Category: Since November 9th, there has been quite a bit of movement on this front. Lucas, Barbara , and I have all acquired our instruments and have taken our first, faltering but vital steps to learning to play them.
Personally, I’d want to give great thanks to the great folk at Ukulele Underground (particularly Aldrine) for having such a great site and having so many people willing to share their experience and just be so all-around helpful.
The band, Serious Play, performed its first song on New Years Eve, a most stereotypical Auld Lang Syne. I think, for the first time we played together after only such a short time with these instruments, it’s a great start.
(available on YouTube in HD)
Even aside from that, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work on my own. I have learned (sort of) two songs and created two videos where I (sort of) play them!
The first being “Ukulele Malaguena” from the How to Play Ukuleles for Peace e-book, arranged by Woodshed (available, again, in HD on YouTube:
The second, performing “Creep” by Radiohead (YouTube, HD, etc.):
That’s all for now. I apologize if there are any typos, but this post was written at an obscenely early hour! I hope everyone’s 2009 started well and has less suck than their 2008.
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