Songs and arrangements
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Mennyből az angyal - How to Play It
Tamás GállIn the previous postI promised to show you how Mennyből az angyal can be played on the ukulele. Naturally, the way I play it is not "scripture"; it is simply one arrangement, and everyone is free to shape and change it as they like. Even so, I hope many of you will enjoy this version and learn it!
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Dream a Little Dream of Me
Tamás GállDream 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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Dream a Little Dream of Me - How to Play It
Tamás GállHere, then, is the video intended to help you learn how to play Dream a Little Dream of Me on the ukulele. What I wrote earlier about Mennyből az angyal also applies to this arrangement: naturally, this is not the one and only correct way to play the song. Everyone can adapt it to their own taste. O…
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Pachelbel's Canon in D
Tamás GállPachelbel's name may not be familiar to everyone, but there are very few people who have never heard the chords of his Canon in D. This great Baroque composer created a chord progression that went on to inspire countless other composers and popular-song writers. The progression is catchy in the best…
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Pachelbel's Canon in D - How to Play It
Tamás GállThe Pachelbel Brothers are on a world tour, but before they left we managed to persuade their ukulele player to reveal the secret recipe behind their canon . The piece is worth learning not only because wedding planners will be demanding our services from now on, but also because it makes an excelle…
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The Champs – Tequila
Tamás GállI think everyone knows this oldie. Thanks to its easy-to-remember lyrics, we do not have to spend much time memorising lines: one emphatic shout of “Tequila!” takes care of the “singing”. The song – recorded by The Champs in 1958 and rewarded with a Grammy in 1959 – is simplicity itself, yet that pr…
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Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure — Movin' Cruisin'
Tamás GállIn the second half of the 1980s, one of my first big cinema experiences was a Bud Spencer–Terence Hill film that I watched with my parents. I remember walking down the street afterwards, bouncing around in front of them and insisting on having a fight, while they laughed and dodged my right jabs and…
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Tamás GállEver 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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Christmas + Downloads — Reloaded
Tamás GállChristmas 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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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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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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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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