Comments on: King’s Rain.. a Harp Ukulele tribute

By: ilkkan

ilkkan — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:37:21 +0000

Hi! I’m new to uke and have decided to learn this song. I’m swlloy but surely getting there with the chord formation. however I’m a little confused.When you mention retuning the uke do you just tune it down & play as normal? Or do I need a capo’ (I’ve heard alot about these things)? In which case am I correct in thinking you tune the ukulele down, place the capo on & play the same chord patterns just x ammount of frets down?If anybody is in the know it would be a HUGE helpthankyou xx

By: Kooky Ookster

Kooky Ookster — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:13:18 +0000

It seems like a mutually exclusive tern, but you truly are a bad-ass harp uk’ster! (That’s what I wanna be when I grow up…) Beautiful instrument with a musical genius as its’ master. Please keep publishing your work – I’m in awe!

By: pepamahina

pepamahina — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:28:28 +0000

Truly lovely. It has an almost Japanese sounding character at times. Nicely done!

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:00:14 +0000

That was a gorgeous melody! I enjoyed it a lot- post more uke harp videos!

By: ukulelesecrets

ukulelesecrets — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:23:29 +0000

Thanks peeps!

Pete I signed up to your FB page and I look forward to seeing more of your work.

ukulelestu, the tuning is, from the top down, C E A G, high G C E A. So the uke is reentrant. I just finished the piece and haven’t thought about tabbing it. It took me a while just to be able to play it. In the future I may tab out the fast arpeggio parts to give people more campanella runs to play with. It is quite fun. But there are other tutorials I would like to produce before I consider tabbing any harp pieces.

Thanks!

By: ukulelestu

ukulelestu — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:36:46 +0000

Hi Tim, UkuleleStu here… Great job on this piece. What tuning did you end up with? And, here’s a dumb question: is there a tab available? even a four string version, I could figure out most of the harp part (I think!)
I’m loving mine, and am learning more things about it every time I play it!

By: ukulelemaker

ukulelemaker — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:38:37 +0000

Sensational Tim – I am a way down the road with the concert harp ukulele and am making it with an African mahogany back and sides and cedar front to give it a warmer bottom end – my prototype has a much fatter boittom wend than the aNueNue and I want to see if this is due to bridge position. I am building 2 – one 7 string and one 8 string – again to work with aesthetics. I’ll be shooting some video of construction on Saturday so make sure you are signed yo to my facebook group – Pete Howlett Ukulele club and my YouTube channel. I’ll be posting this video of you playing on my website as we previously discussed – brilliant use of the instrument and fitting tribute to John King!

By: n8xu

n8xu — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:56:17 +0000

Beautiful composition beautifully played. Thanks for sharing.

By: Tim Clark

Tim Clark — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:39:46 +0000

Wonderful arrangement. Really made the uke sing. FWIW I had the feeling of floating down a lively stream listening to it with rushes and eddyies. Very pretty.