Ukulele

This page contains numerous free mp3 files of my Ukulele Songs that I have recorded. The pieces cover a wide range of musical and ukulele styles. I have composed or arranged most of the pieces and all the songs are solely played  by me. Click here for descriptions of the pieces.

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Description of Pieces:

~I played this piece for my graduation from ukulele last year. It contains elements of sandbars, flight of the bumblebee and a lot of stuff that I made up. The inspiration behind the piece came from James Hill who is an incredible ukulele player who played flight of the bumblebee on his first CD. This is the recording from Island Ukulele's CD "Precious Friends" and thus is of professional quality (the recording that is, not my playing)
Grad.mp3

The following pieces have been learnt after graduation from ukulele and are recorded with a sony stereo mike intend for recording onto MD. I recorded it onto my laptop and thus even with washing the white noise out of the recording the quality still isn't excellent.

~I am taking jazz lessons these days for piano, and learnt one of my songs for the piano, beautiful love by Deitz and schwertz for the ukulele. Currently it is quite short as I have yet to figure out an improve solo section to it:
Beautiful Love

~I made this little piece up. It started with something I was just fooling around with and the next thing I knew I had a whole piece that had nothing to do with what I started out with:
Spanish Fiddling

~With music written by Maurizo Fabrizio, Josh Groban sang Alla Luce Del Sol. I have arranged and recorded the piece for ukulele. With 4 tracks of strumming, tremolo and finger picking, this is the most complex and difficult to record piece I have. Technically it wasn't too hard to play any individual part but getting it to all work together took a lot of effort.
Alla Luce Del Sol

~The problem with many of my pieces is that I start with a chord progression, work some sort of pseudo melody in from there and run with the idea. It works well enough for me but isn't good composing style as it were. Well with this piece I took it to the extreme. I figured out the chord progression and made up everything else. In fact the entire piece is almost one big improvisation solo that was made up while recording (albeit with some uncorroborated cool parts I had figured out previously). The first half or so is with chords and solo recorded multitrack, the second half is all one uke. The basic chord progression is: i, IV7, ii dim, V7 and the improve scale is C dorian or C natural minor, depending on which half of the progression you are in. The Dorian mode is just like the natural minor with a major 6th instead.
Uke Funk  

~El Choclo was written by A.G. Villoldo and the first page was arranged by Melissa Sequeira and the middle part by arranged by myself (I lost the other half of melissa's music). The piece was arranged for island ukuleles and although we practiced it a few times we never got to being able to perform this piece. It was recorded on separate tracks and mixed later. I intend to redo this recording with a pic and have it change into El cumbachero for the end.
El Choclo

Deep in the middle of my rational vector field assignment for mathematics, I came up with a ridiculously sweet chord progression: Am, Em add4, Am, Dm6, Am, Em4, Am. The trick is that the base note, in all cases, is A. Furthermore, the chords, except for the bottom string, are all very high up on the fret board, higher in fact then I thought would sound good. Eitherway, I sat down and recorded the first trial of Movimento (Spanish for Motion). I have lots of cool plans for this progression, incorporating a chord solo (like how I started in the recording) with lots of tremelo incorporated and some dual string finger picking that sounds cool.
Movimiento

~I have always had something for B minor. I like it on the ukulele, I like it on the piano, the clarinet and heck I even like it on the drums. This self composed piece gets rid of all the Bm in my system...it all goes in one intense Bm burst. It is rather appropriately named:
Bm Intensity

~I decided the other day that I wanted to learn to play Flamenco. Not having any flamenco music to play, I ended up writing the song itself which is an exploration of various Flamenco like styles.
Flamenco

~California Dreaming is an old Mama's and Papa's song that I played with the ukulele group back in the day *sigh*. I always thought it was really cool and so when I was going through old music and found it I wanted to play it again. Only the problem was that it didn't work out very nicely into a chord solo. As a result, this is my first piece to be recorded on separate tracks at different times, knowing the beat by listening to the previous track on headphones while I recorded the next track. I spent a fair amount of time playing around with sound editing tools on this song to get the levels right and whatnot I was adjusting amplification and lengths of notes at individual spots. Its by no means perfect, some of the notes don't line up right as a result, but I got some subtle differences in sound that improved the overall piece.
California Dreaming

~This is a really show-offish uke piece that Chalmers Doane always plays for the Island Ukulele group when he comes off. Like Bendin', I heard him play it, and picked it up from the memory of that one performance. As a result, both pieces are not really much like they were originally performed, and I know this piece has a lot more to it then I put in. The melody is from "Alabama Bound" I believe, and I should just say that this recording is the first time I have played the song in months....so don't expect brilliant miracles;)
The Train Song

~This swung picking piece was another that was learned in ukulele. It is extra special although, because it is my first big solo I ever did in ukulele. I played it as a solo piece with my grade 7 choir at a retirement home concert. For old times sake, and because it is a fun piece, I recorded it.
Round the Bend

~Just a cool little thing I was playing around with...wasn't there a beetles song that had a chord progression like this??
Descent

~This is just a cool little swing piece called "I'm Beginning to see the light" that I heard Mr Sequira of Pacifica Ukulele's play once and is just so happy that I had to put it up here. 
I''m Beginning to see the light

~Sandbars is a piece that we learned in Island Ukes a few years back but was never done as ukulele solo. It is a really pretty piece (and is actually in the middle of my grad song) but this copy is just the song by itself with a little more to it.
Sandbars

~This is an old Hawaiian song from my ukulele days:
Song for the Islands

~This little ditty is really just playing the good old uke standard of 1,4,57...but its just so happy that I had to include it:
Happy
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