The Ukelele Thread

So I just bought my first ukelele - a cheap and cheerful yellow-painted Mahalo. At £15.99, everyone in the UK should own one imho. I'm gonna be teaching myself some chords this week. Anyone else a player?

Yes indeed. In case you weren't aware and this is helpful, ukulele chords are fingered the same as on the first four strings of a guitar. If you're playing a soprano uke tuned to G' C E A, the chords will sound like a guitar capoed at the fifth fret. So if you play a D shape on a guitar, it's a D. If you play that same shape on a uke, it'll be a G.

I got an electric uke as a present last year, but I haven't done a ton with it apart from being annoying and playing "Moon River" a lot. Using the string relationships like the top end of a guitar is a big help, yes. Equally nice to learn how many chords I'd play in complex ways on guitars are just one- or two-finger deals on uke.

so.... this is hard

Become very fond of the one I bought recently! The intonation is a little wonky, but not bad enough that I can't work around it.

i'll stick by my ukulele through thick and thin and twee-bashing. or since i've just bought a new guitar maybe... i won't. but most of my incompetent musical fun lately has come from throwing it through some pedals and seeing what happens, e.g. https://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/ft