I had brought a little pineapple Kamaka and I think at one time or another we all grabbed it and gave it a strum. That made this visit special in that it was just us getting together to reconnect. We don’t normally just get to sit down and see how the other is doing. Normally there is some ukulele event that is going on and while that is always fun it usually puts us in a situation where we have to provide service or perform for others. It was so nice to sit down in a relaxed atmosphere and just share what was going on in our lives. Mark and Kathy Levine, Noel Tardy, and in spirit Gina Volpe. We were only there for a short two days but were able to reconnect with some ukulele folks from the area.
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It was great to return with my wife and new daughter. It’s actually just the next position in which C E G pops up as a playable form. Notice on the ukulele we are just taking the next set of C E G notes and calling it the next inversion. C E G is the first inversion, the second would be E G C, and the third G C E.
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I called these inversions and technically that is not right, just ask Dr, Bales. Now let’s just make one technical music theory correction. I hope that this helps you to understand why all those shapes for the same chord are important and I really encourage you to try making your own arrangements. This is the basis to creating chord melody transcriptions. Meaning that if the melody goes down in pitch then we can go pick a lower pitched C chord.
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Maybe move in the direction of the melody. In which case it’s time for you to make some creative decisions. Well then transposing the song to another key is a good idea but there are songs that have more than an octave range. The only trick here is we are following the melody with chord shapes that have the melody note as the highest note.īut there are times when you just can’t… Say a song has a range that just won’t fit. If the melody of the song calls for then notes C and then E but the chord doesn’t change, you could follow the melody by choosing either the first position C or second position and then when the melody gets to E play the C chord in the third position. I am sure that we if worked at it hard enough we could even come up with a C chord with G as the highest note.
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So there would be to opportunities to play the C chord with either a C as the highest note or the C chord with the E has the highest note in the chord. Lets examine the notes of the C major chord. People will say your playing “Silent Night” not just a set of chords. Any time that you bring out the melody line in your chord playing the song starts to peek through the chords. Let’s take the C chord for example you could play it:īut why, why would I play those chords up the neck? Well… If I was trying to match the melody the other chords might give me the melody note as the highest note in the chord. This topic quickly gets us into the discussion of chord inversions or different chord shapes. There are at least twelve frets on your ukulele but most people only use the first three or four! My good friend Byron Yasui says “you paid for all those frets you might as well use them!”, and who could disagree with logic like that. The Spanky and 4 Strings of Swing Store!!.Songs Arranged for Ukulele (Transcriptions).