While this current spate of uke uploads was really only supposed to be things I'd arranged myself, I've taken to playing my version of Elizabeth Cotten's 'Freight Train' in a set following two versions of 'Pua Lililehua' by Kahauanu Lake and Mary Pukui for which I'm not wholly responsible. The first (in C) I learned from two videos of John King and the second (in F) started as an attempt to notate another in low G tuning by Herb Ohta, Jr before turning into my own distinct arrangement for the regular high G/re-entrant tuning. The arrangement of 'Freight Train' (also in F) was my first for uke - and indeed pretty well the first thing I learned on it - and my only uke arrangement so far which might work (perhaps even sound better!) in low G where I was motivated by the specific challenge of trying to squeeze it onto a high G instrument with an authentic alternating thumb style. To see how good this can sound with the much deeper bass of a six-string guitar, there's no better source than the amazing upside-down 'Cotten picking' of Elizabeth Cotten herself, although she of course is using her thumb for melody rather than bass.
KLŌS full-carbon concert ukulele.
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