Am working on completing the next book, which is a departure from what I’ve been doing. It’s a book of ballads and songs (ancient of course) where the melody is written out, chords and words given and then some directions on how to put it all together with a selection of suggested strumming/picking patterns. Almost done …
Author archives: Robert Vanderzweerde
Music by Bach and sons
Working on arranging more music for ukulele written by Bach. There are 18 pieces here by JS himself and some of his sons (JCF, WF, and CPE) ranging from beginner (equivalent to grade 2 guitar/piano) to advanced (grade 8 guitar/piano).
Recital at Mount Royal University
Performing a Gigue on the tenor ukulele and Pavan IV on the baritone ukulele at a recital hosted by Brad Mahon at Mount Royal University. Photos courtesy of Brad Mahon.
An Arrangement from the Baroque
I am working on a book of Baroque pieces right now. Here’s an illustration of a score from that period (it’s not the one that I am arranging — it’s an illustration of a score from that time period) by Weiss. And here’s a sample of a Menuet by Weiss that I am including in the book using modern musical notation and tablature.
First Arrangement from the Renaissance
Almande “La mon amy la” is a piece by Adrian Le Roy and is included in his 1551 book “Premier livre de tabulature de guiterre”. Here’s what the music looked like in his book and the modern arrangement in “The Renaissance Ukulele”.
Here’s a generated sound file … https://soundcloud.com/ancientmu…/almande-la-mon-amy-la-60
You can hear a recording of this played on a Renaissance Guitar (a four course guitar) by searching on YouTube for “early music muse the history of the guitar in four and a half minutes”. It’s the first piece on the video but the rest of the video is fun to watch.
