Aloha from Singapore,
Today I want to share about a cute little but powerful instrument that gains its popularity now adays. It's all about U...Yes, UKULELE or UKE. Who doesn't love U, right? :D
Ok...jokes aside...
Let's come back to music matter.
What is more Hawaii than "Aloha Oe" & a "Uku", right?
This Hawaiian origin instrument's usually associated simply as a strummed rhythm accompaniment instrument to singing. It is so true, it's a very effective instrument to accompany singing, BUT more than just that...ukulele is also a very powerful orchestral instrument.
What does it mean?
It means a ukulele can sound the chords as accompaniment as well as the main melody itself simultaneously.
This approach is an art by itself. Imagine that just such a small instrument, but yet can function as a melody instrument (it's like the vocalist in a band, or the violinist, or saxophonist, etc) and simultaneously also as a groovy and chordal instrument (it's like the accompanying keyboard or guitar).
Here're more samples :
The player needs to hold the main melody strongly. What a song without melody, right? Nobody could recognize the tune if someone just strum the chord without anybody singing the melody (or some instrument playing it).
Talking about melody, here's a song about do re mi...
Though the ukulelist is playing the melody you also hear the constant strumming pattern at the background. It's actually from the same ukulele at the same time (no looper).
So while holding the melody it's important for the ukulelist to create the background chords, otherwise it would just be a melody instrument. Without a rhythm section it would just sound very dry. Imagine when you eat meatball without soup or sauce.
Why?
In all artists we have the need to create more and more. We enlarge our creativity and always find way to do something amusing with our artistic talent.
Solo playing is an art by itself, it's playful.
The combining art here is all about managing perception, which note/s you want to highlight under the limelight and which note/s you want to make as background.
How to do that?
Using fingerstyle technique to choose which note/s you want to sound at the particular time.
It involves plucking, strumming, drumming, chuck-ing, etc.
It's good to play ukulele like storytelling, there's some dynamic (controlling softness, loudness, slowing down or rushing wisely) that makes the song more soulfully interesting.
In this class I'll teach from music theory (scale, chords & progression, chord voicings) , understanding the fingerboard concept, technique (strumming, plucking, arpeggio, chuck-ing, rasqueado, drumming, sliding, bending, hammer on & pull off, harmonic, etc).
With those tools above I'll teach how to arrange to play solo. It involves groove (swing, chacha, rhumba, bossa nova, simple pop, etc.)
Here're samples from various grooves :
It'd be a fun and great way to practice your creativity. I find that this learning journey is very challenging and addictive. Hey...it's a good thing, right? ;) So much surprising things are waiting for you to discover
Are you game? Get ready....and soon you'll be able to play your favourite tunes at hand - pun intended. It's your turn to play ukulele beautifuleley (y)
Thank you for letting me sharing some thought.
Cheers,
Daniel Purnomo
Lesson & performance enquiries :
dapur777@gmail.com
www.dpurnomoconcept.com
Today I want to share about a cute little but powerful instrument that gains its popularity now adays. It's all about U...Yes, UKULELE or UKE. Who doesn't love U, right? :D
Ok...jokes aside...
Let's come back to music matter.
What is more Hawaii than "Aloha Oe" & a "Uku", right?
This Hawaiian origin instrument's usually associated simply as a strummed rhythm accompaniment instrument to singing. It is so true, it's a very effective instrument to accompany singing, BUT more than just that...ukulele is also a very powerful orchestral instrument.
What does it mean?
It means a ukulele can sound the chords as accompaniment as well as the main melody itself simultaneously.
This approach is an art by itself. Imagine that just such a small instrument, but yet can function as a melody instrument (it's like the vocalist in a band, or the violinist, or saxophonist, etc) and simultaneously also as a groovy and chordal instrument (it's like the accompanying keyboard or guitar).
Here're more samples :
The player needs to hold the main melody strongly. What a song without melody, right? Nobody could recognize the tune if someone just strum the chord without anybody singing the melody (or some instrument playing it).
Talking about melody, here's a song about do re mi...
Though the ukulelist is playing the melody you also hear the constant strumming pattern at the background. It's actually from the same ukulele at the same time (no looper).
So while holding the melody it's important for the ukulelist to create the background chords, otherwise it would just be a melody instrument. Without a rhythm section it would just sound very dry. Imagine when you eat meatball without soup or sauce.
Why?
In all artists we have the need to create more and more. We enlarge our creativity and always find way to do something amusing with our artistic talent.
Solo playing is an art by itself, it's playful.
The combining art here is all about managing perception, which note/s you want to highlight under the limelight and which note/s you want to make as background.
How to do that?
Using fingerstyle technique to choose which note/s you want to sound at the particular time.
It involves plucking, strumming, drumming, chuck-ing, etc.
In this class I'll teach from music theory (scale, chords & progression, chord voicings) , understanding the fingerboard concept, technique (strumming, plucking, arpeggio, chuck-ing, rasqueado, drumming, sliding, bending, hammer on & pull off, harmonic, etc).
With those tools above I'll teach how to arrange to play solo. It involves groove (swing, chacha, rhumba, bossa nova, simple pop, etc.)
Here're samples from various grooves :
It'd be a fun and great way to practice your creativity. I find that this learning journey is very challenging and addictive. Hey...it's a good thing, right? ;) So much surprising things are waiting for you to discover
Are you game? Get ready....and soon you'll be able to play your favourite tunes at hand - pun intended. It's your turn to play ukulele beautifuleley (y)
Thank you for letting me sharing some thought.
Cheers,
Daniel Purnomo
Lesson & performance enquiries :
dapur777@gmail.com
www.dpurnomoconcept.com
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