Participate in the October 2019 Member Challenge – WIN a CUSTOM Kanile’a!

[Andrew]

Here are folks on page 19.

Four of you submitted past the deadline. I tried to give everyone a friendly reminder yesterday about the deadline. Unfortunately, deadlines are strict this year. I’m sorry guys.

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ukukelley1 – Great playing, Sheryl! The only thing I can recommend is to memorize it so you can focus on how you are playing it.

k_ra11 – Beautiful playing! I like the slow pace, it’s got a great laid-back feel to it. You’re playing is great, the only thing I can suggest is to work on the section towards the end, that’s the only part that was a little spotty. Other than that, keep rocking and thanks for the kind words!

lildevil – Great playing, Barbara! I see what you mean with memorizing issues. It sounds like you have the majority of the B melody down. So what I’m seeing is that you are struggling with the transitions of phrases in the A melody. Now this song is really convenient, because it breaks down into 2 bar phrases. So I’d be focusing on looping the transitions, which would look like:

Bar 1-2 (phrase 1)
Bar 3-4 (phrase 2)

Practice bars 2-3 and 4-1. This will target the areas that you struggle with. Let me know how it goes 🙂

kirpuff – Way to go! Here is my feedback for you 🙂

puppylovesuke – First off, I’m amazed you can play it that well on a sopranissimo! Bravo! Second, I disagree with your comment at the end of the video. And that’s an honest response, not me trying to be polite.

Your playing is fantastic. Great Sound and the fact that you kept timing so consistent is extremely impressive. With where you are at in your playing, your focus should mostly be on expressive dynamics and accents. In the video feedback I shot for Sara right above you, I talked about implementing these aspects into the song. Check out my advice from that video, because it’ll be very helpful for you as well. Keep up the great work!

[Andrew]

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED THIS MONTH! WE HAD 81 MEMBERS PARTICIPATE! YOU GUYS ROCK!

Stephen and I were truly impressed with everyone’s performances this month. These were TOUGH songs! And you guys rose to the challenge. I’m proud of everyone 🙂

Hope to see y’all in our November Challenge!

Here is a list of everyone who earned an entry for the giveaway. Please let me know if there are any discrepancies.

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deadbuggy
deadbuggy
nthibode
nthibode
nthibode
robinboyd
robinboyd
robinboyd
laurasil
johanna2509
johanna2509
johanna2509
peiching
laurakarr12
laurakarr12
joannetala
joannetala
brettboy
brettboy
brettboy
barbecueblack
barbecueblack
lyndallk
lyndallk
planetfink
planetfink
andrewvh
andrewvh
tastyshrimp
tastyshrimp
nosferatu
nosferatu
cyukug
cyukug
nerdjenni
nerdjenni
rickeymike
rickeymike
lisadmh
lisadmh
ripley
ripley
surfnrz
surfnrz
surfnrz
fred21
fred21
jinajupiter
jinajupiter
jinajupiter
karenj
karenj
karenj
becky7777
becky7777
rpina61
rpina61
ealtman
ealtman
gstriph
gstriph
kanae926
kanae926
kanae926
cauer2
cauer2
jazzitup
brenna
brenna
suesbarn
suesbarn
morrieuke1
morrieuke1
miztaken
miztaken
miztaken
wongbrown
wongbrown
ultramom
ultramom
mdugal
mdugal
tiff27
tiff27
coffeemug
coffeemug
annefgodfrey
annefgodfrey
annefgodfrey
turkgoose
turkgoose
willymac
willymac
andracass
andracass
smudge
smudge
dubrova
dubrova
marni11
marni11
gaevdl
gaevdl
kellyblackburn
kellyblackburn
mac1984
mac1984
jonathan_gabel
jonathan_gabel
lisotta
lisotta
lisotta
cyberloh
cyberloh
isabelm
isabelm
isabelm
oldan_
oldan_
oldan_
holly1
holly1
holly1
stinyuke
stinyuke
yukalele
yukalele
lisamcc
lisamcc
mweir1
mweir1
joe150
joe150
ukukelley1
ukukelley1
k_ra11
k_ra11
lildevil
lildevil
kirpuff
kirpuff
kirpuff
puppylovesuke
puppylovesuke
puppylovesuke
timolnz
timolnz
alterin
alterin
mfaske
mfaske
mfaske
givingtree89
givingtree89
givingtree89
kcharles15
kcharles15
kelsey91
ukuleleloo
ukuleleloo
jkulele
jkulele
gardn_gnome
gardn_gnome
chi-_-t
chi-_-t
chi-_-t
santai
santai

[kirpuff]

Andrew, thank you so much for taking the time to help my playing! I really enjoyed this piece and will keep working on it and nail down the fingerings so I can focus more on your tips to keeping it consistent and adding musicality into it 🙂 thank you again for the playing tips and all you do on this site! It truly makes learning fun! Have a great weekend!

[lildevil]

Thanks Andrew. I do tend to try too big a chunk at a time, but honestly this was mostly about not having time to memorize it. You know, the older we get, the longer it takes! Plus I still think we never quite get over chemo brain. Wasn’t proud submitting C- work when I know I can do better. But didn’t want to miss out like I did last month. I thought you’d get me on being off on the arrangement because I sometimes I was going from 1959 memory. And there was that little blurb at the end – couldn’t help myself. Again, high hopes for November…

[becky7777]

Gads… I recorded this the same day I did Helen’s Theme. It’s not a performance, it’s me freaking out, doing something horrible with my mouth, really trying to play, then a sonicly loud helicopter came that the mic couldn’t register because of decibles or maybe bass range, so I feel even more nuts when the video can even hear me talk, then im all like ooo shiny!

I will all kinds of regret this, but no one told me the soundcloud picture of me playing in costume wouldn’t count.:(

[lisamcc]

Thanks Andrew. One of my problems was that I did loads of drills and have been playing without music for ages – then when I went back to practice using the tabplayer, realised that I had distorted a couple of barres here and there – actually the easiest sections. I then tried to change those bits at the last moment, but was struggling against muscle memory – which made my performance a bit like a ransom note! Not my best – but I wanted to record where I was up to. Looking back at the recording, my ring finger is going bonkers – I had no idea. I’ll sort that thank you! My biggest problem was all those barre chords on the top frets on a concert uke – they were really really hard to get clear. My fingers aren’t huge but up there they feel giant! Thanks for your feedback – very helpful.

[rickeymike]

LOL, Becky! To get rid of the potty mouth, record yourself saying “Dern It” then loop it and listen 100 times so it becomes part of your vocal chord memory. We need a new forum category for out takes.

[rickeymike]

How can I get that 3rd entry?

[lisadmh]

Rickey, you had to record in a costume. He snuck the instruction into the video. I missed it too, but probably wouldn’t have worn one anyway.

[rickeymike]

Haha. Actually that was a brilliant snucky sneek. No wonder I saw videos of some who usually post only audio.

[lyndallk]

I missed that too Rickey!! May have made the effort if I’d noticed!! 😁

Thanks for the feedback Stephen (many pages ago). I’ll take on working more on dynamics.

I’ve really liked listening to everyone’s postings.

[mweir1]

Thank you Andrew for the feedback, I knew something was going wrong but couldn’t figure out what! I think I’d got an idea in my head of what it sounded like (which was wrong) and then couldn’t get away from playing that! I’ll definitely add counting rhythms to my practices and hopefully next months will be better.

[timolnz]

Stephen ….Many thanks for your comments and tips, much appreciated. Tim

[santai]

@Stephen: Thanks for your feedback! The rhythm in bar 26 is actually clear to me. It just so happens, that as I am approaching the end of a song, I start getting nervous when recording, hoping that I won’t ruin a good take on the last few seconds. ^^;

@Andrew: I only found my name twice on the list. I wrote that I am a premium member and hope, that my pumpkin mask and skeleton t-shirt sufficed as a costume? 🙂

[rickeymike]

Santai, Definitely a good costume. Probably just an oversight.

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