
OK, I posted this in the "silly purchases" thread but I should come out now. I make noise on my new Ibanez UEW20S Ukulele! (I can't yet claim to play music being a beginner at the art, but it sure is fun!
Spalted maple concert size.
great looking instrument and from the reviews, it looks like it has a huge sound.
Did you opt for the cutaway because you plan to spend a lot of time in upper registers?
No, I just liked the look but i see what you mean...it would make it much easier to reach
Started out on bass in various college ska bands, then after a breif hiatus got back into guitar. Mostly just bedroom noodling. I've taken a shine to Fender Jazzmasters and all their interesting little quirks. I can do all the basic chords, but I need to work more on getting better at scales and finger picking. Been playing around w/ volume pedals and delays/reverbs a lot lately for interesting ambient stuff.
More recently I've gotten into Modular Synthesis. I.e taking all the parts of your standard keyboard synthesizer (oscillators, voltage controlled amps, voltage controlled filters, sequencers, etc) and splitting them up into individual modules and connecting them via patch cables. I started small about a year and a half ago and ended up w/ this:
My partner thinks I'm weird sitting in front of a giant control panel with blinky light and knobs listening to bleeps and bloops on headphones, but I really enjoy it.
It's Mission Control for his Moog spaceship.
It's Mission Control for his Moog spaceship.
With the right reverb settings you can get spacey af!
Only 8 minutes to learn how to make major and minor chords on a piano and string them together with little shifting.
Hard cases are great when you drop your french horn down half a flight of steps:)
Hard cases are great when you drop your french horn down half a flight of steps:)
Nooooooo! ... Literally, the stuff of my nightmares. It's right up there with reversing out of the driveway with the horn behind the car.
dibs wrote:Hard cases are great when you drop your french horn down half a flight of steps:)
Nooooooo! ... Literally, the stuff of my nightmares. It's right up there with reversing out of the driveway with the horn behind the car.
Not a fun 20 seconds before i got the case open, but there wasn't a scratch on the horn! Nice few scratches on my palms thouhg.
Whew! You lucked out sir!
Started out on bass in various college ska bands, then after a breif hiatus got back into guitar. Mostly just bedroom noodling. I've taken a shine to Fender Jazzmasters and all their interesting little quirks. I can do all the basic chords, but I need to work more on getting better at scales and finger picking. Been playing around w/ volume pedals and delays/reverbs a lot lately for interesting ambient stuff.
More recently I've gotten into Modular Synthesis. I.e taking all the parts of your standard keyboard synthesizer (oscillators, voltage controlled amps, voltage controlled filters, sequencers, etc) and splitting them up into individual modules and connecting them via patch cables. I started small about a year and a half ago and ended up w/ this:
My partner thinks I'm weird sitting in front of a giant control panel with blinky light and knobs listening to bleeps and bloops on headphones, but I really enjoy it.
HOLY CRAP I thought my Kinks was the only one that did that - it bugs the crap out of me that the red light is on the S&H all the time. Is that normal?
Nice setup! I'm super envious of your DPO, I'd like to get one of those eventually. I just added an Intellijel Polaris to mine and I feel like I finally found the filter that I'm in love with.
Here's a post I did on MW regarding the Braids wavetables, maybe you'll find it useful: https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/vi...
Hmm I think I will need to take my uke in to get checked. The C is not holding tune at all.
I know it is completely silly, but I really want to be able to play Manatsu no Kajitsu (by The Southern All Stars) on my uke someday.
For me it's my C string is buzzing. I think the nut needs to be adjusted down a bit. I'll probably bring it in somewhere sooner or later to have it looked at. No hurry.
I also discovered ukulele underground on YouTube and am pretty sure I want to set One Note Samba as my 2 year goal. I have a lot of right hand technique to work on before I am ready for something like that, but I am not intimidated by it.
I think the going is likely to be slower with self learning, but I don't have the resources for a private teacher yet. I think I will look into that in a year.
I LOVE UU. The forum is also very informative. I have no goals at this point, except to learn What a Wonderful World (simple version) for valentines day.
https://ukutabs.com/l/louis-armstron...
I look forward to hearing what you think of UU premium. I'm not in a position to subscribe to it at this point but maybe some day.
I know of another professional musician on this forum. Any others off hand?
It's not a full-time thing by any means at all, but the recorder group I'm in has been paid for playing the local farmer's markets, so that might count about .1%.
This isn't the farmer's market group, just part of the club I play with:
Here's the current state of my bleeps and bloops machine. If you squint, it can kind of look like a ukulele.
If you squint it looks like Mission Control for the Kerbal Space Program.
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