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Here’s my Hannukah, Oh,Hannukah. I wanted to learn Carol Of The Bells as that’s the only Christmas song I’ve ever liked but it seemed too hard so I picked this one. It’ll maybe come in handy to impress some Jewish friends once we can start socializing again. Anyway, here it is, slow and with a few flubbed chords and a lot of added notes. Hopefully it’s close enough for a couple of entries. Happy Holidays to everyone and their everyones!!! Stay joyful and safe and uke on!
Here are the last couple of folks on page 8 that we hadn’t left feedback for yet 🙂
@joe150 – Great job, Joe! I think you’ve got a great base established, so now you want to start working on how you are playing it – which was the focus of this video/article. For this song, work on sustaining every note/chord throughout each measure. Basically, don’t lift up prematurely as you’re doing now – which makes it sound stacatto-y.Also, try a hammer-on for beats 2 & (2nd and 3rd note in the measures). That’ll give it a smooth connecting, legato sound. With those in mind, work on 2 bar phrases at a time playing alongside Steven in the tab player. Loop it and try to match his playing 100%. Start slow and gradually boost the tempo and tackle the song piece by piece.
@ukesilver – Well played! Great job on the timing, fluidity and feel. Bravo!I’m a premium member!
Hey everyone,
Merry festive times to you all. I’ve chosen Carol of the Bells because I sang it in a choir once and it was REALLY cool to sing (the words were easy to learn – lots of ding dongs!)
My latest choir wouldn’t do it, because it’s too ‘popular’! Of course it’s popular – it’s really cool!!!
I’ve also learn Deck the halls – but as it’s taking 100 takes due to ‘camera freeze’ – I may put that one up later.
Anyway – I’ve also donated a ukulele-worth to the kids club.($40)
Stay safe everyone and looking forward to a new year of musical challenges.
Lisa x@lisamcc – TY so much for your donation, Lisa! 🙂
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It doesn’t look like I’ll get a chance to practice much over the next couple of days.so here’s the best performance I managed to record of Evan’s version of the Christmas Song.
Happy Christmas Everyone. See you next year!
Cheers @Andrew, thank you! I have to say that the last two challenges really helped my playing, compared to last summer.
One thing I noticed from the recordings I made, is that sometimes my strokes are not “even” in parts where they should 🙂 Is it just a matter of practice or there’s maybe some specific exercise I can do to try to improve that?
You are most welcome! I think this is my 4th ukulele-worth donation.. it’s nice to have the opportunity to spread the joy of the world’s happiest little instrument. I donated to the US kidsclub. 🙂
Happy Holidays All!
Great submissions of these lovely tunes. Cool to see all those donations as well, inspiring!
Again, really love these challenges, they make me study and practice the Uke!
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Here’s my attempt of “Carol of the Bells”. Stephen did a great job on the tutorial!
Thanks, and Merry Christmas!!@ukesilver – I didn’t hear any inconsistencies, but if you want to work on it try this etude. Just replace the arpeggio-pluck technique with a strum or any style of stroke you wish.
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I had so much fun learning this christmas song and i’m so happy to be able to play it to my grandmother for christmas.
I should have use my mic instead of my phone, i’m so sad to be so lazy!
I made some mistakes, and i should play with evan in my earphones because i’m not in time, but i’m satisfied of what i did 🙂
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