FINLANDIA by Jean Sibelius - UKULELE SOLO ARRANGEMENT by "UKULELE MIKE"
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Great job, Mike. This is a truly beautiful song, and I think it sounds even better with the ukulele... Lots of love from Finland.
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Very nicely done...keep up the posts!
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Beautiful!
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Mike, Just wanted to let you know that my wife and I spent last weekend in Kakslauttanen in Finland, and we listened to this in a glass igloo under the stars. Thanks for helping make it so memorable !
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Mike- this arrangement is sublime- as is your performance of it. What uke uke did you use for this?
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One of the first classical pieces I ever heard. Beautiful rendition...cannot say any more
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could you make a video to teach us this? I'm a finn and I would really love to learn this
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I have a question for you. When you make these classical arrangements for ukulele, do you work from sheet music, or do you figure them out by ear?
Beautiful! It is amazing how much a ukulele can sound like a harp.
stringjamgirl 1 year ago
@stringjamgirl Oh i know what you mean!!!!. . . By the way. . . just a hint . . . the way to achieve that harpier more mellow sound is to pluck or strum the strings further on up the fingerboard. . . rather than closer to the bridge. . . The closer you play to the bridge the brighter and consequently thinner the sound is. . the further up you play towards the fingeroard it can get more mellow and harpier
MusicTeacher2010 1 year ago
It's a lovely tune, isn't it, Mike? Well played.
KenMiddletonUkulele 1 year ago
@KenMiddletonUkulele Yes it is. . . There just seems to be certain melodies that come along that seem as though they were predestined so to speak. There is just something intrinsically magical in some melodies and I don't think we will ever be able to explain why they are that way. . . I find that fascinating. Spiritual actually.
MusicTeacher2010 1 year ago