Marketing your Music Business with Social Media

Chris Brogan has an excellent post on using social media to promote writing efforts if you are an author. Take out the word author and drop in musician and you have a game for promoting youself. Well worth the read

 Chris Brogan: An Author’s Plan for Social Media Efforts 

I also dropped the entire post on my Bruce Jones Design Blog

The Mandola an Earlier Cousin of the Mandolin

Nice post on the Mandola at Mandolin Moment.com

The mandola somehow predates the mandolin. Mandora was a renaissance lute with similarities to the mandola. What we know as the mandolin evolved from the mandora during the baroque period. Mandolin means little mandola. Read More at mandolinmoments.com

Sweet Georgia Brown on Guitar and Mandolin

Curtis Jones (guitar) and Jeff Midkiff (mandolin) playing an acoustic version of Sweet Georgia Brown, a highly recognized song used by the Harlem Globetrotters

How to Play 7th Chords on the Ukulele

This is a lesson on how to play C,D,E,F,G,A, and B 7th chords on a ukulele. It shows the fingering for each and how they sound on a ukulele tuned GCEA.

Amazon Affiliate Link for the Mel Bay book, Fun with the Ukulele

How to Play Minor Chords on the Ukulele

This is a lesson on how to play C,D,E,F,G,A, and B minor chords on a ukulele. It shows the fingering of each and how they sound on a ukulele tuned to GCEA.

Amazon Affiliate Link for Hal Leonard's Ukulele Method Book

How to Play Major Chords on the Ukulele

This is just a lesson on how to form C,D,E,F,G,A, and B major chords on a soprano or concert ukulele. It shows the fingering for each and how they sound with a GCEA tuning. Minor and Seventh chords coming soon.

Amazon Affiliate link for a Kala Makala Soprano Ukulele

You Know the Guitar Can You Play the Mandolin, yes!

Nice post from UkuleleVideo.com on how to take your guitar knowledge and transfere it to the mandolin

Guitarist looking to learn the Mandolin. What are the main differences?
Mandolin is a very cool instrument but it is different than the guitar. It is tuned “backwards” to the guitar. The top 4 strings on a guitar are (high to low) E1, B2, G3, D4, but on a mandolin the strings are (high to low) E, A, D, G, and it is one octave higher than guitar. This is the same tuning as a violin so it is possible to use violin music arrangements on the mandolin.  (read more)