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Day Ninety Nine (Year Four)

Most of my musical activity tonight was ukulele related.  I hadn't picked it up in about a week, and on a whim, after running through my lick for Guitar Aerobics, I took it out of the case, and tuned it up.  I was a little bit rusty, but went back through a few basic chords, and found that it came back pretty quickly.

Also, I finally found the "Learn Ukulele" book that I had snagged at Half Price Books over the summer.  It's got good lessons in it that advance at a good rate for someone just starting out.  There's also a huge chord and scale dictionary in the back part of the book, which is awesome.

After playing for about half an hour, I ventured out to the computer, and tried to find a tabbed out version of Jake Shimabukuro's take on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."  I found something that at least comes close, from the sound of the description, and that will be a good enough place for me to start.  His version of that song is my holy grail on ukulele.

And then, of course, after that I found a YouTube video of him performing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," so yeah, maybe there are two ukulele holy grails in my world.

All told, the music tonight was relaxing and productive, even though there wasn't much guitar involved.
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