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Oct 21, 2015
Caprice No. 24 in A minor is the final caprice of Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices. The theme is well known, and has been used as the basis for many pieces by a wide variety of composers. From Wikipedia: The work,… read more »
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Oct 5, 2015
Riff known even by those who never saw the movie, Axel F is the main theme of the soundtrack of the 1984 movie Beverly Hills Cop: an electronic instrumental theme performed by Harold Faltermeyer. From Wikipedia: The title comes from… read more »
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Sep 28, 2015
A famous and simple 32-measure piece in the key of G major: until 1970 it was attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV Anh 114), but it is now universally attributed to Christian Petzold. Some informations about the piece extracted from… read more »
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Sep 22, 2015
Geolocating in HTML5 with a single line of code? “It Could Work!” Some infos about geolocation API from : The Geolocation API defines a high-level interface to location information associated only with the device hosting the implementation, such as latitude and… read more »
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Sep 14, 2015
Short and famous tunes, arranged to ukulele! From Wikipedia: “Happy Birthday to You”, also known more simply as “Happy Birthday”, is a folk song that is traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person’s birth. The melody of “Happy… read more »
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Sep 9, 2015
It’s pretty simple: a small tool and 15 minutes of work I had to help a user in the migration from an old laptop (with serious motherboard issues) to a new laptop. The old PC was equipped with Windows XP, it… read more »
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Aug 13, 2015
When I run barefoot and I have to face a particularly rough ground, I start to repeat myself a mantra: “fakir mode, fakir mode, fakir mode …”. What does it mean? Simply put: if I put on the ground a great… read more »
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Aug 6, 2015
Today I propose a transcript of a very short and simple didactical piece written by Joseph Küffner. Joseph Küffner (1776 – 1856) was a German musician and composer who, among other achievements, contributed significantly to the guitar repertory, including chamber… read more »
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Aug 5, 2015
After upgrading to Windows 10, the touchpad of my Lenovo G50–45 has lost a feature in my opinion very useful: the right click with the two-fingers tap. In the new settings interface of the Synaptics driver, there is no option… read more »
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Aug 1, 2015
This time i made a transcript a bit more substantial than previous I believe that all classical guitarist has faced at least once the famous Fernando Sor’s Op.9, the “Variations on a Theme of Mozart”. From Wikipedia: This piece embodies Fernando… read more »
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Jul 25, 2015
Today I propose a transcript of a short didactical piece of Ferdinando Carulli. Some informations about the author (from Wikipedia): Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli (Naples, 9 February 1770 – Paris, 17 February 1841) was an Italian composer… read more »
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Jul 6, 2015
Often some musicians approach the ukulele after studying for years a more ‘conventional’ instrument. So It’s natural try to play songs you already know, a sort of ‘comfort music’ that helps to get familiar with the new instrument. I approached… read more »
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Jul 2, 2015
Random thoughts and considerations about natural running, and footstrike techniques The foot-strike must take place with the greatest possible surface area of the foot plant, in order to distribute the impact on the whole foot and to allow the dissipation… read more »
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Jun 30, 2015
In this “Ghiribizzo No. 17”, Paganini transcribes on the guitar a theme from his own composition, “Le streghe” (“Witches’ Dance”), Op.8, MS19. From MusWrite: […] “Le Streghe” or in English, “The Witches”. The composition is for solo violin and orchestra… read more »
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Jun 23, 2015
Another version of the “Spider Exercise”. Even this exercise is born on the guitar, but easily adaptable on ukulele. Useful for improve coordination between both hand, it must be studied starting very slowly, increasing the beat only when the execution… read more »
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Jun 13, 2015
Piece less short than the other “Ghiribizzi”, this time Paganini was inspired by the duet “La ci darem la mano” of the Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni”. From Wikipedia: “The duet, words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, is sung during the first… read more »
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Jun 11, 2015
A famous Guns N’ Roses song, a simple and incisive riff that gets into your head, probably played by all budding guitarists. A bit of history from wikipedia: Lead guitarist Slash has been quoted as having an initial disdain for… read more »
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Jun 6, 2015
Today I propose a new simple exercise, which can be used as a warmup pattern but also as a real exercise to increase the coordination between the two hands. It is a simple chromatic scale played on the left hand… read more »
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May 28, 2015
I have realized that many of the Paganini’s “43 Ghiribizzi” (I have already talked about in this post) are well placed to be transcribed for ukulele. Today I made then the transcription of “Ghiribizzo No. 1”, a short piece originally… read more »
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May 27, 2015
My2c about the barefoot running: thoughts and considerations that I tried on my skin (and my feet) Run barefoot is the most natural way to run; the evolution made the man’s feet a masterpiece unique in the animal world. Run barefoot… read more »