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CCR — Bad Moon Rising

Tamás Gáll

I have arranged another song by one of the most popular American bands of the 1960s, Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising. Alongside Proud Mary and Have You Ever Seen the Rain , it is one of their best-known songs. Those who attend ukulele meetupsare used to us playing a CCR song at almost…

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Cee Lo Green — Forget You

Tamás Gáll

He is not exactly a performer brought up on health food, but then those notes coming from the kissable lips of Mr Green — born Thomas DeCarlo Callaway — do need a certain amount of weight behind them. I do not usually attach much importance to a song's music video, but this one turned out particular…

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Christmas + Downloads — Reloaded

Tamás Gáll

Christmas is slowly approaching, which is good news for us ukulele players in several ways. For me, the most joyful moment is when I get to perform Mennyből az angyal, Kiskarácsony, nagykarácsony or Silent Night for the family for the fifty-seventh time (because naturally they occasionally need prac…

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Cifra Palota

Tamás Gáll

From time to time, a kind acquaintance of mine, Orsi, posts pictures on Facebook of stones she has painted. The pictures on the stones are inspired by Hungarian folk songs or children's songs, and the game is to guess which song each picture represents. I really enjoy this game — not because I know…

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Community ukulele production II

Tamás Gáll

Update:thank you for the videos — they turned out really well . Over the next few days I will edit and cut the recordings, and I will be back soon with the finished production. It is always a great pleasure to announce another community play-along project. I hope you will take part in creating the n…

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Don't Be Cruel

Tamás Gáll

...in other words, “Ne légy kegyetlen!” in Hungarian. This is a great rock-and-roll song by Elvis, recorded in a New York studio in 1956 together with another excellent song, Hound Dog. The latter immediately shot to the top of the charts, but after a while Don't Be Cruel overtook Hound Dog. In fact…

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Downloads

Tamás Gáll

Ever since ukulele.hu launched, I have had one outstanding item on my to-do list: the DOWNLOADSmenu item. By now this subpage is complete both technically and in terms of content. Naturally the content will not remain static: from time to time we will add new songs and chords. Existing lyrics and ch…

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Dream a Little Dream — intro

Tamás Gáll

Dream a Little Dream is one of my eternal favourites, so it is no surprise that it was one of the first songs I arranged , now eight years ago. Back then, of course, I played it a little differently, using less fingerstyle technique. Since then I have developed that side of my playing and added an i…

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Dream a Little Dream of Me

Tamás Gáll

Dream a Little Dream of Me was written by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt in 1931. This brilliant song achieved its greatest success in 1968 in a version by The Mamas & the Papas. The quality of the song is perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that at least sixty "official" recordings are known, i…

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Egy boszorka van...

Tamás Gáll

In this blog post and video I would like to show you and teach you a ukulele accompaniment for the Slovak folk song beginning “Egy boszorka van...” (“There is a witch...”). I find it hard to imagine that anyone in Hungary does not know it . I loved it as a child, and now I very much enjoy singing it…

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