My dad was around 30 years old when he started playing guitar. An adult beginner! One of the pieces that I remember him practicing is Spanish Romance, which is one of the best known classical guitar pieces in the world. I’d like to teach you a uke version today. The full piece has two sections: a minor section and a major section. I’ll teach you the minor section today. To learn the the major section please go to UD#83.
Last newsletter, we talked about how ukuleles and guitars are related. We learned that the four strings of the ukulele have the same tonal relationship as the top four strings of the guitar. This is handy to know because it means some guitar music can be played, “as is, ” on the uke.
Let’s take a look at the GUITAR tablature for Spanish Romance to see if there there is anything we can play directly on the ukulele. Take a close look at the notes on the top four strings. Here is the GUITAR tab for Spanish Romance:
Frank Levin
You may have noticed that there are no notes on the 4th string in this piece, but plenty of notes on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings. These notes we can transfer onto the uke directly. The key is changed but it still sounds like Spanish Romance. Below, you will find the tablature for Spanish Romance on the UKULELE. Notice that the tablature for the first three strings is identical to the guitar version! Cool, eh? Here is the tablature:
There’s one little hitch, though. Did you notice that some notes got left out in our the ukulele version? Yes, we had to leave out the notes on the 6th and 5th string of the guitar version. This is a shame because those notes are the root notes of the chords and help to “ground” the piece musically.
A student of mine was learning Spanish Romance on his uke. He was working from the classical guitar tab. He knew that he could play everything as it was written on the top three strings. While he was playing it I started thinking, “Gee, I sure am missing those root notes!” Suddenly an idea hit me. “What if we tune the G string on the uke (4th string) up to an A note? We will be able to use it to play the roots. Just like in the guitar version!” It worked really well.
The Spanish Guitar
Here is a video of me playing through Spanish Romance on the ukulele. I am playing a uke with a low G string but the arrangement works for low and high G. I play through the simple version, then I tune my G string string up to an A note and play the full version. I’m still a little excited about that discovery! I’m sure I am not the only one to have tried this but I was pretty happy to stumble upon it. The tab for the full version of the Spanish Romance minor section is below. Here is the video:
That’s all for this newsletter. I hope this finds you well. All the best in your playing! If you’d like to learn the major section of Spanish Romance please go to UD#83.
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Guido Heistek holds a B.F.A. Music from Concordia University in Montreal and is a CANSTAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. He makes his home in Vancouver, BC. Guido has performed in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe, and has worked as both an arranger and consultant for stage and film. Guido teaches private and small group lessons at his downtown studio: Yaletown Music . In 2011, Guido released Hear the Strum, an instructional DVD which teaches ukulele students how to strum by ear and from the heart. In 2013 he released a CD, Guido Heistek – Solo Ukulele. In 2016, Guido released The Chord Melody Book for Ukulele.
“I just want to express my appreciation for your wonderful tutorials! I am very grateful and amazed to find a wealth of information expressed in such clear detail.”
How To Play Spanish Romance
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Welcome to Ukulele in the Dark . I am regularly creating new lessons for this site. Please subscribe below to receive every new lesson by e-mail. Be sure not to miss a thing!
Guido Heistek holds a B.F.A. Music from Concordia University in Montreal and is a CANSTAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. He makes his home in Vancouver, BC. Guido has performed in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe, and has worked as both an arranger and consultant for stage and film. Guido teaches private and small group lessons at his downtown studio: Yaletown Music . In 2011, Guido released Hear the Strum, an instructional DVD which teaches ukulele students how to strum by ear and from the heart. In 2013 he released a CD, Guido Heistek – Solo Ukulele. In 2016, Guido released The Chord Melody Book for Ukulele.
“I just want to express my appreciation for your wonderful tutorials! I am very grateful and amazed to find a wealth of information expressed in such clear detail.”
How To Play Spanish Romance
Bb chord Bb chord ukulele Ben Harper Ukulele B flat chord for ukulele blues ukulele Bo Diddley Ukulele Strum Chimpmunk Song chord melody Chords christmas ukulele Chromatic Scale clawhammer ukulele cool uke strums country ukulele diminished chords Fretboard groove How to strum reggae ukulele jazz ukulele Music Theory out of tune singing playing with recordings reggae strum singing in tune singing ukulele Solo Ukulele Somewhere Over the Rainbow Ukulele Strum Steal My Kisses Ukulele Steal My Kisses Ukulele Strum strumming Strum Ukulele By Ear Triplet Strum Ukulele uke uke strums ukulele ukulele bluegrass Ukulele Chimpmunk Song ukulele chord melody Ukulele Chords ukulele fingerstyle ukulelel soloing Ukulele Muting Strum ukulele solo Ukulele Strumming ukulele travis picking
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