a new toy
on friday, i finally picked up my ukulele from the music shop. they've been extremely kind to me in regards to my layaway; letting me keep it on hold for almost six months. anyway, i finally brought it home, and...
holy crap. someone take this thing away from me before it melds onto my arm. after only an hour of playing it my (very small, nylon string) guitar seemed unbelievably bulky, inelegant, clumsy and unweildy. i can tell this dodgy lower (or rather, upper) g string is going to be trouble, though...i mean, how unintuitive. any phool kno - who's played violin or guitar, anyway - that a bottom g string (ARF) is LOWER than the upper strings. i strongly suspect that the shifty little bastard is what gives the instrument its sweet-sounding ring, though, so i reckon i'll keep it for now.
i only know about three chords so far (okay, maybe five) and one song, along with bits and pieces of others - i tried to learn 'minuet in g' from a book, but i got impatient and picked out a way that sounds much better to my ears. see, this is the problem with being an intuitive player rather than a disciplined one...if you can pick out a song and play it from memory rather than learning the boring old nuts and bolts of what notes are actually where on the instrument, you never get the theory under your belt that would make you an actually useful player. ah well, who knows...maybe the uke will be the instrument that finally drives me to learn some flipping music theory...
Q
i doubt it, but we'll see