Nice tune. The guitarist Martin Simpson has a couple of beautiful versions of this tune, one of them on slide guitar. He says that some musicologists couldn’t believe that a folk song could be so rich – it’s almost impossible to say what key it’s in – but I think that someone with little musical […] The post The Plains of Waterloo first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

Learn to play the notes A B C all across the fretboard. This will help you to learn all the notes by having several different starting points and will be essential when arranging your own tunes in the campanella voicing. The post Campanella - the ABC first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

Here is the tab for the last exercise: Tremolo Study 2 jons-ukulele The post Tremolo Picking Tutorial first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

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Not spectacularly original, I wrote this as a study in campanella picking. It’s a simple 32 bar slow jig. The hardest part is the notes A and G on the 12th fret – you will have to play a barre with your little finger (which is what I do) or an easier way would be […] The post Jon's Jig - Campanella Ukulele first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

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I came across this nice rag written by Piers Partridge and wondered what it would sound like if I reworked it into a campanella arrangement. Well, my final verdict is that Piers’ arrangement works much better with the slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs that he uses. His tutorial videos are here and here. My arrangement is […] The post Daffodilly Rag first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

You’ve probably noticed that I do a lot of my campanella arrangements in the key of F or Dm. Practice the exercise below and you’ll get an idea of why I love it so much! The post Dm-F Scale Practice first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

Some of you were asking me how I play the triplets in the reels “Sweeney’s Buttermilk” and “Cooley’s Reel” and many other tunes. When the notes in the triplet are the same, I often use a kind of ‘chicken picking’ technique which kills each note after plucking making them more distinct than in campanella where […] The post Ornamenting with triplets first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more

Learn to play eastern-style improvisations using the Dm pentatonic, campanella style. It’s really quite easy but very satisfying – you can make your own chillout music whenever you feel like it! You don’t need any time signature, speed up and slow down as you want and there’s no tune to memorise, just noodle away to […] The post Improvising with the D minor Pentatonic Scale first appeared on Jon's Ukulele ..read more