I’ve wanted one before but I wasn’t serious about it until I saw this being sold really cheap. So I though…why not? The chords are relatively easy to remember and since my music theory is pretty good, I’ve figure out how the chords work and why the chords look like the way they do (in the tab form).

It dawned on me that tabs are just the easy solution to play music, and for people that don’t want to learn it the “real” way. When I play chords on the piano or cello, each note is written out and having memorized all the notes, I can play them all together. Tabs are circles! Circles on lines for you to follow, you don’t learn how or why, you just memorize them with its chord name. Sorry if I’ve offended you.

Anyhow, it is hard right now learning all the chords and stuff…but so far I’ve gotten down G, D, C, A7…and sometimes I forget E, F#, and B. Mainly because the songs I learned used those chords. The best song I can sing is Kumbaya right now…though I tried some Christmas songs that were pretty easy.

Anyhow, I was introduced to this guy, Jake Shimabukuro who plays the Ukulele like crazy…..

Here he is playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by George Harrison. When he plays the part that goes “I don’t know whyyyyyyy, nobody told you…” I want to fall over. I can fall for any guy that plays like this. How long, though, I can’t be for sure.