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Not too long ago I bought a really good quality baritone uke, and the more I play it, the more I like it. In addition to having an amazingly good tone and being super easy to play fingerstyle, it has also helped me become a better guitarist. But I had trouble finding any decent online learning resources. Most of them are way too basic for us skilled guitarists, pretty much a waste of time. But then on Youtube I discovered a lovely lady called Abigail Flowers, who has tutorials on some jazz classics and other stuff. Here’s what her web page says:
“Abigail Flowers is a jazz vocalist and Lanikai Ukuleles Artist based in Nashville, TN.
Voted “Best Jazz Vocalist” by the Nashville Industry Music Awards, Abigail is an undeniable vocal talent. Abigail’s vocal performance is smooth, precise, and captivating—an homage to vocal jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Blossom Dearie, and Nat King Cole. She regularly sings in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian.”What??? She lives in the same city as Brian? Surely Brian must have heard of her. Anyway, if you are ever interested in messing around with a baritone uke, she’s the best online teacher out there.
Another good learning source is Marco Cirillo, who many of you guys will know from his guitar channel on Youtube. It turns out he also has a Youtube channel called Marco Cirillo Ukulele, and he has some cool tutorials for baritone ukes. He leans more toward classical, ambient, and spanish style music, but it’s all good stuff.
So this coming winter while you’re sitting inside feeling bored, just head down to your local guitar shop and grab a nice baritone uke. Trust me, you’ll love it. So will the other people in your house.
Sunjamr Steve
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Very tempting, Steve…
I have a feeling that any decent guitarist ought to also know how to play any types of stringed instruments, or at least be tempted to learn anything with strings on it and thus become a string instrumentalist.
I think Brian is one already and I bet ya, if he ever decided to pursue his initial idea with Active Melody being non-specific to just guitar and give us ukulele, bass, mandolin, etc lessons, many of us would become multi-instrumentalists as well! But of course, we can always find some good instructors online like you did, so thanks for the recommendations.
To me, a baritone uke sounds like a lot of fun. I do have this Cordoba mini-bass that could easily be confused for a baritone uke so I suppose that’s close enough 🙂
🎸JoLa
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My neighbor has a Kala U-Bass which I’ve played a few times. It’s a very strange sensation to play it, because the strings are super fat rubbery things made out of some kind of high tech plastic. But it’s as easy, maybe easier, to play as a guitar. I can play it fingerstyle all over it’s short neck, and it sounds great…..as long as it’s plugged into an amp. Here’s a cool demo:
I’m only a basic-level player on a full-size bass, but I can totally shred on a Kala U-Bass.
Sunjamr Steve
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My name is Jeff and I played the baritone uke for many years. I was a frequent member of the Berkeley and Santa Cruz ukulele Clubs. I also have a blog or two that are bari focused: Humble Baritonics and The Bad-Ass Baritone Ukulele. I now play a steel string tenor guitar but also tuned DGBE. You can find some good bari-uke links on Humble Baritonics and see videos of my favorite bari players on the BABU blog.
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