Have yall ever used a ukulele in your song?

[CYKLVM]

I haven't heard a ukulele in a song in a while

[jens]

I use mine sometimes... other times I also use my guitalele and my rajao.

[telecharge]

It's used to great effect in animation (cartoons). SpongeBob has some great songs, and the theme to Bob's Burgers uses one.
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[Dirk Diggler]

Never, sorry it's a toy instrument with no redeeming musical value.

But maybe that's just me.

I will say the Ukelele's builders quality have certainly gone up in recent years.

[jens]

Never, sorry it's a toy instrument with no redeeming musical value.

Now that's a wild showcase of vast ignorance right there.

[telecharge]

fr no cap yo

[jens]

I've been digging a bit into my vault so to speak, looking for potentially interesting examples of using ukulele...

so here's a first one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xk-qwE ... WSWQO/view

the uke first comes in at around the one minute mark with some rhythmic kind of almost-pedal-pointish thing - then shortly after two minutes it's doing a bit more...(at times sounds almost like honkytonk-piano to me )

[lfm]

01:47:40 Paul McCartney tells a story about how they always got Uke out at dinners at George Harrison and here performs as well
- at 02:15:xx Joe Brown as well


Great concert on the whole, lot's of guitar celebrities too...

[Dirk Diggler]

Thanks Jens, it's called comedy.

[jens]

Next one - this is a far more conventional usage - in the given context the uke nicely supports the false sweetness of the lyrical subject though:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GekT0l ... drive_link

The keys are a Elka X19T btw.


Would be great if more folks could share what they're using their ukulele(s) for...

[Cuauhtli]

It's better than an organ anyway, though that's not saying much...

[pough]

Frequently. The nice thing about ukulele is it allows you to be harmonically ambiguous. The low note usually determines the chord root and ukuleles (in their standard tuning) don't really have a low note.

[telecharge]

It's better than an organ anyway, though that's not saying much...

Hard disagree on that one, but taste is subjective.

To me, an organ used in the right context with Blues or Rock is epic AF.
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[jankhner]

Yes. Ukulele sounds great with the acoustic guitar. I have ukulele on almost every acoustic song.

[Cuauhtli]

It's better than an organ anyway, though that's not saying much...

Hard disagree on that one, but taste is subjective.

To me, an organ used in the right context with Blues or Rock is epic AF.

Maybe it was due to being dragged to church on Sundays as a kid where they played an organ during the hymns/songs, but the organ sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. Even bagpipes are a relief after listening to an organ.