There's a few things that have come across my desk in the last week or so.

1/ There's a James Hill Workshop & Concert - Sunday March 3 - Mullumbimby X-Services Club. 10% off tickets only until Christmas Eve. Book Herehttp://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=39116

2/ Aloha from Hawaii! The Ukulele Picnic is coming soon, February 9-10, 2013. Please find us on Facebook for more information. Great hotel packages for stay at the Hilton or Marriott available! Ukulele Picnic in Hawaii

3/ Brisbane Ukulele Musicians Society Inc is hosting …
 
MIKE & THOM JACKSON – ASK THE EXPERTS  Workshops
 
11:00 am
Saturday 2 February 2013
Coorparoo Bowls Club
32 Riddings Street, Coorparoo, BRISBANE

Mike and Thom Jackson link

4/ Cairns Ukulele Festival Live CD's. Out Now

That's it for now, Till next time, Good practice makes good playing.

Issue 4 of KAMUKE Ukulele Magazine

Here's a link to that Australian published magazine I was telling you about last Tuesday.

http://kamuke.com/

Issue 4 of KAMUKE Ukulele Magazine
has landed and is available now either individually or as part of a subscription
(see left).

The 36-page issue features an EXCLUSIVE interview with Hawaiian jazz great BENNY CHONG, as well as shorter chats with VICTORIA VOX, RALPH SHAW and
San Diego luthier PEPE ROMERO JR.

ARTHUR GODFREY takes his rightful place in the Hall of Fame and we get a
good look at an absolutely stunning 1930 MARTIN 5K in 'Uke-In-Focus'.

And there's a NEW SECTION! In response to readers wanting playing advice, we've introduced a 'Pro Tip' page where we aim to bring you handy hints from the world's best. In our first installment, Benny Chong presents '4 Bar Turn-Arounds (Vamps) For Intros And Inbetween Verses' in C major.

Happy reading and thanks for supporting KAMUKE!

Mahalo,

Cameron Murray

Songlist for Tuesday the 6th of November.

Songlist for Tuesday the 6th of November. We've had a few request to start earlier so we will start at 6:45 and see how we go.

1/ Jamaica Farewell. 144

2/ Ob-la-di Ob-la-da 183

3/ Click go the Shears. 61

4/ Folsom Prision Blues. 90

5/ Summertime (if Robyn leads). 224

6/ Baby Face. 27

7/ If I Had A Hammer. 128

8/ Jingle Bell Rock. 144

9/ My Bonnie. Not in Book http://www.doctoruke.com/mybonniefcomb.pdf

My Bonnie leaned over the gas tank,

The height of its contents to see,

I lit a small match to assist her,

O Bring back my Bonnie to me.

Repeat chorus

10/ Blueberry Hill. 47

11/ You're Sixteen 276

12/ Blowin in the Wind. 41

13/ House of the Rising Sun.115

14/ Down on the Corner

Remember we'll start from 6:45

Cheers.

Song list for Tuesday the 23rd of Uketober.

Song list for Tuesday the 23rd of Uketober.

Short notice but learners beginners night is on again tonight.

A quick reminder that we are having a get together this Sunday at the Queens Park Craft Markets. Love to see you all down there so

we can strum up a decent storm to entertain the maddening throng with.

Also Peter, Janine and I had an interview with Merryl Miller from the new Toowoomba Telegraph news paper which should be printed in this weekends edition so you can check that out if you like.

And, ta da, the playlist for the 23rd

1/ Waltzing Matilda. (not in your book) The Queensland/Seekers version. http://www.scorpexuke.com/songs/Waltzing_Matilda_Seekers.pdf.php
2/ Morning Town Ride. (not in your book) http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3927111383229878366
3/ Folsom Prison Blues. Pg. 90
4/ When the Saints Go Marching In. Pg. 263
5/ Don't Worry Be Happy. Pg. 74
6/ Eight Days a Week. Pg. 81
7/ This Land is your Land. Pg 243
8/ If I had a Hammer. Pg. 128
9/ Hooked on a Feeling. Pg. 113
10/ Ob-La-De Ob-La-Da. Pg. 183
11/ Stuck in The Middle With You. Pg. 220
12/ The Gambler. Pg. 233
13/ Botany Bay. Pg. 48
14/ I can't Help Falling In Love With You. Pg. 55
That's, that's you bloomin' lot
Cheers
If you have a song request you can always email me an I'll see that It gets added.

TUG Song list for Tuesday the 9th‏

Hi all, just some house keeping before I get into the songlist.

This is for our get together at the next Queens Park Market on the 21st of Oct.

We get a site for the entire morning so I and anyone else who wants to volunteer will stake our claim at 7am and we can have 20 to 30min sessions from the top of the hour. That's 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 am. 12:00 noon if we're still keen. Also seeing as we are there all morning we should do our best to promote TUG so any ideas or suggestions on how we go about that would be welcome. If anyone has some A framed black or white boards we can use them to write info on, would be a help.

Now the songlist.

There was a few songs from the last songlist that we didn't get around to last time so I'll give them another run as for the rest, happy strumming.

1/ This Land Is Your Land. Pg. 243

2/ Y.M.C.A. Pg. 272

3/ The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Pg. 236

4/ He's got the Whole World in His Hands with extra lyrics (see below). Pg. 106 (I'll be organised this time, I'm printing copies as I type)

VERSE 5

He's got the [C] sun and the rain in His hands,

He's got the [G7] moon and the stars in His hands,

He's got the [C] wind and the clouds in His hands,

He's got the [G7] whole world in His[C] hands.

VERSE 6

He's got the [C] rivers and the mountains in His hands,

He's got the [G7] oceans and the seas in His hands,

He's got you [C] and he's got me in His hands,

He's got the [G7] whole world in His [C] hands.

VERSE 7

He's got [C] everybody here in His hands,

He's got [G7] everybody there in His hands,

He's got [C] everybody everywhere in His hands,

He's got [G7] the whole world in His [C] hands.

5/ Eight Days A Week. Pg. 81

6/ Click Go The Sheers. Pg. 61

7/ Stuck in the Middle With You (check the 'song' form on the top right of your page). Pg. 220

8/ Bye Bye Love. Pg. 52

9/ Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. Pg. 194

10/ Ring of fire. Pg. 197

11/ The Gambler. Pg. 233

12/ Baby Face. Page 27

13/ Can't help alling In Love. Pg. 55

14/ Do Wah Diddy Diddy. Pg 70.

Back-ups

1/ Botany Bay. Pg. 48

2/ Bad Moon Rising. Pg. 30

3/ Cotton Fields. Pg. 63

That should keep us on our toes. There's a few newbies in there but they shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers and see ya on the 9th.

The Newkulele Festival

Here's a little something you might want to put in your diary.

Just having a squiz through the program on their website it sure looks like a jam packed weekend for the ukulele enthusiastic that's for sure.

Instead of me rambling on about it though you can click here and get the low down from their website and read all about it yourself.

Diarise it – The Newkulele Festival – 26-28 October, 2012.

Cheers

Stewart.

TUG playlist for Tuesday the 25th of September.

TUG playlist for Tuesday the 25th of September.

1/ In light of the recent passing of Hal David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) I'd like to see if we can strum up a half decent rendition of Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. Pg. 194

2/

A little Australiana with Click go the Shears. Pg. 61

3/ Bob and someone else requested this, Stuck in the Middle With You (check the 'song' form on the top right of your page). Pg. 220

http://youtu.be/dLPx5w2IZRw

4/ The Loco-motion. Pg. 237

5/ You got to hide your love away. Pg. 277

http://youtu.be/nfohz8pggYk 1 2&3&1 2&3&1 2&3&

6/ Love is all around. Not in your book.

7/ Your Sixteen pg. 276

8/ Y.M.C.A. Pg. 272

9/ Botany Bay. Pg. 48

10/ The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Pg. 236

11/ He's got the Whole World in His Hands with extra lyrics (see below). Pg. 106

VERSE 5

He's got the [C] sun and the rain in His hands,

He's got the [G7] moon and the stars in His hands,

He's got the [C] wind and the clouds in His hands,

He's got the [G7] whole world in His[C] hands.

VERSE 6

He's got the [C] rivers and the mountains in His hands,

He's got the [G7] oceans and the seas in His hands,

He's got you [C] and he's got me in His hands,

He's got the [G7] whole world in His [C] hands.

VERSE 7

He's got [C] everybody here in His hands,

He's got [G7] everybody there in His hands,

He's got [C] everybody everywhere in His hands,

He's got [G7] the whole world in His [C] hands.

12/ The Seekers version of Waltzing Matilda

http://www.scorpexuke.com/songs/Waltzing_Matilda_Seekers.pdf.php

13/ When the Saints Go Marching In. Pg.263

VERSE 4a.

Oh, when the [C] trumpet sounds its call

Oh, when the trumpet sounds its [G7] call

Lord, how I [C] want to [C7] be in that [F] number

When the [C] trumpet [G7] sounds its [C] call

VERSE 4b.

Some say this [C] world this world of trouble,

Is the only one we [G7] need,

But I'm [C] waiting [C7] for that [F]morning,

When the [C] new world[G7] is re[C]vealed.

14/ All I have to do is Dream. Pg. 16

15/ The Banana Boat Song. Pg. 68

16/ Bye Bye Love. Pg. 52

That ought keep us busy. If you have requested a song and it's not here then it's not intentional it probably means that I've forgotten it. If that's the case just let me know.

Cheers

Stewart.

Night and Day

Bad Girls and Mean Women Songbook

Uke Hunt (awesome ukulele site) posted a link to this little book, Bad Girls and Mean Women Songbook, and seeing as I was brought up with my farther playing, 'Aboard the good ship Venus,' it more than piqued my curiosity.

Costing me only 12.50 delivered to my door I couldn't resist, so here I am eagerly awaiting delivery.

It says on the website, "Ooooolala... This is a very naughty songbook indeed! This little black book contains 10 songs, some dating back as far as the 1600's, that are so raunchy that they would make Snoop Dog blush. Each song has both the ukulele chords and the musical score. Also included are 2 recipes and 5 potions plus a fold-out ukulele chord chart.
WARNING: ADULT CONTENT!."

If you want your own copy just follow the link above.

Cheers

Stewart.

Song list, take 2, for the 28th of August.

Song list, take 2, for the 28th of August.

1/ Ob-La-De Ob-La-Da Page 183. Just a few suggestion that I hope will make playing the chorus a lot easier. Firstly if you play the G chord by barring across the first three strings on the 2nd fret and then use your index finger on the 2nd string 3rd fret and you have G.
Now when you need to change from G to Bm keep your pointer barred and use your ring
finger to reach the 4th string 4th fret and you have Bm. Then from Bm to Em you keep the barre again and move your index and ring finger onto the 2nd and 3rd strings to form the Em. Confused? I hope not. Play around with it and it should make it sense.
2/ Home among the gum trees. Page 110. The chorus on this isn't written very well but if you give each chord two beats or a down up down up strum for each chord it plays better.
(right here is when my computer died)
3/ All I have to do is dream page 16
4/ Moondance requested by Robyn. Page 172.
5/ Sadie
6/ When the saints 263
7/ He's got the whole world in his hands. Page 106
8/ Ring of fire. Pg. 197
9/ A hard days night
10/ Do wah ditty ditty. pg. 70
11/ Love me tender. pg 167. It's been 35 years since he passed away.
12/ Morning town ride.
13/ You shook me all night long. pg. 275

Reserves
1/ Leaving on a jet plane
2/ Banana boat
3/ My Bonnie.
What do you think?
Any comments of questions feel free.

Cya on the 28th Cheers.
Now I off to practice Moondance, that Am7 looks a toughie.

'I felt the magic when I held you.'

I just had to share this one. 'I felt the magic when I held you.'

Happy Days

Beginners night

Beginners night is on again tomorrow night at Nunns Print Music and Repairs shop, 217 Ruthven street (Thursday). $5.00pp.

We might look at some new strumming patterns and expand our chord vocabulary in the Key of C. If you're having trouble with the G7 chord then I learnt something that might help with that too. See you there Cheers.

Song list for the 14 of August

Right, here's your song list for the 14 of August that I know you have all been sweating on so you can get stuck into some practice.

Two new songs

1/ Saidie the cleaning lady. See link below. I'll also bring along copies.

2/ When the Saints go marching in as requested by Rae. Page 263 of your songbook.

3/ The Seekers version of Waltzing Matilda

4/ Botany Bay. Page 48

5/ A world of our own. The Seekers on page 10.

6/ Y.M.C.A. on page 272.

7/ King of the Road on page 149

Intermission

8/ Leaving on a Jet plane on Page 157

9/ Blowing in the Wind on page 41

10/ Let it Be on page 159

11/ Jamaica Farewell on page 143. Look for the Fm chord, it's different to what some of us are used to.

12/ Do Wah Diddy Diddy (you're going to need a good lung full of air to belt this one out) on page70. (Tacet is Latin for "it is silent".)

It goes something like this

Reserves (if we have time)

1/ Don't worry be happy page 74

2/ You are my Sunshine page 274

3/ Grandma's Feather Bed page 97

What do you think? Any and all feedback welcome.

Cheers and happy strumming.

Popeye The Sailor Man

Just for hits and giggles.


"Popeye The Sailor Man"

I'm [C]Popeye the Sailor Man
I'm [F]Popeye the Sailor [C]Man
I'm [F]strong to the finich
Cause [C]I eats me spinach
I'm [G7]Popeye the Sailor [C]Man

I'm [F]one tough ga[G7]zookus
Which [C]hates all pa[Am]lookas
Wot [F]ain't on the [G7]up and [C]square
I [F]biffs 'em and [G7]buffs 'em
An' [C]always out[Am]roughs 'em
An' [F]none of 'em [G7]gets no[C]where

If [F]anyone dasses to [C]risk me fisk
It's "boff" and its "wham", un'er[F]stand
So, [F]keep good be[G7]havior
That's [C]your one life [Am]saver
With [F]Popeye the [G7]Sailor [C]Man

I'm [C]Popeye the Sailor Man
I'm [F]Popeye the Sailor [C]Man
I'm [F]strong to the finich
Cause [C]I eats me spinach
I'm [G7]Popeye the Sailor [C]Man

"Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" (Andrews Sisters)

You could say I'm a fan and you could be right. Enjoy.
Oh, stop it, you had me at mouth trumpet...

TUG Song list for Tuesday the 31st.

Song list for Tuesday the 31st. Apologies for this long.

Three new songs to learn.

1/ A kind of hush. Pg. 7 of your song book.

2/ King of the road. Pg. 149 of your song book.

3/ Let it be. Pg. 159 of your song book. lease pay particular o the 'Form' on the top right hand cnr of the page. I'd like to see if we could follow this on the night.

11/ A hard days night

http://www.doctoruke.com/harddaysnightcomb.pdf

10/ Blowin’ In The Wind 41

9/ Botany Bay  49

8/ Cotton Fields 63

7/ Banana Boat Song 68

6/ Grandma’s Feather Bed 97

5/ Leaving on a jet plane. Page 157 of your Ukulele Club Songbook

4/ Morning town ride or A world of our own on pg. 10 or both. Your choice.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_seekers/morningtown_ride_crd.htm

3/ Ring of fire by Johnny Cash on page 197.

2/ Grandma's Feather Bed by John Denver on Page 97.

1/ He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands 106

Reserves (If we are willing and have time)

1/ All I Have to Do Is Dream 16

2/ Day-o/Banana Boat Song 68

3/ Jamaica Farewell 143

How do you like them bananas? I'd like feedback. Cheers.

Officially missing you — Ukulele Duet

These guys (brothers) play some sweet ukulele.

'Ukulele lovers gather in Cairns.'

'Ukulele lovers gather in Cairns.' That's the ABC news head line for their story on the Cairns Ukulele Festival's attempt on the Ukulele world record attempt. Click here to go to their site and view their video story on the ukulele world record.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah....

I'd like to know where this little uke is and what it would be worth today. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah....

The Chronicle, Toowoomba's local newspaper, did a story on the Toowoomba Ukulele Group yesterday and it appeared in today's newspaper but here is a link to the online story. The story link



Video taken by The Chronicle for their story..

What's that? You don't know what to play?

If you're looking for some songs to play, like aren't we all, then I have some sites with hundreds of songs to choose from. Some sites double up on some songs but there is something different in all of them.

So here we go:-

1. Wukulele On the right hand side of their site you will see a list of songbook links in rainbow colours. Hours and hours of fun right there.

2. Uke at the Duke Just scroll down to their second page and they're all there. 

3. Burkleley Ukulele Club More songs than you can poke a ukulele at. Just don't blame me when your fingers start to bleed. 

4. Richard G's Ukulele song book Local from Brissy I believe and songs being added almost daily. 

5. Ukulele hunt Tabs and Chords From beginners to the ridiculously hard. 

6. Ukester Brown Fore something a little bit different. 

7. Dr. Uke Awesome site with sound files for each song for you can play along with. 

8. Got a Ukulele More songs plus a Christmas selection. 

9. Ukulele Tabs Just how many songs can one ukulele player play?

More links are being add on my Songs, songs songs link


There's an absolute shipload out there. I'll put this up as a permanent page as well and add to it as I stumble across more sites with songs on them.

See you there.

We're doing a beginners night tomorrow night (Tuesday) at Nunns Print Music and Repairs 217 Ruthven st. at 6.30. $5.00 pp. all skill levels welcome. See you there.

Imagine

I'll let the video do the talking, but it's a must watch in my mind..





Cheers

Stewart.

LP - In The Pines (Leadbelly Ukulele Cover) [Live]

I follow Uke Tubes and He/she/they do all the hard work in finding new and great ukulele videos for their followers. And I'm posting one they twitted the other day. A because She is playing a ukulele but B I found her voice a little haunting so I'm sharing.



What do you think? I love to know.

Cheers.

Last minute reminder

Just a last minute reminder that the Toowoomba Ukulele Group will be meeting this Tuesday folks (not Thursday) from 6.30pm at the South Toowoomba Bowls club. Hope to see you all there.

Yellow please.

Just a little story from The Kala Brand Music facebook page and they're oh so cute.

"We will have a new line of Solid Mahogany Light models available soon. These will be made in natural mahogany. We are considering doing a short run of mahogany models in a variety of tints. Here are a few of the prototypes of the tinted mahogany sopranos. Any interest? Fave color? What sizes should we offer this option on?"

If they made a yellow concert ukulele I'd buy two I think...

Song list for the next TUG meet on the 3rd of July

Song list for the next TUG meet on the 3rd of July at our new venue The South Toowoomba Bowls Club. If you can print off a copy and maybe an extra one for a spare that would be great.

Let me know what you think. If you have any song suggestions then please have them ready for us at the next meet.

1/Love me tender. There is a few new chords in this song but they aren't as hard as they look.

http://www.doctoruke.com/lovemetender.pdf

2/Leaving on a jet plane. You'll find a F to Bflat and back chord change in My Bonnie down the list too so this will be good practice.

http://www.doctoruke.com/leavinonajetplane.pdf

3/Morning town ride.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_seekers/morningtown_ride_crd.htm

4/House of the rising sun.

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.guitaretab.com/a/animals/537.html?1944-06-06=always&transpose=&tuning=GCEA

5/The Banana Boat song.

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimate-guitar.com%2Fprint.phpreplaceqmarkwhat%3Dtab%26id%3D61814&songbook=source&owner=poppies&1944-06-06=always&transpose=&tuning=GCEA

6/My Bonnie. You will need to practice changing from F to Bflat and back for this one.

http://doctoruke.com/mybonniefcomb.pdf

7/This is optional but if you print it out and enough want to play it on the night then we can give it a go.

A hard days night

http://www.doctoruke.com/harddaysnightcomb.pdf

All the song links below are from the tunes week. Plus YMCA and Be Happy

Blowin in the wind

http://doctoruke.com/blowininthewindccomb.pdf

Save the last dance for me

http://doctoruke.com/savethelastdanceforme.pdf

All I have to do is dream

http://doctoruke.com/allihavetodoisdreamcomb.pdf

You are my sunshine

http://doctoruke.com/youaremysunshinecomb.pdf

Jamaican Farewell

http://www.doctoruke.com/jamaicafarewell.pdf

Beginners

Rather short notice but Toowoomba Ukulele Group (T.U.G) are holding a beginners lesson tonight at Nunns Print Music and Repairs, 217 Ruthven street from 6:30pm.

Ukulele Song

Words and Chords are HERE