In my YouTube ukulele video travels, I kept running across banjo ukulele videos that had me very intrigued about this hybrid instrument. Most banjos have 5 strings and are not tuned like a ukulele (GCEA). Since I have always wanted to learn to play banjo, and am now also learning to play the ukulele, I [...]
Back in the stone age when I was learning to play guitar, there were only two ways to tune an instrument. By pitch pipe, or by ear. I wasn’t good at either method and was always frustrated that my guitar sounded ‘funky’ when I would play it. Years later, when the first electronic tuners [...]
When I first became interested in the Ukulele and bought an instrument, I was concerned that I would have a hard time learning to play it on my own. I knew my small town would not have any teachers, and I was pretty sure that books and instructional materials were hard to come by for [...]
Title: Learn to Play Ukulele
Label: The Rock House Method
Year: 2006
Price: $19.99
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Instructional DVDs are important tools for people that do not have access to a live instructor when they are trying to learn the basics of an instrument. I didn’t buy this particular DVD. It came [...]
Title: My Life
Artist: Jake Shimabukuro
Label: Hitchhike Records
Year: 2007
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Tracks:
1. Time After Time (3:06)
2. Going To California (4:05)
3. In My Life (3:30)
4. Somewhere Over the Rainbow (4:14)
5. Here, There and Everywhere (3:09)
6. Ice Cream (4:06)
My Life is Jake Shimabukuro’s latest instrumental CD. It’s actually an EP [...]