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Original Post By:
bassfiddlesteve
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Date: 1/8/2012 11:13:02 PM |
My uke club (The Tampa Bay Ukulele Society) uses The Daily Ukulele as our official songbook and one of our members mentioned that his favorite song from the book is Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me" (page 332).
What's your favorite song from The Daily Ukulele?
- Steve |
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Posted By:
Geoff Rezek
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Date: 1/9/2012 7:03:14 AM
(Updated: 1/9/2012 7:03:33 AM)
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"Ukuleles are the Best"
Can't keep it out of my head.
Geoff Rezek
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Posted By:
Grampie
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Date: 1/9/2012 10:49:24 AM |
| Waiting for my copy to arrive any day now ... also recently obtained a copy of the Berkeley Ukulele Club's songbook via Staples and received Ukulele Songs for Dummies ... lots to sample in all these!
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/9/2012 2:49:19 PM |
At Island Bazaar in HB, CA, I decided to use "The Daily Ukulele" as the group book for our newbies' sing-along/play-along group, called "E Z Dozen." We only play about 90 songs from the book that have the basic easiest 12 chords (Thus the name "EZ Dozen"). We're running an average of about 35-40 folks and they seem to love it.
So, while I have played most of the songs in the book myself, I gravitate to the ones used in our group. One I love to lead in because it is oh-so-sweet (and easy for the newbies) is the haunting "BEAUTIFUL DREAMER." It's a big hit every time we use it. Thanks, Stephen Foster and the Beloffs. BBT
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Posted By:
franulele
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Date: 1/9/2012 11:19:20 PM |
Great idea BBT!
BTW, what are the 12 easiest chords? I whittled it down to 13... and that's leaving out the diminished chord shape...
Am, A7, B7, C, C7,
D, Dm, D7, E7, Em, F, G, G7
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/10/2012 1:38:58 AM |
| The EZ Dozen I personally decided upon are: C, C7, A, Am, A7, F, D7 ("lazy" D7), Dm, G, G7, E7, Em. Opinions would differ as to the "easiest" or most "basic" chords, but IMHO these are the ones I went with. Some new folks find the D and B7 a bit daunting.......and I don't find them necessary for a LOT of good songs. Aloha, Tom
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Posted By:
bassfiddlesteve
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Date: 1/10/2012 10:21:59 AM |
C6 and Am7 are the two easiest chords.
- Steve
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/10/2012 11:20:51 AM |
| Ah, "that's nuthin'" BBT
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Posted By:
stringer4me
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Date: 1/11/2012 5:16:47 PM |
| I haven't really figured that out yet. I'm still looking through it. The book is fun to look at.
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Posted By:
Mitch Chang
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Date: 1/11/2012 5:20:59 PM |
| I like "Are You Lonesome" and "My Love", I wasn't familiar with those two
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Posted By:
ricdoug
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Date: 1/12/2012 2:32:24 PM |
Common chords:
http://ukuleletonya.com/files/beginner_lesson_pkg.pdf
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Posted By:
bassfiddlesteve
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Date: 1/12/2012 10:54:55 PM |
Geoff, I just noticed the significance of your post. Well done!
- Steve
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Posted By:
Bigbill
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Date: 1/14/2012 9:53:51 PM |
| You've Got a Friend in Me went straight to the top of my charts as soon as I got the book.
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Posted By:
IWriteMusicals
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Date: 2/3/2012 2:46:30 PM |
Hiya Steve,
I just got the Daily Ukulele as a gift and I've lost a LOT of sleep because of it (in a good way).
The songs I keep coming back to are "Hey Jude" (but it has Bflat later on in the song), and also "King of the Road"
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Posted By:
joe persons
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Date: 2/5/2012 11:23:30 AM |
There are sooo many wonderful songs in the DU. One of my favorites though, is Pennies From Heaven.
-joe
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Posted By:
bassfiddlesteve
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Date: 2/5/2012 1:15:39 PM |
My favorite is probably "It's Only A Paper Moon" as it's the first song my daughter and I sang together to the accompaniment of a ukulele. We still sing it when we perform live.
- Steve
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