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Report from the ukulele meetup
Tamás GállI arrived excitedly at the venue of yesterday's ukulele meetup shortly before 5 p.m. Loaded down with ukuleles, I made my way inside, and it was not long before the first “colleagues” arrived. My first thought on seeing the venue was that it was rather dark – how were we going to find the chords? –…
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Ukulele meetup – 10 August 2017
Tamás GállI would like to invite you to a ukulele meetup on Thursday, 10 August 2017, starting at 5:30 p.m. – arriving later is fine – in Budapest, very close to Puskás Ferenc Stadium. The exact address is Kerepesi út 26. We will finish at around 8:00-8:30 p.m., or earlier if everyone leaves, and later if we…
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Grease – Summer Nights
Tamás GállOne of my favourite musical films when I was young was Grease (released in Hungary under the title Pomádé). Unfortunately I have not seen it for a long time, but I still know the songs by heart, and I suspect many people who love 1950s rock and roll are the same. The story of the film is extremely s…
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I'm Into Something Good
Tamás GállIt has been a very long time since I made a “play-the-chords-along-with-me” video, but I have now recorded several songs. The first one I would like to show you is the old Herman's Hermits hit, accompanied by ukulele – or, more precisely, banjolele. This is excellent practice for beginners who are w…
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Ukulele Christmas
Tamás GállI received a kind request from Ben, who devotes his life to playing the ukulele and travelling . He has just made a Christmas ukulele album and asked me to write my opinion of it. I was happy to oblige. He sent me the album as a Christmas present, I listened to it, and I can say nothing but good thi…
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The 8,000-forint Chinese ukulele
Tamás GállA few months ago an interesting email arrived in my ukulele inbox. It was written by none other than mrgergoke, who runs an extremely interesting blog called the “RendeljKínait Blog”. The message surprised me because that blog normally deals with electronic gadgets. Yet this particular email was abo…
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The baritone ukulele II.
Tamás GállI warmly recommend the first postabout the baritone ukulele. If you have not read it, it may be worth starting there. Now I will continue the thoughts begun in that post, share a few more details about this wonderful instrument, and I have also made a ten-minute video. The instrument's specification…
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Odds and Evens – How to play it
Tamás GállNot long ago I devoted a longer post to the theme song from the film Odds and Evens. This one will be shorter, because I explain everything in the video. So if you would like to learn how to play Brotherly Love in the way shown in the previous post, practise patiently and persistently; I will try to…
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Odds and Evens
Tamás GállIn an earlier post (All the Way, Boys!) I already wrote enthusiastically about how completely the films of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill captivated me as a child. Only recently did I realise that, alongside the obvious jokes, their films are full of subtle absurdities that viewers may or may not noti…
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Chord progressions
Tamás GállBeginners and advanced players alike often ask the same question: what should I practise, and where do I go from here? More experienced players may find it easier to come up with ideas, but beginners who are still discovering the mysteries of chords can easily get stuck. I found a very useful little…
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The baritone ukulele I.
Tamás GállThe baritone ukulele has probably been the most neglected ukulele category on the blog so far. I can finally fill that gap because I recently had yet another birthday (I stopped counting some time ago), when my family surprised me with a wonderful, custom-made ukulele. A baritone, no less. I had tri…
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The Four-Neck Ukulele
Tamás GállHow many times have we been playing something on a soprano ukulele and thought, wow, this would sound great on a baritone? At least twice, surely. :) But we have probably often entertained the thought of trying another size, or wished it were possible to have several different sizes of ukulele withi…
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