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@miztaken – whatever you did on that second recording seems to have fixed the problem!
@miztaken – The hand probably has some effect but I don’t think that is the cause. It sounds like whatever software you are using is artificially removing the sustain. If that is the case, using a different microphone probably won’t help. You would need to tweak the settings of whatever software you are using.
So, funny story, we thought it might be fun to play Zelda’s Lullaby as a duet with an ocarina, which I thought we had in the cupboard. Tiffany got it as a souvenir of when she lived in Kazakhstan. Anyway, we got it out to have a play with last night and it turns out that it’s not a regular ocarina but a traditional Kazakh instrument called a saz-syrnai. It’s also tuned to Bb. Anyway, even though Zelda’s Lullaby is in G, we found that if we detuned the uke to Bb (which I think puts Zelda’s lullaby in F?) the melody line of Melody A should be playable on the saz-syrnai (as long as it has the range, which I’m still not sure about), so it just might work. This is the rabbit hole that I’ve been going down over the last day or so. Time to actually do some work.
Hi @miztaken,
You pointed this out yourself a while ago, but your recording device does something very strange to the sustain of the uke. I KNOW that moon bird should have decent sustain and I KNOW it’s not your playing because there should at least be sustain on the open strings. It’s like your camera is trying to eliminate ambient noise and that’s what it thinks the sustain is. Very strange.
Thanks @gstriph. I’ve seen the title around. I’ll look it up if I ever need inspiration. Right now, my problem isn’t lake of inspiration, it’s too many things that I want to play, including that piece that Matt wrote for his wife.
@rickeymike – at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter which one you use, as long as it’s the right octave and it’s comfortable to play. I’ve been doing the same thing when adapting Zelda’s Lullaby to the low g. If there’s a note in the arrangement that’s played on the G string, I need to work out what string I want to play it on to make it work.
Hi Ripley – If you are a premium member (i.e. a paying member) you get an extra entry in the challenge. We need to say that we are premium members, though, in order to save Andrew the trouble of looking up everyone’s membership status.
@lisadmh – This might answer your question about why playing that note on the G string gives it pop http://ukulelehunt.com/2010/03/31/campanella-ukulele/
@rickeymike – I saw your post last night and was going to answer it this morning, but Lisadmh beat me to it, and provided a better answer than I could. I tend to use an app like what bzediver talked about and also refer to a cheat sheet like this https://liveukulele.com/wp-content/uploads/Fretboard-with-halfsteps-ef-bc.pngActually, it’s 400. 100bpm = 100 1/4 notes per minute. Stranger things is all 1/16 notes. 16/4 = 4. Therefore you need to multiply the bpm by 4. 100 x 4 = 400. Good luck!
I’ve always taken my ukes to a luthier for fret dressing and work on the nut. (Okay, I’ve only done that once.) I’ve only ever worked on the saddle. Even then, I took it down a tiny bit too much on one of my ukes so that it’s beautifully easy to play but I can’t really dig in to it when I’m playing without the strings slapping against the frets. I had that in the back of my mind when working on this one, so it’s still a little bit on the high side, but it kind of needs to be because the 11th fret protrudes a little bit and I don’t want to have to get a luthier to work on it (it would probably cost as much as the uke did in the first place).
Anyway, if anyone is thinking about attempting this, feel free to send me a message and I might be able to identify some potential pitfalls. Otherwise, make sure your frets are level before you go playing with the action too much and only take it down a little bit at a time. It’s okay if it takes a while to get it right.
