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  • September 24, 2018 at 4:08 pm #21245
    marcgmarcg
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    Hello Everyone,

    After listening to the Thursday Live Lessons I remembered one of the reasons I got into music in the first place, ANIME! I completely forgot because all of my teachers have always been older white guys (no offense) who had never heard of anime. I know the ukuleleunderground team consists of some anime fans and I wanted to ask your opinion on playing anime songs on ukulele. I have attached a list of some of my favorite anime songs that I want to teach myself. As much as possible I want to play the songs solo while keeping the essence of the song in tact. What tips do you have for doing that?

    At this point I think I will start by learning the chords and feel of the songs and then learning the melody. I am just not sure how to incorporate chord melodies with finger picking. I can’t sing to save my life, plus most of this is in Japanese anyway.

    I hope the anime fans enjoy the stroll through memory lane and please feel free to add more songs that you think I should add.

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    October 4, 2018 at 7:03 pm #21343
    ourmaninjapanourmaninjapan
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    Seems like Brandon would be a good resource for this kind of help. @bcanup1 are you out there?

    November 26, 2018 at 1:10 pm #23412
    marcgmarcg
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    Super interesting for the Miyazaki fans out there!

    November 26, 2018 at 3:35 pm #23413
    ourmaninjapanourmaninjapan
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    Good find. Pretty intense so might need a couple of viewings, but I was glad to see him bring up things like Sakura and the Japanese national anthem as examples of things that don’t sound quite right to Western ears. I thought it was just me that thought that. In the context of his explanation, though, they seem to make more sense and actually sound better knowing some of the theory behind it. Thanks Marc!

    November 26, 2018 at 5:52 pm #23417
    marcgmarcg
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    @ourmaninjapan This is something my ears get confused on all the time! My family listens to “eastern” music just as much as western music so a lot of the time I feel groove and arrangement has a much bigger influence to me.

    November 29, 2018 at 2:36 am #23439
    bcanup1
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    Sorry. Have been everywhere for a bit. Steven Law has some good arrangements from Evangelion, Castle in the Sky, Digimon, One punchman, ect. I recommend him for some cool arrangements. The Ghibli book I bought was also an awesome steal. Al Wood has a cool arrangement for Dango Family from Clannad haha.

    But these are some of the people I love to follow.

    Rainy Day Studio
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC20EbxU0rgNywSo1ahmcOeg

    Steven Law (Check his ukulele playlist, he links to his arrangements in his website)
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG_HoVmf9ygvZOtWJt8_6VA

    Otakurere (You’ll have to watch this mans fingers, but he has style)
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6IQNECNjYuA8owXQmvYcg

    Ukulelekenchan (He has some cool arrangements)
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qozBt-PrqRNh_VR0pcRJg/videos

    And not too much anime relation, but this site is awesome.
    http://uke.freehostia.com/tabs.php

    Aldrine’s old medleys (The old forum tabbed out his Naruto medley, he linked to the tabs but you will need to sign up to see them.)

    But yea, so many people have made some cool songs to play. I am still working on Cruel Angel Thesis from Steven Law. Got it memorized but need to add some flare to make it sound like I want.

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