ghostrdr
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A few years ago, we visited Japan and I've always felt that there were more Japanese ukulele resources for finger style playing or chord melody playing. I dragged my family to a Japanese bookstore and two full bookshelves were ukulele books with lots of music, standards, movie themes, etc. with tabs for finger picking and chord melody style playing.
The challenging thing is I do not read or write Japanese.
I bought two books based on the degree of difficulty in browsing some of the music, I thought I could play.
In the years since, I have played like one song out of each book. There's lots of Japanese writing, which I was sure were instructions or pointers to make some of the songs easier.
Well, here I am with a little extra time on my hands and I picked up one of the books. it was a little easier to play some of the songs, (probably because I've gotten better), but I was annoyed that there were probably some secret tips to make it easier.
Then it dawned on me. GOOGLE TRANSLATE. I picked up my phone and there is a camera function where it uses your camera and then translates all the text into English!
Wow! I'm truly amazed! The good news is that it has re-opened my interest in these books and I'm having a lot of fun. The bad news, is that the secret pointer tips are actually not that helpful. Ah well.
If you have any Japanese Music Tab books, try Google Translate. My mind was and is blown.
Stay safe everyone!
The challenging thing is I do not read or write Japanese.
I bought two books based on the degree of difficulty in browsing some of the music, I thought I could play.
In the years since, I have played like one song out of each book. There's lots of Japanese writing, which I was sure were instructions or pointers to make some of the songs easier.
Well, here I am with a little extra time on my hands and I picked up one of the books. it was a little easier to play some of the songs, (probably because I've gotten better), but I was annoyed that there were probably some secret tips to make it easier.
Then it dawned on me. GOOGLE TRANSLATE. I picked up my phone and there is a camera function where it uses your camera and then translates all the text into English!
Wow! I'm truly amazed! The good news is that it has re-opened my interest in these books and I'm having a lot of fun. The bad news, is that the secret pointer tips are actually not that helpful. Ah well.
If you have any Japanese Music Tab books, try Google Translate. My mind was and is blown.
Stay safe everyone!