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  2. May Singhi Breen - Wikipedia

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    "Ukulele Lesson" 78 rpm disc label. Breen is credited with convincing publishers to include ukulele chords on their sheet music. The Tin Pan Alley publishers hired her to arrange the chords and her name is on hundreds of examples of music from the 1920s on. [6] Her name appears as a music arranger on more pieces than any other individual. [7]

  3. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. File:Ukulele chords.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: A chord chart for beginner ukulele players that demonstrates the correct fingerings to play the 36 basic chords. Whereas most chord charts display the fretboard vertically to save space, here the fretboard is intentionally horizontal (as how a ukulele is held) to make it easier for beginners (the target audience of this chart) to use.

  5. Uke - Wikipedia

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    Uke (martial arts), role in training Uke, a submissive role in a relationship between males in yaoi or shōnen-ai media, derived from the martial arts term; Ukulele, a musical instrument Mighty Uke, a 2010 documentary film about the ukulele; Üké, Uke, or Ükä Tibetan, a term for the most widely understood dialect of Tibetan languages

  6. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    Though power chords are not true chords per se, as the term "chord" is generally defined as three or more different pitch classes sounded simultaneously, and a power chord contains only two (the root, the fifth, and often a doubling of the root at the octave), power chords are still expressed using a version of chord notation.

  7. Axis system - Wikipedia

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    The axis system is "concerned with harmonic and tonal substitution", [1] and posits a novel type of functional relationship between tones and chords. Lendvai's analyses aim to show how chords and tones related by the intervals of a minor third and tritone can function as tonal substitutes for one another, and do so in many of Bartók's ...

  8. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    In many types of music, notably Baroque, Romantic, modern, and jazz, chords are often augmented with "tensions". A tension is an additional chord member that creates a relatively dissonant interval in relation to the bass. It is part of a chord, but is not one of the chord tones (1 3 5 7).

  9. Sheets of sound - Wikipedia

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    Coltrane used the "sheets of sound" lines to liquidise and loosen the strict chords, modes, and harmonies of hard bop, whilst still adhering to them (at this stage in his musical development). [7] Playing with the Miles Davis groups, in particular, gave Coltrane the free musical space in which to apply harmonic ideas to stacked chords and ...