Isekai Ukulele

Tag: Noodling

  • Ukejima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? (3)

    Let’s try out this format: new songs I tried out, songs I worked on, old songs I revisited, and my favorite song of the day. This wont be every song that I played through the day, but maybe just some notable ones. Maybe this will be simple enough for me to handle when I’m exhausted at the end of a stream.

    New songs:

    Touched – VAST

    NYC – Interpol

    Jump Around – House of Pain

    Works in progres:

    Blue Skies – Irving Berlin

    Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins

    Old Songs:

    Never Fade Away – Cyberpunk 2077

    I really want to stay at your house – Cyberpunk 2077

    White and Nerdy – Weird Al Yankovic

    Favorite Song of the Day:

    Tomcat Disposables – Will Wood

  • Witch Hat Ukulele (3)

    Started the day with some random roulette, and finished with a nice block of 90’s alt songs. I’m still so tired. I’m still debating about getting Marvel Tokon when it comes out tomorrow, partially because I might be feeling to tired to have fun learning the new game. I don’t know. At a time like this I would normally make a deal with myself to get the new game in exchange for committing to get more work done, but I don’t know if I really want it or really care. Depression is rough.

  • Witch Hat ‘Ukulele (1)

    Another Electric Ukulele Monday after a weekend playing UBass. I almost wanted to do a RockSmith stream but its extra work to set up. Might try it eventually. Gotta be careful not to wear out my hands though. My streams are 3 hours long because that’s about as much as my voice can handle, but if I keep using my hands afterwards it can get too much too. People often forget that playing music is a very physical, athletic activity. It’s entirely about how you use your muscles, just in a very different way than how we approach sports or exercise.

    I was supposed to figure out a template for these post stream reviews, but I forgot. And I’m still too tired after streaming to function well. I thought I would get used to it eventually, but it just hasn’t happened yet.

  • The Beginning After the ‘Ukulele (2)

    We just passed 200 subscribers on YouTube! Huzzah!

    But, also got news that my upcoming medical procedure that was denied by insurance was also cancelled by the doctor so we can’t even go through the appeal process. The reason it was denied was that there is apparently a team who can do this work in my state (though on a different island, and planes are rough for me cuz its hard to stay flat), but its all up in the air.

    I got a new iPad setup I probably should talk about too, but I’m still kind of just in a bad mood because of the medical stuff, so I’m not gonna write much more right now. Maybe tomorrow.

  • The Most Heretical Last Boss ‘Ukulele (5)

    It’s kind of amazing how quickly what I did in a day disappears from my memory. Even when I know I’m supposed to do this write up after, things just slip my mind. I feel like we played a lot of 90’s hits today, after Charles suggested I try Inside Out by Eve 6 and it turned out that I knew almost the whole thing right off without having heard the song in years. Anyway, I’m super glad that its Friday, hopefully I don’t have a crazy painful weekend again and can tackle next week with vigor.

  • The Most Heretical Last Boss ‘Ukulele (4)

    I was going through the modern pop set today, but then my voice kind of gave out halfway so I spent a good chunk of time doing instrumentals and noodling. Those are always a bit rougher than my vocal pieces, but it is good to practice them too. Guess I need to get better at pacing myself. And practice the instrumentals more. Almost through another week!

  • My RibdUKEulous Reincarnation Part 3

    Started out a little low energy playing random songs, and eventually had to take a decent sized noodling break to recover the voice. I’m feeling like everything I do is just a bit sloppy, and its starting to get to me. But then, I don’t really like putting the effort I need to learn things properly on stream, so then I just play more half-finished songs and kind of get away with it. Kind of. I should have just done a learning stream today, but I was tired and lazy, so I get what I put in. Oh well. Still another day of practice.

  • [Electric Uke Monday] My RibdUKEulous Reincarnation Part 1

    Over the weekend I started watching My Ribdiculous Reincarnation, and man, what a fun show. Turning all the tropes on its head, playing with all sorts of art styles and visual productions, and telling a pretty cool story to boot. I’ve only watched a few of spring 2026 shows so far, but I can tell this is gonna be one of the top ones. So much fun.

    Today on stream it was the Sparrow’s turn to shine. I like Electric Mondays because whenever I pick up the electric uke’s I have a great time… even if its a Monday and I’m dragging myself back to work.

    Started with some anisong, and then got into a long period where I worked on scales. I noticed I was having trouble with a particular hand transition in the two octave scale, and so I drilled down and focused on it a bit. With a bunch of efx on. Seemed like nobody was watching anyway, so I just noodled and practiced for a while. I found an interesting solution involving shifting from my pointer to my ring finger, and now just need to drill that motion a bunch.

  • Ukulele Life in Another World Part 5

    Started the stream with some island style, quickly went into emo, and then spent some time chatting about old cartoons that we grew up with. There was a nice chunk of noodling in the middle there, then ended on some silly songs and favorites. All in all not a bad way to cap off the week!

  • Ukulele Life in Another World Part 4

    It’s funny how if I’m exhausted at the end of the stream I’ll completely forget what I did that day. I know I ended with a bunch of noodling, because I was already tired early and starting to feel a headache coming on.

    A good portion of the stream was spent talking about BoyWithUke with a big fan of his, and that was pretty interesting. I’m only familiar with a handful of his songs, but I got to learn a bit more about his backstory and current status. Seems like he’s now a man with an electric guitar, but these things happen. If the music is good, it doesn’t matter how its made, right?

    Well, I’m still musing over the latest book I read on the Political Economy of Music and chewing over the idea that most “successful” musicians are pawns of the powers that be. I’ve been resisting that – I don’t want to be an Amazon employee. I don’t want to work for YouTube, or Meta, or Patreon. In my misfortune, I’m lucky enough to be in a spot where I can make music without my daily bread on the line, so then, what do I want to do?