@leb397, thank you so much, my friend!! I can’t even say how much all of your support and kind words mean. And from everyone else here, too! 😊💕

I feel like I owe the existence of these lil’ arrangements to all I’ve learned from RC101, and all this encouragement.

Happy Easter to you, too! Hope it was lovely. Mine was, but also a pinch chaotic. 😂🤯💕🐰🐇

@surferjay, thank you so much, friend! 😁💕

I did arrange it myself! I figure out the melody by ear that goes with the chords I choose somewhat arbitrarily, but I don’t really know what the melody notes are exactly. 😂😅 I know they’re one of the notes in a C or G chord, for instance, and they’re on the A string usually, but I don’t know what the notes are.

I actually didn’t have to look up any chords for this one. I just guessed based on songs I’ve learned before from RC101 and based on the other hymns/songs I’ve arranged. Sometimes I just remember the shapes of chords I know from other songs and try them until they sound right with the melody. 😂🥺 I know the names of just enough chords and their “functions” from playing piano to start most arrangements I’ve tried, but these hymns are pretty simple. There definitely are multiple songs I’ve tried to arrange that I couldn’t figure out this way, though, because the song or the chords are too complicated.

But I basically do these arrangements for fun, and to relax, which is why I haven’t pushed myself super hard to learn all the theory yet, even though I really should. 😅😳

That’s probably too much of an answer but there you have it. 😂😅 Thanks again! 😊💕

@surferjay, haha, thank you! 😁💕 I “arranged songs” on piano since I was around 8 years old so it’s sort of an engrained skill, and playing by ear. 😅 But still I can only really do simple arrangements because my knowledge and other skills are more limited. By the way, if I were arranging these songs on piano I would know all the notes. The only reason I don’t know the exact melody notes on ukulele is because I don’t know all the notes on the fretboard, of course. Forgot to mention that.

That’s an interesting way to think of theory. Theory really is a language. I do feel like I know just enough theory to create these arrangements and read music, but I really get overwhelmed trying to write down the arrangements so I just record them for my reference and sometimes to share. So, basically I know, “dónde está el baño?” on uke. 😅😂😅 (Also those accents may not be right.) I guess if I couldn’t read music I’d be a dang genius like those guys! 😂😅😉

That is really amazing! I haven’t seen any live music in years but that seems pretty great. I’m not the biggest fan of jazz but the skill exhibited there is impressive. 😊 You can play some jazz on uke?

@surferjay, piano is really great to learn! I think if I hadn’t learned piano first I’d have even more trouble than I do understanding how to play ukulele, and all the theory necessary (that I do know). Pianos are so much more black and white 😉😂 as all the notes are linear from the lowest to the highest note, obvs. But that makes a difference. Ukuleles are rather cheeky in their layout and I am still very confused by it, but I love them, maybe even slightly more than piano now–which is really saying something.

Ha! That’s so amazing that you found that! I may even have some piano music books somewhere from when I was a kid, probably with notes from my teacher telling me not to play by ear. 😂 She was great though. I need to look for those books.

Um, that’s flippin’ amazing! Maybe I do like jazz… On ukulele. Those super fast, complex riffs are crazy. 🤯😎

@annemarie, thank you very much!! Same here, I love the traditional hymns the most. 😊💕

@dianna, thank you kindly!! 😊