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@abster – amazing! clean and accurate 🙌 remember to slow down the fast parts, and count the subdivisions as you play! keep at it and i can see you definitely mastering this piece soon!
Wow, thanks so much! 😊 I hope you’ll have a great time learning this piece just as me and Teacher Drew did creating it.
Hi Vidafntn
Thank you so much for the kind compliment! My dad plays the drum or the percussions for leisure. Ukulele is the only string instrument that I play. 😊Hi miztaken
Thank you so much! Your words really encourage me to work hard! 😊Thank you crazihippichic and ukandoit 😊
Hi Pascale
My Kamaka Ukulele is a tenor, model HF-3D2IAFV with pickup. Before picking up the ukulele at the age of 8, I actually started learning the piano when I was 6, and I am currently on theory and practical grade 6. Learning this as a side instrument, I guess the prior knowledge from this has somehow helped in my ukulele learning.I started by watching a couple of basic ukulele strumming videos on YouTube. Then I was mostly self taught by watching performance videos of ukulele virtuosos for 3 years. I remember Jake Shimabukuro being the first that I stumbled upon when I was surfing YouTube one day. I was so inspired by his playing, that I actually looked at his fingers and his plucking on the YouTube video and copied him the best I could. When I did that, I started to realize that there were different plucking patterns to use and I tried them in my singing and strumming songs. That was also when I started fingerstyles.
Subsequently I had a few one-time private sessions with ukulele instructor about 2 years ago to clarify any of my doubts of the instrumental song I was playing that time. It wasn’t easy. I am ever grateful to get acquainted with a very talented music director who has inspired and mentored me even though he doesn’t play ukulele. From there, I started to arrange songs on my own using the fingerstyle patterns that I learnt. My dad would always listen to me and sometimes give suggestions. My dad plays the drums as a hobby. Occasionally, we would jam together for fun. 😊
Nowadays, I would play for an average of 45 minutes a day. Personally, I would advise others to remember the fingerstyle patterns from songs learnt and apply it whenever appropriate in other songs. When I just started playing the ukulele, if I remember correctly, I attempted to learn a variation of The Christmas Song with some fingerstyle and strumming on YouTube. I faced the computer screen for quite a while before I ended up in tears. 🤣😂 That was when I was 8.😝 Hence, do not give up, keep trying! Keep on strumming! 🎸🤘
Hi Pascale, what first got me interested a Kamaka Ukulele was when I saw both Jake Shimabukuro and Kalei Gamiao, my two idols, using a Kamaka Ukulele.
I was then further convinced when I tried it out and realised that the sound it produces is very beautiful.
And that is how I came to the decision of using a Kamaka Ukulele. 🙂
