To me, what makes a ukulele player great is not only skill, but spirit. It’s soul, man. That’s where the magic lies. It’s that transcendent feeling of watching someone play–where you’re swept away in listening to them. That’s true of great players–but the greatest players of all glue googly eyes onto their ukes, richochet root beer inside them, then drop them behind shelves and off coat racks. Ideally, all to the same uke, on the same day.

This is also why certain players should not own Kanile’as. 😅

@gi_gi_ hahaha!! You and I are like the kids in class who get in trouble for laughing during the lesson and have to be seated separately. 😂😅😂😅😂😅

Yes……… Improvising takes so much skill. You have to know so much to do that, pretty much everything, every note on the fretboard and every chord, and how to connect those things astutely and freely. So, it’s equal parts intuition and knowledge.

But I also think that people can be great in different ways–have huge strengths in one area while not being as great in other areas. To me, being great can take as many forms as there are people and possibilities with the instrument.