More ukelele!

I have, after many failed attempts, succeeded in tuning the instrument to a reasonable approximation of GCEA, which I gather is the standard tuning. I was somewhat hampered in this by the way I was holding it upside-down to start with, and then somebody pointed out that my left hand was the one that was meant to be on the neck. (Which seems odd to me. To the extent that I have a dominant hand, it's my right, why would my left hand be the one that needs to be more dextrous? Though I suppose if I got good enough to do picking work, I'd want my dextrous hand doing that.)

Some ukelele-playing colleagues have been kind enough to point me at a variety of useful online tools, including an online ukelele tuner, and I've also found videos by someone who is, I think, German (I'm rubbish at differentiating that particular accent family, I wish I were better at it), amd who is quite good at explaining things in very small bites. Lesson 3 involves a song with only one chord!.

I cannot yet play the song with only one chord with any degree of skill, but you should see me, face locked in a rictus of determination, strumming along heartily. I am going to ROCK Frère Jacques any day now, just as soon as I get over how weird it is that the words are in English.

I've decided that my ukelele's name is Professor. Because, you see, it's plum.