Yearly Archives: 2013

A few pieces from my new e-book “Musikalisches Naschwerk für Solo Ukulele”. It’s available here (gratis).

I recorded this really old Christmas carol for the Advent calendar of the 1st German ukulele club.

Today I tried making a tutorial video. I hope you like it: (If it is not available on Youtube yet, watch it on Vimeo:) You can also download the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/80815440T

A Christmas Carol from my english e-book.

I was fascinated by this flamenco technique since a long time, so I really had to try it one more time. Yes, I know, there’s still a lot of room for improvement. So, if anybody can give me some good advice, I’d be very thankful for a Youtube comment or a message via my contact…

Here I am playing the wellknown love song from Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. The warm sound of my Makapili soprano fits it wonderfully, IMHO. I didn’t care much about “proper arranging” when I played this. So it’s pretty unwieldy: I’m using all the 17 frets of the Makapili, but nevertheless there are some pretty bad stretches which…

A few classics from Gaspar Sanz. The ukulele probably resembles the baroque guitar much better as the classical guitar does.

I was always fascinated by John Dowland’s melancholic, but beautiful music. Here is my humble attempt at playing “Dowland’s Midnight” on my uke. This is a super-cheap chinese made schaepe soprano ukulele. The strings are ukuMele Fluorcarbon by www.ukumele.de .