I have just discovered Del Rey What an inspirational musician. Here she is fingerpicking a concert scale resonator.
I've been to a lot of workshops by a lot of celebrity ukulele players and Del Rey is the first one who flat out told people to quit incessantly noodling their ukuleles while she was talking and playing. I wanted to applaud her for it. But she puts on more of an intermediate workshop, at least the one that I attended. She showed us a lot of neat little riffs and tricks. I really liked her and her style of teaching.You lucky devil! That must have been fun, she looks so natural & I love the music she plays
I am wondering if many people use a concert uke for fingerpicking. Do you feel the size limits you or do you just adjust to the smaller size. I am curious to see what people think.
I am wondering if many people use a concert uke for fingerpicking. Do you feel the size limits you or do you just adjust to the smaller size. I am curious to see what people think.
I fingerpick on a soprano and the size is pretty comfortable for me. I have relatively small hands and tenor is sort of out of range when a song ask for a 5th to 14th stretch across the fretboard. A well built smaller ukes, soprano or concert should have the same properties as a well built tenor. There’s no limiting factors that I can see. So, use whichever is most comfortable to you.
You lucky devil! That must have been fun, she looks so natural & I love the music she plays
This is important especially if you are going to play to the 12th fret and beyond. Extra care needs to be taken to find a concert with the clarity, volume, and sustain if you are playing melodies up the neck. If you are using fingerpicking patterns, primarily with chords around the nut, it is not as critical.
I don’t play sopranos, but years ago I did test out an older Martin 5K at a music store and was blown away at how well it played and sounded, even above the 12th fret. I was also blown away by the price, but it played and sounded so good, I did consider it, at least for a few moments... lol.
You don’t need to spend big bucks, but it needs to be a quality ukulele.
John
I am wondering if many people use a concert uke for fingerpicking. Do you feel the size limits you or do you just adjust to the smaller size. I am curious to see what people think.
I fingerpick both concert and soprano and can hardly tell the difference.