veep
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A goal of my mine is to get better at playing bluegrass on the uke and getting people to see the uke as a bluegrass instrument.
Just a goal of mine on the uke .
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And no reason why you can't achieve that goal. I like to play a little bluegrass on my uke....looking at banjo ukes right now. If I was a bigger bluegrass fan, would have to have one of those Bluegrass maple concerts or tenors.
http://www.bluegrassukes.com/products/Curly-Maple-Tenor-Ukulele-"Flying-Owl".html
A Kanilea 6 string concert is also on my list....I think that would be a hell of a bluegrass uke.
http://www.bluegrassukes.com/products/Curly-Maple-Tenor-Ukulele-"Flying-Owl".html
A Kanilea 6 string concert is also on my list....I think that would be a hell of a bluegrass uke.
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Sven-Uke
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Cool!
Any songs you'd advise others to play?
I just started playing the uke and found Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show), cigarettes and whiskey, and Red Clay Halo and Caleb Mayer by Gillian Welch doable.
I just broke out a book today thatI had bought a few months ago: "bluegrass ukulele" by Fred Sokolow. Has a cd too so you can hear what you are trying to play. How are you learning?
ItsMrPitchy
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Cool goal go for it.
I love bluegrass but have not got any on my uke yet. So thanks for inspiring me to try something new.
I love bluegrass but have not got any on my uke yet. So thanks for inspiring me to try something new.
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veep
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I have that book its a good book i wish it had more song in it .
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veep
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I am working on this song right now http://ukulelesecrets.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/cripple-creek.pdf
as so some songs with chords http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-lyrics-chords/bluegrass-lyrics-chords-a.html
as so some songs with chords http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-lyrics-chords/bluegrass-lyrics-chords-a.html
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veep
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I also have been working on banjo rolls on the uke if you get this book http://www.google.com/products/cata...ei=oFsnTtLrBOqFsgKk2LA7&sqi=2&ved=0CFAQ8wIwAw it will help .
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veep
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and there is this http://kenmiddleton.co.uk/ebooks.aspx
Sven-Uke
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Wow, great recourses! Thanks!
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dhoenisch
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There's a local bluegrass get-together (that I haven't joined since it gets in the way of me fishing 
) A group of four of the members of that jam group go to coffee shops and other small eateries, and one of them brings a tenor uke with him. It's a different sound, but he's go the bluegrass sound down. He has a low, wound top string so he can hit the bass notes when he's strumming along. It's the first, and only time I've ever seen a uke used in bluegrass music. I haven't seen him play the uke in a while though.
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) A group of four of the members of that jam group go to coffee shops and other small eateries, and one of them brings a tenor uke with him. It's a different sound, but he's go the bluegrass sound down. He has a low, wound top string so he can hit the bass notes when he's strumming along. It's the first, and only time I've ever seen a uke used in bluegrass music. I haven't seen him play the uke in a while though. Dan
joeybug
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I agree with everyone else, make that goal a reality! Good Luck
Good Luck 
