A "jumping flea" sounds like something to be avoided, right? Not if you are from Hawaii and love music. You see the "jumping flea" is a nickname for the musical instrument, the ukulele. The ukulele is a four-stringed, guitar-shaped musical instrument with a long history, not only in Hawaii.
This melody can be played on guitar too with the use of the above Ukulele for sale in uk tab notation! The first three strings on a guitar are tuned in the same way but in a different pitch.
When you decide which tuning is the best for you, you need to take into account your own style of playing. If you are mostly a strummer, re-entrant C will probably be the best choice for you. If you are more interested in solo playing, low-G might be the one for you.
If you are not sure how the strings should sound, you are better off to use an electronic tuner to tune your ukulele. This way you can be sure that the instrument is properly in tune. Once you have been playing the instrument for a while, you will then know how to tune by ear. There are many different electronic tuners available on the market today. They are normally called chromatic tuners and they are not very expensive.
It is of course preferable to use a tuner or piano or tuning fork in Ukulele tuning but it is not necessary to tune exactly to the concert pitch if you don't play with others.
Now you will learn to interpret this notation. The digit before the slash indicates the fret to press down. The digit after the slash shows you Ukulele for sale which string to play.
S: Silly Scarecrows: Scarecrows are pretty floppy and flexible. Try walking like a scarecrow with loose arm and leg movements. Remember how the scarecrow in the Wizard of OZ had trouble Uke dancing? Skip, hop and dance like a very bendable scarecrow.
After making five albums with Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder was hit by writer's block. The guitar didn't inspire him any more. So he picked up a ukulele and wrote Soon Forget. Writing this song kick his song writing back into gear and the song went on to appear on Binaural.