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@robinboyd and @becky7777
I am currently going with the steady rhythm as harmony between the melody parts.
Funny thing is: I have this awesome arrangement well under way, and I CAN’T PLAY IT!!!
😀 😀 😀I would class it as intermediate, and I am NOT there yet… it will take me a long, long time to get up to a good speed. At least it is a favourite song and my own arrangement, so I will be happy to take a long term investment into making the arrangement work and playing it well.
@laurasil
– Laura, that is wonderful!!!
I so want to get to “working out” my favourite songs.
I am so impressed with what you have done (really, I am dead jealous that you could do this 😁 )…perhaps we should have an “UKULELE ACQUISITION SYNDROME” file in the Uke Talk section, and all these pics can go there. ;D ;D ;D
I have #10 coming for my birthday at the end of the month because…. if Beloved Husband is practising in the dungeon with me, I cannot concentrate. So #10 is an Eddy Finn, high g, bamboo concert with pick up so that I can plug in, add headphones and cannot hear Beloved Husband.
And no… WE don’t think I have a problem 😀 😀 😀
@mymgb1 strings can be sold as sets, or individually.
A G set will have all four gCEA because it is quite difficult to change just one string when they have been trimmed after being put on.
If you have to tie and tidy the strings at the bridge (most ukes) then easier to do all four so that the ends are tucked in neatly.
If you have a uke with strings that have a ball on the end (and “that” kind of bridge) then easy to just change one string.
Careful on Amazon – “I have heard” that shonky strings are being passed off.
Buy from an online music store if you have any concerns.Sounds like it is time to book them in, especially as you are now noticing issues. That is a good thing – shows that you are growing in your musicality.
@rickeymike – all my playing ukes have had a really good set up done by a luthier to the way I play, and all ring out well through out the full neck. I have concert preferably for playing, but also tenor and soprano. And they all sound good within the individual limitations of the instrument.
Either: it is your technique
Or probably more likely: your set up is not done to your playing method/style.On a couple of my ukes, the luthier could play it beautifully everywhere – many years experience, he could make music from a rubber band on a stick!
But I could not get good harmonics on the 12th fret, and on my eucalele I could not get consistent clear sound going down the A string, so he just made small adjustments and fixed the issues for ME.You need a LUTHIER with years of experience to do a really good set up to your requirements.
Shops only do a standard set up for their instruments, they cannot invest the time to personalise every uke (unless it is a high-end, custom instrument of course).@mymgb1 the 50/50 has come about because my music teacher is a double bassist, and I think she naturally goes for the lower G. And she has me doing some jazz standards in the low G.
I balance it with the RC101 songs in high G so that I can use my Moon Bird.
Oh… and definitely go for the flurocarbon low G string, it is wonderfully mellow in sound (my preference is the Living Water strings).@mymgb1 if you have two tenors, why not make one of them your low G? If you predominately play the tenors then you do not have to adjust your fingering between instruments (even going between concert to tenor needs adjustments in playing).
I now find I play 50/50 high G / low G, and life is much easier playing my preferred instrument size (for me it is concert).Congratulations @rufio0 !!!
Andrew has previously mentioned this one, and I got it after that.
I put my Aeirsi concert in it (I do have the concert size case), and there is plenty of room, no stress on the instrument, and nicely solid and protective.https://cargo.ukerepublic.com/product/reunion-blues-rbx-deluxe-semi-rigid-ukulele-case
@robynboyd – I used a microphone with my laptop to record. That was all.
So I won’t take shortcuts again.Wow, thank goodness I will only have to listen to and choose from four songs
(Misty would definitely be my choice if it ends up in your picks).
Misty 😁
