Participate in the August 2022 Member Challenge: WIN Bamboo Ukulele!

[qiuyan]

Moon Waltz – Playing this definitely helped ease some of my anxiety from work. Thanks for the beautiful song.

[gmflin8]

Lost patience on my self to keep practicing, so here is the version for the August challenge 🙂

[Andrew]

@turkgoose – BIG improvement on Theme 3! Note clarity and timing is great throughout. Keep up the excellent work!

@qiuyan – Beautiful performance. Glad it was able to help ease your stress 🙂

@gmflin8 – Lovely performance! For Melody A, you’re at the stage now where you can start boosting tempo. Try 5 or 10bpm faster and take it from there 🙂

For Melody B, target the transitions that had a little bit of hesitation. Overall, it was great! Keep up the good work!

[madz_about_uke]

Here is my entry for this month’s challenge.

Any advice on how to hold the baritone? It’s bigger than my other ukes and I am having trouble holding it to an angle. I always end up holding it 180 which I find difficult when playing on higher frets. Thanks!

[Andrew]

@madz_about_uke – Beautiful performance! My only suggestion is to try the down strums with your thumb. It’ll give them a sweeter tone than the nail of the index finger.

As for your question, have you tried a strap? That should help prop it up in place 🙂

[madz_about_uke]

Thanks Andrew! I’ll practice strumming with my thumb (and practice playing it slowly).
guess i need to have this strap button installed. Thank you again Andrew 😀

[suekulele]

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Moon Waltz since I learned the etude previously. This actually wasn’t my best musical performance, but it was the only take the flamingoes stayed in frame! So go easy on me ☺️

[clempek]

Hey,

It’s my participation for the monthly challenge.

Have à great day !

[Andrew]

@suekulele – I love this video, Sue! It’s like a snapshot of a perfect summer night. Great music with a beautiful pool. I’m sharing it in this week’s newsletter 🙂

@clempek – Great performance! My only tip is to try not to lift up your finger immediately after you play the melody notes that jump up/down the A string. That creates a staccato sound and we want to have more sustain here. Try practicing at a slower tempo and see if you can get it to ring out more.

[The_Bumble_Bard]

Here is my entry for this month’s challenge!

I wanted to share for fun ‘n’ feedback and to share my progress, but would like to be excluded from the prize drawing because I literally won last month, lol. I am uke-fat now. The bamboo uke is beaut though!

Sorry that it literally sounds like I recorded this underwater. I need to step up my recording game… a lot.

Oh, also, Etude No. 5, is a lovely one! It took a while to learn.

Also also………………… Everyone did an amazing job this month! I watched all the entries; they’re all so good! 😀

[The_Bumble_Bard]

This is what Etude No. 5 sounds like on the new uke! I was trying to be dramatic / funny, then messed up. But here it is.

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[jedart]

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Here is my take on Fingerpicking Etude no. 13. I play much better without a camera 😉

Best takeaway for me from this exercise, “look at the fret you are moving to”. Sometimes the simplest advice makes the biggest difference.

Thanks Andrew.

[lhamilton]

Hi,

I tried The Explorer this month — it’s a really lovely piece! I tried using my thumb to fret the low strings but suspect my hand isn’t quite wide enough to do it since it hurt so I fiddled around with a different fingering.

Linda
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[suekulele]

Thank you so much, @Andrew! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😃

[felixhchan]

Here’s my August member challenge entry. I am a premium member.

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