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Tamás GállDear Readers! We are constantly polishing and developing ukulele.hu behind the scenes. Alongside technical improvements, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the site better and how to provide even more help with choosing and learning the ukulele. Recently we improved the mobile version…
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The Beatles – Michelle
Tamás GállMichelle appeared on The Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul. I conducted a very unscientific little opinion poll among people I know and got an interesting result: relatively few recognised the song from its title. Several thought first of Pfeiffer, while others had even wilder ideas. But when I played…
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Ukulele meetup!
Tamás GállDear Ukulele Players, we warmly invite you to another ukulele meetup, and we also welcome anyone who has never held a ukulele before but is interested in learning music and discovering the instrument. The aim is to gather as many people as possible, play together and inspire those who have not yet p…
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Ukulele on Retró Rádió
Tamás GállI had the honour of accepting a wonderful invitation: this morning I was a guest on Retró Rádióbetween 8 and 9 a.m. I had an opportunity to introduce the instrument, and several songs were played on ukulele as well. But before jumping straight into the middle, a few words about how it happened. A fe…
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Report from the 2019 Summer Ukulele Meetup
Tamás GállI'm smiling. I'm full of energy — I got so much from all of you at Monday's meetup! Thank you for coming in such great numbers, and from what I could see, you had a good time. The meetup had barely ended when I started receiving messages saying how much you enjoyed the event and asking when the next…
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Chords 06: D major
Tamás GállWe have completed the first four chords and hopefully can now strum C major, A minor, F major and G major with confidence. The series continues with D major, taking us into the category of slightly more difficult chords. The challenge with G major was forcing the fingers into a somewhat unusual hand…
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Chords 07: E major
Tamás GállThis may be the first chord that makes beginner ukulele players genuinely wince. However we twist our fingers, E major is simply not very comfortable to fret. There is no need to be frightened of it, of course; it simply requires a little more patient practice than something like C major. In the vid…
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Chords 08: A major
Tamás GállAfter the difficulties of E major, we get a little relaxation and learn A major. If we had arranged these chords strictly by difficulty, A major really should have come before E major, but never mind – this is the order we ended up with :). Anyone who can already fret F major and A minor will have a…
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Ukulele Meetup II
Tamás GállAfter the June ukulele meetup, many of you wrote to ask when the next one would be. Some because you had not been able to attend, and several because you told us how much you had enjoyed yourselves and were already looking forward to the next one. Well, we now have the date of the next ukulele meetu…
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Getting Ready for Ukulele Meetup II
Tamás GállIn just under two weeks, on Wednesday, September 4, we will be holding Ukulele Meetup II, and we are excitedly preparing for it. We hope you are looking forward to it at least as much as we are. I am delighted to see the registrations coming in nicely . If you have not yet registered for the event,…
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Report from Ukulele Meetup II
Tamás GállYou may already be used to me writing a few words about each meetup or workshop afterwards, and this time will be no different . Yesterday afternoon, Zsolt and I arrived at Pódium Hall, the venue for the meetup, about three quarters of an hour before the official start. Together with the Eldorádó te…
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Eight Tips for Beginners
Tamás GállBased on the experience of many, many years, I have collected a few thoughts that I would like to share with you in a slightly unusual video. It is unusual because this time you will hear only a few random chords — in other words, we are not learning a song — and I will be talking even more than usu…
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