Ukulele Autobiography

I have always loved music. It started around nine years ago when I started playing piano. Piano was an instrument that my sisters and mom played and I was fascinated by the sounds that it could make and how you could make songs your own. Fourth grade I played violin but it wasn’t my thing because I could not find the thrill that the piano gives me when I play. Fifth through eighth grade I played clarinet but I stopped playing so I could continue to push myself on piano and start color guard. I wanted to be able to push my piano skills in competitions because by then I was already at a high level of competition and wanted to be able to play the hardest songs in the division and as many as possible. A couple years ago I started to want to play the guitar, but could never buy one or have the time. This just year I decided the ukulele would be a good compromise, it is less money, and a little less time but still is fun and will help in case I do want to learn the guitar. The ukulele is “an instrument upon which power chords sound like wind chimes” so it will be able to give me the same thrill of the music as my …show more content…
It is a little like the guitar with how you strum it, “Brush down and up with the edge of the thumb” or “Strum down with your thumb and up with your index finger”, you can also use a pick like a guitar(Sokolow and Schiff 37). But it is also a different tone quality than that of a guitar. The ukulele is a Hawaiian instrument used for folk music, which I know from a previous vacation to Hawaii. I have never played the ukulele exactly, I borrowed a friends once but was not able to get an actually good sound out of it, but I know that you cannot press down on the strings too hard when fretting because it will distort the sound, “If you press down too hard, you tire out your and bend to string out of tune”(Wood 35). I also know that the ukulele has four strings instead of six which the guitar