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