Classics for Ukulele
About this ebook
Classics for Ukulele features 20 well-known classical pieces arranged for fingerpicking solo ukulele. Pieces are written for the uke tuned in the key of C (G4-C4-E4-A4). However, you do not have to play all the pieces on the instrument tuned to “C.” Play the First Movement from “Symphony No. 5” by Beethoven in D (A4-D4-F#4-B4). You will regain the original key and be able to play it with orchestral record. I have used this notation. The G string is noted an octave lower than it sounds. It is a less common notation. I chose it because the voices are more “arranged” and do not cross the dots. It allows you to better recognize which string you are to play.
Tunes include: Moonlight Sonata, Ave Maria, Ride of the Valkyries, Hungarian Dance No. 4 and many more. Music in standard notation and tab.
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About the author
Born in 1979, Ondrej Sarek earned a master's degree in Composition at The Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts while simultaneously studying Musicology at The Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno in the Czech Republic. An award-winning participant in several composition competitions, his chamber orchestra, symphonic and choral works are performed internationally. He has also written three mini-operas plus music for film, television, and theater productions.
As a skillful multi-instrumentalist, he devotes his time to playing and composing for piano, guitar, banjo, ukulele, Irish bouzouki, concertina, diatonic accordion, and mandola. He has arranged solo collections for various instruments, many of which have been released by Mel Bay Publications. Ondrej is also one of the leading arrangers of music for the ukulele, an instrument he hopes will regain its former prominence.
