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Welcome Cathy! I recently joined myself and I am very happy with the content. I hope you too find something you enjoy. By the way, my son in law Deepak is from South India, his first language is Tamil followed by English. Deepak enjoys cricket, he has never mentioned playing an instrument. Happy strumming. – Tom
Vincent, That’s great! I’m happy for you. Please let me know when you post a video playing it, I can’t wait to see it. Enjoy! – Tom
Welcome Cat 😺! That Enya is gorgeous. I like the matching strap and the touch of gold on the tuners in my opinion adds a touch of class. I can’t wait to hear it. I joined the premium membership yesterday, what an incredible site. Happy strumming, Tom
Welcome Vincent! I joined the premium membership yesterday and have learned a lot already. I’m happy to hear you have a dream Ukulele you’d like to own. That Anuenue sure looks nice and sounds great. Happy strumming, Tom
Dennis and Maya,
I’m completely new here and started playing in March. Anyway, I attempted part A of the Yankee Doodle and was frustrated with the Artificial (tapped) Harmonics at the last bar. I couldn’t figure it out at all. Thank you for your great questions and Andrew, thank you for leading by example. Original Van Halen actually was my favorite band and thanks to what Andrew said, I visioned Eddie Van Halen finger tapping and how he did it. Originally I was tapping like Dennis and I was confused. After watching the videos, I learned enough to ring out all but the a string pretty good. I have Worth brown strings a little more pliable with a mellower sound on my uke and that a string at first almost cut through my fingers playing it, where the Supernylaguts were just too hard on my fingertips. I know if I were still using the Aquila Supernylagut that the a string AH would ring nicely… anyway I haven’t given up on that string yet. Prior to learning this technique I would place my right index finger over the fret and strum behind with my right thumb to play/ring out AH through cords… I still enjoy that but this is cool too… By the way, I seem to tap better with my middle finger instead of my index finger for some reason… that being said, knowing the index is my weaker finger, I’ll practice, practice and practice more with my right index finger ringing out the AHs. I just want to thank ALL of you, you’re combined questions along with Andrew’s responses have made the AH tap possible for me and I am no longer confused nor frustrated. I look forward to viewing more content and applying same to my playing. I agree Andrew, as it’s said a picture is worth a thousand words, I firmly believe that exchanging videos is the best way for me to ask a question. If you were to try to explain without showing me how to do the AHs, I probably would have a bunch of follow up questions. Thanks for listening. TomAndrew & Lisadmh thank you for the warm welcome. Andrew- I’m reviewing your recommendation. Thank you, it’s well written without being too long or too technical so far for me. Btw- You really made me laugh with your opening statements about the uker and pianist 😂 Lisadmh- Thank you, I’ll mosey along as the tortoise and not the hare 🤩 believe me, I do get it and won’t rush myself.