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Should I Use a Pick with the Ukulele?

(This is a guest post by Ted Parrish, co-author of ‘Ukulele for the Complete Ignoramus‘)

To pick or not to pick, that is the question.

Folks ask me all the time what pick do they need to play the ukulele. And while the easy answer is “none”, there really is no easy answer.

nopick2Historically speaking there is no call for a pick or plectrum. The Hawaiians who invented the ukulele (by modifying Portuguese instruments that came to the islands with sailors) did not use a pick. In Hawaii you generally strum with the first finger or the thumb,

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I’ll Fly Away on Banjo

By Wayne Erbsen

There are many ways to close out a bluegrass show, but I always favor ending an evening’s entertainment with a rousing version of I’ll Fly Away. This song is the perfect choice because everybody knows it and they love to sing along. Recently, I started digging into the origins of I’ll Fly Away, and here’s what I found.

I’ll Fly Away was among the earliest compositions of Albert Edward Brumley, who was born in Indian Territory near Spiro, Oklahoma on October 29, 1905. Growing up in a family of sharecroppers, Brumley knew from an early

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Native Ground’s Favorite Old-Time and Bluegrass Music Links

Sheet Music, Tab, Lyrics & Instruction

 

Banjo Tablature and Bluegrass Information

 

Historic American Sheet Music

 

Mel Bay Publications

 

Ezfolk

 

Harmony Central

 

Lewalt Publishing

 

Mudcat Cafe

 

Guitar Noise

 

Tune Finder

 

Parlor Songs

 

Banjo Tablature

Perfessor Bill Edwards Ragtime/OldTime Piano Gallary

 

Lester L. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

 

Historic American Sheet Music

 

Banjo Tablature Archive

 

Roots of American Fiddle Music

 

Barb Diederich’s Bluegrass Links

 

Fretted Instruments School  NYC

Radio

World Wide Bluegrass

Stories of Mountain Folk

Country Roots with Wayne Erbsen Sundays 7-9 PM EST

Band & Musicians

Debby McClatchy

David Holt

 

Jay Unger & Molly Mason

 

Laura Boosinger

 

The Guitar of

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Cowboys in Bluegrass Music?

Hopalong CassidyAs a kid, I desperately wanted to be a cowboy.  I dreamed of owning a horse, riding the range, and doing what cowboys did. And why wouldn’t I? Every night I slept under a cowboy blanket and my lunch box was fully decorated with a decal of a handsome cowboy twirling his lariat. Growing up at the dawn of the age of television, all my heroes were cowboys: Hopalong Cassidy, Shane, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and John Wayne. I watched “Gunsmoke,” “Have Gun Will Travel,” “The Rifleman” and “Bonanza” while eating my TV dinner. My favorite actor was Gary Cooper,

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