Chords for Kimo Hussey Ukulele Video Series: High vs. Low G ukuleles

_ Aloha from Kaneohe.
I'm Kimo Hasi and it's my pleasure to present _ _ to you another in a
series of videos that we like to do in order to _ _ spread knowledge about ukulele.
You know,
ever since I've started playing ukulele, there has always been discussion about the difference
between a high G ukulele, which is tuned this way, _ _ _ [Am] _ and then again [G] this is a high G [C] tuned [Am] ukulele,
_ as opposed to a low G tuned ukulele, which sounds [C] like this.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _
[C] Fortunately, in all of the discussions that I have been a part of and I have read about,
_ the gist of how people choose to play a high G ukulele or a low G ukulele is simply the sound
that you prefer.
I personally love the sound of a low G ukulele and one of the things
that I would like to share with you today is using the lower register [Am] because I have that on a low G
instrument in order to play melody.
_ In the course of learning to play ukulele,
a lot of times we learn to play the melody and put it on the A string _ because it's very easy to aim,
if you [Gb] just use an upstroke on the A string, you can't [C] go wrong. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[N] No, no, no, no, no.
_ _ One of the things you have that you can use in order _ to put variety
_ into your music, _ especially if you're a low G instrument, is to be able to put [Am] melody
_ _ into the lower registers.
_ The other thing I want to tell you about a [Ab] low G instrument is
it provides you a lot more range.
By [F] taking this string and _ [G] _ _ tuning it down an octave,
[Gb] it provides the player a lot more range.
So if in fact the tuning gives you more range, then why not
let's explore putting melody on some of the lower registers [Am] like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now in a little bit I'll [Eb] play that for you again, but here are some things [Am] that I would ask that you
notice when I play this for you again.
Sometimes the harmony I'm getting is not necessarily from
all four strings.
A lot of times in this Danny Boy I just use two strings for [Ab] harmony and it
[Eb] captures the [Ab] essence of the sound very, very easily.
Because you see [Gb] in ukulele there's really
[E] no reason just to beat the instrument into submission on every song that we do.
If we just
exercise some patience and do things like [Fm] this.
_ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Fm] _
So sometimes [E] I'm having the right harmony produced just by using two strings, sometimes three,
sometimes four.
Sometimes I just use the melody all by itself because it fits in the song well.
The other thing I want you to notice is right hand technique is very, very simple.
All I'm
using is a pencil movement like this.
And when I do this the thumb is getting the harmony
and my forefinger is getting the melody.
So let me play this for you again and I want you to
notice several things.
Number one that I'm [Gb] utilizing the lower register of a low G instrument a lot.
By the way, especially for you music people, by utilizing a low G string I can have _ usable,
usable, especially in G, two and a half octaves.
And if I get outside of the comfort zone a little
bit here I can have up to three octaves of usable range.
Isn't that wonderful?
So let me play this
Danny Boy again and I want you to notice, I want you to notice that in simplicity there is a lot of
_ yes.
We may not know how to play Danny Boy but don't never ever confuse learning a song
with simplicity because you can learn to do the same.
I promise you.
So let me play Danny Boy [Am] again
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _