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The Langley Ukulele Ensemble is one of the featured groups in Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of an Underdog. [6] The documentary includes following the ensemble on their annual Hawaiian trip. Peter Luongo has been replaced by his son, Paul Luongo, as the musical director of the Ensemble upon Peter's retirement in 2013.
The ukulele (/ ˌ juː k ə ˈ l eɪ l i / yoo-kə-LAY-lee; from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ]), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin and was popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes ...
Mighty Uke follows the history of the ukulele's popularity from its earliest days in the court of Hawaiian King David Kalākaua through the ‘lost’ years, then its first revival on early radio and the stages of vaudeville; then through several decades in the shadows again as jazz flourished until the days of early television and revival again with stars such as Arthur Godfrey.
[10] [18] [70] The UOGB began the approach of orchestrating songs so that each ukulele played a separate part ~ “since then we’ve seen the concept of ensemble ukulele playing flourish right across the world.” [71] [12] [72] [73] Asked by the Sydney Morning Herald to explain the success of his orchestra, Hinchliffe replied "the world has ...
Ukulele Songs is the second solo studio album by American singer and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. It was released on May 31, 2011. [ 1 ] The album is composed of original songs and new arrangements of several standards.
The vi chord before the IV chord in this progression (creating I–vi–IV–V–I) is used as a means to prolong the tonic chord, as the vi or submediant chord is commonly used as a substitute for the tonic chord, and to ease the voice leading of the bass line: in a I–vi–IV–V–I progression (without any chordal inversions) the bass ...
Ultimate Guitar (Ultimate Guitar USA LLC), also known as Ultimate-Guitar.com or simply UG, is an online platform for guitarists and musicians, started on October 9, 1998 by Eugeny Naidenov [1] and based in San Francisco, US.
This repetition again simplifies the learning of chords and improvisation. [2] [3] This advantage is not shared by two popular regular-tunings, all-fourths and all-fifths tuning. [3] Chord inversion is especially simple in major-thirds tuning. Chords are inverted simply by raising one or two notes by three strings.