bennyhana22
Well-known member
Hi All
I've decided that my style is more a strummer than a picker, though not exclusively.
Trouble is, I really need some help 'getting to' the music that I want to play, that I can sort of hear in my head. I'm really bored with cheesy standards that use so few, simple chords right at the bottom of the fretboard.
So I need you guys to help me to find stuff that will challenge the chord player in me and get me using different inversions, up and down the board.
They might be complex songs that either use lots of chords (Bowie's Life on Mars is a cracker!) or key changes etc.
I'd also REALLY like to play lots of groovy Hawaiian stuff - the problem there is that it's obviously much harder to play songs that you don't know or haven't got a sound file for, especially if they're mostly chord-based. I'm good at reading tab for picking, but find reading tabbed chords really hard, especially rhythmically, even though I learned music and can read it.
This is probably a very disjointed plea, but hopefully you'll get the idea of what I'm trying to find or, as the ever-helpful UU community, will ask me questions that will clarify!
Ideally I'd like to buy books, as I much prefer learning and playing from 'real' paper, as it were - complex and interesting stuff written as chord diagrams is fine too.
So, there's your challenge, UU - please help this ambitious, but frustrated uke obsessive!!
love
Ben
I've decided that my style is more a strummer than a picker, though not exclusively.
Trouble is, I really need some help 'getting to' the music that I want to play, that I can sort of hear in my head. I'm really bored with cheesy standards that use so few, simple chords right at the bottom of the fretboard.
So I need you guys to help me to find stuff that will challenge the chord player in me and get me using different inversions, up and down the board.
They might be complex songs that either use lots of chords (Bowie's Life on Mars is a cracker!) or key changes etc.
I'd also REALLY like to play lots of groovy Hawaiian stuff - the problem there is that it's obviously much harder to play songs that you don't know or haven't got a sound file for, especially if they're mostly chord-based. I'm good at reading tab for picking, but find reading tabbed chords really hard, especially rhythmically, even though I learned music and can read it.
This is probably a very disjointed plea, but hopefully you'll get the idea of what I'm trying to find or, as the ever-helpful UU community, will ask me questions that will clarify!
Ideally I'd like to buy books, as I much prefer learning and playing from 'real' paper, as it were - complex and interesting stuff written as chord diagrams is fine too.
So, there's your challenge, UU - please help this ambitious, but frustrated uke obsessive!!
love
Ben
