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| Posted: Tue Jan 9th, 2007 05:39 pm |
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Hi Richard : I'm doing this for the first time, not sure if i'm in the right area. What I was wondering do you recomend any books that are easy for a person to convert to clawhammer uke. I'm having a ball with what I've printed out from your Uke section on clawhammer. I've been at it about 3 months , I'm at the young age of 70 years old. Heydaye Dublin, Oh
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| Posted: Tue Jan 9th, 2007 05:57 pm |
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Hi Heydaye, Good for you! You oughta look up Charlie here on the forums. He started at about 70 also and has done great. There's nothing I can really recommend as far as books for clawhammer uke. It's a pretty small field. I think clawhammer banjo books might confuse you more than help you since they're for the banjo, but the technique is the same. I'm planning on doing more stuff for clawhammer uke this year, so stay tuned. 
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| Posted: Tue Jan 9th, 2007 06:17 pm |
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Hey Heydaye, Welcome to this wonderful world of ukulele's and banjo's and what ever Richard has set up for us. I believe Richard invented the clawhammer ukulele music, no one else has heard of it and I guess there is no books for it except what Richard has on this site. What you can do is learn the single string melody and then put in the Bump-Dity as needed as you go and work it out that way, I can't do the way tab is writen, so Just make up my own sound and I believe that is the way most players do it. Just practice the Bump-Dittie sound long enought and it will fit in to the melody as you go. I am 74 years old now and as you are , really enjoying music now for the first time in my life, I am in the process of learning to do clawhammer on a 4 string tenor banjo as the same way on the ukulele. So it is always just learning to do what sounds OK and having fun with it. Good luck and let us hear from you Charlie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10th, 2007 02:27 pm |
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Charlie: Thanks for the reply, I guess I have hopes after all. I have been taking some of the old songs I know and trying to add the bum ditty. It really is great fun. For 32 years I have been teaching and calling Western Square Dancing. So i just love the music. Richard really has a God given talent , I have listen to several of his MP3 and he his great. You have fun with 4 string banjo. I had a 5 string banjo at one time but gave up after 2 years. UKE is different. Keep Playing Heydaye
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10th, 2007 02:27 pm |
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Heydaye Approved
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Charlie: Thanks for the reply, I guess I have hopes after all. I have been taking some of the old songs I know and trying to add the bum ditty. It really is great fun. For 32 years I have been teaching and calling Western Square Dancing. So i just love the music. Richard really has a God given talent , I have listen to several of his MP3 and he his great. You have fun with 4 string banjo. I had a 5 string banjo at one time but gave up after 2 years. UKE is different. Keep Playing Heydaye
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10th, 2007 03:46 pm |
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Charlie Approved
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Hi again Heydaye, Good to hear from you and hear that you did square danceing and calling and teaching I have some great friends down here in Texas that did that, When I was a youger man, I had a teacher by the name of Ramond Smith that did the calling here and another good friend was Walt McNeel and Rocky Strickland that called here, you may have ran across them in your days also. Let me hear how things go with your learning on the ukulele and let us know if you need any help. Charlie
____________________ Yesterdays Tomorrow is Today http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/charlesculbertson |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11th, 2007 02:06 pm |
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strings Approved
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Hey, Really, I have been been playing this for a while and didn't know that there were others. My style is more just a thumb hammer on ( I can play clawhammer banjo), but this is great fun. Skip to my Lou, I've been working on the Railroad, Wildwood flower-they just flow. And backup for vocals. I use it for old hymns also and it works great. Tune the top string up to guitar style tuning or the bottom string down for plectrum banjo tuning-it's all right there. I play a Kamaka 6 string, so I can fingerpick, using the inside high C as a "banjo 5th) and play some bluegrass, even some "melodic" uke. 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11th, 2007 02:25 pm |
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Charlie Approved
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Hey Strings Welcome to ezfolk here, Isn't it amazing how we can come up with different sounds that we can, I had never tried any thing except just plain strumming till I came across this web site a couple of years ago and it got me going on different instruments and finding different ways to make music, sometimes my noise does not sound like music, but its fun. I play the same songs that you talked about as I do play with a group every week at nursing homes and we play old time songs and gospel music that most of the people there knows. Let us hear from you often Charlie
____________________ Yesterdays Tomorrow is Today http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/charlesculbertson |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11th, 2007 05:58 pm |
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strings Approved
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Hey Charlie, Me too!!!, we do a retirement home ministry, and I go to some convelescent homes, my uke works well, I can hold the volume down when I go bed to bed or if I get to play in a lobby setting full of people-kick it up some. I tune it "plectrum style" and can fingerpick lots of slow hymns-"Crown Him with many crowns" etc.-or clawhammer (w/ me it's hammer thumb) and pick and sing "What a Friend", "I love to tell the story", "I'll fly away" etc. and C works well for me for singing. I've worked some with a capo, but I still need to experiment-it's uncomfortable. I have 4 different ones that I use for 5 string banjo and I have one more that I haven't tried yet. I always arrive early and strum some old standards-5'2'' and such, this brings the people in. The uke is versitile, pleasant to listen to, small and light. They travel well (airplane) and young and old seem to enjoy it. I've got some opinions on another thread about strings-I could use some more volume, I go out on the streets with it all, and I'd love to use the uke. Last edited on Thu Jan 11th, 2007 06:54 pm by strings |
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