I did manage to get some musical gear this past year. A few years ago, I bought my son a pineapple ukulele for Christmas. Late last year, he had it out and I started messing around with it. I liked it so much, that I bought one for myself as my 2013 Christmas gift. I found tons of instructional videos on YouTube, and off I went, into the wonderful world of ukes! I liked my little pineapple uke so much, that for Father's Day, I bought a larger, tenor acoustic/electric ukulele! The ukulele is a great little instrument, and I highly recommend it for anyone, especially if you already play guitar. I have found that playing the ukulele really helps me with my strumming. The chords on a uke are super easy, compared to the guitar. As a result, I can concentrate on my strumming and timing more instead of worrying about my chord positions - uke chords are that easy!
I didn't forget about the guitar, though! As evident in this blog, I have all sorts of guitars, but I didn't have a guitar with P-90 pickups in it. So for my birthday, I got myself one. I was able to find a slightly used Epiphone Wildkat. It's a beautiful and wonderful guitar! It's a semi-hollow guitar with P-90 pickups and a Bigsby vibrato on it. It's really fun to play - I just wish I had (or made) more time to play it!
Well, that's my post for this year. Maybe this coming year will find me playing (and posting) more. I wish everybody reading this a Happy New Year!
