Pssst, I think we got one on the line:
http://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/showthread.php?99531-Make-a-You-Tube-video/page3
Well I've been a Seasonista for an entire month as of today. Heck I don't know the rules or appropriate etiquette yet. I started playing Ukulele In September 2014. I wanted an instrument I could use to sing with, without the baggage of previous knowledge and experiences. UU came up a lot in Google searches so I joined. SOTU was a little harder to discover. It's that sub-forum thing! I made friends with CeeJay. Actually I demanded he become my friend. I know a kindred spirit when a read one. That's the
Numero Uno of the Seasonistas. We are Kindred Spirits!
As I explored the Seasons sub-forum I realized there were a lot of unique and talented people involved. Me I'm talented, sort of. I'm not very unique though. I'm a lot like CeeJay and Wendy and Rob and Bernie and Lesley and the Clover Kid and even like Ukey Dave; although he passed over two days before I got involved. Everybody I met was different with different skill sets and such but with a lowest common denominator: the Ukulele. I can smell synergy here folks.
Well CeeJay and Wendy pushed me over the edge. I got a webcam, Took a week to get it up and running. I made the plunge. "Magic Child" and a non-ukulele Recitation "The Night Before Christmas". I knew TNBC would work, I'm a Newb not a newborn. Did it ever! The next morning I had thirty Emails from all over the world from people all over the world. I knew them, by Username maybe their picture. I had lost touch. Numero Dos:
SOTU got me back in touch with the World!
SOTU bills itself as a weekly contest. It's not. Its an online virtual Folk Club.
Every week there is a new theme and new challenges.
I thrive on Challenge and Variety. I mean Thrive! I have been involved with the folk and performing scene for a long time. I don't know everybody but I know a lot of people and have a lot of
contacts and resources to share. One of things Seasonistas Share is
Encouragement. I have been encouraged in many ways by SOTU. The most important aspect of this for me is that it got me out of the doldrums and got me working on projects that benefit people. I have always tried to do this but for the past dozen years or so "my get up and go, got up and went". I am working on lots of projects now and that's the way it should be!
The Seasons transformed me (too).
Oh I almost forgot. Involvement with UU really pushed me into high gear in terms of learning Ukulele and Music too. SOTU has done so much more in this regard. In the last week or two I've learned slide techniques on ukulele, the six note blues scale and how to use it and I even wrote a song!
Thank you Seasonistas! You'all make all the difference.