I am in Ubulele's corner on this as well. I do want to say one thing though: just because you play moveable shapes, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to play all the strings. I use moveable shapes 95% of the time, but I also don't play the G string at times. And there are some shapes like the major chord rooted on the C string where I always mute the A string.
We say status where I live. Like stat-iss.
@donboody- My pronunciation analogy was lousy. As a result of the many kind responses from UU world, I now understand that, if ever I should travel to Hawaii and speak of said instrument, it’s a oo-koo-lei-lei. In all other settings, it’s a uke. Cheers!
Haha you’re not wrong
When in Rome, my friend …
And some of the most popular ones are frankly very mediocre players...
That might be a good thing if they all were teaching good ukulele skills. But I don't use these social media so can't comment if they were causing more harm than good.
My wife would put it in far blunter but highly appropriate language, "Get over yourself" and "Stop letting Foster live rent-free in your head".
LOL!
It especially bothers me the number of guitar players/teachers who suddenly decided to give ukulele lessons. They all just jumped on a quarantine bandwagon and don't take it seriously. Just doing it for the clicks/views. Just because you can play one stringed instrument and understand some music theory doesn't make you a master of all stringed instruments. Yes, some of the same techniques apply as they are in the same kind of instrument family, but they're not by any means the same instrument. A ukulele is not a "toy guitar." Most of them don't even hold it/strum it right.
There was one exceptionally popular teacher I came across in my early days of learning uke. I didn't particularly care for what they were teaching so I moved on to other lessons, but several months later I came back across one of their videos and realized just how simple their playing was. Basically just teaching a myriad of four chord songs with absolutely no complexity to their playing. Really odd that they're so popular. Maybe I should make a channel...
Yeah… once someone spends more time they realize how much magic some one like Herb Ohta San can extract from a thumb and occasional index finger and why Jake and James are who they are. That said a large number of players use the ukulele as a chord generator while singing and they don’t really need more than what these online teachers dumb down and sell on YouTube
Regarding "play and sing" sessions, in solo or group.
It is notable that those good players did not learn from videos but mainly from growing up in a ukulele community with many in-person teachers and mentors! It would be nice to have a global online community like this instead of the myriad of disconnected videos.
