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I heard this creepy number on an old Emmett Miller record.
A "slow drag" written by E.H. Kelly in about 1901. Vess Ossman recorded a fine version of this on 5-string banjo back when the tune was new. I worked this up for ukulele a few years back from Trebor Jay Tichenor's excellent compilation piano book "Ragtime Rarities", published by Dover Publications, Inc.
I just discovered an mp3 of a wonderful 1903...
I heard this song on an old Johnny Marvin Record.
Composed in 1908 by Ted Snyder. I'm playing it on a nice new Martin 3C ukulele. The uke's body and neck are made of cherry wood.
Sheet music for Wild Cherries Rag is available online from The Charles H. Templeton Sr. Music Museum at Mississippi State University:
http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm-SheetMusic/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/SheetMusi...
An original tune played on soprano ukulele.
A hot 1910 rag by Henry Lodge.
I wanted to learn this after hearing 5-string banjoist Fred Van Eps' ferocious 1911 recording, which is hard to image ever being surpassed. The recording is available in the "Collected Works of Fred Van Eps" at archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/FredVanEps
I learned this from sheet music from the Universit...
A 1909 rag from Georgia, USA by Nellie Weldon Cocroft. I learned this by ear from Virginia Tichenor's "Live at San Francisco's Pier 23" CD, which is a real favorite of mine.
A lovely ragtime waltz by the prolific Charles L. Johnson, published in 1909. Played on Soprano Ukulele.
Ted Tjaden has an excellent page on the music of Charles L. Johnson at
http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/rags/johnson.htm
I learned this from this pdf of the original piano sheet music:
http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/images/tobasco.pdf
I do love Louisia...
This 1914 rag was the last by Scott Joplin published during his lifetime. Here it is played on soprano ukulele.
I decided to learn this after hearing a video of Virginia Tichenor playing it on piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIvz_Cz0R2Q
I worked it up from free piano sheet music provided by the Mutopia Project:
http://www.mutopiaproject.or...
An original instrumental played on soprano ukulele. Mama Bear's is a restaurant in Lansing, Michigan where I sometimes go for lunch.
Al Wood at ukulelehunt.com did a post with tablature based on this video on his site:
http://ukulelehunt.com/2008/04/15/brian-hefferan-the-mama-bear-bounce/
The pdf of his tablature is at http://ukulelehunt.com/wp-...
An original instrumental fingerpicked on soprano ukulele.
A rag by Scott Joplin, published in 1908, played here on a soprano ukulele.
I decided to learn this after hearing it played on a Youtube of Peter Ostrousko's Mando Boys, http://youtube.com/watch?v=1qAer6Z8lr0
I seem to remember hearing them play this live in concert in person during the same tour in 1988.
I worked this up from the piano sheet mus...
Lil Rev sings and plays the baritone ukulele, while Brian from the Fabulous Heftones (thats me..) backs him up on soprano ukulele. Be sure to see Lil Rev's YouTube videos at http://www.youtube.com/lilrevdotcom .
Here's an old Papa Charlie Jackson number featuring Lil Rev playing harmonica, mandolin and guitar along with Brian & Lynn from the Fabulous Heftones. Be sure to see Lil Rev's YouTube videos at http://www.youtube.com/lilrevdotcom .
And old time tune often played on fiddle, fingerpicked here on soprano ukulele. This is a good one for singing too. There are words available at http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1353
This song has its own Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton-Eyed_Joe
A jam-session favorite of many flatpicking guitar and mandolin players. Here I'm playing the tune on a soprano ukulele, fingerpicking like a bluegrass banjo player.
A charming piece by Vince Guaraldi played on soprano ukulele. I remember hearing this tune on the Peanuts Christmas TV special as a child.
A rag by Scott Joplin, published in 1902. Played on a soprano ukulele.
I learned this from a piano sheet music pdf on the Scott Joplin page at Ted Tjdaren's excellent ragtime web site:
http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/rags/joplin.htm
The pdf:
http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/images/elitesync.pdf
A rag published in 1899. The inspiration for learning this came from watching a You Tube clip of Dennis Pash, Meredith Axelrod, Bob Ault, and Craig Ventresco playing a string band rendition in concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca51WVSGvYs
I learned this from a piano score pdf download at mutopiaproject.org:
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgib...
A rag written by George L. Cobb and published in 1909. I picked up the old sheet music for this a few years back, although I wasn't familiar with tune. Recently I heard a midi performance of the tune by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards and decided to try to play it on ukulele.
Check out Bill Edwards' site for tons of ragtime:
http://www.perfessorbill.com/...
An 1909 instrumental by Thomas S. Allen, played on soprano ukulele. I first heard this played by 5-string banjoist Vess Ossman on a 1909 cylinder recording at the University of California Santa Barbara web site: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016%20&query=vess%20ossman&num=1&start=22&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia
I also e...
A sweet rag composed by Charles L. Johnson in 1909, played on soprano ukulele. I heard this on a cassette of the Etcetera String band. They played it in the key of G. I learned it in the key of Bb from original piano sheet music I downloaded from
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/sheetmusic.pl?RagPansy&Rag&main
I like the way it sounds and ...
A nifty ragtime-era tune written in about 1908 by Ed. Kuhn. I learned this mostly from a cassette of the Etcetera String Band.
The Mississippi State University Library offers the sheet music for download: http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/SheetMusic&CISOPTR=3371
Chords:
[intro]
C - - - D7 - G7 -
[first part]
C - ...
This tune popped out at the end of a beautiful September day. The light was fantastic.
A tune I wrote a few years back for soprano ukulele. It is in the keys of Bb and Eb, which are fun keys for fingerpicking with a 4th-string drone.
A sad-sounding happy song
A goofy old 1930 hit for Wayne King. I learned this from a record of Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies.
A tune by Stevie Wonder played on soprano ukulele.
An original tune played on soprano ukulele
A tune by Stevie Wonder played on soprano ukulele. I highly recommend listening to all the Stevie Wonder videos on YouTube, and then going out and buying a bunch of Stevie Wonder recordings. Give them to your friends. Give them to your foes. Spread the Love.
An original ukulele instrumental. I just got over a bad case of poison ivy. My skin itched like crazy for weeks.
A popular polka played on soprano ukulele. This was inspired by a version I heard from banjoist Bill Evans, who jokingly says he learned it because the banjo didn't sound happy enough already.
A 1922 hit by novelty piano composer Zez Confrey
An original waltz for ukulele
An original waltz for ukulele
A tune loosely based on "Moto Perpetuo" by Paganini. This version was inspired by a record I have of banjoist Bill Keith, who plays this tune while singing the words to comedian Jerry Lewis' "Busy Body"
A famous fast fingerpicked instrumental from 5-String banjo great Earl Scruggs adapted for ukulele
A jaunty cakewalk from 1899 fingerpicked on soprano ukulele. This version was inspired by old cylinder recordings of the great 5-string banjoist Vess Ossman.
An original tune played on ukulele.
A traditional oldtime fiddle tune picked on ukulele
An original ukulele instrumental.
A Sousa march played on ukulele. When I was a kid my mother would play a record of Sousa marches while we did household chores. It made the housework fun.
A traditional dance tune finger picked on soprano ukulele. This was inspired by Bill Keith's famous 5-string banjo version, which he recorded with Bill Monroe in the 1960s.
Al if the Uke Hunt weblog has posted tablature for this number at:
http://ukulelehunt.com/2007/06/01/brian-hefferan-sailors-hornpipe/
An original oldtime banjo tune played on ukulele. I play locally in a band at The Looking Glass Music and Arts Association contra dances. I made this tune up while we were waiting for the caller to teach the next dance.
An original waltz played on soprano ukulele.
The famous Scott Joplin rag played on soprano ukulele
Al from the excellent Uke Hunt weblog ( http://ukulelehunt.com ) posted about this number at
http://ukulelehunt.com/2007/06/17/brian-hefferan-the-entertainer/
His tablature is at:
http://ukulelehunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/theentertainer.pdf
A lovely rag I learned from a 1916 recording of The Hurtado Brothers Royal Marimba Band. It's my favorite rag.
a popular rag from 1906
A medley of two old fiddle tunes picked on soprano ukulele
solo ukulele instrumental
An original tune played on soprano ukulele.
Traditional tune fingerpicked on ukulele
An original instrumental played on ukulele. I made this one up before breakfast this morning and recorded the video right away.
An easy-going original ukulele instrumental. I made this one up last night while sitting in my cozy chair, looking out the window at the pretty midwinter snow.
An old popular favorite composed by James A. Bland in 1879. Played here as a ukulele instrumental.
Here's a novelty song with ukulele accompaniment. By request of Eric and Diana.