My wife and I went on a Hawaiian cruise in 2014. She wanted to take the free onboard lessons and we only went a couple of times because it conflicted with the line dancing class. We went again in Dec 2017... this time we stuck with the class, run by Brian and Rowena Vasquez. That is when I was bitten by the Uke bug. When we were on land in Honolulu we went to PuaPua Ukulele and bought a random Uke (wish i had known more about ukes before buying it).
Although my wife was the one that really wanted to do the Uke class... she never really got the "bug" and kind of stopped playing. Which is rather weird because she's very talented musically because she grew up playing piano and the electone. Perhaps not challenging enough for her ....... Myself, I'm still strumming away and I find it very challenging as I never really grew up playing music. I thought I've gotten pretty good!! until I bought Fred Sokolow's Ragtime solo arrangements last week, and trying to learn "The Entertainer" and playing with the track is very challenging. But it's funny! the human brain is an amazing thing. If you're stubborn like me and keep practicing eventually you can play it spot on.!
Although my wife was the one that really wanted to do the Uke class... she never really got the "bug" and kind of stopped playing. Which is rather weird because she's very talented musically because she grew up playing piano and the electone. Perhaps not challenging enough for her ....... Myself, I'm still strumming away and I find it very challenging as I never really grew up playing music. I thought I've gotten pretty good!! until I bought Fred Sokolow's Ragtime solo arrangements last week, and trying to learn "The Entertainer" and playing with the track is very challenging. But it's funny! the human brain is an amazing thing. If you're stubborn like me and keep practicing eventually you can play it spot on.!