Welcome to the Music Page of Varroa

SEUS Mission Statements:

From the Wikipedia page about the recording session later known as "The Million Dollar Quartet:"

  • "... the sound of a group of friends, who are gathered together to play old favorites and share the pleasure of making music together."

  • If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right.

  • "You just pick a chord, go twang and you've got music." - Sid Vicious

  • "Play from the heart..." - Howie Aoyama
  • "Dooodly doodly doo!" - Carys "Harris" Jones

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. It has 5 basic elements:

  • Pitch - The ordering of sounds on a frequency related scale
    • Melody - also tune, voice, or line - the musical phrase or motif
    • Harmony - simultaneous pitches, tones, or notes

  • Rhythm - A regular recurrence or pattern in time - sounds and silences
    • Tempo - The speed or pace of a given piece
    • Meter - the pattern of lines or accents, stressed or unstressed beats - Time signatures & bar lines
    • Articulation - the transition or continuity of notes

  • Dynamics - Volume of a sound or note, as well as an entire piece

  • Timbre (pronounced “tamber”) - That quality of a sound or tone that distinguishes the sound production. Also called tone quality and tone color

  • Texture - The way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic characteristics are combined

Oct 27, 2010On wordlessly expressing the very core of my being
Oct 27, 2010The beginnngs of a musical journey

Here are some Ukulele Lessons

Jan 7, 2012Moveable Chord Shapes
Jan 7, 2012Strumming & Chord Progressions
Jan 7, 201210 ways to make an E Chord
Jan 7, 2012The Minor Pentatonic Scale Pattern
Jan 7, 20124 string warmup exercises
Jan 7, 2012Ukulele Chord forms & Fretboard
Jan 7, 2012Chords in Transition
Jan 7, 2012A Compendium of Ukulele Strum Patterns
Jan 7, 2012Chord Progressions in Popular Music
Jan 7, 2012Chord Construction & Tricks
Jan 7, 2012Chord Construction & Details
Jan 7, 2012Circle of Fifths, Circle of Fourths
Apr 18, 2012Ukulele Pentatonic Blues Scale

The Kosmic Hippo Ukulele Arkestra of Kent!

For all of your "You ask for it, we'll play it" needs!

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This page is authored and maintained by Rich Webb.You can send E-mail to me by following this link to the contact page. And feel free to contact me if you have any comments, criticisms, or suggestions. I remain, however, perfectly capable of ignoring your useless opinion...

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