Hi,
This is very sudden and before today I never gave this a thought. I like the Ukulele but never really thought about playing one. This morning someone on T.V. was playing one and suddenly a thought popped into my mind. I'll try not to make this too long but I want to provide a little background. I used to play the Harmonica and at one time dabbled in guitar for a year or two. I learned chords and could play them fair enough for a beginner and I also played a few scales as I began to try to learn to play lead (my goal). I was learning mostly blues/pentatonic scales. I didn't get too far though because it became overwhelming as far as dealing with the fretboard and lead playing/theory (for me). Briefly, my thought this morning while watching the Ukulele player was "wow! How hard could that be compared to guitar?" Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it isn't a simple instrument to play but I mean compared to guitar as far as chords are concerned vs lead/single notes.
I did pretty well playing chords on the guitar and it was only the lead guitar and figuring out single notes etc that screwed me up. But a Ukulele (at least what I've seen) focuses more on strumming/chords. That shouldn't be too difficult for me....I've been there before!. Am I completely off base here? A guitar just for rhythm playing would be easy for me but boring. Who wants to play only rhythm guitar? But a rhythm Ukulele? I can get into that!
My next question is...to try this out without running out and buying a Ukulele...could I use my old acoustic guitar temporarily? The brief research I did in the last few hours informed me that I could capo a guitar and have a, kind of sort of, Ukulele. Would this work for a period to see how this pans out before plunking money down on an instrument I decide isn't for me?
I'm retired now and have time to devote to it; but to enjoy it more it would be great if all I had to do was learn chords or maybe only remember some old ones. I found that pretty easy when I practiced guitar. Is the Ukulele much different?
P.S. I tried doing a search but was unsuccessful. My questions may have been covered but I was unable to come up with a good search question.
Thanks.
Tommy
This is very sudden and before today I never gave this a thought. I like the Ukulele but never really thought about playing one. This morning someone on T.V. was playing one and suddenly a thought popped into my mind. I'll try not to make this too long but I want to provide a little background. I used to play the Harmonica and at one time dabbled in guitar for a year or two. I learned chords and could play them fair enough for a beginner and I also played a few scales as I began to try to learn to play lead (my goal). I was learning mostly blues/pentatonic scales. I didn't get too far though because it became overwhelming as far as dealing with the fretboard and lead playing/theory (for me). Briefly, my thought this morning while watching the Ukulele player was "wow! How hard could that be compared to guitar?" Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it isn't a simple instrument to play but I mean compared to guitar as far as chords are concerned vs lead/single notes.
I did pretty well playing chords on the guitar and it was only the lead guitar and figuring out single notes etc that screwed me up. But a Ukulele (at least what I've seen) focuses more on strumming/chords. That shouldn't be too difficult for me....I've been there before!. Am I completely off base here? A guitar just for rhythm playing would be easy for me but boring. Who wants to play only rhythm guitar? But a rhythm Ukulele? I can get into that!
My next question is...to try this out without running out and buying a Ukulele...could I use my old acoustic guitar temporarily? The brief research I did in the last few hours informed me that I could capo a guitar and have a, kind of sort of, Ukulele. Would this work for a period to see how this pans out before plunking money down on an instrument I decide isn't for me?
I'm retired now and have time to devote to it; but to enjoy it more it would be great if all I had to do was learn chords or maybe only remember some old ones. I found that pretty easy when I practiced guitar. Is the Ukulele much different?
P.S. I tried doing a search but was unsuccessful. My questions may have been covered but I was unable to come up with a good search question.
Thanks.
Tommy
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