Friday, February 4, 2011

My new ukulele

I've always envied people who can play the guitar. It just seems like magic to me. Unfortunately, my fingers are not strong enough and my skin is delicate enough that playing a guitar is not an option for me. However, when I was a kid, I had a ukulele and I knew 4 chords--enough to play a bunch of different songs. Recently, I made up a little song about punctuation and wanted to perform it, so I bought a baritone ukulele. The strings are easy enough to hold down that I could play it. Unfortunately, I only remember 2 chords. Fortunately, those 2 chords are the ones that go with my new song. So, I played my song for my class and I played it for a group I spoke to. I had them sing along with me and make sounds for the punctuation and we all had a lovely time. I may do it again.