On Ukuleles by HMX

26 Aug 2009 Comments Off 157 views

For my birthday, I decided to invest in a ukulele after watching some pretty awesome performances on youtube1,2.  It took a while for the uke to arrive – a Lanikai LU-21T Tenor Ukulele – and when it did, both Blythe and I fiddled around with it for a bit before it was relegated to its case as we began the process of moving her two blocks and me two(three?) states.  Recently, having arrived and settled into my new northwestern home, I picked up my ukulele again as a means of entertaining myself by doing something productive.  Well, that isn’t exactly true.  During a conversation with a villutus sicarius, while watching Jake Shimabukuro tear it up on youtube, I pulled out my own uke to practice some chords and today Blythe has trilled me by alerting me of a source for tabs of our favorite Britney Spears song!

I know, Britney Spears?  What must I be thinking?  Honestly, I can’t provide anyone with a satisfactory answer other than I have been oddly attracted to the song Toxic ever since hearing it in 2004.  But back to the story at hand.  I now have tablature for the song Toxic, as played by Molly Lewis, and the opening is hard as f*** to play on my poor Lanikai.  Molly’s Fluke has some sustaining power or I just really suck at hammer-on/pull-offs because I can’t get it…yet.  I haven’t given up, but in the mean time I have taken to trying out some of the easier tunes available at Ukulele Hunt such as Take On Me by A-Ha.  As soon as I get better, I may put up a clip for your listening pleasure.  Now I just need to find a way to keep Oppenheimer from trying to play with me while I practice.

1 Jake Shimabukuro playing As My Guitar Gently Weeps

2 Molly Lewis playing Toxic

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