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Tablature(or tabfor short) is a form of musical notationindicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for frettedstringed instruments such as the guitar, luteor vihuela, as well as many free reedaerophonessuch as the harmonica.
May Singhi Breen (née May W. Singhi ; February 24, 1891, New York City – 19 December 1970, New York City) was an American composer, arranger, and ukulelist, who became known as "The Original Ukulele Lady". [2] Her work in the music publishing business spanned several decades. Breen was the driving force in getting the ukulele accepted as a ...
Slack-key guitar. Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui in Waikiki, 2012. Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used ...
"Ukulele Lady" is a popular standard, an old evergreen song by Gus Kahn and Richard A. Whiting. Published in 1925, the song was first made famous by Vaughn De Leath. [1]It has been recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra with vocals by the Southern Fall Colored Quartet on June 3, 1925 (catalog No. 19690B); Frank Crumit recorded June 10, 1925 for Victor Records (catalog No. 19701); Lee Morse in ...
Like guitar, basic ukulele skills can be learned fairly easily, and this highly portable, relatively inexpensive instrument was popular with amateur players throughout the 1920s, as evidenced by the introduction of uke chord tablature into the published sheet music for popular songs of the time [25] (a role that was supplanted by the guitar in ...
"No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France" or "Willie McBride") is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, the "Last Post" and the "Flowers of the Forest".
List of blues standards. Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. [ 1] They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. [ 2] Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime ...
See media help. In music, an eight-bar blues is a common blues chord progression. Music writers have described it as "the second most common blues form" [ 1] being "common to folk, rock, and jazz forms of the blues". [ 2] It is often notated in 4. 8 time with eight bars to the verse .