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The "Major Scale" or Ionian scale is a diatonic scale, made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth which duplicates the first one octave higher. In solfege these notes correspond to the syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti/Si, (Do), the Do in the parenthesis at the end being the octave of the root.

The Hawai'ian Turnaround is a II7 V I chord progression in a major key. The II7 V I refers to the chord’s harmonic function within that key and a way of comparing like chord progressions, songs and harmonic cells.

The I II7 V7, the "Hawaiian Turnaround" in key C Major. A classic chord progression utilized in Hawaiian tunes.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: The Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au)

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: The Hukilau Song.

Just, what is the Island Strum?

For music and learning an instrument like the ukulele or guitar, it's all about the making the connection between your Mind, your Hands, and your Ear. When listening to music, we enjoy it at the tempo the composer or artist intended, in real time. Only the ear is involved in listening. This is passive listening and you're simply enjoying the music. This is what we do every day and it's what draws us to want to learn a musical instrument.

Called the "learning scale" for a reason. The major scale is a great scale for learning how music and chords work. It’s a core scale from which a majority of your core, essential scales can be derived. There are 15 major scales.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "The More We Get Together".

The muted strum is executed by relaxing the chord hand during the strum. If the chord is a barre, relaxing the pressure is enough to create the percussive, drum like effect. If holding an open chord, the fingers relax but maintain enough finger pressure to get the muted sound. This is what a few players are calling, The Universal Muted Chord. You're utilizing your ukulele as a percussive instrument and there is no discernible pitch - just like a drum. This chord works on any song just as a drum works with any song and does't care what the key is. This is a great chord to use when learning a new strum.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "The Night Before".

The seven scale modes on ukulele in open postion with TAB and scale diagrams.

TAB, short for tablature is a form of musical notation using numbers and letters on a staff that corresponds to the number of strings of a fretted string instrument. These numbers tell a player which fret to place their fingers on the fingerboard. TAB has a history with lute music from centuries ago and has found wide use in the music publishing industry, catering to the guitarist who can't or doesn't want to learn to read.

You can’t play this chord on many other stringed instruments other than the ukulele. This is the ultimate C chord with only two C notes. In high G, C tuning three are the exact same C notes and a middle C.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the traditional drinking song: "There Is A Tavern In The Town".

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell. Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive. People work harder when conditions are worse. It's an important fact of life, war.

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "This Old Man".

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "This Train".

Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: "Three v".