Recent content by Estudiante

Question: What Worth Brown set would contain the best string for the 1st (A) string for linear GCEA baritone? Background: I recently picked up a Kala baritone. I immediately put a Worth Brown baritone set on it (DGBE). I want to tune it linear GCEA. Strings 4-3-2 are easy, just move up one...

Does anyone know if there are white fluorocarbon strings? I prefer fluorocarbon (using Worth Browns), but I like how white strings look. Thanks.

Tuning up to linear D is safe for a Tenor, right? (Currently have Worth Brown "regular tension" linear tenor set tuned linear C). The low-4th sounds "tighter" with D tuning, which I like. But, you know, don't want to wake up in the morning and find the bridge popped off! - thanks!

I play mostly high-G now, but my kids' ukes are set up Low. To supplement their curriculum (Ukulele in the Classroom), I wanted to give them some scale exercises to practice. Kids seem to like scale exercises because it's fun and satisfying to run up and down a scale at lightning speed...

"Jake Shimabukuro Teaches Ukulele Lessons" from Hal Leonard...releases January 1, 2017 on Amazon...if anyone is interested...might be really good...I probably have plenty of books already...:D

I like hymns. The words for this song are great. I plucked through the "top notes", and the arpeggios flow nicely. I don't know the tune though. It's nice!

"Like" This Post If You Agree: Method Books Don't Have To Be Based on Folk Music ! Yeah, I know you can't "Like" a forum post, but anyway... There's nothing wrong with North American folk music of course, I just don't love it. But nearly all ukulele method books are based on that genre, using...

Here's a recommendation for anyone who wants to expand their method and song book collection even more. :D I'm really excited about finding this older (1982) Hawaiian fingerstyle resource, so I thought I'd share a sort-of-lengthy description here. Last week I picked up Hawaiian Uke Tunebook...

My impression from reviewing a number of methods...if the musician is coming from a guitar background, they're going to instruct you to start with p-i-m-a. But if the musician is not coming from a guitar background they're going to start you out thumb-only, then graduating to thumb-and-index...

In an article on re-entrant tuning at his website, John King wrote that he tuned his ukulele "fleas-dog-has-my", not my-dog-has-fleas. Does this mean JK strung his uke upside-down? Sorry: in the article John King said "FLEAS-HAS-DOG-MY", not what I wrote above. Seems like that would...

Hello. A big "thank-you" to everyone who makes UU happen. My path on the ukulele started February of this year. Step 1: Heard a group called Holunape while streaming music on Pandora; liked it a lot!! Step 2: Quickly became a big fan of the traditional Hawaiian music sound; started...