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i do think i messed up the link, however... http://www.mandaladanceworks.com/music/Jewel_In_The_Belly_(reprise).mp3 picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue, i guess. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:31 AM, thetoyroom@charter.net wrote: > thanks for the link. cool stuff.I've been playing a uke off and on > for a few years now...a gift from a friend who lives in Hawaii, and > i'm really enjoying the simplicity and directness of the instrument. > Here's a old, long languishing song i quickly recorded recently, just > to sketch it out and show it to a group i will be performing the tune > with in a couple of months. the uke is playing the simple picking > part, with tremolo'd guitar and a some ambient guitar washes as well. > http://mandaladanceworks.com/music/Jewel_In_The_Belly_(reprise).mp3 > as for the tuning, it really freaked me out at first, because i've > learned too many instruments at such a rudimentary level (the 'jack of > all trades, master of none' trick), and learning ANOTHER > instrument/tuning was daunting. However, if you take the four high > strings of the guitar at the 5th fret, that's Uke tuning. I was > suddenly relieved, and realized that interesting melodies and chord > clusters learned on the high four strings of the guitar could be > translated directly to the uke, and cool uke chords could be brought > back to the guitar. It kindof tied the two instruments together for > me. Also, on bass, I have a hipshot drop tuner, and instead of tuning > down, I can turn the low E string up one semitone, do the same for the > A string, and then now the bass is in Uke tuning as well, (albeit in > Bflat 6, rather than the C6 tuning of Uke). > > oooh...that sounds sexy....Drop Uke Tuning hahaha.... > > On my uke, i also use a wound low G string and it's an octave lower > than the traditional uke stringing, so it mirrors the guitar more that > way, too. > > My uke is headed to the shop soon to get a pickup installed. looking > forward to it....looped uke....nice! > > regards, > Rich > > > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Daniel Thomas wrote: > >> Nice clip! inspiring. >> >> >>> Our own Daniel Thomas (a very accomplished >>> guitarist/multi-instrumentalist) >>> once told me that he thinks he learned more about harmony from >>> playing a ukulele than by all of >>> his guitar playing because of the fact that you have the ability to >>> fret all four strings simultaneously. >> >> >> The thing that was most enlightening for me about the Ukelele is >> that, with only four strings, you strip harmony right down to its >> most fundamental elements. Allowing only four notes, the uke forces >> guitarists to master four note chord voicings ..one finger to a note. >> These voicings seldom involve a barre and as such, they allow for >> super controlled note envelopes on each string (Hard to do with >> Barre). Mastering four note voicing on the UKE really made me much >> more savvy with respect to note choice (why have three Fundamentals >> ringing?) and note duration. I am cleaner and more potent harmonic >> player for it. >> d >> >> On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Rick Walker wrote: >> >>> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, RP Collier wrote: >>>> Tuneyards on Sunday All Things Considered 4/16: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >http://www.npr.org/2011/04/17/135443035/tune-yards-expanding-and-grabbing-attention >>> I also think it's very cool that she's recontextualizing the >>> Ukulele. >>> >>> It resonates a lot with what I"ve been trying to do. >>> >>> I've been writing for the last 6 months on several four string >>> instruments, including playing a lot of >>> baritone Ukulele. Our own Daniel Thomas (a very accomplished >>> guitarist/multi-instrumentalist) >>> once told me that he thinks he learned more about harmony from >>> playing a ukulele than by all of >>> his guitar playing because of the fact that you have the ability to >>> fret all four strings simultaneously. >>> >>> Interestingly enough, Joni Mitchell started her whole career by >>> writing songs on a Baritone Ukulele that she bought >>> for $36 because she didn't have enough money for a guitar. >>> >>> It's interesting that when you play one and really thing about >>> modern songwriting, >>> that the natural progression is to begin to retune it. I'm on >>> this kick lately of tuning to a random open tuning >>> and playing it as I go to eat my daily bagel before teaching. I >>> give myself 10 minutes to learn how to play >>> the new tuning (or at least find something interesting in it) and >>> then another 10 minutes to write at least the >>> bare bones of a song on the way home. In this way, I'm >>> attempting to try to free myself of specific tuning >>> concepts and be able to find whatever the instrument gives me to >>> play simply. >>> >>> With it's range, you can get a couple of different sounding octaves >>> from the instrument as a looping source >>> and, of course, with 1/2 speed and 1/4 speed manipulations you can >>> eek even more out of it. >>> >>> To add to all of that, I recently purchased a four string Ukulele >>> bass instrument which has the body of a Baritone Uke, but >>> has black silicon strings on it that make it sound somewhat close to >>> an upright. A fantastic instrument. I'm saving to >>> buy one that is fretless now. >>> >>> rick walker >>>