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Today, the length of that limited monopoly on a song is 95 years after its publication. This is very good news if you’re performing or recording gems like “Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey” (Hughie Cannon, 1902), “Fascinating Rhythm” (George and Ira Gershwin, 1924) or “Beautiful Dreamer” (Stephen Foster, 1862). The copyright protection for songs published in 1924 expired on January 1, 2020, putting some of the greatest ukulele tunes of all time, such as “Everybody Loves My Baby,” “Nobody’s Sweetheart Now,” and “It Had to Be You” in the public domain. (On January 1, 2021, it will be 1925 songs that lose their protection, and so on.) Once copyrights have expired, you’re free to perform, record, and reuse a song without permission. But what if you’re interested in something a little more recent?

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This lesson dives into the 8-bar form, jazz-blues, minor blues, riffs, and rhythms

One aspect of playing ukulele that often gets overlooked is the actual technique of strumming. Learn how to strum ukulele with these 6 strumming tips and tricks.

• The thumb can often create the warmest and most tender sounds of the ukulele. Don’t try to “hit” the ukulele, but rather, rake your thumb across just like a harpist might glide along their strings.

• imagine the movement you make when you turn a doorknob. Minimize your movements by aiming to strum between the top and bottom strings, instead of strumming from above the body to below the body. Try to use the center of your nail when strumming with your index finger.

Grateful Dead - 7/18/76 - Orpheum Theatre - San Francisco, CA

-- Set 1 --
00:00 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
11:42 Cassidy
17:40 Row Jimmy
27:15 Mama Tried
30:57 Scarlet Begonias
42:43 Looks Like Rain
51:46 Tennessee Jed
1:02:27 New Minglewood Blues
1:08:22 Loser
1:17:11 The Music Never Stopped
-- Set 2 --
1:24:04 Might As Well
1:30:02 Samson And Delilah
1:37:40 Candyman
1:45:42 Lazy Lightnin' ~
1:48:23 Supplication
1:54:34 Let It Grow ~
2:01:31 Drums ~
2:04:50 Let it Grow ~
2:11:40 Wharf Rat ~
2:25:01 Drums ~
2:25:32 The Other One ~
2:31:57 Saint Stephen ~
2:40:36 Not Fade Away ~
2:47:37 Saint Stephen ~
2:48:35 The Wheel ~
2:54:38 The Other One ~
2:57:55 Stella Blue
3:09:15 Sugar Magnolia
-- Encore --
3:19:28 Encore Break
3:20:13 Johnny B. Goode

Recording Info:
(KSAN) Pre-FM ~ Reel Master ~ DAT (44.1k)

Transfer Info:
DAT (Tascam DA-40) ~ Tascam DA-3000 ~ Samplitude Pro X5 Suite ~ FLAC/16(3 Discs Audio / 1 DVD FLAC)

Transfers and Mastering by Charlie Miller

Notes:
-- This is a remastered version of shnid=150187 (fixes previous issues)
-- There's a line buzz but it gets quieter and doesn't interfere with the music
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for checking the pitch for me

Here's how to build chords starting on each note of the major scale, as well as some common chord progressions found in thousands of songs

The first trick to playing jazz on ukulele is overcoming “jazz imposter syndrome,” the way blues and rock players often feel when they try to play jazz standards.

The Internet Archive maintains an enormous Live Music Archive of concert recordings, not all of them by the Grateful Dead.

https://archive.org/details/etree?tab=collection

In addition to Rusted Root and the Grateful Dead, you can stream or download a wealth of recorded live shows from bands like Little Feat, Blues Traveler, My Morning Jacket, Los Lobos, and the Smashing Pumpkins, as well as singer-songwriters like Warren Zevon, Elliott Smith, Jack Johnson, Robyn Hitchcock, and John Mayer.

Ukulele artist and teacher Victoria Vox presents some of her go-to rhythms and how to play them

Prince, Madonna, Duran Duran, Beyoncé, R.E.M., Taylor Swift, and Sinead O'Connor are just some of the artists who make our list of the best videos ever

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The first step in learning a song is to listen to a recording until you can hum the basic melody and feel the rhythm.

Our major scale looks like this: I–ii–iii–IV–V–vi–vii dim. Using this pattern, in the key of G, for example, the chords are: G major–A minor–B minor–C major–D major–E minor–F# diminished.

After you have those chord shapes under your fingers and the sound of the chords in your ears, play each chord starting from the home chord of the key, the I chord. Play I–ii, I–iii, I–IV, I–V, I–vi, I–viidim (C–Dm, C–Em, C–F, C–G, C–Am, C–Bdim). You are now playing the intervals, or distances, from the I chord to the other notes of the scale. Listen closely as you play these chord intervals and record them in your iHead player—these intervals are the building blocks of the songs you want to learn.

These wonderful little pieces are works that you (probably) have to learn to love, but which can be loved nonetheless -- and it certainly helps that Pollini plays them with intimacy and expressiveness. Though atonal, these pieces are nonetheless thinly swathed in the last vestiges of classical form and harmony: you can glimpse shades of lyrical melody, chordal accompaniments, ABA structure in the first piece, expressive appoggiaturas, pedal tones, and so on. Formally speaking there's a vast (unimaginably vast) number of things that can be said about these three pieces, standing as they are at the very threshold of full-blooded modern serial atonality, but that's not in fact that helpful if you want to just enjoy listening to these. So instead I suggest several ways of listening to these:

1. Three tableaux: a silent evening in a house soon to be demolished, a funeral, a fire swallowing a factory.
2. Five paintings: Picasso's The Blue Room, Francis Bacon's Head I / Böcklin's Isle of the Dead, Munch's The Scream / Kandinsky's Composition VII
3. Three preludes: a nocturne out of late Liszt, a Brahmsian intermezzo/lament, a piece out of Schumann's Kriesleriana.
4. Three myths: Sisyphus, Dante, Zeus and Leda.
5. Music for films from the black-and-white era. Imagine whatever you choose.

00:00 -- 1. Mässig
03:55 -- 2. Mässig
11:09 -- 3. Bewegt

A series of mixes intended for listening while ${task} to focus the brain and inspire the mind.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble poster

James Weinberg is a designer, illustrator, and screenprinter out of Somerville MA. With a hands on approach he creates everything from illustration, brand identity, bookjackets, hand silkscreened posters, packaging and murals. His work has been featured in The AIGA BoNE Show, Communication Arts, Print and Uppercase.

• When tech is rugged, it’s a joy to use
• UI shouldn’t focus only on your hands. Use the rest of your body too
• The best UIs have simple, bold visual cues
• Physical UIs can be more intuitive and usable than screens
• Don’t just make it functional. Make it beautiful too

Keyboard Accordion
Play the diatonic button accordion with your computer keyboard!

May 16, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- It was daylight but the music was dark and moody. And despite having the office lights turned on high, it was Khruangbin's trance-inducing tone that set the mood and carried me away.

This trio from Houston, Texas is heavily inspired by 1960s and '70s funk and soul from, of all places, Thailand. That musical passion has taken them on a journey that, these days, incorporates music from Spain, Ethiopia and the Middle East. Khruangbin's largely instrumental music is grounded in Laura Lee's bass, with Mark Speer playing those melodic, richly reverbed guitar sounds and Donald "DJ" Johnson on drums and piano.

Two of the three songs performed at this Tiny Desk Concert are from their 2018 album Con Todo El Mundo, which is dedicated in part to Laura Lee's Mexican-American grandfather. He'd often ask her how much she loved him and the response that pleased him most was when she would say, "con todo el mundo," (with all the world.)

The third track in this performance is one of the band's first forays into vocals, from their 2015 debut album, The Universe Smiles Upon You. "White Gloves" gently pays homage to a "classy lady" who was "a fighter" and who "died in a fight." Its open-ended lyrics could imply a battle that was violent or an illness. It isn't clear. What is clear is the reverence in the song and in this music — music that strays from typical instrumental songs with heavy beats. This is music to sway to and to lift you beyond the day to day.

SET LIST
"Maria También"
"August 10"
"White Gloves"

Emulate the sound of Roland's most famous and influential musical instruments from Yuri Suzuki and Roland.

With bassist John Clark at What's Cookin' in London, England, January 22, 2020. "Where's My Horse" is a cover of a song by Paulette Humanbeing, who I feel is an artist to be reckoned with (and you can reckon with her right here on youtube!)
Video shot by Belinda!