Monthly Archives: November 2019

Another “milestone” reached this week: The first seven pages of “Scene by the Brook”, the second movement of Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony, arranged for solo ‘Ukulele! Like the first movement, the second movement of Beethoven’s Sixth is in sonata form. Sonata form has three main sections: the exposition,the development, and the recapitulation. Since page 7 marks the end of […]

Here is Beethoven’s “Scene by the Brook”, the second movement of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, in my solo ‘Ukulele arrangement: I had an attack of the “if onlys” this week, wishing the project would be farther along or done, thinking that if only the transcription was complete, things would be so much “better”, so much “easier”…. […]

Here’s the latest installment of “Beethoven of the ‘Ukulele”. I’m not sure whether to continue to call it “Beethoven OF the ‘Ukulele”, or to call it “Beethoven ON the ‘Ukulele”, or something else. Anyway, here is the latest installment: Page 5 of “Scene by the Brook”, the second movement of his “Pastorale” Symphony: After a […]

The second movement of the “Pastorale” symphony is flowing right along. (Ha ha :)) Here is page 4 of the ‘Ukulele transcription: In the video, I also share how to play the phrase at the end of page 4 using harmonics. Harmonics are the bell-like sounds that are produced by lightly touching a node, or […]