Sunday, July 26, 2015

Little Miss Higgins & the Winnepeg Five || Moonlit Picnic (REPRISE)



And her playful "Bargain Shop Panties" video... (sans baritone)




Thursday, July 23, 2015

Munson Music || D'yer Maker (Led Zeppelin) Bariuke Cover Lesson in C with Chords/Lyrics



The complete list.

Munson Music || Baritone Ukulele Covers

Mr. Munson is a multi-instrumentalist and makes play along videos in a wide variety of genres. He has taken on the baritone ukulele in a very serious way. Check this YouTube MunsonCovers Baritone Ukulele Cover Lessons list out...

Kudos to him for all of his work.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhHJAtfNDCe7VHQ-817NMi7K5i-8r71-r

Munson Music || Mommas Don't Let Your Boys Grow Up to be Cowboys



Willie & Waylon

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Zaynab Malik || Cast No Shadow (Oasis Cover) REPRISE

Zaynab writes, "I just worked this less than a week ago but am really working on trying to produce more instead of concerning myself with perfection. This is just a simple, easy, rough song that I really like!"

Perfection doesn't exist. Lovely voice, consistent strum, and simply very enjoyable...



Some Kinks,



Mancini & Mercer

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

BARITONE $$$$ = JOHN S. KINNARD UKULELES

Here's my first installment in the exploration of the world of baritone ukuleles. I have the opportunity to play one of these beauties on a couple of occasions. I would consider it one of the 2 best that I have had the pleasure to pick and strum. If you are searching for a finely built and supremely playable baritone for the rest of your life then I would consider this maker and instrument.

It is perfect in all aspects: physical beauty, plays with the most delicate of touch, and such rich beautiful tone. It would be one of those instruments that fit my unique philosophy -- we love to spend so much time playing our instruments -- if we consider the $/hour of pleasure what could be better for years of personal enjoyment?

I actually had a tiny bit of influence in the creation of Kinnard baritone. I met Kevin Beddoe who had commissioned several tenor ukuleles and had them on display at the Wine Country Ukulele Festival about 4 years ago. I had brought my favorite vintage mahogany Favilla baritone ukulele and shared it with Kevin as we talked music. It was only a spark...

http://www.kinnardukes.com/comments-and-reviews-.html

In my exploration of various baritone ukulele makers, I will use the heading as above and $$$$ will be a high-end custom and $ to indicate a lower cost. The Kinnard Ukes site shows baritones priced from $1,800 to about $2,700.

G. J. Lee || 陶喆〈找自己〉 彈唱~雞湯的烏克麗麗鍋~



If there's anyone that can search out other baritone players in Mandarin, Cantonese, or any other language for that matter, I would really appreciate the expanded diversity. This request also goes out for musical links.

Jeff / Humble Baritonics




Munson Music || Teach Your Children

UOGB || Hot Lips




Charlie McGuire || Step It Up and Go

Some good blues transcribed for the baritone ukulele...

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Roig Rivera || Sin Banderas (Spanish)

6 YEARS OF BARITONE UKULELE POSTS

My first blog post was made on 7/6/2009. It has been over 6 years now. The plan was to find everything I could about the baritone ukulele and share. I also wanted to find links that would support the bari player. For the most part, I have just attached YouTube videos that showed the great diversity that the instrument has based on individual preferences.

I think it is about time I research a variety of costs for baritones. Perhaps I'll break it down something like this...

Over $1,000
$500-$999
$200-$499
$100-$199
<$100.

I would like to encourage you to share anything that contributes to the enrichment of the bari-uke player. This could be an arrangement, story, a photo of yourself with your bari. Also if you have any links that "translate" well to the bari please forward to humbleuker@gmail.com. Your comments are appreciated.

I may also take Google ads if they support bari related items.

Thanks,

Jeff

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Rob McKillop || Playing a Baritone Uke by Dallas Sutherland, Edinburgh

I work as a project manager in the busy San Francisco Bay Area. It is fast-paced and furious every day. I always keep my old "beater" bari in the corner. Some days instead of getting in the car and going out to for some lunch I shut my office door and play a little. First an little Neil Young "Old Man" from any Easy Guitar Book

After that I pulled out Rob McKillop's "20 Easy Fingerstyle Exercises for Ukulele Book" and worked through a few exercises. Next, I opened up my e-mail and had a message from Jon Thysell sychronistically sharing this wonderful video of Rob playing a Sutherland baritone ukulele. Enjoy...

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

UkeSun || GoPro Hero4 meets Pono Ukulele

A nice place to play in Switzerland...

Monday, July 13, 2015

Jake Shimabukuro || Plays 50 Year Old Kamaka Baritone

Jake has a bari and plays it in concert...

http://www.examiner.com/review/jake-shimabukuro-defied-expectations-and-played-ukulele-like-a-rock-star

(Two of the biggest names in the ukulele world, James Hill and Jake Shimabukuro both have bari ukes in their arsenal of ukuleles. James made a fully bari album.)

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Carolin Nobles || Original Song played on a Risa baritone ukulele.

Carolin is a harp player and has an original tune to share on the baritone.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

War Jacket || Mad World (Tears for Fears Cover)

Here's a very good listen... "Such a beautiful / creepy song. Perfect for War Jacket."



And I'll take another helping of that!

Inspiration, spoken word video

War Jacket || It's All Behind Me

Full track off their upcoming album, releasing this fall 2015. Check out their website for more information: http://warjacket.com

Flea Market Music Market Place

I ocassionally take a look through this Marketplace page and find some beautiful instruments. This is part of Jim Beloff's Flea Market Music site. Jim is also a supporter of the baritone ukulele community. He has put together two superb bari books: The Bari Best and The Daily Ukulele Baritone Edition.

https://www.fleamarketmusic.com/marketplace/default.asp

If you look soon enough you may see a Mya-Moe baritone for sale. It looks to be a beautiful instrument.

Jeff

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Shane Cross || John Panner

Synesthesia Sessions || Son's Gonna Rise

Synesthesia Sessions || G. Love & Special Sauce

The Ukulele Site || Pono BN-20D

Pono BN20D Sunburst from Hawaii Music Supply on Vimeo.

http://www.theukulelesite.com/shop-by/brand/pono/pono-bn-20d-sb-baritone-nui-spruce-mahogany-sunburst.html

Big Bari = Tenor Guitar Sized, braced for nylon strings.

Hawaii Music Supply video || Pono RBSH Cedar Top

Pono RBSH Cedar Top from Hawaii Music Supply on Vimeo.

A very nice high-end manufactured baritone ukulele. I have been considering adding a new Pono to my bari collection. I would like to have a bari with geared tuners to get a bit finer and consistent tuning than my vintage ukes. This one is a beauty and is part of the Pono Pro-Classics Series. 

I would also like to have a baritone ukulele with an additional top sound hole in order to hear the sweet sounds coming upwards.

If you click on the HD you'll get a High Density video but on my computer it interrupted the musical flow. I was a bit distracted with the attempts to re-tune. Since this is a new instrument I assume the strings may be settling in.

http://www.theukulelesite.com/shop-by/brand/pono/pono-rbsh-pc-cedar-rose-baritone.html

Monday, July 6, 2015

Clara Sanabras || Ode to Jimmy Jo (Live at The Forge 2-23-12)

Lutes & Ukes 2015

Another spectacular find from the uke research department head, Mr. Ron Hale...

Very cool. I want to know what each instrument is!

Romain Abrams || Vance Joy strumming on a new Kala

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Birch Pereira || 2 Short Bari Instrumentals

Siri Ma Siri - Jam of the Week


Summer of Saudade

Pinol Guitars || Baritone Ukulele Video CB102

Some beautiful wood work on these bari's



There are two other videos with other baritone ukuleles if you care to hunt them down.

Shawn Yacavone || Ukulele Friend DOT Com Kawika Baritone Ukuleles

Ukulele Friend is post videos of different ukuleles to give you the opportunity to hear their tones. Sounds like a good gimmick to have ukuleles sent to them to try out. Lucky for us we get to hear some models that I hadn't heard about from Kawika Ookuleles. The instruments are recorded with high-quality studio recording tools. Link to UF.

Custom Baritone Ukulele



Custom Koa / Cedar Baritone Ukulele