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Hey Andrew, two suggestions, kind of.
This first is more an observation, and if you know where I can find it, point and I’ll go there and feel like an idiot lol.
There are absolutely 0 places online that show even a few basic ukulele scales mapped out on a low G ukulele neck. It’s just annoying. I mean It’s something that can be figured out, but it’s really annoying especially when you first get one and you go “maybe practice a scale, all these people saying practice scales” search it, and every scale diagram and audio example I found is like don’t play that low G! (or high g for that matter lol.)
I was like “umm, ok… I won’t play that string then…. I have no idea why not on low G, but ok…” Depending on whatcha got planned maybe throw in some diagrams on low G stuff. I think you’d have a unique thing for people getting started with a low G. Sounds like a pain though. I think there would be interest? but I could be very wrong.
Is there any chance the strumming techniques will cover any banjo rolls? It seems especially relevant with banjoleles, and that stuff can mostly be played high g and low G too. Again not super necessary since there’s banjo videos etc. Just was wondering on this one.
Took a while to find this thread again. Great job on rolling out 2019 so far!
That’s awesome Ricky! (About possibly playing the song, not that you’d die if someone told you to play spontaneously lol)
https://www.guitar.ch/en-us/guitar/chord_finder/chord_finder-chord-formula.html
Interesting and helpful
Nice Brett! Lol at the captions too. I didn’t notice any mistakes btw so whatever they were you played through them great.
Nice Robin! Hope the music is going well for you. Folk music people are overall really nice from my limited experience. 😁 I’m guessing your festival, or however they are running it, will be full if really sweet people and a laid back atmosphere. You totally got this.
Took the test for kicks lol! It says i’m an “Adventurer” with a goofy looking painter grafic. ISFP-T (what is this?) 81% introvert, mental 53% observant, emotional is 60% feeling, 65% prospecting under work/ decision making, and 82% turbulent under how confident and assertive I am.
Fun, some of the questions make it feel more like a well constructed bit of anon market research to me, but introvert and confidence is pretty spot on in being high scores.
Great advice Jina! You’re awesome, and Ron thank you.
Thank you Andrew. ✨🎶💖🎶✨ (virtual, wonder twin powers activate, fist bump!)
(Must remember to look up term shaping)
Brian came through for me. This was well timed in a creepy but awesome way. Explains what I was tripping out over weirdly “knowing” the other night too. (Other than lack of sleep.)
Matt’s tidbit in the memorization live lesson of forcing myself to use the stuff I learn is spot on. Missed it live, sorry. 🙁
By preferring a low G, but 96% of songs for uke that exsist are high g, I started super slow learning how to sub that third fret g for months, lol. (I love my bass string. Wish I had a high g playable uke for a lot of stuff, but i’m on team low G solidly enough I should probably make a T-shirt and declare my allegiance.)
Anyway, Was forced to actively use another position for the high g in stranger things to make a fingering less psychotic, learned where the other ones were but didn’t use them for anything yet. In turn it really helped “learn” the fretboard when added to that warm up simple version of the spider exercise thing up the neck.(And everything else) Checked off “learn the fretboard” in the coarse. I didn’t really technically, but i’m about as close as I am going to get till I can start naming the notes without thinking about it first.
Going to start applying the steps in the video and see if it helps things. Maybe can do this and not feel like I’m “letting everyone down” when I fail lol. No one gives a feather if I do or not, but me. And if anyone reads this, to explain: suddenly realized a few days ago taxi= classic new york + september= me suddenly feeling like if I don’t do a great job on this song i’m disrespecting everyone who died today and my dad who designed a system that was installed when the towers were built. Which is completely and utterly ridiculous, but it’s the dark place I went. It’s a hell of a depressing dark place. I realize it’s stupid and I shouldn’t even begin to feel that way since I started learning this because I like, and ‘know’ the song. Bad timing (ha!) on my part to decide on Taxi to be the classic tv theme of the three, that I picked.
Need to learn and get comfortable with a bunch of harmonics techniques to figure out and play St. Elsewhere. (Eventually- not soon, can’t even do taxi)
Nice everyone! I love everybody’s submissions!! Jealous of them too! Can’t help it! 💚 😁👍 Everyone’s kicking butt though with the rhythm this month!
Love you used your new technique in a song johanna!
Holly- That was great! I ended up going to get out some yarn for a strap. Found a set of wide Halloween shoelaces and just made an adjustable strap from those. My soprano is no longer in danger of falling on the floor randomly.👍
Looks like Hawaii Music Supply just made a podcast on some custom tenors they have. I haven’t watched it yet but I think he said they’re demonstrating 9 of them in it.
Might be worth watching for you. 😁 Maybe you’ll find a wood you love or a maker etc.
Really pretty uke Holly!
I don’t consider it a toy. Harmony was really big from what I remember stumbling across. When you said toy I pictured a buck rogers ukulele or something along those lines. 😁 which would be equally as cool actually lol.
(wrote this before I slept, never posted it lol. I was really tired. Need to look at that vid and see if it’s what I “found” with the melody notes thing a few days ago. I could have just been tired. Need to play through ptmd and see if syncopated junk is a acceptable workaround… Day 7.)
I haven’t slept so I was watching some videos. The last chord in Taxi I was vocalizing as “THREEE” That sounds demented but it sounds like that to me. Anyway, I smacked myself in the head mentally and thought “three.. Sounds like E, sounds like Beeee-flat… Which I thought might be the key… I don’t know what scale yet so I litterally looked up “ukulele jazz chords in Bb” I tried a few. Think that last one is a Bb|sus4.
I’m not cheating and looking at any sheet music for taxi btw. (Pretty obvious, but needed to be said in case anyone plows through this junk im writing. That would defeat the whole testing how much I don’t know thing.)
A guitar vid came up in my recommendation list randomly last night, with a clickbait title. I was like “huh. Why not.”
I think this shape thing might be what I stumbled on with the melody notes. Need to see if I can find the same stuff in the uke shape and see if it does the same thing. If it is, all this theory garbage might actually make more sense. (In a, I have no idea what i’m doing way, but connects the dots in my brain and makes all this stuff maybe usable.)
Again using this thread mainly to keep notes… where im at right now. day 7: Pretty much just melody notes and the last guitar chord. And -something- knocking around with theory.
This came out after I started on that gary moore song. Now im doing taxi and I can’t help feeling like this video perfectly sums up how I feel playing these songs…. especially Ozzy headbanging and James singing over the horn in the mashup LOL!
I was stuck in smooth, / light, / easy, / funky, / disco, AM transistor radio land for a long time as a kid, and I wanted to listen to metal and FM rock but my older sister was wild, and my parents blamed the music, 😄 lol.
Back to playing recorder, keyboards, and feeling the relaxing sounds of (DJ voice) smmmooooth jazzzzzz on a ukulele… 😁
Nice tastyshrimp! 👍 Did great with the lofi wavery echo sound!! (I like where you are going with this though.)
(I have no idea what kind of ukulele you have. (Gloss or satin) The nail scratch you mentioned iap, might work with the back of your nail? You might want to try experimenting with fingerpicks too? A plastic one (or whatever material you like), or some thing backwards on a finger so it’s like a nail on whichever scratching finger might be enough to get the sound you want? It would probably have a higher chance of damaging your soundboard faster if you’re concerned though. Just ideas)
Quick progress , day 4, since I had no idea what I was going to get from trying this. Nothing exciting though for anyone but me really, below. Except maybe the bad pun. That’s totally worth it. 😁 Just keeping a record since this is not rock class supported content and I keep misplacing that notebook.
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Takeaways so far, which surprised me..- I think what I have written down is in the key of Bb right now, maybe… or maybe F, i’m having a tough time on this one with the key.:1)-I moved the melody notes that I figured out into different positions on the fretboard looking for the end chords.
(Oh, soooo much Irony here! You have to know what’s coming.. I needed a Taxi to really start learning the fretboard! Yep, bad, bad, bad. Laughably true too, because I wouldn’t have done any of this otherwise!)2)-Because of #1, I am seeing how to walk notes up the neck to go to a different position purposefully.
I guess I needed to do this, because it all makes a lot more sense to me now, and is kind of fun, so i’m wasting tons of time here playing junk in different places on the neck.
2 1/2)Found out a bit of SoaD, Aerials bass line melody by hunting for the Taxi notes. (Since I found it up the neck first, I found it down by the nut. Fun! Goes with #2, and glad I wrote it down or I would have forgotten it.)
3)I think i’m starting to see results from that warmup thing i’ve been doing. I think 1 and 2 are takeaways, at least partially, because of this.
I think i’m seeing other benefits but I’m still bad at this whole music thing. Getting better though I think. Hard to tell since I hear myself every day. RC lessons making us use the whole neck for chords are a huge factor here too, so kudo’s to Teach. Thanks Teach!👍)
4)Starting to realize what’s causing my tone problems that are driving me up the freaking wall. The guitar solo in this song actually helped me realize part of it is my right arm dropping, some reasons for this are more controllable then others. The second has something to do with my nails and where exactly i’m hitting a string on my nail vs my angle of arm dangle I have over the top which is not normal uke position.
Now I need to control it all somehow which is going to be a long process… I don’t understand why yet that i’m getting opposite results from my nails then everyone else, but now I know what’s causing part of my annoying “warm up” I get stuck in. I suppose the weird phaser effect this makes sometimes, can be turned into a good thing eventually.
**I realized I’m amazing at conning myself into really seriously Believing I’ll work timing “later.” So I AM changing that. I WILL work the warmup exercise with a metronome at the very least. Even the less annoying beater metronome still hasn’t jazzed me up enough to quit doing this to myself!**
I don’t really expect much else will come out of any of this, this month, but I guess I’ll see. I have one legit known chord diagram now for the recorder part, I think at least, but it’s not the 8(? Might be less. Can’t tell what’s going on there yet.) beats of full jazz guitar chord down strums the end needs, so it doesn’t really count. Got my first “Exhibit A” though. lol.
It’s probably pointless to record anything while I’m messing around with it, but i’ll record something before I give up, or the month ends. Whichever comes first.
