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English: A chord chart for beginner ukulele players that demonstrates the correct fingerings to play the 36 basic chords. Whereas most chord charts display the fretboard vertically to save space, here the fretboard is intentionally horizontal (as how a ukulele is held) to make it easier for beginners (the target audience of this chart) to use.
IV M7 –V 7 –iii 7 –vi chord progression in C. Play ⓘ One potential way to resolve the chord progression using the tonic chord: ii–V 7 –I. Play ⓘ. The Royal Road progression (王道進行, ōdō shinkō), also known as the IV M7 –V 7 –iii 7 –vi progression or koakuma chord progression (小悪魔コード進行, koakuma kōdo shinkō), [1] is a common chord progression within ...
Inspired by the Tahitian ukulele, there is the Motu Nui variant, from France, which has just four strings made from fishing line and the hole in the back is designed to produce a wah-wah effect. [citation needed] Mario Maccaferri invented an automatic chording device for the ukulele, called Chord Master.
The banjo ukulele neck typically has sixteen frets, and is the same scale length as a soprano or, less commonly, concert or tenor-sized ukulele. Banjo ukuleles may be open-backed, or may incorporate a resonator. Banjo ukulele heads were traditionally made of calf skin, but most modern instruments are fitted with synthetic heads. Some players ...
[5] King is featured in a short segment in the extras on the DVD release of Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog, a 2010 documentary on the ukulele. According to The Journal of the Society for American Music, John King is "the worlds only truly classical ukulele virtuoso". [6]
The Tahitian ukulele (ʻukarere or Tahitian banjo) is a short-necked fretted lute with eight nylon strings in four doubled courses, native to Tahiti and played in other regions of Polynesia. This variant of the older Hawaiian ukulele is noted by a higher and thinner sound and an open back, [ 1 ] and is often strummed much faster.
This is a list of ukulele players. These musicians and bands are well known for playing the ukulele as their primary instrument and have an associated linked Wikipedia article. It is not intended for everyone that can play the instrument.
Part I: The Beginning – Aku, an evil shape-shifting demon, devastates a child Japanese prince's land and abducts his father. After years of training in exile around the world, the prince returns as a young man, receives a mystical katana able to cut through virtually anything, frees his people from Aku's minions, and battles Aku despite his father's warnings.