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So I feel really awkward posting this here, but I need some ukulele help.

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Jace:
Guitar has strumming patterns on lots of songs. I suck at playing guitar and I still know that there are strumming patterns. Possibly you could try taking the advice offered instead of being so stupid. You are stupid. Do you know what you are talking about when you talk about an instrument you play when you ask for advice on how to play that instrument? You are dildos.

ampersandwitch:

--- Quote from: Emaline on 12 Aug 2010, 21:41 ---violin player  [...] Not all stringed instruments are created equal!

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Apropos of nothing, violins also have down/up patterns, but they are called 'bowing' in this instance.  Man, string instruments sure are zany!*

*I have been drinking

Ballard:
To clarify:

You strum up on a guitar all the time.

I watched the Belle & Sebastian video and the ukulele concept of strumming pattern is identical to that of guitar.

I would not give a violin player advice because I don't play a violin. However, a ukulele is absolutely a miniature guitar in every way.

The widely accepted standard tuning on a guitar is low to high (although generally you would look at it from the ground up, making it high to low) but you can tune a guitar to countless different things. The ability to correspond attack with pitch is pretty essential knowledge for most string players. It's a simple matter of dynamics.

There's about a dozen ways to play this "strumming pattern" properly. One of them, the simplest, is to strum up and down six times a beat, putting an accent on the first beat of every measure.

Another, sparser way is D DUDUD DUDU switch chord repeat. The result is essentially the same, if slightly more defined. I'm sure Condon has played both before. Strumming pattern is a pretty fluid thing. It's only important to be mathematically precise about it until you are comfortable enough with the dynamics of your instrument to switch it up.

I'm annoyed because generally it is considered obnoxious to ask for advice, refute it, be overwhelmingly wrong, and continue to assert your knowledge on the matter.

Eris:

--- Quote from: Emaline on 12 Aug 2010, 21:41 ---I can't play a clairnet and then expect to also know how to play a recorder, or a flute, or a saxophone, because they are all different!

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Actually, the clarinet and the saxophone are fairly similar, and it is pretty easy to transition from one to another. Especially if you play tenor sax, as it's in the same key, uses the same fingering and all that. I know a fair few clarinettists who play both quite easily. They even go from the clarinet to the different saxophones, putting them in different keys, quite easily! The flute would be hard to change over to because it uses a fundamentally different way to create a sound in the instrument, as it doesn't use a reed like the clarinet and sax.

Emaline:
They are not guitars! Go buy a ukulele now, and let me know when you learn to play. Seriously. They aren't the same.

And Jace, its different to ask for advice and then refuse it for no reason. But what Gene was saying was going against things I had previously heard. From ukulele players. I'm asking for advice about ukulele, Gene plays guitar and gave his advice, ukulele players have said something different, whos opinion should I trust? I don't ask a hunter how to bake a cake. Make sense?


And I wasn't trying to offend and annoy anyone! Like I said I felt bad for disagreeing, but I'd rather disagree and stand up for myself than take bad(as I see/saw it) advice, and continue to be wrong.


It's really unfortunate that Jace and Jens cannot be adults about this. Do you guys really need to call me stupid for disagreeing with you? Really?

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