Pearly Shells on the ukelele
Just for fun! My 8 year old daughter received a ukulele for Christmas this year. I figured she wasn’t going to learn it on her own, so I set about trying to learn how to play it. Thankfully, TG has a few great ukulele lessons, including one on this Hawaiian classic. It was a fun song to learn and I thought it would make a good contribution to Michele’s busking love songs thread. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed learning it.
I have to say I found it a bit ironic to be singing a song about the beach and the sun on a cold Wisconsin winter day with snow falling outside!
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Susy,lady, you were shinning to whole song,that was very nice and think you got us here,,the uke is great,,thanks for sharing and hope your daughter get this under the strings..really lovely..when ever play the guitar again,well take that same smile...
That was a lot of fun Suzi! You caught me off guard this morning! Great job. I really enjoyed that. I've messed around with the ukulele a little bit. I found it interesting because much like languages where people tend to think in one language, then translate in their minds...I tend to think in guitar chords, then translate to ukulele chords. Did you find that to be the case, or are they two separate things to you?
Thanks for sharing and starting my day off with a smile
Craig
Thanks for sharing and starting my day off with a smile
Craig
Suzi,
Totally sweet, beautifully played, delightfully flirty, and your best singing performance to date. Considering you've only been messing around with that instrument since Christmas, you've come a long way in a short time. Clearly you haven't been ukeing off. This was a great thing to wake up to this morning!
Totally sweet, beautifully played, delightfully flirty, and your best singing performance to date. Considering you've only been messing around with that instrument since Christmas, you've come a long way in a short time. Clearly you haven't been ukeing off. This was a great thing to wake up to this morning!
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No way you can watch that and not have a HUGE smile on your face!
Just great- and hopefully it inspires your daughter to pick it up too..
Just great- and hopefully it inspires your daughter to pick it up too..
Willem- Thank you so much for your kind words. Emma (my daughter) has been working on learning the intro (the Hawaiian "vamp" as it's called, apparently). I'd love to have her learn this so that she and I could do a little collaboration with me on guitar, but we'll see.
Craig- I'm glad you enjoyed this little song. I would say you're right to think of uke chords in terms of guitar chords, because they really are the same thing. Neil does a great job explaining how and why chord shapes are similar on the uke to the guitar. Uke chords are like guitar chords capo'd at the 5th. So you take an open chord (on guitar) and move it up 5 steps: eg. G=> C (G#, A, A#, B, C) then you only worry about the top 4 strings. So the only string that would be fretted for an open G chord on the guitar would be the high G on the first string, 3rd fret. So a C chord on your uke is just the first string, 3rd fret. Hope that makes sense! For me, it made learning to play the uke much easier because I wasn't memorizing new chords. I could just think about what the chord would be on the guitar and move it up 5 steps for the uke.
Daryl- Thanks, I'll check that out! These days it seems like everyone's ukeing out.
Dennis- You know how important your opinion is to me. I'm really glad you enjoyed my video! I found this song quite hard to sing as the range is fairly wide (it goes from a low E to a high G) and it has some strange (to me!) notes in it, like a C#. I wasn't completely happy with it by any means, but I felt better about it than anything I've sung on TG prior.
Craig- I'm glad you enjoyed this little song. I would say you're right to think of uke chords in terms of guitar chords, because they really are the same thing. Neil does a great job explaining how and why chord shapes are similar on the uke to the guitar. Uke chords are like guitar chords capo'd at the 5th. So you take an open chord (on guitar) and move it up 5 steps: eg. G=> C (G#, A, A#, B, C) then you only worry about the top 4 strings. So the only string that would be fretted for an open G chord on the guitar would be the high G on the first string, 3rd fret. So a C chord on your uke is just the first string, 3rd fret. Hope that makes sense! For me, it made learning to play the uke much easier because I wasn't memorizing new chords. I could just think about what the chord would be on the guitar and move it up 5 steps for the uke.
Daryl- Thanks, I'll check that out! These days it seems like everyone's ukeing out.
Dennis- You know how important your opinion is to me. I'm really glad you enjoyed my video! I found this song quite hard to sing as the range is fairly wide (it goes from a low E to a high G) and it has some strange (to me!) notes in it, like a C#. I wasn't completely happy with it by any means, but I felt better about it than anything I've sung on TG prior.
.......I am just so amazed and you had me smiling all the way through, that was só great!!
I also lóved your performance and the way you handled the camera, makes us come really close to you, you also have a very nice and lovely voice, wich I've never heard before, what can I say you just did a fantastic video all around! WAUW!
Ness...
I also lóved your performance and the way you handled the camera, makes us come really close to you, you also have a very nice and lovely voice, wich I've never heard before, what can I say you just did a fantastic video all around! WAUW!
Ness...
Vanessa,
It means so much to me to hear you say that. Your videos are a real inspiration to me. I always like how you make each one so enjoyable to watch, how you draw in the audience. I don't know that I came anywhere near your kind of performance, but I was striving for that sort of thing. I'm really glad you liked it!
It means so much to me to hear you say that. Your videos are a real inspiration to me. I always like how you make each one so enjoyable to watch, how you draw in the audience. I don't know that I came anywhere near your kind of performance, but I was striving for that sort of thing. I'm really glad you liked it!