How to buy ukulele[blog5]

How to buy ukulele

1.    Ukulele Body : is very affect to sound , good sound or bad sound is up to raw material , Mainly material Is from Solid wood and Laminated Wood                                                                                  

-         Laminated  - close the Surface with Laminated , sound will different by wood close skin with mahogany will provide soft void , if use sprunce will provide audio stream.

-         Solid – provide melodic , resound , identity of sound will change by type of wood , Maple wood will provide clear void , but price will increase by quality , and rarity of wood , for example Koa wood is most expensive because it’s only available in Hawaii and hard to find it .

2.    Fingerboard and Bridge Ukulele : medium grade , mostly use Rosewood to be fingerboard and Bridge it increased life time , and possesses strong , more resistant

3.    Fret : is the most problem of Ukulele , characteristic of fret will give you a strange sound while you playing , how to check fret Is easy , press cable to middle fret , then flip the fret until last cable, if not found , oK you can reliable.

4.    Size of Ukulele have 5 size along

     1. Sopranino 
     2. Soprano  
     3. Concert
     4. Tenor 
     5. Baritone 

But the most common is are

-         Soprano(21) small size , provide a pitched tones, small tone , Due to its small size , that made fingerboard small size same , amount of fret is 12 fret , but some produce have 15 fret , to support many kind of style , so ukulele soprano size original is comfortable to play strike a chords and sing a song , easy to carrying with traveling , who want more solo you can going to buy other type of soprano more fret then you can play more note.

-         Concert(23) : bigger from soprano affected to the sound , sound is tone deep , but still have sound like soprano , bigger body made it have more fret from 14 to 17 , up to style of it , it’s supported for finger picking style more.

-         Tenor (26) – bigger from concert and sound is deep and soft like guitar , up to raw material , have 17 – 19 fret and supported finger picking ( melody , solo ) as well , because size of finger board is big like body , Professional musician are popular use this .

String of Ukulele : quality of cable is affected to the sound like body , different brand is different sound same, for the popular brand cable is Aquila String property is soft and loun.

Chords of Ukulele [blog4]

Chords Ukulele

Ukulele use same chord as guitar but there is different chord handle because the cable is different from guitar  and ukulele have 4 cable but guitar have 6 cable , As a result, how to capture the different chords , but remember ukulele use same chords as guitar , then you can buy a chords book same as guitar to learn and play .

How to read chords

Reading ukulele chords is same as guitar for example chords C or C major

4 Line is each cable ukulele

From up to down G > C  > E > A

For each block that have number from 1-4 is fret Is that the neck down a ukulele

From block 1 down to 4

And red point is the where you have to put your finger there for get a sound of chords that you want

In the picture is chords C

My musical life [blog3]

My Musical Life

How you feel when you didn’t hear anything , for me , I still love it when I heard it ,I used my free time to sing a song and listen to music in my bed room , because when I heard music It made me feel relax and happy all time I used to live with my lovely music instrument , my interested music instrument is flip music instrument , I have first music instrument when I was 16 years old , my brother bought it to me that is guitar I feel happy and really like it .

 I keep it to go to school everyday,to let’s my friend that have experience to teach me about this , everytime when I take a rest at noon I actually come to my study room and sing a song with guitar but I always still be watching because I can’t play it , I’m trying to play guitar with my friend and training in my bed room everydays.

          

           So I can play it but not good enough , because it so bigger and my hand is too small , hard to control chords , and it hurts my hand so much , and I feel dismissed but I also didn’t think to stop play it ,

Until I was 18 years old ,I found a new one , the body is look like guitar but it smaller than guitar,

It’s Ukulele , I think It will instead to my old guitar , it’s should be comfortable with my smaller hand, I though I could play it nice , I have to collect my money to buy it , in that time ukulele is too expensive , I have to save my money to buy it in 4,000 bath , oh my god !!!! it’s too expensive , but I’m not serious with that cause I really want it so much , then I made it I can buy it , I didn’t waiting I went to future park and bought it in shop instrument , then I told the seller to teach me in shop , when I begin to play it , i feel easy to play , because ukulele is small and easy to control chords , it comfortable with my hand , after that I open youtube and learning to play ukulele in front of computer everyday.

           

            I used 1 month and I can play it , I feel happy that I can do it , thereafter I like to play it for other , and play music , recording video , sing happy birthday to my sister at lampang ,

Me and sister used ukulele to surprise , go up to the stage and sing a song to my sister wedding , both of them are really happy and crying with happiness , and I feel happiness same that I can made my sister feel happy with my song that I gave to them , although the time go through it , I still happiness to sing a song and playing music always . 

History of Ukulele [blog 2]

History of Ukulele

Talking about Musical instrument that very popular in Thailand this time , i can’t miss this one figure like guitar but smaller than , we call it Ukulele now it is very popular for newbie and circles of music ,by the melodic of ukulele like guitar but easy to carrying , importantly , look like this one is faster popular more than guitar right now.

Ukulele was born from Hawaii , in century 19 or 150 years ago, beginning from portuguese musicians across the sea to the shore Hanolulu of Hawaii , he carried musical instrument look like small guitar calling Cavaquinho , and generate interest to native Hawaiian in that time , Eventually cavaquinho has been modified by Portuguese musicians to be Ukulele , use for entertainment in Hawaii and after that , It has also been used extensively in the islands since then, until about year 1950 ukulele has been going to around the world and it was very popular, that made ukulele changed to be The international instrument finally .

At present , Ukulele has been come to popular again , and many musician used it in music video , John Johnson , Jason Mraz and John Mayer , that very famous , and their album has knew by people around the world ,  meanwhile ukulele have more people interest , no matter Europe , Asia , and our country , Thailand have use Ukulele to produce music , Especially Jaze and soft music.

          
           For the price of Ukulele is around 1,500 – 50,000 or more than this , it’s up to raw material and quality , there are a lot of Ukulele Club now , for show your ukulele and size of Ukulele is small , it’s easy to learn , now ukulele has been use for newbie before play guitar .