It also has four strings, therefore I find it acceptable. It's so popular now I am wondering which other TB members have fallen prey to the uke.
Are any of you out there?
Are any of you out there?
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Bassists on the Uke?
- Thread starter JonahTheAmazing
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I take a concert every time we go camping. The kids like to sing "Adventure Time" over and over and over and...
I fell prey last summer after a friend of mine was showing off his uke skills. I figured it would be a good thing to have, and another friend and I even toyed with the idea of having a duo called "The Uke-ladies" (pronounced "you-ka-ladies", not "yook-ladies", just in case it needs clarification).
I love my uke!
I love my uke!
Yes. Given that bass is kinda hard to play in the campfire situation, I have tenor and baritone ukes for that.
I have a concert and a tenor, but I can't really play either. I need to work on that.
I like my concert more than the tenor so I actually may look to get rid of it. It's nice, I just find the tension on that scale length to be too much for me.
I like my concert more than the tenor so I actually may look to get rid of it. It's nice, I just find the tension on that scale length to be too much for me.
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I have a problem.
1 soprano, 2 concerts (a 5 string, and a resonator), 2 tenors and a baritone.
I can stop whenever I want.
1 soprano, 2 concerts (a 5 string, and a resonator), 2 tenors and a baritone.
I can stop whenever I want.
Yup! One soprano, a vintage banjolele, one Tahitian-style uke, and an Epiphone Mandobird (Thuderbird-shaped solid body four string electric mandolin) tuned to GCEA.
Here in Nova Scotia, I gig quite regularly with Chalmers Doane who's quite a famous ukulele expert. He started a cross-Canada program which taught music in the schools via ukulele ensembles. It's used all over the world now. Chalmers plays 10 or 12 different instruments on a given gig (not many people know he was originally an upright bassist) but the coolest thing is his playing jazz on the uke. One of his protege's, James Hill, lives here in Nova Scotia now and I've gotten to play with him via Chalmers. James is one of the very best uke players in the world these days. Hang around these guys and you've *got* to go home and grab the uke!
Meet Chalmers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmNY_K69rQQ
Listen to James:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Pu6uTo0AA
Here James plays Billie Jean with Bathiki Kumalo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yRY74cYXcI
Meet Chalmers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmNY_K69rQQ
Listen to James:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Pu6uTo0AA
Here James plays Billie Jean with Bathiki Kumalo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yRY74cYXcI
That's sweet! I've been a fan of James Hill, but unfamiliar with the ukulele method. Very interesting stuff.
My dad has taught himself banjolele(tuned like a normal uke, except it has the banjo pan body) it is quite fun to play.
There's a method!? Uke is supposed to be fun!
ps, Also dig James Hill. Caught him at a NAMM breakfast this past January with Bakithi Kumalo (of Graceland fame), who was playi g a Kala U-bass. Awesome way to start the day.
Don't own one, but I love the instrument to death. My bass mentor probably owns about 10 or 15. When he started having so many, I started messing around with it and realized it's a whole lot of fun. Still waiting to pull the trigger on buying one though.
