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Post by Caligonian1 on Jan 6, 2014 1:31:34 GMT -5
I finally ordered an ukulele, on Dec. 27, from Hawaii Music Supply. It hasn't been shipped yet; I'm sure the holidays delayed the set up. I can't wait for it to get here! Here's the one I'm getting: Kala KA-SC Solid Spruce Top Concert www.theukulelesite.com/review/product/list/id/635/category/22/I hope it's a decent one for a beginner student. I went to the monthly Corvallis Ukulele Cabaret last Friday night. They had a loaner uke that they let me use, and they made me sit in the big circle next to one of the group leaders (usually, I try to hide in the back of the room). No hiding this time, though; I was practically front and center, and somehow I survived. Probably because everybody was engrossed in their playing (including me) and nobody paid much, if any, attention to me. Yay! These are the chords that I played: C, C7, Am, A, F, D, G7, and one more that I can't remember. So I was able to play enough to have fun, and with 25 or so ukes playing at once, hopefully my mistakes weren't too apparent. There's a Beginning Ukulele class at the local community college that starts on Tuesday, Jan. 8. I would like to sign up for it, and I've been told that I can use a loaner uke for the first class (while I'm waiting for mine to arrive), but then I got to thinking that I'll need one to practice on. So I will probably wait till Tuesday to sign up and hopefully I'll have a better idea of when my uke will get here. In fact, I think I should contact Hawaii Music Supply tomorrow to see if they can give me an ETA. I'll let you guys know more after my uke gets here and I get a chance to play around with it a little. Cali |
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Post by Caligonian1 on Jan 6, 2014 1:54:08 GMT -5
Sometimes at the Uke Cab there will be folks playing instruments other than uke. The accordion lady wasn't there this month, but we did have a guy on fiddle who played a nice version of the lovely "Ashokan Farewell". Folk Alley Sessions: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band, "Ashokan Farewell" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZASM8OX7sWe also had a guy on banjolele who played "Scotland the Brave". I've only ever heard that song played on bagpipes and drums, and I have to say that it translates really well to banjolele. I hope that our fiddler, banjolele dude, and accordion lady come back next month. One time we had a guy playing washtub bass and that was really cool. Cali |
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Post by laughingmooseinn on Jan 6, 2014 12:29:50 GMT -5
What wonderful news Cali! So honored to count you among our musician friends!  Glad you found a group you can play along with. That is fun. Clogger and I oftentimes go to a string gathering in a nearby town and stru along. It is made up 90% of Dulcimers, some guitars, a few ukes and maybe one or two banjos. There is also a lady who comes around who brings an upright banjo-cello sort of bass. For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of it today! But it added a nice dimension to our music. We don't go in the summer due to our performance schedule. And this winter with our "new old" house, we have been way too busy! And WOW! You sure are jumping into a lot of chords at once for a beginner! It is neat to hear tunes usually done in another genre of instruments, on different instruments. Clogger and I do a song by the rock band Styx called "Boat on the River". She picks up the Mandolin part on her uke and I do clawhammer for the background. It really sounds nice as a banjo-uke arrangement. When my cousin is around, he accompanies us on acoustic guitar. |
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Post by cloggercass on Jan 6, 2014 13:33:51 GMT -5
Congrats cali! Ukes are so much fun, and they're easy, you can do so many chords with no more than three fingers, unlike guitars lol. Good luck! Hope that PM I sent you helped out some.  |
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Post by Caligonian1 on Jan 9, 2014 1:00:22 GMT -5
Congrats cali! Ukes are so much fun, and they're easy, you can do so many chords with no more than three fingers, unlike guitars lol. Good luck! Hope that PM I sent you helped out some. Cass, I'm really liking those one and two finger chords. I know that they're the "baby" versions, but at this point I'm all about baby steps. After playing for maybe and hour or a little bit longer at the uke cab last week, I had giant string dents in my poor little pampered princess fingertips. BTW, I just got an email this afternoon that my uke has finally shipped from Hawaii. I'm expecting it to arrive Friday. I can't wait to meet 'Little Sadie'!! And neither can my sister -- 'Little Sadie' is already a member of the family! Cali |
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Post by laughingmooseinn on Jan 10, 2014 23:37:07 GMT -5
Great! And I LOVE that you have named your uke!!!!! |
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Post by Caligonian1 on Jan 11, 2014 19:37:13 GMT -5
Great! And I LOVE that you have named your uke!!!!! My inspiration was this song and the line, "Little Sadie drives her wagon, to haul your body away". Jim Lauderdale ~ "Old Time Angels" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7_DbfzC4oCali |
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Post by laughingmooseinn on Jan 12, 2014 0:14:32 GMT -5
My inspiration was this song and the line, "Little Sadie drives her wagon, to haul your body away". Jim Lauderdale ~ "Old Time Angels Cali How Apropos! I like that! I am sure that Sadie will be much loved. (By the way, we named our furnace here at our home tonight! It was going thru a spell where it was belching too much power and would spew a bit of a fireball when it kicked in every time it would cycle. My husband fixed it, but while it was doing that, I named it "spot" after the "pet" on the old TV show from the 60's 70's called the Munsters! Invariably, our "Spot" lives sorta under the basement stairs too!  ) |
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Post by Caligonian1 on Jan 12, 2014 19:15:20 GMT -5
Moose, how funny about your furnace! I remember the Munsters' pet, Spot, from when my siblings and I used to do our homework while watching reruns of "The Munsters", "The Flintstones", and "Gilligan's Island". We were such an intellectual lot!
Cali
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Post by cloggercass on Jan 13, 2014 11:30:15 GMT -5
Congrats cali! Ukes are so much fun, and they're easy, you can do so many chords with no more than three fingers, unlike guitars lol. Good luck! Hope that PM I sent you helped out some. Cass, I'm really liking those one and two finger chords. I know that they're the "baby" versions, but at this point I'm all about baby steps. After playing for maybe and hour or a little bit longer at the uke cab last week, I had giant string dents in my poor little pampered princess fingertips. BTW, I just got an email this afternoon that my uke has finally shipped from Hawaii. I'm expecting it to arrive Friday. I can't wait to meet 'Little Sadie'!! And neither can my sister -- 'Little Sadie' is already a member of the family! Cali Your fingers will get less impressionable... ukes are the least painful instrument to play because if the tiny little nylon strings and the fact that they're almost fretless wonders. Actually the 1-2 finger chords aren't really baby versions, most of them are standard chords. Ukes play C6 open (in standard GCEA tuning) so most major chords aren't much to do. cloggercass |
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Post by Caligonian1 on Jan 13, 2014 17:53:47 GMT -5
Actually the 1-2 finger chords aren't really baby versions, most of them are standard chords. Ukes play C6 open (in standard GCEA tuning) so most major chords aren't much to do. Cass, when the uke cab leaders started talking about inverted chords, I started to get a little worried. So much to learn! I've found myself going to my little piano keyboard to help with figuring out chord structures. Cali |
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Glad you found a group you can play along with. That is fun. Clogger and I oftentimes go to a string gathering in a nearby town and stru along. It is made up 90% of Dulcimers, some guitars, a few ukes and maybe one or two banjos. There is also a lady who comes around who brings an upright banjo-cello sort of bass. For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of it today! But it added a nice dimension to our music. We don't go in the summer due to our performance schedule. And this winter with our "new old" house, we have been way too busy!
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