21.31 Andrew Molina & Andrew Hoyt

we have uh andrew molina that you guys know already he's down from maui and uh we also have andrew hoyt from iowa so welcome boys kalay's with us now and later on in the podcast corey's gonna join us too so this is gonna be a lot of fun andrew hoyt yeah man there's there is uh quite a few andrews in the room right now we don't know i have to like address by last where i am i know right um tell us more about yourself yeah uh so i grew up in des moines iowa i still live there currently and i've been playing ukulele for about 10 years now but writing songs a little bit longer than that but really enjoy being here um and just performing around oahu and stuff but i perform around des moines too um and just really enjoy writing songs and a song just came out called live a little came out last friday on spotify and all over but um i don't know if that's enough about me well yeah we can talk as it goes along but let's start with some music if you guys can uh play us a tune one two one two one two [Music] [Music] music is a world within itself [Music] you can [Music] you can feel [Music] over music knows it isn't always will be one of those things [Music] over [Music] you can feel it all over [Music] yeah nice man that's so good guys good vocals really nice locals man thanks man yeah i like the vibe yeah i usually get it's like so hard like group setting like i'm always playing solo like i remember you're telling me like you normally play it like slightly funkier yeah it's gonna be like music is a world within itself but the language we understand but i think when i'm like counting off it's like more suspenseful oh maybe that's it i could hear like some sick bass lines going on in the background if you had one oh yeah they're accompanying you that would be super cool yeah for sure um we'll be doing like a few like trio shows um like this summer that nice i'll be doing but yeah usually play solo but i'm gonna do more stuff like this for sure that's cool yeah it's always like a nice change to like jam with other people every once in a while oh yeah yeah because like like for me and andrew like we're we're used to playing solo you know yeah you know as well so we understand like how much more fun it is having a you know someone up on stage with you or even collaborating with collaborating with them in the studio yeah 100 yeah there's like bouncing ideas back and forth you know yeah and uh yeah it's just like i haven't jumped to somebody's in like a year since you know on maui all the players that want to walk so it's good to chat with you guys yeah oh that's awesome yeah yeah it's kind of crazy it's not like these uh like it's not like a zoom jam works you know oh yeah you got to be on the same local internet for that or something yeah just make it easier are you a teacher as well yeah so i teach k through 5 elementary um i teach in a town called ankeny maybe that's tmi for being online and everything but um yeah so go hit them up what's your address yeah yeah social security zero zero so you teach k through 5 music yeah nice yeah general music so we'll teach like the very basics like half note quarter note um so you went to school for music yeah so went to school for music education therapy obvious questions that's how it works but no i did music therapy music education music therapy yeah double major yep um and music therapy yeah it's um that's what this podcast is yeah yeah it's it's a form like if yeah for sure and it's like such a powerful um like i was in a brain rehab center for my internship and we we heard people speak for the first time people with aphasia you know with motor function deficit or it could be from the brain there's just so many different ways that music therapy can really help like just with songs that activates a different part of the brain singing and so then connecting that with a speech therapist to just speech so it's really interesting yeah that stuff is super very fascinating yeah yeah it's interesting um like i i know like it hits almost every region of the brain um music well yeah especially if you're playing it but um but even hearing it i don't know what i'm talking about i'm not no i you know i really don't either that's that's just i mean i had that experience but well you were trained though to do that and then what's it been like working with kids oh it's great it's awesome i could spend it's gonna be my third year next year um but i've loved it and it's been like really good for me just to like be an organized human too because you really have to step you know step it up and make engaging lessons to keep them engaged and you want to make lessons that really make an impact on their lives too musically if you're the only music source potentially that that they have you know that's like a really big role so there's 600 plus kids at my school and to be like the music somewhat expert in the in a building like no one else knows what i'm talking about you know unless i teach them just because they teach different subjects and they have their classroom classes um that they see every day and where i see all the kids and i just want to make sure i make a positive impact so it's it's really fun and it feels like a lot of pressure sometimes to to be that kind of music person in the building for him so it uh it's something to take serious right yeah for sure and you've probably seen some kids with that potential really uh well maybe you know that that's what they'll be like i mean i guess that should be a question like have you do you have you had kids where you're like wow they're gonna be really good um like musically yeah yeah of course oh yeah i mean um yeah for sure just like anything like um just observing you know if we're doing steady b or if we're doing um creative things on orf instruments like xylophones and stuff um to see or play ukulele too and we have like a whole set that we use um yeah you can totally see that and i try not to be like super like centered around that and like like think you know i'm looking for like the best music because they're all going to be good yeah and whatever they do you know and just want to make sure i'm a very like holistic teacher thinking about everybody and just teaching them what i can you know yeah yeah very cool yeah that's awesome so why don't you guys play some more music yeah it's good he doesn't do awkward yeah cool that's perfect because i've felt awkward all night [Music] yeah that's kind of why i wrote this too earth is freshman year of college and just meeting new people and i was the only person from my school that came to this undergrad and so to just be on your own and just meet people as you go um so yeah i just wrote this on like early on freshman nice but yeah i'm gonna grab my uh other ukulele here that's cool that's a oop logic oh yeah i love those drinks yeah i've been cleaning them for like three months now um because i was doing reds um red label or not red label it's cool red series or whatever from um tequila yeah yeah and these are green and the stuff that joel's strings like the type of tones that you get out of it is is really impressive yeah jonah davis was like dude do these like they're really great and i love them um i'm forgetting right now to be honest i think it's high tension yeah um and then the gold alloy on top and then i want to get the pink so that was cool i got some changes too oh and then he's solid yeah that's the yellow cover we have like three three artists here that choose euclogic hard tensions wow yeah is that the the yellow cover right the yellow uh container that it comes in isn't it yellow mine was pink oh maybe mine was pink too i seen them in the green or the blue packages i don't oh you said i'm in the green or blue yeah then maybe it's not high tension or the pink one maybe it's the pink strings and the other one would be the clear ones yeah one of the shade of people yeah okay i'm pretty sure it's yellow it could be maybe he changes it up for everybody like so you're all confused what do you think it's just nice action yeah the action is set really nice on there it feels very bad i love it um i guess it's actually um got a blemish but i was like where like i don't see anything yeah it's microscopic how did you consider one how did you choose ko aloha i didn't choose them um but i would but um i it was just kind of really lucky and grateful but i have a best friend from college that does videography and there's this magazine that wanted me to review a speaker so i was like yeah so read the speaker and had him do the videography this is a nice background i'm giving my testimony um and uh yeah i like this um yeah so they uh uh they contacted me lloyd contacted me and was like hey man and it was a facebook message like two pages worth and said aloha and i was like this is bam like this can't be real and i didn't i couldn't open it because if i opened it like he would see that i saw it or like i didn't want to get a bug either so i was like who's this lloyd okay so he like look you know and i'm i've seen his name everywhere and i'm like oh okay this is maybe legit because i want to be careful you know in case i get a virus or something um and it was just really thoughtful nice two-page thing we would love because he saw that i was playing like uh what's the brand um so how am i forgetting this some lesser brand yeah yeah um yeah well you don't even bother saying it's well yeah no i can't see it but ukulele mike when he was doing lessons on youtube i learned from him right i love that guy um and he used it that brand i forget anyway um so lloyd saw that and he was like hey man very nice and he's like we're gonna send you one and i was like what it's like this is insane i know that kolo has like one of the coolest like factories like well-known ukulele places and best sounding yeah they're one of the best yeah and uh i just couldn't believe it i was like this this can't be real but it was real and just a nice guy from how many miles away you know 2 000 um that's probably too much i actually don't know maybe that's about right yeah i think that's about more yeah maybe a little bit more 25 more like four really well it's about three to the west coast i think well i thought it was like two oh you're right you're right i think it's more three because when you live here no i don't know whatever we get your point from a long long way far away and how kind you know like i just i'm surrounded by corn fields and not just that i'm also wearing my hawaii backwardses iowa and uh represent boz prince boz prince if you're watching this i'd love to be a sponsor um no but uh ever since then lloyd um sent me the 25th um i believe lloyd sent me that or was possibly brian because i was talking to brian too and now i'm here and it's real um it's a real place all i had was phone calls and videos and the website but could have been on the front it's not as real you know it's just like well they make those instruments i know i know but it's like walking in i was like oh my like this is the people this is real okay you know like i don't know just being there is just different than just on the phone all the time and to be walking in i was like this is crazy like so it's all over again like how am i here like yeah insane and they're very welcoming too yeah they're so nice like right away talk to pops and pops gave me like 25 minutes it's like dude like you have customs to make like quit being so nice man and everybody like paul took me out like for half the day you know alan took me out for half the day it's like you guys have lots of work to do that might be unique but i gotta say pops will give anybody 25 minutes that is actually the personal interaction with that guy is so amazing very true pops is always like into everybody and so excited and even at that age which is very young um tried to save myself there a little bit no yeah yeah though commies are one of the best families i've ever encountered for sure and the instruments you know even if they weren't awesome people their instruments are awesome but they are yeah so it's really fun story so we got sidetracked oh yes being awkward yeah hey nice tie-in [Music] all right [Music] i'm not gonna try to count so just so it sounds cooler maybe it's a cooler rhythm [Music] i guess you could say i've been super awkwardly it's in my nature i don't ever want to have deliver that everybody's got their own way speak awaiting this and you just get to know me deeper and if you think i'm [Music] feel like a waste of space and dealing out of place and all these things you gotta keep it on keeping it right you're never gonna find if i can be just keep on waiting just keep on waiting and pretty soon you're gonna have to see him just keep waiting just keep on waiting do you [Music] he said you need [Music] come on [Music] just [Music] do you see the reality [Music] all right [Music] do [Music] nice try to kill you guys the best way possible no thanks man no thank you thanks so much for playing on um just playing and you guys are legends so i've known about you like for so long so in my opinion this guy started starting to like put i didn't mean to like just be like wow you're so great but you guys are great so thanks a lot for hanging out thank you yeah thanks for letting us chat man yeah yeah that was super fun yeah andrew um sorry mr molina is it yourself are you talking to you yeah right yes andrew get it together man come on um now now i'm gonna talk to this andrew over here hey buddy hey what's going on yeah dude so tell me during this uh this whole last year and a half of craziness like what you've been up to and have you been creating what's this time been like for you it's been a it was a definitely a rough adjustment since we lost like tours like in europe and uh oh wow yeah so we were ready to go i think it was like everything got shut down was like march 17th you and jay yeah so me and my dad were gonna travel um we had we had a couple tours booked actually and then it just like in the span of that one weekend everything just got shut down so it's really tough and just i don't know they told us like the first of july or something that we could get out but like i don't know this might be a long term thing so it actually took a couple months of adjusting and it was really it's really tough kind of fell into it kind of heartbreaking right yeah yeah so a small kind of depressed you know you know what am i gonna do now since that's what i worked towards to you know practicing all these tunes and like it was actually gonna be my cd release tour and then we couldn't go so that was that was pretty brutal so i had to i still have to do that so september we're going to go back on the road and kind of do a cd release tour i guess yeah but yeah i just i've been working on um i've been actually working on a podcast of my own so i talked to some uh some of the great ukulele players around the world it's been lots of fun i gotta get this guy on here what's that what's the name i just got the am oklahoma podcast am ukulele podcast and people can find it on any yeah it's on spotify and then the video versions on youtube nice that's been keeping me busy and it's just like it's awesome oh i gotta check that out right yeah yeah that's so cool so it was kind of my way of like trying to i guess keep the script and you know let's utilize this free time that we have and you know like after being locked up you said you kind of forget that like your basic you know socializing life because you got to stay home so that was my way of connecting with my ukulele friends and i was like hey what's going on it's just let's talk story so that's kind of my sometimes if you make it official and call it a podcast it's just a good excuse to have conversations with your friends yeah yeah yeah so it's been a it's been really good uh have some a wide variety of guests and some interesting conversations for sure yeah you had the cheese on there right and when somebody said cheese at first i was like what like you're saying the word cheese like you're talking about people what i don't know but they just said cheese but craig and sarah right the last name's cheating oh gee yeah yeah sorry you said cheese man no that's exactly what i'm talking about yeah right yeah i'm sure jesus that's it are you are you joking right now too no because i thought you were like oh i thought you said cheese like you were like no i thought she said she is you said she see that i'm talking about grilling we just didn't hear the apostrophe yeah like like alan was like the cheese i was like what do you but yeah craig and sarah you yeah i guess i don't know him as the cheese i just know him as craig yeah i guess that's like a cool i think that i thought that was an everywhere thing well that's a new one i gotta tell them that yeah what's up cheese yeah i had them on they were a great guest and then i still got a bunch i need to upload but it's been it's been lots of fun you know sitting one-on-one with these um people that i have so much respect for you know all over the world and it's been it's been great so that's been keeping me busy throughout the month beautiful well for you guys that follow us here go jump over there and i'll put a link in the description below um wow that's awesome so you guys are set to take tour now i mean yeah we we have a few shows lined up i don't know if everybody's still like only half of the people are comfortable going to like joseph and that's the thing the um the guy that has the venue he said i want to just push forward and see what happens so we're like okay let's make the best of it we don't know how the seating is going to be we really don't know like uh how many people yeah like exactly everyone's social anxiety is different because you know like like i want to get sick kind of a thing so i guess we'll see but i'm guessing the seats are going to be kind of spread apart stuff like that yeah yeah yeah i mean i'm sure they'll do it in the in the safest way and it's great for people to get together and experience music again um beyond it being supportive of you know the art of what you guys do it's it's uh therapy in a way right i mean it's healing is it music therapy yeah yeah i think a lot of people are itching just to like see some live music so yeah i'm sure you're super pumped just to like get out and perform especially like cross country that's no definitely and for me it's just like that's my passion is performing so like adjusting to the virtual stuff was a little difficult last year just a completely different vibe from when you play in front of a live audience it's so great though that you have your dad yeah you know because it's like your guy's vibe together is magical and at least you had each other during this time to like jam with right yeah well actually it's fine i don't think we jammed once that's why i don't know i think like it just hit him in a different way too so like oh it kind of took the gas out yeah it kind of was kind of weird so like the first couple months i really didn't even play ukulele i was just like oh man i don't know what to do like is this really happening around this time last year then i started really practicing again and i feel like i i fell in love playing with the ukulele again so i started practicing i'm beautiful can you play us a solo piece oh yeah sure [Music] tell us about what you're going to play so this is an original tune off of my latest record evolve kind of a ballad but here's one entitled uh chance encounter [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] wow hey that was great man thanks i had to cut it short because the tuning was so sharp oh i really honestly didn't notice it like that much i mean i know still you said it too [Music] yeah that's another thing with all this free time you know it's like you get these um you can get these new ideas that you put down so like i mean that's from the last record but yeah throughout the past year probably came up with like six new ideas so it's been pretty good i guess yeah i know let's play one of them [Music] i've been doing a lot of arranging too i want to hear something that hasn't been on record yet okay [Music] oh man okay okay let's make sure this one's in tune though [Music] such a cool tuna i'm good yeah it's a you see her it's your soul [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] yeah yeah man definitely that one can i can i guess what that's about like i'm probably gonna be way off yeah but i just imagined and this might be like stereotypical like story thinking but like disney pixar like beach and waves and like typical beach and then like that's the morning so starting the morning then when he strummed really hard thought of sorry i'm just like right here no i like it but flat of night and crashing waves in the moon and like that's when it gets more exciting and crashing and then like when you got slow again in the morning again they ended and then you could hear like birds and like the ocean waves like i that's what i got i know like usually like when the ukulele you think of ocean waves but for this song specifically that's seriously like what i thought of it is that kind of on the yeah so like it's funny because i do picture kind of like a beach okay so i kind of started writing that idea down last year kind of after my whole depression of the covid so it was just like something to look forward to i i i heard like a lot more like emotionalness well it's like what the major part of you it's like you kind of look forward to that light but then this is the frustration of being locked up and you don't know what's going on right [Music] and it's like you know you don't know what you know what's going on you don't have to believe and you're frustrated so that's right that has a lot of minor in the chorus but yeah it is looking to the future like to one day go to this beach where you know everyone can go too safely kind of like so it was kind of inspired i guess by the colbit in a way so i love that that's how i channeled it i guess thank you thank you it's a good companies composition man thank you thank you i like those chord changes that you're doing with the fuji yeah yeah interestingly yeah that's why i've really come to love the low g because there's stuff you can do here that you can't do on hygiene yeah like that walkthon [Music] wow that's beautiful those are some nice voicings [Music] and plus i wanted to write in the key of e since you know it's like the heart of key so i was like you know let me tackle that so that's another inspiration i'm always striving to do stuff that i couldn't do before or stuff that i always considered hard so i feel like that that makes um definitely one of us i wish i could be more like that like this looks really tough i'm going to attack yeah because even kalee knows like like 2016 i was like man i hate e man he goes oh he goes yeah try practice and then you know that's like this is like in the ukulele world it's like one of the hardest keys right so i was like you know let me embrace the um let me embrace it and make it my friend so that's why i kind of wrote that i wrote that's why i chose that key but so it was a little bit of a strategical planning with the whole key but also coming with the melody they did come from emotion in a way it's awesome as far as i can tell like pretty much all inspiration comes from emotions or feelings and it's like even though the last year or two has been pretty emotional it's like i'm sure it's created some things along the way the way that artists um do anyways um why don't you guys i'll play another song together and then we'll rearrange the room a little bit uh because we got fuji in the house now i'll be andrew three i'll take the third place [Music] nah you're a one dude um yeah there you go it'll be the steak son a.m ukulele podcast yeah released in the am actually yeah 10 a.m it was 10 a.m somewhere it's am somewhere that's true that's true yeah [Music] oh this is idea that i came up with that you can we can actually use the four of us because he uses a for four part harmony oh really yeah i saw this part was that the way you're thinking you're working out with jake or something no no no that's just toastmaker's advantage man yeah he's working on it no no i kind of i oh can i play that to you that or unless you want oh go oh go ahead [Music] so i can go i can't rule somebody out my dad was doubling on that and then [Music] so that we can all layer apart oh yeah like that and then two people go yeah yeah so yeah i was just thinking about that i was like this foreign [Music] do [Music] do [Music] is [Music] this is fun you're gonna lose it back and you'd be like oh we should have done that song oh that's good it'll probably be good enough for post do you think maybe not without headphones but oh this would be perfect with corey [Music] it's probably just me [Music] [Laughter] [Music] first [Music] [Music] so [Music] woof [Laughter] yeah and it's so cool because it's just oh one mostly [Music] i'm going elsewhere [Music] no no no no no no no [Music] so high [Music] right [Music] [Music] i don't know if you're ending or not it looks like we just did it that was fun that was really fun just like jamming out i can contribute vocally just from like a small d minor yeah yeah there you go like a little vocal soul yeah thank god i can help out a little bit that was a lot of fun all from that little idea from d minor down we need to play like two songs that was a fun jam if we can squeeze in and be fun do like another thing like that sometimes those are the best tastes yeah that probably was the best stuff we did um yeah there's like no pressure everyone's like okay just playing those whatever and it's so much easier to sing when it's like just like two chords or one chord yeah yeah i'll give you credit for the awesome one there's like a lot of changes in that first oh the so awkward yeah like rhythmically it's like it's very different yeah and it's also for like when you're going through and you couldn't like cutting it in half it's like we're doing it twice you know i got you in the double time i wrote that i was like in jazz band and i'd set up drums and it would take me thirty it would take 40 minutes to set up it was always just like oh my god because i'm like they're 30 minutes before and everybody else is taking their trumpet out or you know it's like super easy or easier because i had a hot in this like elevator huge elevator i had to close the doors manually and to wait for it to slowly go up take it out pull the card out like setting up drums like sucks oh it's a lot of work it sucks it's a lot of work unloaded and loaded back up but i like was just surrounded by music in school which i'd miss a whole bunch because i'd be you know i was in jazz band um you know this choir um i was in band um i was in some other music stuff like i was in like a volunteer like uh group like where we played around like churches and stuff and um yeah and so like having all that music it just like like gave me all this inspiration that i could just like grab from and so i recorded that sound like just like the notes and then put words to it which i never really do usually it's like words with the music at the same time but that was the first time i was like notes and then put words in it's right let me get an answer from each of you guys on um what music is to your life to you because i'd say for me music is a passion it's a it's a love it's like an outlet you know there's so many things that like music is to me personally because like it's a way of self-expression um it's a way of like being creative and then it's also a way for me to interact with others as well so that's why music is such a big part of my life and i know it's like different for every person individually but that's kind of like my take yeah beautiful music is pretty much i have to i don't mean to sound cliche but it really is everything to me especially coming from a very musical family and my you know my grandpa and his eight brothers were in a uh or molina orchestra back in the 1950s so the legacy has been there for quite a while now and i just remember when i was young they probably my grandpa always asked me hey are you going to pick up a instrument you know kind of follow the family tradition and i was like oh i don't know he tried to give me play a saxophone but i wasn't i could never do like um i just imagine you're playing saxophone therefore yeah i i did i tried band i couldn't even blow the flute properly and i was like oh maybe not and then you know i discovered the ukulele a couple years later and started to see like oh wow you know it's um i'm having a lot of fun with this you know it's like it's a social instrument and um i just strove i never really distracted do something as a kid until the ukulele because you know i never played sports or anything but once i i found the ukulele i kind of treated it like a sport like i want to practice this so i can perform this in front of the entire eighth grade class or something like that i had these little goals and i was that would help push me so they made me like train harder when i was you know saying to jake growing up and i was like wow this is really something and my dad i think he started um started thinking oh wow he's taking it seriously so that's why he bought me my first uh semi custom from our 14th birthday wow and then i noticed yeah yeah so it was a it was an incredible gift and i could just feel my the language for my grandpa the one who played music he was just like oh come play over here come here you want to be played like the pineapple festival and i was only like 14 years old so like playing in front of a crowd at that age i was terrified you know that's such a good dad though yeah yeah i mean so he pushed my dad and my dad of course pushes me but he never did he never did force it on me you know because i think my my grandpa kind of kind of pushed the base on him my dad oh sorry you're your grandpa so yeah my grandma starts from him but i do perform with my dad now yeah so we're kind of continuing the molina legacy now so it's really it's really been an awesome experience and just the fact that i you know i get the tour with my dad it's just like it's it's really awesome and he's such a great musician so you know he gives me ideas and we try new things and i'm very very fortunate but yeah if music wasn't in my life i don't know what my life would consist of so i'll say it's everything to me the joy that i see when you play is immense like it's it's wonderful like you're one of the people that like really like i remember recording you and your dad early on and you just have these flashes where like joy would overtake you or you know the emotions of it and just be smiling like bigger than anybody you know it's such a pure experiential type of thing and you can see it in in you when you play and you can hear it you know yeah the passion yeah no definitely i can't hide it it's something i truly enjoy and i think if you do enjoy something you're gonna smile yeah yeah so like when i when i perform that's me i can't sit in a chair and perform like you just like i feel super confined i gotta stand i gotta walk across the stage you know and connect with the audience because that's what i truly enjoy i don't know you've been sitting and performing all night pretty well i mean like a live audience but yeah this is great too this is great too like podcasts and stuff like that did it always feel natural playing standing up or did it take some time to get out of the chair because it did for me yeah well i mean you get these hard pieces right and then you you know not everyone was running a strap at the time so you would kind of have to hold it yeah and sometimes your fingers just so you gotta have to live yeah we'll call it mid song so it's i actually yeah like i remember i said my dad used to give me this gig at the shops on my way and then used to have this event called like mailer on wednesday so that would give me my little spot and then i would like play all the changes but i could tell from that age that it's something even from the age of 14 it's something i knew that i wanted to do when i grew up so like where i am now i had an idea of what i was going to do ever since i was a kid and it's just like i just strove towards that goal you know i never never gave up and it's something i always felt like what i was gonna achieve and there was never like a doubt in my mind that i was never gonna get here so it's really shows you that if you truly have a vision then you can achieve anything you want you know wonderful i mean it helps to have some really great talent too but it doesn't come without work right you know a lot of people think you guys were born with this i mean you are but there's also thousands of hours yeah maybe maybe corey fujimoto yeah like uh i feel like yeah we got to work extra hard but there was definitely a lot of he used to sit in our shop and just practice for like four hours straight so i'm pretty sure like it's the combo yeah i think he just makes it look like super easy but no definitely it's um with the ukulele it definitely wasn't a it was an easy journey because back in the day you know there was no youtube at the time so we pretty much had to like rewind the cd over and over but it helped us develop our ear i think for our generation yeah versus now everything's on youtube get tutorials but yeah tabs and the thing with tabs you don't really get to train your your since you're reciting reading at all times so that's why i always encourage my students to trust your musical intuition versus what you see because yeah when you look at something you can play completely mechanical and lifeless and that's not what music is about you want to play from the soul and from within and play it like is it like you say if you're giving a speech right oh yeah and then if you're reading off a paper you know it's very monotone but if you give a speech from memory then it comes it's very very genuine because yeah you know you're not like regurgitating as soon as it comes in so that's how i like to look at uh songs and stuff yeah i think uh man music for me and it's funny i feel like we have like a similar sort of journey in that um like my dad was really like passionate about like helping me out and um i always kind of knew that i wanted to do music um ever since like i was in elementary school like i'd have like songs in my head and things like that um and like would write songs and things and just kind of knew like that's what i want to do like i really want to just do that so um but yeah music is you know like i'm naturally i think an introvert maybe naturally an extrovert but then i correct myself and i try to correct myself and be hey like hold back i don't know but i don't know what i am exactly but i know that music has helped me really open up socially um with a lot of things like you know you can be a wallflower if you're playing background music you can kind of hide behind that and it is performing and like showing your heart a little bit but it's still like a little like walled up like you know um but if it's like a show that's they're engaged with you and like it's like an actual performance um i don't really know where i was going with that but um it's just uh so much more um i don't know what i was just saying like i just totally lost it sometimes i like said i helped you kind of socialize yeah help me socialize and um making friends and um travel um whether it be across iowa corn fields or um you know to california or to here i played at monkey pod across you know for milani and nothing like super look at me it's my performance you know it's very background but it was so fun to just be playing from 3 000 miles away um and to like translate that into a different place and i you know music to me like it it just makes everybody happy and every time i'm playing a song everybody instantly you know like might be willing to talk to me more and talk about a song or if they request or i don't know i just think it really like even brings family together too like i've had people that you know i met i knew in high school to collegiate level to like now where they all just were in the same place and met and they never would have it wouldn't have been for music you know so there's so much more i want to say but i'm like trying to i don't know how to like i'm not in the right mindset right now to explain it but music is means a lot so yeah well it's a treat to have you guys here today and uh we're gonna bring in corey now so we're gonna rearrange for a second here and we'll be right back no no no i love it it's beautiful i'm cruising whatever not just a random thought honey you know i'm just an old dude it's like i know drake's got like a gajillion followers that sounds really nice though is it just follow that the whole time yeah yeah go through this oh cool okay just um so it's in uh g [Music] that's really pretty [Music] [Music] always gave me do you love me are you riding see you'll never ever leave from beside me cause i want you i need [Music] get the top and i see that [Music] always [Music] [Laughter] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] you never ever leave from beside [Music] cause i [Music] when it's supposed to be like not pretty yeah and it was just like oh nice arrangement man i know that i know of the song i never really heard it you know i was playing like a different chord in the beginning and i fixed it like halfway through so hopefully that's fine did you notice anything that was awesome i thought it was cool i was like were you like wait show them no right me really oh you're looking at me i was like yeah i guess that means what i think it means i was like all right i was like dude you can still you're like what oh that was fun it was fun keep it going let's see let's see what we can capture yeah what's your what's a good chord cory e minor good yeah that's it same thing but it's a different it's a totally different song completely different so nothing that way yeah it's not even the same sound like not even the same feel [Music] so [Music] see [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] trying to find a way back to where i'm from [Music] feeling a little too yeah [Music] for the moment to come back [Music] do [Music] do couldn't find it i was trying to find more in there like come on that was nice that was perfect [Music] try to contribute the most again yeah yeah that's [Laughter] oh no no can you just give me a little glossy yeah oh yeah might um i should probably finish this first [Music] i might not take a refill too yeah i feel like now i can do the podcast and it took like an hour and a half i know literally welcome to the ukulele podcast [Music] if you wanted yeah [Music] it's so hot guys i'm like sweating that's cool because like you can do the hot oh that's sick [Music] got that lick in there yeah it goes um [Music] that's sigma [Music] [Music] oh [Music] so how come you haven't put out an album in seven years oh um i i put out a cover album and an acoustic version of that in the last two and a half years oh okay um that's probably more realistic realistically five years but it feels like seven years but um i just got that album burned like three months ago so that's why i just have it but are you collaborating with people on it or is it a solo thing uh just a solo thing and then this next one will be solo too yeah so you were all ukulele from the beginning yeah from the beginning wow it's just like something that i loved and it was because guitar was always too big my arm fell asleep i mean it makes it's like obvious over here it's less obvious growing up in iowa oh i know and it kind of you know there's a lot of like self-doubt that comes with it because everybody else is playing guitar around me you know what i mean and when sometimes when i see a vocalist just playing ukulele my first thought is alright where's guitar you know even though i do it all the time and it totally doesn't detract any sort of musicality it's just a unique kind of thing i think and most people this music has helped me think it's helping those connections in your eyes music does that it makes activates your entire brain when you're playing like you were saying yeah it's great to think too um now i'm thinking about the music um yeah and so i thought like it was like oh man everybody i'm different like i'm different in a bad way kind of thing because everybody thinks that i didn't that guitar is like harder you know which it is in a sense but there's so much more you can bring with uh than just the you know learning the chords quickly there's so much more beauty in it as you guys know it might be easier like to get into it initially but then it's like yeah how i mean where it goes it can be as hard as you can take it oh of course it's kind of it's a really good gateway because it's less aggressive on your fingers for building and then it calluses transition the guitar too it's a good starting instrument i would say um but then i just stuck with it because i just felt so connected to it because for me like pull the mic a little bit closer oh sorry i just just pull the stand a little bit yeah yeah i mean for me like it was just like this is it like i have this like feeling like this is gonna change everything kind of thought and i never have that feeling like unless like my girlfriend we met like that was like another time like this is it kind of thing what are you talking about like the first time you played ukulele or yeah and then it was just a different thought than your everyday kind of thing was like this is going to shape my life in some very important way i don't know if you guys had a flash like that we were like whoa this is like this is gonna be something really cool um like maybe people get that when they like apply for a job and get it like wow or that cory just got that last week we might be able to do something with this no but anyway sorry i went on a huge rant probably didn't answer your question oh i don't even remember the question that's fine just we're just hanging out yeah and i'm enjoying your guys sounds we're having a good time yeah i love that this became a jam i think that's what it had to be yeah yeah yeah i mean at this point people are just hanging out with us you know [Music] you guys are throwing some charity challenges [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] that was sick you guys probably do that a lot where you just take it slower and then like with throughout that's really cool it just kind of happens like like oh i feel like going here and then he's like yeah all right and then he's like no let's go here i'm like yeah i'm just like what's going to happen i think we're on a trip going sightseeing it's like oh look at that ending with that type of there's an intuition it's kind of like making love yeah [Music] but i don't get to experience stuff like this and again it's a different place you know every place has something different [Music] and now it's much too late for me to take a second look [Music] baby darling i was blind to let you go but now since i see you in his arms i want you back yes i do now oh baby [Music] don't [Music] oh baby give me one more chance to show you that i love you won't you please let me back in your heart oh thought it i was blind to let you go let you go big but now since i see you in his arms i want you back [Music] yes do [Music] you please [Music] so do [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] won't you please let me back [Music] [Music] in the room oh wow that was super fun i was like trying to do like [Music] i love how it kind of erupted spontaneously too yeah he's looking [Music] yeah i was like oh let's try this color yeah that was super fun great yeah totally different feel works [Music] that you have the claps [Music] really nice yeah [Music] or you can just put that on a cd yeah it's really nice to like meet new people that you know like at some point you can do like you can collaborate with any time but like yeah you feel like yeah at some point we'll do something with these cats you know it's like these cats like that's like jam yeah yeah that's my old i just from the bronx jazz love yeah i'm playing with all the cats in des moines [Music] it's cats because you know there's like a there's like a smooth gentle prowess to the animal of music [Music] well said wow that was very poetic randomly oh wow probably not let's go back and listen spontaneous ideas such as that i was like what how'd you come with some of that whatever let's hear some more magical music we gotta let you in a little secret sure we never plan on what we're doing in the podcast no i know we did that well i mean andrew would be like okay like we have stuff to cover be like we're gonna cover these youths we'll do that but as far as like content content it's like hey what song are you guys going to play look at clay oh man i never know i don't know cory's going to take a left turn at any point but isn't that music though that's the fun i'm now getting cheesy like seriously yeah and that's cool you guys just capture that like not just like how we were just doing it with the with these songs no but andrew like also your like ability or your willingness at least to like jump in and try to make it happen right now no no but like you know how it is you know when you were like improvising earlier just trying like adding in like uh that was sick some lyrics but like mostly like finding a melody line over things live that's cool man that's really cool people can witness the kind of like creation happening of the way it happens well like when you guys hang out with me yeah for sure but like if that's something that i can add and i can create a maze yeah oh okay and then it goes back [Music] so [Music] i'm trying to find out [Music] gonna make it now [Music] one step at a time [Music] is [Music] starts again that's right i'm talking about you don't you know how you make me feel [Music] making me feel all right do [Music] do [Music] you

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Keywords: theukulelesite, ukulele

Id: cS9Rml54DyM

Length: 99min 22sec (5962 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 26 2021