Fingerstyle guitar on Yamaha GL1 Guitalele
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- This is an original tune inspired by legendary African guitarists such as Jean Bosco Mwenda, Daniel Kachamba, and George Sibanda. I thought it nice to try this on a 6-string ukelele, in this case the Yamaha GL1 "Guitalele."
Excellent, couldn't believe a small child's guitar could sound good.
Lovely playing, and these fingerstyles sound great on the guitarlele. Thanks!
John Low?!? Well hello there, and thank you for listening. Now I feel the need to practice and update my content...
Can you put up a tutorial for how to play,this I would love to know because the tune is lovely
Great stuff. The guitalele is a pretty cool little instrument.
Very nice, the melody I had a long time in my head!
+ for a a tutorial! or just a slowed down version. I especially like the second one!
Now that I'm a bit more active here, I think that will be one of my next tasks. Thanks for reminding me ;-)
Bạn chơi nhạc cụ này hay quá! Cảm ơn bạn chia sẻ video nhiều lắm!
if you write where I can find the tab of this song it will be fantastic. thanks!
Cool
make a TAB for all of US PLEEEAAAAASEEEE
Nice!! What song is?
Искал музыку, которая хорошо звучит именно на guitalele. Классика, блюз, и поп-музыка звучат не естественно.
Зато ваша очень органична для этого инструмента! Думаю, еще бразильскую и кубинскую надо послушать.
Спасибо из России!
I love this, thank you for writing & playing it for us!! Do you think something like it is possible on a 4 string ukulele?
Well, I don't have a simple answer. The style here is dependent on the bass note/lower pitched string being played by the thumb, and I think this tune uses all 6 strings. (Though I have worked with a wonderful left-handed Malawian musician who van play this style with the strings reversed, and thus the roles of the thumb and forefinger are switched). There are similar styles and tunes that utilize 5 strings where the second to lowest pitched string is removed. Also, many young guitarists in the southern African region will compose and play songs on a four-string handmade guitar, although this is perhaps a practice that is falling out of favor nowadays, and in those instances where that instrument is used, it is typically strummed rather than picked in a 2-finger style. In any case, on the 4-string ukulele, you will have to deal with the octave displacement of that top string. I'm not really well-versed on the ukulele proper. I'm wondering, though, if looking at finger-style banjo playing would offer a better model for adaptation.
Thanks so much for your reply. I have a low G on my ukulele, which may help. Any way I will give it a go because I am determined to teach myself how to play in this style because I love it so much and don't play guitar. Your video is great and the most helpful I have found for this. Is there a chord sequence you use?
Been spending 2 hours trying to find song... I will assume you put the piece together yourself. In that case, very impressive and nice job!
+TheManne Manne Thanks! Yes this is actually an original tune of mine that I created as a sort of exercise to internalize some African guitar styles from the 50s and 60s like those I mentioned in the description (Mwenda, Kachamba, Sibanda etc.). A couple years ago I performed this and similar songs in Malawi (where I originally learned these styles) and I am now considered quite old-fashioned... :-P
I consider you awesome. Your original tune that you created, is my favorite. Stuck in my head. You should publish it on Itunes or something... Anyway your guitalele must be very happy!
@@rickdejamusic музыка, основанная на народных корнях, никогда не станет старомодной!
Больше огня, товарищ! :)
did you change the strings from the original ones?
+daniwadefac In this video, they are the strings that came with the instrument, which was a display model, so they are pretty dead. I've since restrung it and have used D'Addario EJ45 Pro-Art classical nylon guitar strings or also Aquila Guilele Strings 96C which are designed for this scale/size of instrument.
thank you for the info!
Really nice! TAB please!
+UkulelePusher I'll have to learn TAB first .... :-(
+Tonebrewed TAB is easy - just look here: www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/for_beginners/guide_to_tab_notation.html
That's African fingerstyle? ok I've got alot to learn
To be fair, it's my interpretation of it. The progenitors of the style that inspires my compositions include Jean Bosco Mwenda, George Sibanda, and Daniel Kachamba. They're all at least 100 times better than what I do. I'd recommend searching them on TH-cam. It's old school stuff from the 60s.
how is it African?
Yea that's a good question. This song is inspired by the playing style of Jean Mwenda Bosco (DRCongo) and George Sibanda (Zimbabwe) so I felt I should acknowledge that inspiration. But also, their style is inspired by aspects of old US cowboy music and probably Cuban son, so there's several ingredients I would say. My interpretation is probably more country than African, but the initial inspiration was definitely recordings of African guitarists. I'll post some links below.
th-cam.com/video/QHEDznjPnus/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/05TzG57h0jQ/w-d-xo.html