Guitar / Mandolin / Ukulele (While My Guitar Gently Weeps)

July 12, 2010 by baritone ukulele  
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I got my first Mandolin for a Christmas present this year….Never played before now….Practiced for a week …Then had the idea to lay down my own guitar track while then trying to keep up with an ukulele track….lets laugh together shall we….

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Gently Weeps

March 3, 2010 by baritone ukulele  
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You’ll forget all the Tiny Tim, Don Ho, and Hawaiian-music jokes about the ukulele when you hear Gently Weeps, which leaves behind the Roaring Twenties strum and plinky-dink sound of most such music. Jake Shimabukuro sets the tone with the lead-off track from which he takes the album’s title, George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” unfolding the vulnerable undertow of Harrison’s epic lament. A string of covers follows, as Shimabukuro touches the serene with Schuber… More >>


Gently Weeps