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Tuners on a classical guitar operate differently and may have different issues from tuners on a folk guitar.

Could you tell me more about this?  I know some guitars aren't meant for steel core strings, but I didn't know the tuners were different (except the ones with the cut out head).  Is it related to string type and the big rod in the neck?

I learned on my recent ukulele setup experiment that I perfer geared tuners to ones that stick out the back and have a one to one ratio of turn to tune.  Like shiny violin pegs but smaller so they are more fussy.

Just for fun, some of the versions of house ofmthe rising sun, I grew up listening to




Joan baez's voice still gives me chills

One of the frustrations I find so far is youtubers putting their tabs or sheet music behind a pay wall.  Only, we find out that these sheet musics (arangementsa) are put together (transcribed?) by someone else and offered for free.  

They are profiting by someone elses hard work.  

Same with a book i found at the library.   The author didn't even bother to make the notation consistent within the book or take the names and "do not copy" notices off the music.

This makes me sad and now I am extra careful to try to find the original and support them when I can.

arpeggios
Such a pretty looking word.  I have to find some way to remember it.

I enjoy playing songs with that kind of picking pattern and the cords are pretty stable.  

I'm saving up for another ukulele, or maybe a guitar, or possibly a mandolin.   Haven't decided yet and I'm a long way aways from buying.

Someone offered to take me around the music shops next week so I can get a better idea of what is available in town.  Then I can save up for when I'm ready.  

It's exciting, but also scary.

I went to a pawn shop recently and the strings instruments were either badly broken or obviously never played.  And when I looked the ones I remembered later that day, the used ones were all about 30% more expencive than the new.  Even the mandolin with the concave top was $100 more than the same make and model new.  Even I know a mandolin is not supposed to cave in at he bridge.

I'm hopefully next weeks expierence will be more pleasant.   I think it would go better if I knew what to look for and dint look like a completely new to instruments.

What does one look for when buying a used acoustic string instrument?

Going to try this one tomorrow.   Looks like it will be simple in the same cords, but sounds complicated enough to be what I want

Sometimes I don't enjoy the songs in the lesson much.  20 times playing it through is okay, but 200 or more... a lot of songs, I just can't.   So I try to figure out the goal of the lesson and find a different song that can do the same.

Piano man becomes house of the rising sun.  They are both sort of 3/4 time and use simple cords.

House of the rising sun is an old song and there are lots of options for which cords and strumming pattern and even long arguments if it should be 3/4 or 6/8 time.  And the conversations about how many beats per minute are even more heated.


Anyway, I feeling chuffed that I managed to sing and fancy strum several verses with little to no error all while obeying the metronome at 80bpm.

And then I discovered this



Is this possible on ukulele?

Edit, i think I'm doomed as I'm pretty sure that's two string instruments.

I'm angry at my gadget.  I told it not to update.  It decided to start updating when I was bringing my coffee over to it. Update took 30 min.  Ukulele lesson time for second coffee is 20 minutes.

I reviewed yesterday lesson and worked on old materials.  

But it's got me all out of whack having my ritual ukuleoe time disrupted like that.  Maybe I will try again with 3rd coffee to compensate, but my brain isn't in retaining new knowledge that late in the morning.

Stupid electronic stuff letting me down,  got to migrate to books for learning Ukulele as soon as possible.

Also my metronome speeds up two minutes before running out of wind.  

Multiple voices seems like a good way of thinking about it.

Something to keep working on.  But it's in addition to my main classwork.  It is hard to keep focused

Note for future self.
How to take a song and combine strumming and finger plucking melody



Maybe come back to it ina week or two.  It might make more sense then.