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@avicularia I downloaded that exact app yesterday, works great with the Ragalele course. Regarding the difficulty, I can tell you already that everything except the ornamentations is beginner level by RC101 standards. Getting the ornamentations right ist the only tricky, but vital part to actually make it sound like Indian music.
Thank you so much, @nat-uke! 😊 It’s such a timeless song, isn’t it? I’m really putting my heart into it—glad to hear it’s one of your favorites too! 🎶💖
Thank you so much, @dianna! I completely understand why it holds a special place in your heart. 😊
Yes, there are tabs for this version! You can find the sheet music here: https://www.mymusicsheet.com/video/16534.
I really appreciate your encouragement—it means a lot!🎶
Happy New Year Everyone!!
Execution:
I want to increase my repertoire of classical music played on the ukulele.Application:
I will learn “Lagrima” by Francisco Tarrega. I’ll watch the lesson and implement daily slow practice of at least 10minutes. I want to implement slow practice to memorize the piece and avoid committing needless mistakes into muscle memory.Evaluation:
I wish to memorize the piece and be able to play at a reduced tempo without any mistakes before slowly increasing to performance tempo. I’ll record a performance of the piece at tempo before the end of the month.Hi,
Execution:
I want to complete my first chord melody arrangement (including notation and tablature) of a song I heard often on the radio as a child and have loved ever since. Probably mostly because of the lyrics.
It is the song “Život je jen náhoda” (“Life is just a coincidence”) by Jaroslav Ježek (lyrics by Jiří Voskovec, Jan Werich), which was first heard in the 1932 movie. Only the second part of the song with lyrics (loosely translated) was played on the radio:“Life is just a coincidence, once you’re down, once you’re up.
Life flows like water, and death is like the sea.
Everyone reaches the sea, some sooner and some later,
whoever loves in life, let him not lose hope.
When you see the miracles in life that only love can do,
goldfish fly above the clouds, then you’ll understand,
that life is like water that love turns into wine,
that love is an coincidence and without it there is no happiness.”I learned this part during a noodling session this summer. But I’d like to arrange the first part of the song, which I hardly know. So I’ve found an accordion arrangement and I’m going to convert it from G major to A major so that it’s in the same key as the second part of the song, which I already have arranged. So I’ll have to incorporate everything I know from music theory. I find working with notation software challenging. By the end of the month, I want to record the final video and have the music score completed, including the tablature.
Application:
I’d like to have the whole arrangement ready by the end of the week so I can practice the song based on it. I will definitely be editing the arrangement during the month. To practice playing, I will divide the piece into several parts, which I will practice separately. I will end each day by playing the entire song.Evaluation:
I’ll see at the end of the month how it went.Happy New Year!
I want to start off the year playing a hopeful song…
Execution: I will learn to play All You Need is Love by The Beatles (arrangement by Ukulenny). It is a familiar song to me, but not having a lesson or tab play-along capability will make it more challenging to learn. The song will also allow me to work on pull-offs and a challenging stretch chord.
Application: I will practice regularly, at least 4 times per week, which will (hopefully) allow me to memorize the song. I will work on the song in parts (intro, verse, chorus) and slow down when needed to learn the more challenging parts.
Evaluation: I will assess my progress and adjust my practice schedule accordingly so that I will be able to submit a video of my playing the song at the end of the month.
What a great challenge for a January 1st! I like making ambitious plans on this day of the year!
Application (?)
I’m not sure if I get the application vs execution distinction, but here is the end goal : I’m working on Steven’s arrangements of Blue Moon and Summertime, I want to be able to play them with a good vibe. The first one, I can play, the second one I am still learning. But in both pieces, I am missing something: a groove, a vibe, a fluidity. That’s the musical part I want to improve.I think a lot of it has to do with varying the strum types, so I’ll work on basic strumming (which I have never focused on since I started playing). And there are also some little technical difficulties in Blue Moon that I want to master (some of the pull off, the one triplet strum in the piece and the one hammer-on). So that’s the technical part that I want to improve to get some musicality out of it.
Execution (?)
And here is the practice session plan : for January, practice session should include
• a hammer-on pull-off routine
• some right hand exercise to develop a better sound (I got my hand on a Giuliani right hand technique book)
• Some strumming alternating between regular strum and triplet strum (to a metronome)
• Some strumming to practice regularity and alternating strum types (to a song)
• Learning the last part of Summertime
• Working on the passages from Blue Moon that still give me pause(That’s a January 1st type of plan for me… I will probably cut that by half by next week though.)
Evaluation (?)
I’ll post back later, to report on progress … or on reduced expectations 🙂Happy new year everyone!
What a nice challenge to start the year. 🙂 So here is my choice:Execution:
I will be working on improving my harmonics skills. I started the lesson “Natural & Artificial Harmonics” decades ago, but I didn’t really master the artificial harmonics. So I will go back to the respective units and exercise daily as possible.Application:
I will learn to play “Amazing grace”, the Capstone Performance Piece of the course “Natural & Artificial Harmonics”.Evaluation:
I will post a video of me playing “Amazing grace”.Thanks @Emiliano!
Quick question: As I am going thru the “Beyond the Island Strum Course,” and practicing swing rhythms, I’m curious to see if there is anything else within this genre in Rock Class 101….I see “The 12th Street Rag,”……is there anything else?
@dianna Here are a few RC101 songs from various genres featuring lots of strumming with a swing feel, there’s pobably a lot more:
– Bad Moon Rising
– Five Foot Two
– Moondance
– Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree
– Tiptoe through the Tulips
– Wagon Wheel
– Yellow Submarine@dianna – Michael gave some great choices. I’d also recommend checking out “St. Louis Blues” and the theme from “New York, New York”. Both lessons incorporate the techniques taught in that course.
Hi Uke Fam’ and Happy New Year!
I played the upright bass all through high school but never got any good at it. As an adult I’ve sometime worked out bass parts for my own songs using my guitar but playing bass is not a skill I claim at this point. I’ve never actually had my own bass… until now… I got an excellent Cordoba UBass for Christmas! My goal this month is to improve my bass playing skill. Excecution is to try RC101’s Axel F lesson. (Of all the RC101 UBass lessons so far this one grabbed me first as it looked the most fun.) Application will be to watch the RC101 video, print out the notation, and practice the ukulele and UBass parts everyday this month. Evaluation will be to make a video with both parts of the duet to the best of my ability by the end of this month.
Oh, this is great. Ty @Misterbones and @Andrew😁
Oh my I need a plan. I will work one out and respond back in a couple of days. Love all the choices made thus far.
1. Ok I will work on an arrangement for the Jazz standard, “That’s All”.
2. I plan to sing as I play so I will focus on smooth chord transitions, a variety of interesting strumming patterns while chucking a bit.
I would like to memorize it all and play and sing with feeling.
3. I hope to practice 5-15 min a day.
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