Isekai Ukulele

Tag: Ocatave GCEA

  • [Electric Bari Uke] The 100 ‘Ukulele Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Love You (1)

    We noodled a lot today while talking about a bunch of fun topics. I recently finished reading Nick Bostrom’s SuperIntelligence and gave some of my thoughts on that, and then had a fairly long discussion about Power and society. Max Stirner was the philosopher whose name I forgot, so I’ll be sure to bring him up again next time.

    I’ve been getting a creeping feeling to buy a new guitar pedal, so Instead of instantly succumbing I found a new effect on my H90 to play around with it and I’ve been really enjoying it. This led to a little Shoegaze set, followed by some interesting versions of other songs. The noodling was lots of fun too though, really don’t want to discount that.

    I still kind of want a dedicated reverb pedal, but for now I shall resist.

    Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

    • New Songs Attempted
      • Thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton
      • Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
    • Works in Progress
      • Actual Cannibal Labeouf – Rob Cantor
      • Teardrop – Massive Attack
    • Learned Songs Revisited
      • Liquid Paper – Ariel
      • When the Sun Hits – Slowdive
      • 23 – Blonde Redhed
    • Song of the Day: Something – The Beatles
      • So nice I ran through it twice! It took me a try to figure out the chords and iconic lick, and felt like it deserved a second run without distortion.

  • I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest ‘Ukulele in My Class (1)

    Oops, I forgot again to do my post stream review. Electric ukulele’s are just so much fun I got lost in it. There were a couple new songs to talk about to… dang, I already forget what I did yesterday…

  • 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 Most Heretical Last Boss ‘Ukulele (1)

    I had a pretty rough weekend, a massive migraine took me out for most of Saturday and then Sunday was spent recovering, and even now I’m still a little faded. I did get to watch a bunch of anime, cuz that’s what I do when the head hurts too much to think, and The Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior was the best of the crop. I’m a sucker for those Villainess anime, and it was the perfect way to kill the a day.

    But yeah, not feeling great, and that’s why Monday’s are electric uke days! Its always so fun to play them it doesn’t even matter how I feel. Every time I pick one up I have a good time, and today was no exception. Today we played the Fanner, tried a bunch of new songs (the list continues to grow) and played some old favorites. Its always hard to switch back and forth between GCEA and DGBE, but the more I do it the easier it gets. All in all a great way to start the week.

  • Electric Uke Monday! Ukulele Life In Another World Part 1

    I started with the story of how I came to own the Fanner, went into some of the songs I tripped over yesterday at the beach, wandered for a while and tried to learn some new songs, then got turned on the distortion and ended the day with some emo songs.

    Every time I play the electric ukulele’s I have an absolute blast, its just that I always feel like I want to play them with a full band accompaniment, and I don’t see that happening anytime in my near future. So, for now they’re gonna stay my way to kick off the week and have fun with music. Ain’t that the point?!