Per Linda:
This post is part of Just Jot It January, and today’s prompt is courtesy of Nicole. Check out her blog here!
I’m so stoked to finally develop calluses on my fingers. I am beginning to learn a few chords on my ukulele. My first couple of songs use the F and the C7 (Mary Had a Little Lamb), and the C gives us Row, Row Row! And though the fretting fingers still hurt a little, I am hearing purer chords.
This little uke was $10 at a BiMart in La Pine. It seems to hold its tune nicely for something so inexpensive. If I can get to changing chords quickly, I may invest in a more expensive ukulele. It is fun to learn new things. And hopefully, it will help my brain to stay healthy.
And I’m stoked that I finally know an F from an F# on this recorder. I am such a newbie on both of these instruments I feel I might never play nicely, but I am making myself happy with each little improvement.
Darswords 
I am soooo stoked that you are stoked 💜💜💜
LOL!💜💜💜💜💜
Awesome 👏🏼
Thanks!🙏👍❤️
You’re welcome 💖
Good for you! Those calluses make all the difference, don’t they?
I can’t answer to that quite yet. Still building, but even the couple chords I can play are getting easier.👍😎
You’ll see. Stevie Ray Vaughn would super glue his callouses on if they fell off!! Don’t you be doing that! 🤣
I asked in the FB page about buying the finger protectors but everyone said the calluses were worth it. We’ll see! 😂
I love the way the ukulele šounds, but àrent the strings further away from the fret than a guitar’s strings are? That would make it harder to press down.
Maybe I should get one ànd learn along with you!
It would be fun to have a uke friend. I don’t think they are harder to press. I had a guitar and gave up in my more resilient teens. Learning to keep my nails on the fret hand close cut may be the hardest. I’ve always kept a nice length on nails. But now the length on the right hand stays nice as that’s the strumming hand. Join me.
I wonder how much her Enya uke cost her! That is a pretty one!
I wondered that, too. Check out some of the uke groups on FB. They have some awesome instruments! I’d love to hear Enya play a ukulele. I have some piano sheet music. It was fun to learn.
Ooh, I just looked on Amazon and there are many beginner soprano ukes for as low as $20!
Make sure to read the comments. When I first started searching I found a lot that would fall apart according to other purchasers. Funny, though, I bought this one without all that. But Memorex and $10 made me foolish.I was lucky it is fairly good. It holds it’s tune quite well.
I’d be stoked too if I was getting good at learning to play the instruments! The video lady, she seems to be a good teacher, showing how to do the chords. 🙂
She is a smart teacher and catchers early habits before the start. I love your comment. Stoked at learning to play. I doubt I’ll ever be concert level. Never got there with piano. Feel competent with voice. But my aim is having fun and learning.
🙂 I’m glad you found her videos to watch & learn. I played violin for years, all through school years, so thought guitar would be easy. I bought a kid sized guitar, but can’t seem to learn thing on it. 🙂
I tried to learn violin. I’d like to try again. I found guitar hurt my fingers a lot. I don’t remember violin hurting but I didn’t have the time to devote to learning. I did learn Twinkle, Twinkle. I’d love to try again.