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Freight Train #2
Definitely in for the raffle this time!
Great challenge idea. I want to go back to the first RC101 challenge I submitted in July 2020…the timeless Freight Train. I still play this regularly and it is probably my favourite piece to play from this site. With Toss a Coin to Your Witcher and St James Infirmary a close second and third.
Goals:
1. Dont submit it last minute! (Altho that time round I’d only recently discovered the site)
2. Record one version of Freight Train without looking at the lesson to see how close my memory is nearly 5 years later and then record another after revisiting the lesson. I listen to my original recording and can recognise how many hours I put in learning/practising, so I may be more note perfect last time, but am hoping my playing ability/feel has come on after all these years.
3. Revisit one or two others, including those I’ve half learned (not going to tie myself to posting those here).
Original Freight Train submission:
Great challenge. I choose Misirlou, I want to increase my tremolo picking speed. Here is my submission from July 2023.
Andrew you seem to know what participants need and want. For the past couple weeks I have been revisiting many of the RC101 pieces that I worked on in 2024. I was checking to see if I can still play them -from memory-correctly and fluently. Turns out… No ..not really. I have dusted a few of them off and they are refreshed in my memory.
The piece I will develop and improve will be “Blue Moon” that I played in the October ’24 challenge.I found that while I had the tune memorized last October I cannot now perform it start to finish in front of others. That is the main goal.
James Hill mentioned this thought…Amateurs play a piece enough times so that they can play it right, Professionals play the piece enough so that they can’t get wrong.For “Blue Moon” the goals will be:
– play the piece as true to the lesson instructions as possible, including correct fingerings and strumming.
– play the pulloffs as true pulloffs and letting the second tone be loud and clear without picking it.
– smooth out some of the weak and sloppy sections and transitions.
– be cognizant of the Chord progression being used and as well as chord variation (i.e. C6 instead of C )
– Be able to fit the lyrics into the arrangement. (Not as straightforward as I would have thought)
– Watch “Werewolf In London”
– Ultimately, be able to perform this version as a performance piece with Confidence.Onward and Upward, thanks for the inspiration from you, your staff and all the Participants.
Rick
Great idea for a challenge. I don’t often take the time to keep up the tunes I’ve learned. I decided to revisit Moon by Taimane. I can’t believe I took this on for my second submission to RockClass101. It’s rough in places but I think I got some of the emotional feel of the piece.
Here’s the video from Dec. 2018. It might have an ad. YouTube just puts them there. I don’t know how to get rid of them. And I certainly don’t make any money from them. If anyone knows how to get rid of them, let me know.I’ve been looking through my very first RC101 submissions and found House of the Rising Sun, which I submitted in November 2019.
Andrew suggested in his feedback to slow down the strumming sections and focus on transitioning to each chord while keeping the timing steady. I also want to accent the melody notes more. And maybe I manage to switch from a 3 finger picking approach to 4 fingers as suggested in the lesson. That will be quite a challenge for the muscle memory. 😅
I played through the arrangement a couple of times today and I am still struggling to get to the 12th fret in time in the strumming section. 😅 So I hope I can accomplish that in this challenge. 😊
Here is the recording from November 2019:
Hi,
there is a few pieces in RC101 which I would like relearn. For this month challenge a I´ve chosen Steven´s beautiful fingerstyle arrangement of Prelude in C by J. S. Bach.Here is the video from April 2022:
Andrew does this have to be a song we have posted before? Can the first post just be a statement of what song a what we want to improve? Some time ago I wanted to learn to pick and use a percussive tap at the same time , but never quite got it to a point of performing a song so never recorded anything. I would like to revisit that for this challenge if it falls within the criteria
That sounds good. I’ve been trying it on guitar for a while.
I chose to revisit If I Fell by the Beatles. I’ve included the video from 5 years ago. I’m going to focus on playing the melody with more musicality, and less bending of strings to improve overall intonation.
I’m going to work on Fingerpicking Etude no. 30-Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, and Building Speed. I chose this one for the November 2024 challenge. I enjoyed playing it but was never able to get it up to speed. I also continue to need work on h/o and p/o, so this etude is a great one to keep practicing. I recently acquired a baritone ukulele and want to become familiar with it, so I will submit a new entry played on the baritone and hopefully more up to speed than in my original post.
Ahoy Ukulele Friends. Thanks for this excellent challenge Andrew. Here is my Game of Thrones theme from 7 years ago. I never totally loved the way this old recording turned out. to me it sounds tinny, clunky and rushed and I feel like I could make the piece sound a lot more expressive and smooth now if I tried harder. So my plan is to practice it throughout the month and then try to produce a new version with better sound quality and more soulful ukulele playing.
I am going to revisit Here Comes the Sun which I originally submitted in May, 2019. I love this sone and want to improve my overall playing and bring thoughts of a little more sunshine these days too. I hope to get it up to full speed and especially want to work on tone and sustain.
It was fun to look back at prior videos and realize I’ve worked to submit almost every month since October, 2018. Some performances are certainly better than others, but all 75 songs have been fun and challenging to learn. Thank you to RC 101 for continuing to push me up that ukulele learning curve. I would love to be higher than I am and continue to be motivated by others in this group. I bet brettboy could make magic on one of those nice Kanile’a ukes!
Hello,
I am going to work on the mini lesson 23 (Travis Picking) that I submitted last July – newbie here 🙂
I want to get the shuffle right this time, and to speed it up to the suggested tempo.
Here was the initial submission:
(Sorry if this double post, I tried earlier, but I don’t think it worked.)
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