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Ukulele Chords: Learn To Play Easy Chord Changes 25

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

It is very fun and mostly easy to play ukulele chords. Let’s take a look at some easy chord changes!


Before we delve to deeply into our ukulele chords let’s take a look at the tuning of your ukulele. The resulting names of the chords we play depends on how we tune the ukulele.


In this ukulele lesson I assume that you play a soprano ukulele and that you have tuned it in C.


What does C-tuning mean?


Let’s take a look at the piano keyboard to find out how to tune the ukulele.


C-tuning means that the third string on you ukulele is tuned to a C. If you use a piano when you tune your ukulele you will find these notes in the octave in the middle of the keyboard.


The notes in this most commonly used octave on the piano are called C4-B4. The number 4 indicate that the notes are on the fourth octave on an ordinary piano.


The first string on your ukulele will be tuned to an A4 as we call it. The next string will sound like the piano key E4. The third string will be the note C4. The fourth string will be the note G4.


Our first chord is C major. Let’s take a look at it:


C: 0/4 0/3 0/2 3/1


What type of notation is this?


This is a type of ukulele tab notation where we use numbers to indicate which fret to press down and on which string.


3/1 for example means: Press down fret 3 on string 1.


We will now proceed with the chord G major:


G: 0/4 2/3 3/2 2/1


As you can see this chord is the same chord as a D major on a guitar. A little bit confusing if you also play guitar but I guess you will get used to it.


The chord F major looks like this on your ukulele:


F: 2/4 0/3 1/2 0/1


Now we have three chords at our disposal and we can create our first ukulele chord progression:

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Top Christmas Songs Can be Religious or Secular 25

Posted on December 01, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Christmas is my favorite holiday, and the Christmas season is one of my favorite times of the year. I love all of the festivities and decorations, but one of the things I like the most are all of the great Christmas songs.

What I have come to learn over the years is that the top Christmas songs can be religious or secular, and regardless of your religious beliefs or lack thereof, you are probably very familiar with both kinds of song.

The first one that comes to mind when I think about the top Christmas songs is “O’ Holy Night,” which, of course, is made holy by the birth of Jesus Christ. This is the song that I have to hear every Christmas season at least once, or it really doesn’t feel like Christmas at all.

Another song that has to rank among the top Christmas songs is “Jingle Bells,” which of course is secular in nature. I think this more than any other song really illustrates the joyousness of the season, describing the scenery and activities that go on during the Christmas season.

One of the songs that I remember learning during the Christmas season when I was in school was “Frosty the Snowman.” I always loved this song, but I was also a little bit jealous. I grew up in Texas, where we hardly ever get snow, and I was not able to build a snowman each year.

Of all of the top Christmas songs I hear during the holiday season, my absolute favorite is “O Come, O Come Emanuel.” This is a religious song, obviously, and I love the beauty of the lyrics, but I also just like the music itself. It is so haunting to me that it definitely stands out from the rest.

Another of the top Christmas songs that I really like, but some people don’t seem to like at all, is “Jingle Bell Rock.” I know some people who seem to actually have an open disdain for this song, and I really don’t know why. I’ve always thought of it as being kind of fun and catchy.

“White Christmas” is another tune that many

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Thanksgiving Day— the Day to Shows Your Love to Others 3

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

After the appreciation of the film “Titanic”, I have noticed some meaningful details behind the peoples’ general impression of simply an affection film. As to the human nature uncovered in this film, can be thought of from both negative and positive aspects.

I will first elucidate some gloomy characteristics revealed by the film. The first impressive characteristic may be that the fiancé of Rose, Karl would gain his ends by fair means or foul.

When he noticed that Rose has obliquity with Jack, he took out the necklace with a diamond of 56 carats named “the heart of the ocean”, to request Rose not to leave him. He knows that Rose doesn’t love him, but he chose to use money to keep Rose with him.

When Titanic was sinking, both Jack and Karl were trying to trick Rose into getting on the accident boat. Since Karl had already bribed a sailor, he lied to Rose that he would ensure that Jack will also get on the boat. Nevertheless, when Karl himself was rejected to get on the accident boat, he again used an intrigue that he picked up an outcast child and pretended to be the father of the child, and managed to get on the accident boat.

Another negative social mood of that time exposed by the film is vanity. Rose’s mother wanted to marry her daughter to Karl just because Karl is extremely rich, while she doesn’t care whether Rose loves him or not.

When Jack wearing a suit borrowed from a woman to attend the dinner invited by Karl, he was respected by other guests. However, when he wore his own clothes maybe a little bit shabby, and tried to enter the ballroom to look for Rose, he was driven out by the two guards outside the ballroom. These two different response depending on Jack’s appearance contrasted sharply, and really very shocking for us to imagine a society like that.

Anyway, there are some brilliant aspects of human nature showed in this film. There is love, bravery, faith, and beliefs existing at the scene. The

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