New ebook on amplifying your ʻukulele available now. On sale until March 10th! liveukulele.com/store/plug-in/

A free ʻukulele mini-series on learning the fretboard!

This is material Herb Ohta, Jr. advised me to practice almost 20 years ago and it's what I attribute to my ability to mostly play wherever I want on the fretboard. It's hard, but will supercharge your chops. 💪

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Courtesy of my 4th-5th grade uke class, "Giant Chipmunks Eat Antarctica" is my new favorite acronym for remembering the string names of the ʻukulele.

Played steel guitar with Sweet Kani Lehua on Saturday and this kid comes up to the side of the stage, "Hi, I'm Isaac. I play steel guitar." Convinced him to play a song and now I guess I need to learn "Hilo March" to keep my job. Lol #hawaiianmusic #kikakila

Molokaʻi having a fun night! www.weather.gov/hfo/radar_loop

PSA: Check your latency offset for #recording with a loopback test! The "reported" latency on my Clarett 4Pre was 1,901 samples off, which seems like a rather lot for such a nice piece of kit.

Rage Against the Machine - Freedom: 7 second #ukulele lesson.

This is one of the most thoughtful interviews I've had the pleasure of listening to in a long time. Tim's introspection and humility as a human trying to exist and be good in this confusing era is inspiring.

Here's my tried-and-true method to polishing almost any musical turd. (I'm *highly* skilled at polishing turds! 🤣)

My thoughts on what mistakes mean for your practice and performance. I need to do a follow up on ways to massage them into the music and "recover" from goobers. #ukulele

I hate staring into studio lights, but love making videos. Hope this upcoming mini-series is worth it!

The upcoming Civ 7 game includes a Hawaiʻi civilization: civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game.... Interested to see what the portrayal is like. My impression from Civ 6 is that the devs are stoked about history, but have to spread it kinda thin across too many cultures to make any one stand out.

Great chat with @mimsukes.bsky.social today for the podcast! Awesome to make a connection with one of the coolest, most honest, and most caring people in the uke scene. Keep an eye out for our interview in February. In the meantime, if you need a uke, take your business to Mim! mimsukes.com

Shout out to The Main Squeeze for presenting one of the best musical performances ever posted on YouTube. Absolutely insane. This kind of thing makes me want to practice. They're based out of LA. Show some love.

Line 6 HX Stomp has everything but a comprehensive, all-in-one EQ block. Just rendered my separate parametric and shelf EQ blocks into an IR to save a slot. Don't love it, but beggars can't be choosers and I'd rather have an extra delay.

Finally finished fixing up my UBass. The stock electronics are pretty mediocre, so I brought it up to speed. I'll make a before/after demo at some point, but mostly I just trust that it will work now that I've redone the wiring myself. #ukulele #ubass #diyelectronics

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Any Hawaiʻi people order music gear from Sweetwater? Everybody raves about their service, but my rep has never once emailed me back and I always get hosed on shipping. 2nd world country problem?