Josh sent me this cover of War Ensemble by Slayer on … ukelele? WTF?
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Ukulele is a great instrument; it’s easy to play and you can do a lot of cool things with it. I’m currently giving lessons to three uke groups and I’ve started the Green Bay Ukulele Club. A book of KISS uke songs is in the works, as well as Xmas music for duets and trios. I wish I would have started doing this ten years ago.
I started playing the ukelele before I started playing guitar. Being able to play the ukelele convinced me that I would be able to play guitar. Do you remember the Kingston Trio? Nick Reynolds played a baritone ukelele, at least I think that was what the four string guitar sized instrument he played was called.
Karl – the strings are nylon so it doesn’t really matter much about the gauge. I played the uke over 50 years ago before I took up guitar so I can’t remember the tuning. Formerlib would know. He sez he’s giving uke lessons now.
Standard ukulele tuning is gCEA, where the “g” is actually higher than the C and the E strings. That’s called “reentrant” tuning. The 5-string banjo is another example of an instrument with reentrant tuning.
“Low G” tuning = GCEA. If you put a capo at the 5th fret of your guitar you have just converted it into a uke in low G tuning (with two extra strings, of course).
A Baritone uke is tuned like the first four strings of the guitar = DGBE.
For an even brighter tone some players tune their ukes a whole-step up = ADF#B.
Ukulele is a great instrument; it’s easy to play and you can do a lot of cool things with it. I’m currently giving lessons to three uke groups and I’ve started the Green Bay Ukulele Club. A book of KISS uke songs is in the works, as well as Xmas music for duets and trios. I wish I would have started doing this ten years ago.
I started playing the ukelele before I started playing guitar. Being able to play the ukelele convinced me that I would be able to play guitar. Do you remember the Kingston Trio? Nick Reynolds played a baritone ukelele, at least I think that was what the four string guitar sized instrument he played was called.
My favorite uk fallback is the Brit ensemble doing the theme from “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”.
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s
Cheers
How are those things tuned? The one in the video had four of the same gauge strings.
Karl – the strings are nylon so it doesn’t really matter much about the gauge. I played the uke over 50 years ago before I took up guitar so I can’t remember the tuning. Formerlib would know. He sez he’s giving uke lessons now.
Standard ukulele tuning is gCEA, where the “g” is actually higher than the C and the E strings. That’s called “reentrant” tuning. The 5-string banjo is another example of an instrument with reentrant tuning.
“Low G” tuning = GCEA. If you put a capo at the 5th fret of your guitar you have just converted it into a uke in low G tuning (with two extra strings, of course).
A Baritone uke is tuned like the first four strings of the guitar = DGBE.
For an even brighter tone some players tune their ukes a whole-step up = ADF#B.
Possibly amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ick-BBEjrh4
Cheers
Tiny Tim played a uke.
And, the skin flute.
And the organ.
Clearly, there is no accounting for taste.
and yeah, I had the horrible thought of Tiny Tim playing this same piece.
the horror…. the horror….