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[MUSIC]
Okay, we are, if you noticed,

I do have a tiny instrument with me

instead of our custom Congolese.

The reason is Sarah would kill me [LAUGH]
if I introduced this technique on our

custom instruments, so this is still
a beautiful instrument, but it is, yeah.

So, [LAUGH]
this is a technique called gope,

and it was funny.

I use to play with kind of a funk
band up in Eugene, Oregon for

years, and they were kind of my backing
band with the ukulele lead up front.

And once I started doing more
of the ukulele festivals,

I was much more focused on kind
of that solo ukulele sound.

And I was dying to get more sound
out of this tiny, little instrument.

And one of the things I kind of pushed was
not only the percussive elements that we

learned earlier with the scratching and
muting.

But a technique that I kind of did,
found by accident called gulpe.

Now gulpe is a big flamenco
guitar kind of style term, but

we're going to be able to utilize
it on this instrument as well.

And pretty much gulpe,

all that really means is getting

a percussive hit back and

really kind of tweaked it

a bit to kind of fit my needs.

And we're slowly gonna build up to some of
the cool things that we can do with it.

Let's hold an F chord for a second.

Two, zero, one, zero.

And now, the easiest way to kind
of start implementing this and

practicing is just doing a down and
then I hit.

And be very careful, we do not
want to use the tip of your nail.

We do wanna use the flat portion of it.

You don't wanna stab your
instrument with you nail.

You wanna just use that flat
part of your nail onto the face.

It's soft, kind of like.

The knock in there.

So when you do hit through, it should be
really flush with the face of the ukulele.

We could do down, hit, down,
hit, down, hit, down, hit.

Be very gentle, though.

I do not want to see bitter
responses of broken ukuleles, okay.

So please be very gentle.

All right, now, expanding on that,
let's see if we can use two fingers.

So what I'm gonna do

is actually use my middle followed by
my pointer on the face of the ukulele.

So I'm gonna do down, and a double hit.

And I am missing my ukulele a little bit.

This is a much smaller
instrument than I'm used to.

So I'm kind of finding the balance.

There we go.

Not so bad.

What about even adding a fan?

So the fan, I'm going to use all
four fingers just like we would for

the strings, but now usually on
the side of on the face of the ukulele.

So let's do down,

fan, down, fan.

[MUSIC]
Ooh.

[MUSIC]
Now that's one way to use it.

Now the second way is actually to
continue a strum just like how I did on

accident way back when.

But continuing my strum, and

actually making sure you clip the side
of the ukulele with that nail.

So you can do a

[MUSIC].

So I can even further that with a fan, so
I can do a fan not only on the strum But

continue on to hit
the face of the ukulele.

[MUSIC]
Okay, so

this is something

that's quite new on

the ukulele, and

something that I'm

still actually adding

things to every day.

So I'm going through the strings.

And hitting the face of the ukulele.

Okay, and
another fun way to kind of experiment, and

again I wouldn't use this on a,
like, a very expensive ukulele.

Cuz you will start kind of
scratching through the finish.

But one cool thing is
actually using your thumb and

kind of scratching that top part there to
get another completely different sound.

So for example,

I can do something

like
[MUSIC].

>> So yeah, all I'm doing is
getting a lot of this kind of cool,

almost like sandpaper kind of sound.

With the side of my nails,
side of my finger there.

And even, you can get different
sounds from using more of the flesh.

But again,
this is something that we're actually very

excited to see people experimenting with.

Because it is something that is still
kind of being developed right now and

pushed [NOISE].

And now I am going to mix and match a
little bit of the techniques we just went

over into chord progression, and this is
my own little take on Golpe, on ukulele.

And I am so eager to see what
your guys come up with as well.

So here we go.

Let's see.

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