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The Albanian-British pop star was accosted by a ukulele-strumming musician while strolling around the festival site – said musician then proceeded to give her a live rendition of a half-sung ...
The ukulele (/ ˌ juː k ə ˈ l eɪ l i / ooh-kə-LAY-lee; from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ]), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes: soprano, concert ...
The split stroke is a style of playing the ukulele which is peculiar to the George Formby style of playing. [1] It is a syncopated rhythm where the player will strike all of the strings, and then on the return, catch the first string, and then before starting again hit the last string: (Example is the chord 'C') 3..3 0 0 0..-..0
The final upstroke is sometimes omitted altering the strumming pattern slightly to d du ud. This pattern is often called "Old Faithful", [7] or when played on ukulele, the "Island Strum". Examples of other strumming patterns include: [8] Single down strum: d d d d . Elvis' "Burning Love" Kathy Mattea's "What Could Have Been" Boom-chicka: d dud du
A modern ukulele. The Hawaiian ukulele also has four strings and a shape similar to the cavaquinho, [ 8 ] although tuned differently – usually G C E A . The ukulele is an iconic element of Hawaiian popular music, which spread to the continental United States in the early 20th century. [ 9 ]
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976) is a ukulele virtuoso and composer from Hawaii [a] known for his fast and complex finger work. [2] His music combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, folk, and flamenco. [3]
Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui in Waikiki, 2012. Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii.
Fast guitar strumming rhythms and rippling banjo riffs characteristic in Pete Seeger and The Weavers's renditions became the basic, and ultimately expected, bedrock sound in Guard's and Shane's Kingston Trio, a sound which Guard, in his Whiskeyhill Singers group, and for whatever reason, found it necessary to repeat.