albertmunoz
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Ok, I know I dont post much but I read the forums quite often.
Here is the situation. My girl comes from an extremely musical family, all starting from her grandparents. She has two cousins in symphony orchestras (viola and violin), her mother and aunts have played to huge crowds (piano), two nephews in high school music scholarships (flute and bagpipes), the list goes on and on. I owe a lot to this heritage, I never picked up an instrument until I met Rachael, and with her patience and tuition I have learned and developed a passion for making music I would have never imagined possible. Although I am not all that good, I blush a bit when my girl is asked if I am any good and she responds; 'he is very competent!'. In any case, before I go to far let me explain the deadline.
My girl's grandfather's birthday is coming up. Usually for the grandparents the whole family gets together and do individual concerts for them. There is usually some pretty crazy stuff going down (string quartets playing chopin perfectly!), and some fun stuff (percussion clapping songs). The inlaws are typically roped in and I have avoided this for long enough. My girl has an amazing voice and we were planning of doing Woodshed's/Jason Castro/Israel version of 'somewhere over the rainbow' me playing the uke and her singing. But most of her family knows I can play more than that and I dont really know anything suitable.
What I would like are some suggestions, and tabs of anything suiting the occassion that would fit and I could learn in a month as a picking/instrumental solo from either a classical genre or a pre 1960's popular tune.
I think I have set the stage pretty well, and I have a few ideas, but any others would be great. My two ideas are; 1. invention no.4 as played by Jake but transcribed by Ed Whitehead (I can play about 16 bars, but not all that impressive) and 2. Dominator's transcription of canon in D, but the only uke I have with low g is a banjo uke or alternatively I can capo my guitar at the 5th fret. However, my girl's family knows me more as a uke player so canon is a backup plan but not plan A.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Albert
Here is the situation. My girl comes from an extremely musical family, all starting from her grandparents. She has two cousins in symphony orchestras (viola and violin), her mother and aunts have played to huge crowds (piano), two nephews in high school music scholarships (flute and bagpipes), the list goes on and on. I owe a lot to this heritage, I never picked up an instrument until I met Rachael, and with her patience and tuition I have learned and developed a passion for making music I would have never imagined possible. Although I am not all that good, I blush a bit when my girl is asked if I am any good and she responds; 'he is very competent!'. In any case, before I go to far let me explain the deadline.
My girl's grandfather's birthday is coming up. Usually for the grandparents the whole family gets together and do individual concerts for them. There is usually some pretty crazy stuff going down (string quartets playing chopin perfectly!), and some fun stuff (percussion clapping songs). The inlaws are typically roped in and I have avoided this for long enough. My girl has an amazing voice and we were planning of doing Woodshed's/Jason Castro/Israel version of 'somewhere over the rainbow' me playing the uke and her singing. But most of her family knows I can play more than that and I dont really know anything suitable.
What I would like are some suggestions, and tabs of anything suiting the occassion that would fit and I could learn in a month as a picking/instrumental solo from either a classical genre or a pre 1960's popular tune.
I think I have set the stage pretty well, and I have a few ideas, but any others would be great. My two ideas are; 1. invention no.4 as played by Jake but transcribed by Ed Whitehead (I can play about 16 bars, but not all that impressive) and 2. Dominator's transcription of canon in D, but the only uke I have with low g is a banjo uke or alternatively I can capo my guitar at the 5th fret. However, my girl's family knows me more as a uke player so canon is a backup plan but not plan A.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Albert