Amazing Musician — Ukelele Picker Jake Shimabukuro
Tonight I was in my nightly ritual watching Conan O’Brien (you can watch Feb 19th show here). The guest musician was Jake Shimabukuro, a Japanese-America from Hawaii. Shimabukuro played one of my favorite George Harrison / White Album songs, While My Guitar Gently Weeps on his ukelele–yep, you are reading it correct.
Conan was blow away. I was blown away. Luckily we have iTunes today where I simply paid my $0.99 and added this great track to my music collection. Visit Shimabukuro’s destination on iTunes and take a listen to the sample. Better yet, just buy it.
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WOW! That’s awesome. How could all that sound come out of only 4 strings!
I think my favorite part was when he was strumming triplet sixteenths on the upbeats near the end. Amazing!