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Hi! Here’s my take on White Christmas. Also a premium member! Thanks, I’m a bit uke smarter each time I learn something!
Here’s the last 2 entries on page 8 and everyone on page 9:
holly1 – Great job on this one! You have a nice sound on this one, and really captured a peaceful happy vibe! Very well played! Keep it up! Thank you for entering the challenge!
andrewvh – You are off to a great start on this one! Not bad, especially since the thumb technique is new to you! Towards the end, it looks like a few of the chord shapes (mainly the Ddim7) are in need of a little more practice. I noticed that your ring finger and pinky are collapsing inward on that chord, rather than curving. Try playing just measure 19 to the first beat in measure twenty to practice getting into and out of this chord without your fingers collapsing. Keep up the great work! Thank you for your entry!
morrieuke1 – Awesome job on this one! You played this very well! There were only a couple of notes with a tiny bit of extra buzz and pretty much everything else was flawless! Thank you for your entry and donation!
karenj – I love that ukulele! The doubled strings sound so cool, even though they’re a bit trickier to hold down without added buzz! Some of the buzz can be fixed by pushing down closer to the actual metal frets or at least slightly more than halfway between the frets. This means, within each square created by the frets, your finger should be at least slightly closer to the body of the ukulele and further from the headstock/tuners. I hope this isn’t too confusing, and I know it’s tricky to do on some chords, but you won’t have to push down quite as hard if you can master this concept. Great job keeping a nice tempo throughout, and a good feel throughout. Thank you for joining the challenge!
jinajupiter – Wow! Fantastic job playing all of those instruments, and excellent editing/mixing as well! That was very entertaining, and I loved the surprise of the other instruments joining in! Thank you for your hard work, creativity, and consistently rising to these challenges!
timolnz – Nicely done! I like that you have a nice playful bounce to your performance. My only suggestion is to try to not cut the last note of every phrase quite so short to get a slightly less staccato feel. Wonderful job! Thank you for entering the challenge.
oldan_ – Great job adjusting to the thumb picking! Once you got past the first few notes and started looking at your ukulele, you sounded great! My only suggestion would be to play the song with a metronome a few times to figure out where you are hesitating/rushing in a few spots. Thank you for your entry!
aquatopaz – You are off to a great start! With more time, you will get this one down! You are close to having the notes down enough to start playing with a metronome. This will challenge your mind to think/look ahead to stay in time. Before doing that, work a bit more on the ending so that you are more comfortable with it. Keep up the great work! Thank you for joining the challenge!
Thanks, Jina.
thanks Gianluca. I surprised myself with the sound that came out of that little soprano ukulele. Must be the low G string. ha
This is my submission for the December part of this challenge. I played Greensleeves, I’m aware it’s far from perfect, but I hope to improve as i keep working on it. I improvised a D classical string from a cheap classical set so it doesn’t sound so great.
I’m new here and I’m thoroughly enjoying watching everyone’s entries. Congrats everyone! They sound really good and they show the hard working you’ve been putting into this.
Thank you everyone from Rock Class 101 for this opportunity of learning and participating on this challenge!
Have a great day everyone!I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER.
Happy New Year everyone! RC101 has definitely been a great addition to my life in 2019, looking forward to continuing to improve on the uke through the next year.
I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
My take on Greensleeves. Btw. how many takes do you usually need to get a postable video? 🙂
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