Someone asked me last night, re: uke & banjo-uke.....in a very direct manner - ! "How good ARE you?" I said "Not very" - and I'm not, compared to any accomplished player.... I'm interested to know, what would you have said?
There seems to be a lot of false modesty out there. I've seen a lot of videos of people who claim that they are not very good but after watching the video I go, "Are you kidding?!" I someday hope to aspire to be as good as many of the people out there I've seen who "aren't very good".
I'm a beginner - after playing for a little over two years. I've got much to learn. I can strum out a song fairly reasonably - but chord melody stuff is a bear, for me... I could probably spend a lifetime studying music... If someone wants me to accompany them while they sing or there is someone on lead I could probably reasonably hold up.
The few times I've gotten through a song for a non-player, I've gotten a compliment, but I freeze with the thought of playing for real ukers and I just strum through a C-Am-F-G progression.
I tell them the truth... I'm pretty bad. A lot of people have said I sound pretty good but that's only because they don't know any better. GT3T11 I do the same progression when I don't know what else to do also
Someone asked me last night, re: uke & banjo-uke.....in a very direct manner - ! "How good ARE you?" I said "Not very" - and I'm not, compared to any accomplished player.... I'm interested to know, what would you have said?
I do this too; sometimes I sing along with it "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" from Monty Python's Life of Brian. People seem to appreciate that I can play a humorous song they may recognize.
At a picnic on Sunday two little boys kept hanging around our family because they liked the music and singing. The one kid came up to me later and said "yer a really good banjo player sir". I told him it was an Ukulele and he said "cool!" How good am I? Good enough to have fun with it and make people smile! Good enough!
At a picnic on Sunday two little boys kept hanging around our family because they liked the music and singing. The one kid came up to me later and said "yer a really good banjo player sir". I told him it was an Ukulele and he said "cool!" How good am I? Good enough to have fun with it and make people smile! Good enough!