All the news, announcements and posts that's fit to print around here at LearningUkulele.com. There is a lot planned for the end of 2020. Remember LearningUkulele.som, Learning Ukulele with Curt is Curt Sheller. It's pretty much me doing 99.8% of the content, adminstration, coding etc...
Published: Oct 16, 2020
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Published: Sep 9, 2020
The ability to buy hard copy version of most of my book, books by Curt Sheller are back.
Published: Aug 22, 2020
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Topics will include pretty much anything from what I'm currently working on to going over specific LearningUkulele.com lessons, lesson series, songs. Any questions and we can simple chat. I'll be focusing on my YouTube Channel: youtube.com/curtsheller
Published: Aug 8, 2020
I'll be updating the songs over the next several months. Most of my scores where created using Sibelius and dropping the subsctiption and goinf open source and FREE. Checkout MuseScore it is a cool program with a lot of resources and tutoriasl on-line.
I've got Giant Steps --> and While My Guitar Gentely Weeps --> up.
This year, 2020 is the 60th anniversy of John Coltrane's album Giant Steps.
More to come...
Published: Aug 7, 2020
Here is a brief bit on this classis John Coltrane song and album, Giant Steps from Wikipedia.
"Giant Steps was the fifth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane as leader, released in February 1960 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1311. This was his first album as leader for his new label Atlantic Records. Many of its tracks have become practice templates for jazz saxophonists. In 2004, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. It attained gold record status in 2018, having sold 500,000 copies."
"Giant Steps is a jazz composition by American saxophonist John Coltrane. It was first recorded in 1959 and released on the 1960 album Giant Steps. The composition features a cyclic chord pattern that has come to be known as Coltrane changes. The composition has become a jazz standard and has been covered by many artists."
I've long played this song and have a cool arrangement that I do on ukulele. And, it is available right here on LearningUkulele.com. Give it a go and impress your ukulele friends.
I still struggle a lot with soloing over it. But, I keep working on it.
The famous Philadelphia jazz guitarts Jimmy Bruno. who has recorded and performs an amazing solo version of this has siad. Giant Step is like a test that you know you should have studded for."
Enjoy this Ukulele version of Giant Steps and checkout the web page for the lead sheet and TAB -->.
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