Update plus Scottish Lute Music on Ukulele in 5ths Tuning - Rob MacKillop
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Oh, this is so lovely. Stops me in my tracks on a stressful day.
Thank you Rob. That was so beautiful, it made my day.
Cheers, Neal. Glad you liked it.
Always a pleasure watching your videos
Hi German. Take care.
Thank you! The intimate dimension of your music is heartwarming.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful work Rob! Thanks! Wishing you a full and complete recovery!
Cheers, Curt. Getting there - slowly!
I needed this Rob, thank you so much... Get better soon!
Thanks, Rémi.
Keep on recovering, and thank you for the lovely generous music.
Thanks, William. All the best.
Get better soon Mr MacKillop! That was brilliant, thanks!
Cheers, George!
It sounds beautiful.
I'm glad to see that you're doing well and exploring music. I know how hard (and expensive) it can be when you feel restless and start searching for a new instrument that speaks to you.
Thanks for posting Rob - lovely music, as always - hope your recovery is swift.
Thanks Trevor. I hope so too. It has been two months now!
Glad to see that you are feeling better! Your playing is, as always, an inspiration! Thank you!
Cheers, Stephen. I'm getting there.
Beautiful!
Thanks, Marilyn!
Every time I get notified about a new video from you I go: "YES!!!!"
Glad to see you, stay safe! Thanks for your video!
Thanks, Carlos.
Very nice as usual,all the best with recovery....
Cheers, Paul.
Good to see you Rob! Glad you're on the mend.
Hi Andrew! Take care.
Beautiful, very sweet!! Well done!! Very nice instrument! I wish you the best!
Thank you, Spiros.
That was lovely, Rob. Nice to see that you've been feeling well enough to play some wonderful Scottish lute music on your uke. :)
Cheers, Wilson.
so good to see and hear you ag in as always, Rob, hope you mend very soon and gain more energy and strength to enjoy all your creative joys again, as someone said, we need and love you 😊♥️ loved the tunes, thank you!
Ha, best wishes, Cathy. Always good to hear from you. Cheers from Bonnie Scotland ;-)
fantastic sr..
I'm so sorry to hear you've been struck. So nice to hear your music again. Your uke books have helped me so much through exhausting illness. Thinking of you. Best wishes from Melbourne, Australia.
Thanks, Simon. I hope you have recovered, or recover soon. Best wishes.
Great music. Thank you.
Cheers, William. Glad you like it.
Enjoyed this very much. Might need to try that 5ths tuning. Sorry to hear that you were ill. Hope you fully recover quickly.
Cheers, John. It's a fun tuning, for sure.
Hope you’re completely well by now. I really enjoy your videos. Gonna go to your blog right away :) Best wishes.
Cheers, Paola. See you around!
Lovely stuff. Take care.
Thanks, John. You too.
Beautiful! Get well soon
Glad you like it. Thank you!
Beautiful music as always Rob! I really hope you get better soon. I’ve been watching your channel for the last 4 years, it was my 21st birthday last week. It’s videos like this that help keep me motivated for music. :)
Cheers, Aiden. Hopefully you'll be playing music all your life, so do it your way. Best wishes.
Good to see you back! Beautiful music as always...
Cheers, old friend. Good to see you back!
@@RobMacKillop1 I love the ukulele used to play this kind of music! More please...
Rob, I really am enjoying the music you're playing, I'm writing while listening, also I have read your description after listening your speech, I like the detail of putting the time when music starts, even though I really like knowing a little of the context about the things you're about to play, it's just because I try to figure what you thought when you decided to put that. Anyway, thanks for sharing this pieces, I like them a lot, greetings from Colombia.
Cheers, Juan. Greetings from Scotland! I’m pleased you like the music.
It is soooo nice! 💗🧡💛
Glad you think so!
Magnifique 😊👏
Merci, Hervé!
Thank you for the inspiring music once again. Wishing you strength and positivity for your recovery. To me, you're an unusually inspiring and likable person.
Well, that's nice to know. My philosophy: Be kind. Be Gentle. Create beauty. And don't let the bastards grind you down! :-)
Hear hear!
Duly seconded, & suscribed!!
Such a lovely ambience all round: B&W video, birdsong etc, & such sumptuous music making. Aesthetically pleasing all round!!
PS Ended up here via research into Aquila strings, having been thrilled by the tonal qualities of just one Uke 'Red' G string recently fitted to my beloved £3, recyle shop, 1/4 size, Binatone guitar converted to FCGD 5ths )
Beautiful, haunting, I’m so glad you are on the mend and have 17thc lute music to “go back to” even without the lute. Your uke is very resonant and sweet.
Cheers, Mai. Easier to hold too!
Those are some bonny tunes there Rob.Nice of you to drop by now and then- a pleasant surprise, in fact !
Cheers, Max. I know this repertoire inside out, and in a number of tunings too!
Hauntingly beautiful...lovely. Thank you!☹️
Cheers, Gerry. But why the sad face?
@@RobMacKillop1 Wups!! Typed this in the " wee hours" and hit the wrong emoji 🤣!!! Question ... planning on restringing my all koa uke for lute tunes....or maybe invest in another uke for the purpose. If I do go for another uke what type wood would you suggest for the soundboard?
@@gerigolway1723 Ha, it happens! As for sound boards, all lutes have spruce, preferably alpine. Cheers, Rob.
@@RobMacKillop1 Thanks for your speedy reply! Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year.
Rob, the uke absolutely sings under your fingers. Scottish soul music
Ta, lassie.
Sorry to hear the virus got you, but good to see you recovering! Take care.
So glad to see you making a good recovery. Take it slowly.
I recently bought your book on Bach's Cello suite for Tenor Banjo, which I find excellent. I don't have a Banjo but I do have a Tenor guitar in CGDA which I love, and I've strung my Tenor Uke the same way, and I love it. The Uke string set for CGDA fifths tuning is: Aquila 31U.
Thanks so much Rob and take care.❤️🎸🎶
Cheers, David. I keep meaning to get a tenor guitar...
Rob, I've been very concerned about your Covid bout. I'm happy and grateful that you are recovering! The beauty of your artistry coupled with the humility of your character results in a principled but also "comfortable" approach to classical that I appreciated when studying with you and still benefit from in your videos. We need you, Rob. You are so unique in the guitar world. Thank you so much for everything and please continue to take care, my friend and teacher.
Cliff Mayes
...to classical *guitar*...
So sorry to learn you’ve been so ill and very happy to know you’re on the mend. I am loving this beautiful music played by you on ukulele. I was playing from your Sanz book just an hour ago. Your ukulele books have been a joy in my life. Thank you for them!
Hi Shari. Thanks for that. I love those Sanz pieces. Now, if you use 5ths tuning, you will have an excuse for buying another ukulele :-) And if you do, my mandolin and tenor-banjo books will give you a lot of repertoire, not to mention every mandolin, violin and cello score ever written. The potential repertoire Is HUGE. Cheers.
Rob MacKillop Very intriguing! I played violin for many years, so this interests me, and an excuse to buy another ukulele too!
@@sharierickson7206 Perfect!
Rob, you save my day everytime you let us folks participate with your thoughts, poems and music! Once more, I enjoyed your playing very much. I guess your mandolin book is my next uke-challenge after trying some movements of the bach suites (without reaching to your knees, though). The Buddha-like quote of your blues-book has become my Mantra, not only when playing: "Take it slow and easy. Don't push yourself too hard." It's simply THE KEY! My other favorites are: "440Htz is for suckers!" and "Don't let the bastards grind you down!". Sure as hell I'll shortly have them printed on my shirts in Remington Noiseless type. Please recover quickly and completely! And don't push yourself too hard! ;-)
Ha, great post, Frau! You've made my day :-)
Haunting beautiful music and playing. Get better soon Rob !!
Cheers, Gilbert. Have you anything in 5ths tuning?
@@RobMacKillop1 so that's in G D A E ? I could try to compose/arrange something
@@Isbin_ Yes. I'm tuned a 6th lower, but any tab would be the same. I am thinking I'm in GDAE, and read straight from violin scores, only it comes out a 6th lower.
@@RobMacKillop1 I will have a try on it Rob !
I have sent you a piece Rob !
Sweet music, Rob! Please take care of yourself! Just to give you a smile, I will admit to have taken up the modern cittern and the multitude of tunings is threatening to cause my head to explode. :)) Rest up. Be well
Ha. Understood! I've lost count of the number of tunings I play it, but that's where tab comes in handy! But with 5ths tuning, I found reading standard notation is almost as easy as tab.
I always wondered what kind of person buys old typewriters. I had a look at some of the typing on your blog and I can see why you like them, so much nicer than computers.
Brilliant musician and photographer, I'm so envious, lol. You're ace. I hope you get better soon. :)
Cheers, Soozie. Get yourself down to TypeWrongers across from Elm Row. They have old typewriters for sale. :-)
Sooo sends me to sleep
In a nice way lol
Lovely tone to your uke 👍
Cheers, wingo. Glad you like it!
Thanks Rob! I repurposed my ukulele from a low G (Ohta-san) set up to a 5ths tuning in D with the Aquila Reds. I like the 5ths tuning quite a lot.
I always thought the "old timey" re -entrant A tuning of the ukulele was sweeter than the re-entrant G.
The ukulele continues to surprise us.
That got my motor running. A ukulele ,tuned like a viol or mandolin ,is getting my muse all hot and bothered. I’m finding myself obsessing over the idea of playing a mandolin piece called the “Dixie Rag” on fifth tuned ukulele.
I’m just beginning to be able to breathe through my nose again after I had the new “cootie” in February. I’m suspecting that it leaves a lot of systemic micro damage that takes a while to get over. Hang in there. I’m just starting to perk up a little after four months. The stuff is not the flu and it’s no joke. It’s frustrating to feel so exhausted. Some kind of whole body exercise definitely helps.Good luck.
I really like the black and white video. It evokes a comfortable dream like quality.
Sorry to hear you've been through it too. Four months, eh? Two down, two to go. I'll get there!
Always fascinated by the ukulele, many years ago it was my first intrument. Hope you will recover soon.
Hi Hans. I got my first ukulele aged eight. It's what got me started.
@@RobMacKillop1 Age 10, 59 years ago.
Typehead appears to have lapsed into a placeholder website. Might have to use the web archive to find Rob's posts.
Yes, I ran out of steam. Sorry about that.
Rob,
When playing the tenor uke tuned to fifths what is your general approach to which fingers own which frets? Having studied the video a few times I think you are favouring the mandolin fingering, but then at points you were using your pinky on the fifth fret. Are you effectively using a combination of the two? On a similar vein should a player like me coming from the mandolin, retain the accepted logic there that the fingers should be angled across the frets rather than parallel to them? Again it appears that generally you do this, but then you adopt the parallel method that guitarists/uke players might use at some other points. I suppose maybe an accomplished multi-instrumentalist like yourself can do that, but what is best for the uke beginner coming across from mandolin to the fifths tuned uke?
Beautiful. I converted one of my old tenor ukuleles to 5ths tuning based on your recommendations in a previous video and I am enjoying it immensely. Are you playing from one of you books here? If so, which one? Thank you.
Yes. "Tunes from 17th-century Scotland Arranged for Mandolin" Mel Bay.
Tuning the ukulele in 5ths results in a short tenor guitar. Will Fly has done some interesting videos on one.
I would contest it is a short tenor guitar, but it’s good to know others are experimenting with it. I have a Mel Bay book coming out soon called Ukulele in 5ths tuning.
Beautiful work. Is that a concert or tenor? I’m new to the world of ukes, but I play mando.
It's a tenor, but the strings are for a Concert. I tuned them down a tone to cope with the longer string length.
Rob,
The ukulele in fifths sounds great and prompted me to buy your mandolin book. Did you use the Aquila 31U set that David Malloy mentioned he used for CGDA tuning. Don’t think you’re playing GDAE, so probably you’re CGDA?
Thanks,
Adrian
Hi Adrian. I have the CGDA set which is for the Concert size. As I'm playing a tenor ukulele, I tuned down a tone to compensate for the longer playing length. The GDAE set is only for soprano, and will break on a larger instrument. Cheers, Rob.
Thanks for that info. Just what I wanted to know.
This was so enjoyable! Your ukulele sounds wonderfully resonant. What kind is it?
Thank you, Heidi. It's a Tenor ukulele by Fidra, number 49 here: www.fidraukulele.co.uk/for-sale/4551129981 Unfortunately it is for now the last instrument by the maker, as he had to get a "proper" job. Hopefully he will return to ukulele making in the future. I also tune it differently - like a cello, though an octave higher, similar to a violin. Best wishes, Rob.
@@RobMacKillop1 Thank you Rob for replying. I appreciate the time you commit to responding to ever comment! Maybe this fellow could be convinced to do a few ore commissions. I am sorry you have been ill; it can be very challenging when the symptoms go on and on. I struggled with lyme disease for 2 years and what eventually healed the neuropathy in my hands and arms was playing my guitar. I believe it was "An Idea" by Leo Brower and Abel Carlevaro ' s "Preludio Americanos." I had the pleasure of mastering them, and for that I thank the lyme disease! Best wishes to you.
I see that in 5th tuning your first finger is mostly at the 2nd fret and most of the notes are fretted.
Yes, there’s an incredible amount of music you can play without shifting position.
@@RobMacKillop1 I had been tuning in 4ths for a while. 5ths are better :)
Great! Is it a tenor or baritone ukulele?
Tenor.
@@RobMacKillop1 I thought so too, but after tuning the strings to the specific level (BbFCG), the bottom two strings sounded very lethargic...:(
@@meydaniyedikule9114 Did you use normal tenor strings or the specific 5ths Concert set from Aquila?.
@@RobMacKillop1 I use normal Martin carbon strings. I don't know the other kind of string. Would that be better? Is the 5ths Concert set from Aquila suitable for the tenor as well?
@@meydaniyedikule9114 You must use the Concert 5ths. Nothing else will do. Good luck.