A great and growing site, maybe the best site, for ukulele instruction videos is Ukulele Underground. I first came across Aldrine’s videos on YouTube with his ukulele version of The Cure’s Lovesong. It is a love affair of a man with his ukulele. My friend, Connie T., says that she often feels this way about her ukulele…
Love Song
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D_x41CtZTIwI am a big fan of
Aldrine Guerrero and
Manny the Rooster!
Aldrine came with the
Ukulele Underground cast and performed at
Mike DaSilva’s. They gave a great performance and opened up for questions at the end. Aldrine sometimes sings with a Cher voice and he did a Cher song for us that evening. Stupid questions abounded and I followed Mike DaSilva’s, “Do you do EVERYTHING with a hat on?”
I actually had a better, more musical, question later but I guess the answer was too long for the video edit. I had asked him how he developed his abilities for timing in a song when there is a mixture of 1/16, 1/8, ¼, ½ notes. Aldrine recommended using a
metronome and working with it strumming at each beat, then 2 strums for each metronome beat, then 4, etc. Then after a while: beat, 2 strums / beat, 4 strums / beat, 1strum, / beat, 2 strums / beat, 4 strums / and after a period of time you stat to develop the feel for the length of the notes.
Here’s the Uke Got Mail video:
http://ukuleleunderground.com/2008/09/07/uke-got-mail-live-dasilva-ukulele-co/======
Here’s a little diversion, another sweet lovesong, called
Luff Song, by Lucy Lou with ukulele.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qr-KA8bxAY&feature=related
Doris Day Ukulele
