Brad Bordessa

Plug In If you’re new to plugging in your ukulele, these things probably happen to you all the time. Plug In is written to be a complete guide to understanding how to improve your amped-up tone, step-by-step....

New ebook on amplifying your ʻukulele available now. On sale until March 10th! liveukulele.com/store/plug-in/

95% of ukulele would be better with a gospel choir. 🙌

Fretboard Mastery for Uke Mini Series Ten video walkthroughs TABs examples Practice routine Learn to memorize the ukulele fretboard and, more importantly, build your muscle memory so you can play effortlessly. This approach has helped me ...

A free ʻukulele mini-series on learning the fretboard!

This is material Herb Ohta, Jr. advised me to practice almost 20 years ago and it's what I attribute to my ability to mostly play wherever I want on the fretboard. It's hard, but will supercharge your chops. 💪

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Courtesy of my 4th-5th grade uke class, "Giant Chipmunks Eat Antarctica" is my new favorite acronym for remembering the string names of the ʻukulele.

Played steel guitar with Sweet Kani Lehua on Saturday and this kid comes up to the side of the stage, "Hi, I'm Isaac. I play steel guitar." Convinced him to play a song and now I guess I need to learn "Hilo March" to keep my job. Lol #hawaiianmusic #kikakila

After watching some of the review, I think it's more the bad color choices that bother my eyes. They really clash with the white. Too bad it's not blue/white

I like this on electric guitars, but can't help feeling it's a little bit of a shame for the natural beauty of the wood on ukes

Made in Hawaii, which is occupied by the USA

Molokaʻi having a fun night! www.weather.gov/hfo/radar_loop

Thanks, Bob. I ended up with Keola's guy who's been taking care of me. Definitely seems like I had a lemon rep before.

PSA: Check your latency offset for #recording with a loopback test! The "reported" latency on my Clarett 4Pre was 1,901 samples off, which seems like a rather lot for such a nice piece of kit.

Nice work!

Rage Against the Machine - Freedom: 7 second #ukulele lesson.

🤦Worse and worse. Hawaii desperately needs some Aloha Aina candidates next election and for haoles to support them.

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Tim Minchin on his viral speech, quitting social media and being kind

This is one of the most thoughtful interviews I've had the pleasure of listening to in a long time. Tim's introspection and humility as a human trying to exist and be good in this confusing era is inspiring.

YouTube video by Brad Bordessa Correcting Mistakes: How to Get Out of Trouble on Your Uke

Here's my tried-and-true method to polishing almost any musical turd. (I'm *highly* skilled at polishing turds! 🤣)

I don't understand why you wouldn't just play 1322, even if you had a bass player?

YouTube video by Brad Bordessa Messing Up: What Constitutes a "Mistake" on Ukulele?

My thoughts on what mistakes mean for your practice and performance. I need to do a follow up on ways to massage them into the music and "recover" from goobers. #ukulele

Learning the fretboard *well*

I hate staring into studio lights, but love making videos. Hope this upcoming mini-series is worth it!

Right on! Mahalo. I expect it will have something for almost everyone, especially if you have a group. Planning on a late February release.

The upcoming Civ 7 game includes a Hawaiʻi civilization: civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game.... Interested to see what the portrayal is like. My impression from Civ 6 is that the devs are stoked about history, but have to spread it kinda thin across too many cultures to make any one stand out.

Just saw this. Consistently clever and cutting edge

Great chat with @mimsukes.bsky.social today for the podcast! Awesome to make a connection with one of the coolest, most honest, and most caring people in the uke scene. Keep an eye out for our interview in February. In the meantime, if you need a uke, take your business to Mim! mimsukes.com

YouTube video by MainSqueezeMusic The Main Squeeze - Live From The Mojave Desert

Shout out to The Main Squeeze for presenting one of the best musical performances ever posted on YouTube. Absolutely insane. This kind of thing makes me want to practice. They're based out of LA. Show some love.

Me make uke sound gooooooood! 👍🤙🏼😁

HX Edit view of my EQ section before my tweak. My EQ section was three total blocks. I find that putting the IR in parallel sounds quite a bit better than stacking in series with the EQ.

HX Edit view of my EQ section after my tweak. I ended up with two blocks. Sounds very close to the separate EQ blocks version. Certainly not noticeable in a band.

Line 6 HX Stomp has everything but a comprehensive, all-in-one EQ block. Just rendered my separate parametric and shelf EQ blocks into an IR to save a slot. Don't love it, but beggars can't be choosers and I'd rather have an extra delay.

YouTube video by Brad Bordessa Adding Copper Shielding to Kala Solidbody UBass (+ Aftermarket Bass String Tip)

Finally finished fixing up my UBass. The stock electronics are pretty mediocre, so I brought it up to speed. I'll make a before/after demo at some point, but mostly I just trust that it will work now that I've redone the wiring myself. #ukulele #ubass #diyelectronics

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I guess I just gotta ask for someone new.

They gave me "free" shipping the other day from UPS (no delivery estimate). "Hey, great!" I thought. Once shipped it transferred to USPS and what I can only assume is slow-boat service because now the ETA is the 17th. It's been a week since I emailed my guy about it with no response.