Will, your link is MAGIC. The Hirschfeld line art on LSD and the uke finger picking is what I was looking for in the void. The electronic feeds going backwards and forwards and turning into ambient resonance is familiar since the Beatles.
You have been a big help with your own website.

Joe not ever having played a fretted instrument it took me a year to finger or chord without lots of noise or buzz. It will take me another year or more to learn 3 finger picking.


Make friends with your uke? Hell I never would have mentioned it but I sleep with it and practice in front of a TV and reproduce ideas from films and such on the tube. I started with what I already knew from violin and cello.

Joe once you get a bit of proficiency more improvements come in tiny quantum leaps. I can't always reproduce the improvement the next day but I know its there. Adding vibrato and note bending and ornaments is the mustard and mayonnaise and lettuce of a uke sandwich.

If you practice rhythm uke strumming with 7 or more chord changes remember I assume it will take a great guitarist less time to learn. For a neophyte it will take twice that;^)


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I practice play by ear but with my eyes closed to force more muscle memory. I still peek though.

The bad news is that there are no cheating shortcuts worth keeping.