Redwood

by Kate Power & Steve Einhorn
Steve - Webber C-tuned Low-G Baritone Uke
Kate - MyaMoe 6-string Tenor

Producer - Billy Oskay
Portland Romance, ​Track 17
On one of our national runouts, we found ourselves on the Avenue of the Giants in northern California headed home to Portland and stopped the van to take a break. The trees were so inspiring that we took out our ukes to play a little. Little did we know that this tune would spontaneously erupt among the giant trees - and we captured it as it happened here. This tune has helped lots of uke students to get their mojo working with its rythmic round of A and B parts that wants to go round and round. It's cyclic aspect makes room for the player to counter the downstroke with a "down-down-up-up-down-up" pattern and compels the player to dance at play. Here's the YouTube of the original conception of this tune, crows and all...