Waves of Sunday Fingerpicked ukulele - live Duet
Channel: Mike Temple
Date: 2023-01-10

'Waves of Sunday' is a fingerpicked duet my partner Pam and I played at our local uke club last evening.
This is another in a series of performances we are recording to see how we manage the nerves associated with performing. This time we got through the tune fairly unscathed but it was still clear afterwards that the nerves had had some impact on both of us. I did manage to have a little look up from my uke, which is always a good sign that I was a bit more relaxed
The piece was composed by Seppo Sillanpää from Finland and is meant to replicate the sound of waves. He tunes his uke down a couple of steps to provide the looseness in the string to bend the sound, but we didn't do this as we would be tuning up again to play the next group song. I think it worked ok in standard tuning, but would like to try his method another time - maybe just need to buy a second uke 🤔🤔
The way he plays this is amazing and we have simply tried to make our own version of it rather than exactly copy him. He does have a YT channel, so check him out and
listen to his original version
His version is here https://bit.ly/3xOiPgH