Utterly stunning tuning I'd positively kill for more resources in it

Marvelously mad and beautiful.

This is better than Hendrix :)

Learned a ton here so thank you. And I’m totally in love with your blues changes. Cool, elegant, all right

Your voice is so smooth and with playing the ukulele is so lovely. This video should be a single, if it’s not already. 🎶

Great performance. Thank you for sharing. ^^

Brilliant ❤❤❤

Wonderful talk, Sam and James!!

how to make that sound with ukulele? is it GCEA or something else?

Wow! that's creative \

Perfect ukelele size??

Goyette Points

Amazing 👏

I just found you on KZbin and I really enjoy your lessons. Thank you.

Damn, that was sick. Great tone. Wonder why the uke isn’t used more in heavy blues.

Love his teaching style. Born to teach

Honey PIE. Absolutely fantastic the best

just WOW!

Very good

Beautiful ❤️

Get Billie Holiday in there@

Wicked good, brother. I saw him perform this live, a sacred memory, you do it justice and then some.

Amazing. I bet you could do some really cool dissonant stuff in this tuning ala Sonic Youth, Pixies, Husker Du, etc.

2nd time hearing him. Beautiful.

Really ?

Nice smile

Thank you for sharing the fascinating history of the ukulele.

Wow do I need to practice now !

This seems to work for some chords but not others. More help on tougher chords would have been appreciated.

Jesus!

What a wonderful conversation! Thank you both for bringing this wonderful instrument and music into the light!

Such a fun project! I loved being a part of it

There seems to be a relationship between the small Baroque guitars by Stradivarius. They are very similar in many ways. Any thoughts?

Ok with in seconds I couldn't watch. Maybe try pay attention. Lahaina* seriously to put the time into it. Pass

You are an amazing player and I can't knock your talent, but this song should only be played on old dirty electric guitars with lots of distortion.

I love Samantha’s playing! I didn’t know she was also a scholar!

I wanted to share this with you yesterday evening but I didn't think the character limit on the live comments would have done it justice#; I work in a university. I was quite friendly with the staff in the Music Library and, if I was working nearby, I would often pop in for a chat. One day, I happened to mention James Hill and I was showing them one of his videos when one of the lecturers came in. He was quite knowledgeable about the early history and origins of the uke. I think I must have read something online by John King as he seemed quite impressed that I seemed to know a little bit about the subject (although, whatever I knew then, has long since left the building) He then looked at the video and asked "Who's that?". I replied, "It's James Hill. He's a Canadian ukulele player." He looked puzzled for a moment then replied, "Canadian ukulele? I'm afraid I've never heard of such a thing."

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Thank you!❤

Yes Very interesting. However I my main interest which no one remarked on..Was who was the musician who came up with the "Tuning"..of the strings..especially the 4th string the thin string and why it was positioned there..as opposed to a guitar going from thick to thin...I'm a guitar player also and at first I found that kinda awkward..However now I think its an amazing idea having the thin string placed there...I would never ever play a Ukele with a plectrum.Ive always played with my fingers ..That 4th string really can open up possibilities in soloing and self accompanying...Ide love to know who came up with that idea and their idea behind it..I think it's a fabulous instrument..you can sit in a bus or plane and have a really good time..Thank you ...

Fascinating Both, thank you!

So interesting! Thank you James, thank you Samantha! As a music therapist I also was delighted of the fact that the machete was suggested for therapeutic purpose on the very early days. And, the connection to the hard life of emigrants. Happy Uke Week for us all !!! (and another year with ukulele, too)

We sound great! Thanks so much to James and all of our other fellow musicians!

This 5 string bragette (?) that was played in Madeira , I guessing that it was carried to Matto Grosso in Brazil and evolved into the Viola de Cocho. This is basically a hollowed out log with a spruce sound board with little or no sound hole and strung with fishing line. It has 5 strings. Thank you so much for this session!

In the Philippines, one of the earliest record about the 'Ukulele was in a lyric of a tune called, "Naku, Kenkoy!" ("My Goodness, Kenkoy!) which was composed in 1930 by Nicanor Abelardo (one of our national artists here). 1930 is almost a hundred years already. By the way, "kenkoy" is a Tagalog (Pilipino) slang for a goofy person or slapsticks comedian. The story of "Naku, Kenkoy!" mentioned a goofy guy who always wears a baggy pants and playing his 'ukulele anywhere he go while singing in a combined random Spanish and English words (we were not fluent in Spanish nor English during the '30s so it was hilarious back then). Maybe prior to 1930, some American soldiers already brought the 'uke here in the Philippines. But the only record I found in literature was that certain novelty song and a comic strip with a character also named "Kenkoy" holding his 'ukulele

Glorious! Joy! Joy! Joy!

This was so fascinating! Sorry I am NOT a real ukulele player! I play "guitalele" (nothing but a small-scale guitar stealing aspects from the "ukulele"!) lol, I'm a punk/diy rock & roll snot-nosed nobody (but, this was a cool live-stream I wish I had caught live!) Missed it by an hour or two.

Great session ! Hey Sam, looking forward to seeing you in Australia next time you are here.

This is what I found in a paper from Professor Ganap (Indonesia) about the Cavacinho and its relation to the Machete. I was fascinated by this because my heritage is from this part of the world (Maluku). "The musics are played with cavaquinho guitar that has been taken along in the journey due to its handy size. First to Morocco, in 1582 through Madeira which was named braguinha, as the guitar originally came from Braga district in Portugal. In Brazil it was named machette, as used to accompanying the local immigrant Portuguese dances, while in Carribean Islands it was called cuatro, due to its four course of strings. Portuguese guitar cavaquinho is believed to have reached as far as Hawaii and Polynesia, where the local people named it as ukelele, literally ‘jumping fingers’, named from the way cavaquinho is being played.37 The popularity of its Hawaiian term as ukulele gives a clue that cavaquinho has taken along through Oceania and Polynesia before reaching the other parts of the world, including Maluku Islands and Tugu village around the seventeenth century."*38 " --- 38) Read the latest 2002 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, where in “Portugal” entry, p.197, Castelo-Branco acknowledged the term kroncong for cavaquinho, a name given when the instrument reached the Indonesian archipelago, particularly Tugu village in the seventeenth century

I missed the live-stream, but I am watching the re-play and hoping that y'all will discuss 6-string uke a little too!