ripock
Well-known member
I wanted to give my ukulele friends some encouragement. If you want to, you can totally play guitar.
On a whim, I bought what would have been considered cool in my youth, a magenta B.C. Rich guitar (the Rich Bich). I bought some Slinky strings because that's what kids did back then and I promptly threw away the two base strings. I strung it up and now have an electric hair-metal baritone ukulele.
I just play what I play on my ukulele and it works (but the steel strings are a bit rough on my ring finger, which is the strumming finger). The stretch is a bit uncomfortable on the low frets, so I just go to fret 11 or so and feel more at home. Beyond fret 19 I feel lost because my ukuleles only have 19 frets.
I just play my ukulele stuff. Obviously I am not playing in the key that I think I am in. For example, if I do some lame I-IV-V progression in C, I'm actually playing in G. So I'm not playing what I think I'm playing but it sounds good. The only thing better than finger picking "Freight Train" is finger picking "Freight Train" with a whammy bar!
So the next time someone says that the uke isn't a real instrument, just say you could play a "real" instrument if you wanted, but you don't want to.
On a whim, I bought what would have been considered cool in my youth, a magenta B.C. Rich guitar (the Rich Bich). I bought some Slinky strings because that's what kids did back then and I promptly threw away the two base strings. I strung it up and now have an electric hair-metal baritone ukulele.
I just play what I play on my ukulele and it works (but the steel strings are a bit rough on my ring finger, which is the strumming finger). The stretch is a bit uncomfortable on the low frets, so I just go to fret 11 or so and feel more at home. Beyond fret 19 I feel lost because my ukuleles only have 19 frets.
I just play my ukulele stuff. Obviously I am not playing in the key that I think I am in. For example, if I do some lame I-IV-V progression in C, I'm actually playing in G. So I'm not playing what I think I'm playing but it sounds good. The only thing better than finger picking "Freight Train" is finger picking "Freight Train" with a whammy bar!
So the next time someone says that the uke isn't a real instrument, just say you could play a "real" instrument if you wanted, but you don't want to.