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Tommy Emmanuel and Jake Shimabokuro, acoustic guitar and ukulele, yes, friends, ukulele.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
You're welcome!
Bake
Skinner
(63,645 posts)First of all, I love that song. And that was just really really cool.
av8rdave
(10,569 posts)That is incredible!
I'm not familiar with Jake Shimabokuro. Time for a little research!
Bake
(21,977 posts)Long under-appreciated here in the U.S.
Just an amazing, amazing guitarist!
Bake
av8rdave
(10,569 posts)Always amazing!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)My mind is already fully blown beyond any doubt or chance of reassembly, but that wafted through the dissolved mobile of dangling concepts like magnificently-tinted clouds at dawn.
GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)Two instruments that fill your soul with musical goodness.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)Such is the power of music.
randr
(12,408 posts)You might like to check out my local community radio every Wednesday morning. Local DJ have featured "The Beatles on Ukulele for more than a year and each week comes up with an equally mind blower.
Thanks!
northoftheborder
(7,565 posts)livetohike
(22,062 posts)DiehardLiberal
(580 posts)As the composer and guitar/ukelele player extraordinaire he would love this!
FredStembottom
(2,928 posts)... forge ahead despite being buried alive under the unworthies that steal the limelight.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)... wait. I'm not posting that.
scubadude
(3,556 posts)This is the version I heard a couple of years back. It is the same Uke Player and same song, sans guitarist. I think it is equally mind blowing.
thucythucy
(7,948 posts)"Brilliant. Just Brilliant."
Bake
(21,977 posts)It's incredible and did indeed blow my mind! I only recently found the duet with Tommy Emmanuel, and it blew my mind all over again.
Bake
MrCoffee
(24,159 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)As Miles Davis said, if you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
And something a little mellower and not so flashy...
Amaril
(1,267 posts)........fall in love with Bohemian Rhapsody all over again. Thanks for that.
onlyadream
(2,156 posts)I just bought my ukulele, and my family thought I was nuts! I'm going to make them watch that video!
Btw, is it just me, or are ukuleles becoming more popular?
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)We're in the middle of the second or third wave of ukulele popularity in the world right now. I've been playing for 8 or 9 years, I guess, and it was a strange thing to do at that time - I didn't know anyone else who played. Now I see loads of students at my university with ukuleles. It's sort of a mixed bag, because it's meant that prices on vintage instruments have gone up a lot, but also that the market is flooded with some really cheap crap.
To be honest, I think the sort of stuff in the video posted above is absolute garbage. It's like bad muzak. Someone can play a beatles song on a ukulele? No shit. They can play them on soprano sax as well, as has been demonstrated on any number of thousands of terrible smooth jazz/muzak recordings. I'd take Stephin Merritt's playing over that garbage any day - nothing fancy, just good solid uke playing as the basis for brilliant songs.
onlyadream
(2,156 posts)The ukulele has a bright, happy unique sound. It's fun to hear it in these type of nontraditional ukulele songs.
The nice thing about ukes is that they're small, easy to carry around and easier to learn than a guitar.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)My first instrument was double bass. I think there is some psychological reason that then made me take up ukulele. I love that it's a carry-on on flights with no questions asked, incredibly light, etc. I don't know if it's easier to learn than guitar or not - I'm self-taught on both, but learned uke first.
I don't want to disparage people liking the stuff that's in the video, I guess - to each his own - but I'm not very interested in arrangements of the work of others when there's so much great, original music being made these days.
onlyadream
(2,156 posts)Two less strings and a shorter fretboard.
I took guitar lessons for years and never came close to mastering it.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Well, I studied bass for 10+ years before giving it up while a major at a university. I don't think it was the number of strings that held me back though - I think it was the career prospects/enjoyment ratio.
If it's the number of strings and fingerboard length that matter, a shitty guitarist must be better than Itzahk Perlman.
...
pro-tip: anyone who tells you they've mastered an instrument hasn't.
Bake
(21,977 posts)Thanks to virtuosos like Jake! My mother had a bariton uke when I was a kid (she still has it, by the way), and that was my introduction to stringed instruments. I remember sitting down and working out Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman" riff on it.
Bake
cilla4progress
(24,554 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,243 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Singer/song-writer .. brilliant, whimsical and hilarious lyrics
Live at OWS
Studio version (lyrics clearer)
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole - tribute
(Note: the spreading of IZ's ashes into the ocean towards the end of the video)
Note:
OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole
(if this version of the song sounds familiar to you it could be that you heard it
at the end of Tim Russert's memorial service in Washington D.C. - while the song
was playing participants were exiting the service and a 'double rainbow' was in the sky outside)
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
BIO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_%22IZ%22_Kamakawiwo%CA%BBole
Bake
(21,977 posts)Thank you for sharing that!
Bake
GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)every time I hear this.
Kablooie
(18,547 posts)Here's Roy Smeck, "Wizard of Strings" from the 1020's
denbot
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libodem
(19,288 posts)For all my friends. Love it.
greendog
(3,127 posts)Aaron Keim