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CSKPlayer
Aloha
USA
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 Posted - 10/30/2010 : 4:09:54 PM
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Aloha to the Ohana!
Havn't posted in a while-still practicing the guitar and searching for tabs. Just recently bought an ukulele, planning to learn "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" by Iz.
A hui ho
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 10/31/2010 : 06:16:43 AM
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| I recommend low G stringing to follow in Iz' footsteps. It makes a lot of styles sound better, too. Jesse |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 10/31/2010 : 6:19:23 PM
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| Rod Lopez, Sr, maintains that the low G ukulele is a different instrument from the high G one. Different use in the band, different to play. He told me that he used to carry one of each for gigs. |
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Mika ele
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2010 : 09:15:03 AM
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As is the case with an orchestra containing violins, violas, cellos, etc -- The reentrant tuning and Low-G each have a different "vocal" range and have different parts to play in a band. A soprano, concert, tenor, or baritone will have different sounds. They may be tuned cgea, adf#b, dgbe or even one of a thousand slack key tunings. They are still all instruments in the ukulele family.
IZ recorded his version with a tenor ukulele tuned to low-G (GCEA). If your intent is to sound like IZ then that would be the approach that sounds the closest (except, of course, for that singular vocal only Iz could do). You should also play the C chord in the first inversion (slide a Bb up two frets) and play the G chord as a barred F at the second fret. Then pick the bass note on the #4 string and strum. Without the low-G tuning you will not get the same "walking bass" sound that Iz produced in his C/G/Am/F Chord progression. |
E nana, e ho'olohe. E pa'a ka waha, e hana ka lima. |
Edited by - Mika ele on 11/01/2010 09:15:28 AM |
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