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Couldn’t resist. Bought this a moment ago. This will sound much better than the Mahalo I already have, it comes with a hard case and very good strings AND I ordered it directly from Hawaii! (Through Musicguymic’s ebay store.)

I can’t wait!

On somewhat of a whim, I decided to buy myself a ukulele. The impulse was so strong that - afraid I wouldn’t get to the store in time - I asked a friend to go and buy it for me to make sure I got it as soon as possible. So from Italmelodie on Jean-Talon I got a Mahalo Concert electro-acoustic Ukulele.

The same night I got the beast, I started looking online to see what’s available and how to start. I was very surprised at the quantity of quality material on the web. Lots of basic lessons, tutorial videos, reviews, techniques, songs tutorial and songbooks. It’s amazing!

I have very little experience with stringed instruments: a few weeks of bass guitar last year and a few hours of ukulele from my 4th grade or so. Just enough to know what I’m tackling. I have a good base of music theory but there’s not much from my four years of tuba in high-school that can be transposed to the Ukulele. So I really needed help to get started.

I am still practicing the basics, I won’t be posting my own stuff yet… but I should start linking to and posting ukulele stuff once in a while. For now let’s start with my basic bookmarks (if you’re in the least interested in learning to play the uke, be sure to visit ukuleleunderground.com):

• Ukulele Online Tuner
• Basic Ukulele Chords
• Aldrine’s Guerrero’s Ukulele Underground
• Aldrine Guerrero’s Viddler videos
• Ukulele Chord Finder
• ukulelesongs.com - a good list of ukulele songs
• Ukulele Boogaloo Songbook
• Richard G’s Ukulele Songbook
• Hawaii Music Supply’s Online lessons
• The Ukulizer english songs
• Chordie.com - a huge catalog of song chords

That’s it for now, I have to go back and work on my G chord family transitions.

Done with the website xtranormal.com, a very interesting toy. They even have Québécois voices and different style of characters and scenes.

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Quicklinks:

• Fruit and vegetables sculptures
• Weird cars mods
• 3d sidewalk art

Thanks mil!

Woot! It’s time (for me) to go over it all again from the start. If you haven’t read it do your eyes a favor let them enjoy Rice Boy.

Once your done with Rice Boy, switch over to Evan Dahm’s new project Order of Tales It’s updated often so it’s worth it to keep current. I love his naïve style and the themes of this one.