Here’s mine!
I reached a point where the ukulele wasn’t very fun. Strumming and singing (or, more often than not, JUST strumming to spare people my singing) wasn’t doing it for me. And a guy at work asked if I knew more than one song because he couldn’t hear the melody that I was hearing in my head for the five or so songs he was present for when I was playing. It was kind of hurtful, but still good feedback. People can’t hear a melody you don’t provide.
So I started digging into sheet music and pulling out the melody and trying to mix it with the chords. Ideally I’ll end up doing that crazy pinch method Kimo does, but for now I like the range I get from fingerpicking and strumming.
Since getting into this, the uke’s been a LOT more fun. My sense of satisfaction when I get finished arranging a song how I want to play it, knowing that this is a D or a C and there’s nothing saying it can’t be played here or there (as opposed to TAB where I never knew what I was playing and relying entirely on someone else to transcribe it into TAB in the first place) has been beyond satisfying. My wife recognizes the songs I play, and that’s awesome.
Anyway, I had a YouTube channel that was guitar and ukulele, but it was mostly snippets and demos for me to pull from later. I decided I should make a channel with full songs dedicated solely to the ukulele, and do my absolute best to make the best videos I could. Each video brings lessons learned and it’s a fun process, learning and practicing production and editing in addition to the ukulele.
I hope you check it out and enjoy it!