.

Herman Vandecauter from Belgium performs Paisanne, a piece by Silvius Leopold Weiss and treats us with a slide show of nice ukulele pictures and cunning photo montages.

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Improve your ukulele technique : a tip by Herman Vandecauter

Armelle Europe — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:00:14 +0000

Today multi-string-instrumentalist Herman Vandecauter from Belgium discusses the importance of using the little finger when playing the ukulele and illustrates his point with an exercise for ukuleles in GCEA tuning which you can hear and download further in this post.

Here is what Herman says :

I am always impressed when I see good left hand technique on the ukulele. I attach the greatest possible importance on the use of the fourth finger

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Fingerstyle and Instrumental Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:00:48 +0000

Discover ukulele instrumentals and fingerpicking at its best with the following selection of fingerstyle videos from around the world.

Whether it be in theme tunes, classical pieces, Celtic tunes, Brazilian music, flamenco and gipsy jazz, rock songs, the ukulele sounds really great. Enjoy this demonstration of the versatility of our favourite instrument !

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skillfully demonstrates the campanella technique on Loch Na Garr, a beautiful arrangement which I find very relaxing to listen to.

The arrangement can be purchased in Ken‘s…

Fingerstyle ukulele videos and tutorials

Armelle Europe — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:52:34 +0000

Today I’d like to take a look at the latest fingerstyle videos and include some useful fingerpicking tutorials.

First a really lovely ukulele duo performed by and one of his students. The piece, arranged by Herman, is called Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) and shows how good a teacher he is!

Relax and enjoy this beautiful piece of Renaissance music. If you’d like to learn to play along, Herman has posted the tabs of the first part

New fingerstyle and classical ukulele ebooks released

Armelle Europe — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:14 +0000

Ken Middleton has just released an ebook entitled 12 tunes for Celtic Ukulele and has been very kind to send me a copy so I’d like to share some information as to what is in the ebook. I haven’t had time to try the arrangements myself yet, but I am looking forward to it.

First things first, let’s listen to Ken himself playing one of his lovely arrangements, Fisher’s Hornpipe.
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Fare thee well and fingerstyle uke

Armelle Europe — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:40:46 +0000

I am very briefly emerging from my blog break to dedicate this post to my friend who succumbed to cancer a week ago. Thanks to everyone who sent a word of support, that meant a lot to me.

Here is a selection of fingerstyle ukulele videos I really like.

Pablo9000 is playing some Henry Purcell on the ukulele and it sounds great :

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