Helloooo fellow steemians!
Gawwwd I've been busy recently. Not much time to devote to steemit activity because, well, life.
But then yesterday I made an impulse purchase and then… for some reason... decided to make a vlog type thing, mainly for my friends' amusement but I figured "heck! I haven't posted anything on steemit in ages and someone might find this as funny as I do, so what the hell"
so, voila, for your enjoyment (I hope?), watch me babble on about how I purchased a Ukulele and maybe be entertained by my frustrated first attempts at playing it. XD
Personally I think it's really funny to watch myself struggle and pull all those faces hahaha.
You see, I recorded this with my laptop camera and the standard iMovie (which btw is super limiting and crappy, like I wanted to add funny comments in text over top and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do it in this program, but whatever, it serves it's basic purpose) that comes with every macbook, and I actually had the Uke tabs and tutorial videos up on the screen and wasn't looking at myself while playing. So it was kinda fun to watch back (tho let me tell you, watching through 60 odd minutes of my awful plunking trying to find the funniest bits was a bit tedious haha).
Maybe some of you will get a kick out of it. I tried to keep it as short as possible, I mean no-one wants to watch 20 minutes of terrible ukulele practicing. I know I wouldn't haha
Oh, the song by the way, is Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" and one of my all-time favourite tunes, thankfully the "easy" Ukulele version has like 4 chords and a relatively simple strumming pattern, so it'sgood for beginners.
Though as the astute listeners among you may have noticed I'm having difficulties with the strumming pattern and always fall back to the standard one I learned during my brief guitar playing days. Singing and keeping a regular strumming up is hard af. O_O
But I'll get there eventally. Hopefully. If I stick it out through the painful phase LOL
I'm hoping that this time, I'll actually stick to it (as I mentioned in the video, I have terrible self-discipline so I have no idea if this'll go anywhere) and maybe make a little update video now and then of my progress. ;)
Let me know if that's a thing you might actually be interested in or if I should just stick to my art and animation related posts haha
Also, feel free to ask me questions, in case you have any. Like Who knows.
Oh, and of course, if there's any Ukulele players/enthusiasts stumbling across this, any tips for my learning journey would be greatly appreciated ;D
Really, any comments are appreciated, of course.
much love my friends and happy steeming,
till the next time,
Jill