In an effort to make some real progress, I've been playing nothing but concert scale for a month solid and… no joy.
I started off on (and still occasionally play) guitar. Moved down to tenor guitar (now my main instrument) and down again to tenor uke with no difficulties at all (admittedly I'd played tenor uke a bit many years ago).
Concert, though, is giving me fits.
I'm not getting hand cramps or struggling to get a pleasant tone, and simple pieces are fine, but anything remotely intricate feels and sounds clumsy to me. It's becoming frustrating knowing that I could pick up any of my other instruments and instantly sound better.
Anybody else hit a wall when coming from the longer scale lengths to the shorter ones? Any tips? (Other than 'sell the concert'! I'm not quite there yet, although I guess at some point life's too short.)
I started off on (and still occasionally play) guitar. Moved down to tenor guitar (now my main instrument) and down again to tenor uke with no difficulties at all (admittedly I'd played tenor uke a bit many years ago).
Concert, though, is giving me fits.
I'm not getting hand cramps or struggling to get a pleasant tone, and simple pieces are fine, but anything remotely intricate feels and sounds clumsy to me. It's becoming frustrating knowing that I could pick up any of my other instruments and instantly sound better.
Anybody else hit a wall when coming from the longer scale lengths to the shorter ones? Any tips? (Other than 'sell the concert'! I'm not quite there yet, although I guess at some point life's too short.)