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Lokahi
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 Posted - 01/26/2007 : 09:35:52 AM
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| Lots to learn in your video! I appreciate the pattern information vamp - pattern - vamp - pattern - vamp. I hadn't gotten that far yet in terms of analyzing slack key composition. It means that I need to pay more attention to the "vamp", which I presume is the fundamental, improvisational element, where you are freed from the pattern long enough to make a musical statement. (I was trying to implement tunes in the pattern itself, which was proving rather difficult and not yielding the desired results, forcing it to be interspersed with the bass pattern in betweeen melodic segments, and inducing southern blues and bluegrass effects in what I've been working on. Restoring the pattern in a very fixed manner and using the vamp repeatedly should solve that problem.) Playing close to the bridge is also useful information. I heard that you were using "D major" ("wahine") tuning. The D major scale is, of course, C# D E F# G A B (which is also the scale to which most Irish traditional music is written). For ukulele tuning, with a G-C-E-A string set, I'd be using G C# E F# for "D wahine" (D woman) tuning??? One could get the impression that the name suggests that this is intended to be easier on the fingers of a woman playing a steel stringed guitar by placing less tension on some strings relative to fretting. I can try this with a G-C-E-A string set, although I suspect G-C-E-G (taro patch) is more practical with a nylon stringed standard ukulele, because that high A string starts to buzz a bit more as you loosen it up, particularly if you play closer to the bridge (and even more so if you have a finger on a fret on the "A" string and your bridge needs some work). With nylon strings, tension isn't really that big a deal relative to tearing up one's fingers while fretting with a ukulele (although there is clearly value in musical variation). The Joni Mitchell string numbering system that you mentioned is way over my head. I normally just try to handle things in the most basic terms possible, hoping to make the most of what I know I can understand and immediately apply. Thanks for all the great information, fine examples, and inspiration! (As for singing in falsetto, I'll leave that to those for whom it is part of their native culture, implemented with suitable respect and seriousness rather than as a nauseating lark in western music. You do it Hawaiian style very well!) |
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