Chords for Kimo Hussey - Pono ETSH5 Review

_ Aloha, I'm Kimo Hase and this is going to be a wonderful, wonderful day, especially for me because
I have a friend here from Taiwan, David Chen, and we're just
_ kind of in the car driving along, decided we'd stop by
at the Ko'olau place _
because I was talking with Andrew Kitakes, and he said that they recently got
_ _ another shipment of pono ukuleles.
So we stopped by here and _
Andrew just showed me this ukulele, and it is going to be my pleasure for me to play this ukulele for you. _
Cedar top,
_ low G tuning, and the back and sides are Macassar ebony. _
Yes, Macassar ebony, and I've played some ebony ukuleles before and they're just really wonderful.
_ _ _ But you know the best thing about this ukulele?
Basically when _ we _ _
adjudicate ukuleles for ourselves, we think about three big things.
Number one, looks.
So let's take a look at this.
The looks, _ I
think, and this is the looks are just wonderful.
To me this ukulele has like a classic beauty
_ _ about it.
The color theme is dark.
I love the slotted headstock because it kind of adds a little bit of airiness
_ _ to the dark and beautiful woods.
At the same time that it helps to reduce weight _
_ on the headstock, which is good.
Again, take a look at the sides in the back with regard to that Macassar, and
we see that oh, it's pretty good. _ _
_ Okay, another category we take a look at is playability.
That's like action, and the big question is, hey,
is it really difficult to play this ukulele?
Now,
one of the wonderful things for you is the best way for you to judge
playability on this ukulele is for you to go down to whatever store that carries ponos
and play this thing for [F#m] yourself.
But, _
[C] take it from me,
[D] this ukulele [Gm] plays very, [D#] very [C] well.
_ _ [A#] _ _
[D] Playability good.
[C] _ _ Intonation [Em] right on the button.
_ That leads us to sound.
So
with regard to sound, what I'm gonna do is just play a little bit for you so you can hear the quality
_ of this ukulele.
The first thing I'm going to do _ _
is play a song for you, and I'm gonna
_ my left hand, I'm gonna kind of keep my left hand down here a lot just to show you
what it's like when I do this.
And then I'll play another song and
_ and show you how the ukulele sounds if I move up and down the fretboard.
Okay, let's play _ _ _ _
one limited motion song first. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C#] Oh,
[G] let me back up a little bit.
Just listen to this.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[C] Notice how nice and clear
_ that sound is.
No buzzing on the [Am] ukulele. _ _
Sustain.
[Gm] Sustain is [C] wonderful on this ukulele.
[Am] And sustain is just a great, great thing to have with ukuleles because ukuleles generally are percussive instruments.
_ _ _ And so percussive instruments sometimes when you go
the sound doesn't last very long. _
[C] _ Ukulele is an exception.
So, _
_ _ I'm gonna take that _ and
just take these four strings and utilize [E] different
combinations of chords and different combinations of
_ sound from these four strings and play for you a song again that that is limited to right down here fingering wise.
Oh, yeah, there we go.
_ [Dm] Promise not to stop [C#] this time.
[Am] _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[A#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, that's a limited one.
Now let's show you an example of how the uke sounds
when we go up [Dm] and down the fretboard. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ [F#m] We're at the middle of the [B] fretboard [E] now _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _
and go up higher [E] here.
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [A] Back up here. _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, [D#] here comes the best news.
And the best news is you can play this.
If you don't have a pono now, march down to your music store,
especially one that has ponos.
If you
do not know of a music store near you that has pono ukes,
_ _ _ contact Andrew and he'll be glad to tell you where there's one or send you one.
_ So,
_ pono ukes, best thing you can play this.
Thanks so much.
See you next time. _ _ _ _ _