Fun Ukulele turnaround

Here is a quick tutorial for a fun blues turnaround. I show you how to play A7, D7 and E7. It's a twelve bar turnaround:

|A7---|----|----|----|              (four bars of A7, each bar is four counts)
|D7---|----|A7---|----|          (two bars D7, two bars A7)
|E7---|D7---|A7---|E7---|    (one bar E7, one bar D7, one bar A7, back to one bar E7)


A7

D7

E7

As always, keep practicing, and get into playing. For a comprehensive list of chords, tips, tricks, techniques, etc, I recommend Ukulele For Dummies. Check it out.

Daily ukulele

Greetings to the ukulele players of the world. I recently came across this deal: The Daily Ukulele - 365 Songs for Better Living- Ukulele Songbook is on sale for about $25 on Amazon right now (normally $35).

I've heard that this book is fantastic because it can be used as a textbook for an ukulele class. You can get together with a group, and do a new song every time you meet. Even if you met every day and learned one song, you wouldn't have to repeat anything for an entire year. That's pretty rockin' bad.

So anyways, I was curious to know if anyone out there has used this book, and whether it was worth it. I'm going to dig into my piggy bank to acquire it, and then try and set up a ukulele class.

Does that sound crazy? Probably. I'm aware of how crazy that sounds.

Anyone ever done anything like this? I'd love to know what tips and tricks are out there to set this kind of thing up.

Tribute to Mount St Helen's

I use Facebook. It's a funny network because your grandmother can see what you post, and provide all sorts of various feedback. If you have an awesome gramma like me, she'll tell you that your ukulele videos should be recorded while you're fully clothed in the shower. She also will offer suggestions for songs you should write.

I received a suggestion a few days ago, the anniversary of Mt. Saint Helen's erupting, titled: "where were you when the mountain blew?" As a northwesterner, this was a pretty big deal, even though I hadn't been born yet when it happened. I made a deal that I would write music if she wrote lyrics. Gramma's reply was "I was at the zoo, poo poo pa doo". 

It is late, but without further ado, "Where were you when the mountain blew"