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It has a nice warm sound, and surprisingly loud for a thin body uke.
The strings are Aquila, so I will probably change them for Living Water strings when due.
I found some interesting info about Koa vs/= Acacia (= Australian Blackwood) from Ukulele Underground. Koa and Australian Blackwood are both sub-types of acacia, with differing tonal properties because of the climates they are grown in.
So, I would expect my Portuguese Australian Blackwood uke to have a different tone yet again (more humid here in Portugal than at home in Australia, but not as humid as in Hawaii). Good thing I cannot tell the difference.
Anyhow, I like it and think I have got another lovely instrument.…and I have just discovered it is all solid wood!!!!
I was so excited at the shop that I forgot to even look at the construction of the instrument duh!
So bargain price for a solid wood, beautifully constructed instrument.Oh well done, and welcome back!
I still have the Jurassic Park theme in my daily playing schedule because it is just so pretty.
I hope you now have a little more time for fun things (ukulele #1).Hi Andrew,
I would love some Bluegrass too, my banjolele is pining away downstairs and I would love to learn to use it.
And I’m with Rickey… a course on how to make our own arrangements of songs would be awesome. There are so many of my personal favourites that I would love to arrange and play for myself. We could also share our arrangements with our RC101 mates if they are good enough.
Thanks, from Misty.Hi Mara, I am also in Aus (Sydney). There are a few of us here from all over the country…
It took me a loooong time to begin to play what sounded like real music, but we all get there with practice, practice, practice. The really good thing is that Andrew has so many wonderful arrangements, half of my problem now is choosing WHICH arrangement to learn.
Just go slow, learn to play an arrangement completely increasing speed a bit when comfortable and then move on to a new piece. The one you have learned now becomes revision (musician husband is now gobsmacked because I am giving you the advice that he kept giving me, ha!).
Also – a trick I use is to keep a piece that I have completely learned, no matter how simple it is. It just has to be pretty (mine is Etude #5).
I use this when learning a new piece to “re-set” my struggling brain eg. learn a bit of the new piece, get exhausted from the struggle, play Etude #5 because it is my go-to piece. This fools my brain into thinking “I can play this”, and when I go back to the new piece – it becomes a little less of a struggle.
Hope that helps a little.
Regards,
MistyOh you are clever @Andrew!!! and always such clear instructions.
So, basically practice chord changes so at least one finger remains on the neck which stabilises it!Hi @smokealot – you have the choice of struggling with learning to hold the uke and play it too.
Or: get a strap and you only have to learn to play it.
What is your priority? Playing beautiful music, or holding the uke “right”?
I went for straps on all my playing ukes (that is nine out of the ten I own), and now I always hold it right thanks to the strap. I don’t have enough patience, tolerance OR years left in my life to bother with trying to play a uke whilst holding it “properly “.
😀Hi @rickeymike
A nifty alternative is the “Pub Prop” which you can clamp horizontally to a chair OR vertically to a table. It is perfect if you play in different areas of your home, or you can take with you to a strumalong or lesson or wherever.
The company is from the Uk, but Mim’s Ukes stocks them.Thanks Stephen!
That darned Bb/G to F/G change… Matt did warn us!
And yes, I do need to repeat the passage slowly 100 more times. I keep doing the noob “but I can get it some times…” thing, and just not locking it into my memory at slow speed.
Back to basicsThanks again.
@rickeymike I was going to do my Edward Scissorhands version, but I just couldn’t get my hands to work properly 🤣🤣🤣
I am just in the learning stages for arranging like you.
I have worked with my music teacher and she guided me to put chords into the melody where there were whole (semi breve) and half (minim) notes.
Then go back and check against the piece of music – to see that they match vocal emphasis or long notes.I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER.
Here is my submission after too many takes, too much swearing and too hungry/thirsty to continue any longer.
This is the only time of year that I may wear makeup!The first hour & 1/2 of recording were without glasses – but I just could not see, so on they went.
Errors included, but this is the least amount in all my takes. So I am ok with it.
Even I can see great improvement in just one week more of practice.I love the arrangement of this song, thanks Matt.
And thanks Andrew for the amazing learning opportunities you give us (however I may need to re-start the swear jar just for when I am recording!).@rickeymike – here is the link for the Frank Sinatra version…. save yourself some pain.
http://f.tabstabs.com/page/5380589
or Julie London…
https://www.ultimate-tabs.com/julie-london/the-one-i-love-(belongs-to-somebody-else)-ukuleleand sometimes I buy tabs from sheetmusicplus so that I can transcribe to an ukulele tab…
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/the-one-i-love-belongs-to-somebody-else-digital-sheet-music/19730911or Etta Jones version…
https://www.e-chords.com/ukulele/etta-jones/the-one-i-love-belongs-to-somebody-else(but really all the same, almost).
