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James
it’s not bad, really! This falls into the pleasant surprise category.
I think it is necessary to point out that you are *not* playing a ukulele in this video. You are singing a song while trying to accompany yourself with a ukulele. Since you are singing louder then you are playing it’s hard to tell much about how you are playing. To me this shows that, at least subconsciously, you care more about the words then the music. There were no obvious gaffs in the playing. I think you weren’t in tune with the singing though.
Which brings me to — I would think that singing would hold your attention more then playing. After all, people sing words, they don’t strum words. I would encourage you to take, at least a few, singing lessons. It is one of my huge, screaming, panting and occasionally drooling pet peeves that waaaaaayyyyyy to many people think that you need to learn to play a musical instrument but you are born knowing how to sing. As you prove, a few months doodling on an instrument and you can really learn to play something. Singing is no harder.
Keep up the good work!