duke's uke jukejoint

by **qersty** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 8:19 am

So I have kind of started an Israel Kamakawiwo'ole phase. Wonderin' if anyone here has tips on some great ukulele heavy (or heavy ukulele :lol:

) music. Kinda wanna pick it up again but want to listen to stuff that isn't stereotypical. I always feel it has a too characteristic timbre to for me to play anything that doesn't sound like a spongebob background tune

by **Paul_C** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:51 am

by **qersty** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:03 am

This is really cool1 Sounds more like a Mi Compose guitar than a tenor

by **Chankgeez** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:00 pm

Not sure what you consider stereotypical, but you can't get much more stereotypically Hawaiian than this (the steel player is one of my faves):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAx25BG11l0

Turkish music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKrhD48CCQs

Maybe some Venezuelan cuatro music (it's essentially the same instrument)?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opk91aGei_k

by **gila_crisis** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:50 pm

Kevin Hufnagel od Dysrhythmia did a pair od album based on ukulele, of course played in a very unhortodox manner:
https://kevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com/album/ashland

by **qersty** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:22 pm

Chankgeez wrote:Not sure what you consider stereotypical,

Hard to describe but I'm not opposed to Hawaiian sounding stuff. The legit stuff is really cool. Maybe I should say stuff that sounds lazy, like "oh this guy picked up a uke and stums the same i-v-ii". Listened some to it really cool stuff. Gotta listen to it more proper, havent really realized that i have more time to listen to albums at home when cause im not driving around 12hs a day.

cuatro's tuned with the first string and octave down? pretty cool tuning

by **qersty** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:24 pm

oh and i just remembered the uke section on Bish Bosh :lol:

by **Chankgeez** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 1:44 pm

Yeah, like some uke tunings, it's a re-entrant tuning. :thumb:

I love shit like that. :snax:

by **qersty** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:21 am

oh yeah! me too. i havent tried any that goes an octave lower on the high string though. bet it is wild

by **Blackened Soul** » Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:00 pm

a lot of the sound is also playing style.. I used a use cheap plywood uke [I have tons of the damned things] tuned like a bass guitar with a pick for the intro and outro for this [the middle is a acoustic bass through a TGD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y32-qHSUYoc

by **Blackened Soul** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:07 am

Also.. if you want to play the thing of things like it why not look into cavaquinhos?

Portuguese [the og of these wee little guitar objects]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cILU9TpQwxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0urJLQ5S0lU

Brazilian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdlDh6599E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFAgeE9-ug

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeanBoke · by **Seance** » Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:47 pm

If I had the money I'd definitely get a Godin MultiUke.
It's expensive but looks pretty sweet.
I'd love to run a tenor ukulele through effects.

Years ago I made several clips that I recorded with a cheap Lanikai tenor ukulele.
But careful when posting ukulele clips on YouTube... you're bound to get comments
that claim that you're "not doing it right", especially if you sometimes strum with a pick
or do anything slightly "unorthodox".

It's an instrument with strings. It's made to make music.