Für Elise( by Ludwig van Beethoven) is one of the most famous and popular compositions in the world. Also, in bars 13 and 30, the melody notes are hard to play while holding the E7 chord. I started on Ukulele in order to play classical music. The next tune—“Greensleeves” (Track 85)—uses the same technique as Brahms’s “Lullaby” but adds a couple of elements. Für Elise. The campanella method of playing, however, uses all the uke strings and produces a much more pleasing sound. You get pdf files of each of the tabs along with an ebook with my usual blathering and a few general pointers on playing. By Alistair Wood . So, for example, if the guitar tab tells you to play the top string at the third fret, play the top string of your ukulele at the third fret. There’s a variety of difficulty but none of them are suitable for beginners. Pizzicato – Delibes It’s a trick the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain often pull out and it got them to the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall and Sydney Opera House. This summer, I’ve had a hankering to play classical music on the ukulele and recently received The Baroque Ukulele, arranged and performed by Tony Mizen (CD included), as a birthday present from my son. In the tunes that I describe in earlier chapters, notes are played up and down the strings so that each string has consecutive notes played on it. I indicate using your fourth finger (the little one) to play the note at the third fret. The picking pattern is as follows: The A-string of this piece carries the melody while the E- and C-strings provide backing. Again, these take a familiar tune: “Gran Vals” (much better known as an annoying mobile ringtone). For the campanella technique to be effective, you must hold down the notes as long as possible. Quite often they contain picking patterns and arpeggiated chords (chords played one note at a time). When you can play it smoothly at a slow tempo, increasing speed is relatively easy. To overcome this difficulty for “Romanza”, I add an A minor chord at the beginning. One of the most famous composers for guitar was Ferdinando Carulli (a 19th-century Italian composer who wrote over 400 pieces for the guitar). When you’re playing in this way, the ear interprets the last note you hit as the melody note. John King developed this technique for the ukulele, and you can hear him using it with wonderful results on his album, Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. The following two figures illustrate how the campanella idea works. Earlier in the piece the last note was played on the E- or A-string, but here it’s on the g-string, and so that needs to be the last string played. This technique, however, doesn’t work perfectly for every piece. The strum up technique (that is, strumming down on a chord and adding the melody note at the top) is an effective way to arrange more simple classical tunes. Gran Vals – Tarrega 2018 Bach Minuet in G . If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info. – You’re looking to develop classical technique. 1. In campanella, notes are played across the strings so that each string is never played twice in a row. 2014 Chopin Nocturne Op9, No2 . These look like vertical bar lines that separate notes and chord indications on tablature. 3, BWV 1006 for Unaccompanied Ukulele. You'll get an email with the download link. Two elements are important to note in this piece: single note runs (picked using the “running man” alternate picking technique) and the pairs of notes (picked with index and middle fingers). First, this piece makes use of notes farther up the uke’s neck, which means a few big jumps in the positioning of your fingers. – If you play soprano only: Some of the tunes use frets above the 12th. This beautiful composition can be played on the ukulele. So, you can replace the E-string third fret with the open g-string to produce the preceding figure (Track 88, Part 2). One of the earliest pioneers of classical music on the ukulele was John King.