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This is my submission of Moon Waltz. It was so fun to play this on my baritone.
I’ve enjoyed watching and listening to everyone’s submissions!
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Wonderful challenge again. It hasn’t gotten any easier though – so hard to play it the way I would really like it to sound even after lots and lots of practice! One day ….
Here my best effort. Looking forward to the nest part.
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This is my first time posting a video so I’m not sure if it will work. I have been trying to learn tablature this year and thought I should post a video for a challenge.
Thanks for the great songs. My husband and I enjoy the lessons.Hello Guys,
I have learned Moon River because it is a nice relaxing song.
There you have it ;).
See you next month!
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I am a premium member and somewhat of an intermediate ukulele. I am hoping my playing of Moon River enters me in the Challenge drawing. This is the first time I have ever recorded myself playing and found that quite a challenge. I found the pressure of trying to complete the song properly while recording quite a challenge.
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The link below is my Moon River entry in the October Challenge. I have never recorded myself before and found the stress of playing while a video camera was on you to be a big challenge.
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Here is my entery for October challenge.
I am so happy to participate again.
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I wasn’t able to practice enough to get this up to full speed but I’ll keep at it because I like this song!
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ukandrea – Overall it sounds like it’s coming along well. There are a few spots here or that that are still in the works. The way I would practice those is breaking it up into 4 bars at a time. When I get the first few down I move to the next as to ad those little details in my playing. Try this to get the most out of new songs. Sounds good keep it up!
concan – Hey concan! Good to see another one of our premium members entering our members challenge! I can hear that like you said you’re getting the swing under your fingers. Only suggestion I would have you already mentioned which is the speed. Next time you play set a metronome at xxx a few times and the timing will start to feel a little more natural for you. Off to a good start. Good video. (:
leslieb – Hello leslieb. I seen your message above the video. I think you had a good submission. Yes there are a few pieces that need work but this is a great start. You can still tell you got the song and structure down. Regarding your nerves comment even after playing for all these years I still get a little nervous for my performances. Happens to the best of us and the best thing I can say for that is keep posting these videos and it’ll help tremendously with focus and nerves during performance. Can’t wait to see where it takes you. Good performance!
evapaju – Good evening evapju! I enjoyed your video. Happy 8 months on uke your progress shows. Your posture looks fine and your fingering and strumming look good. I can hear a hint of the swing feel in your playing my suggestion would be for the few times there were short slow downs or pauses. For those I would take a metronome and play straight through the song with it a few times to engrain the timing in your playing. Other then that it is sounded great. Thank you for your premium membership with us and good luck on the member challenge.
kelsey91 – Hello kelsey91 cool colored uke! I’m glad you’re getting the song down and have played it a good deal of times. Yay for new songs. Now as for being nervous on camera you’d be surprised how many of us deal with that from time to time even including myself. One thing I will say that helps is to continue posting videos like these. Plenty of our members run into the same thing but if you’re starting to post yourself playing you’re already on the right track to getting into the feel of your performances in no time. Keep up the good work! 🙂
ebetsimo – Hey ebetsimo this was a great performance! You seem to have gotten the swing feel applied to your playing and have the structure down great. Overall great performance!
coffeemug – Great entry and what a beautiful uke! I really liked your performance. For this piece in particular I would play it slightly slower and maintain a slow swung feel for the picking as well as the chords. I can hear a little bit of the swing come out in your playing but if you ever need an incredible helpful article on getting swing down perfect you can find that here. Thank you I enjoyed your performance!
Catherine – Hello Catherine and of course a warm welcome to all of our premium members! I like that I can hear you focus on driving that swing feel for Blue Moon we want to hear! It is starting to sound very nice. The few hick ups or slow downs can be easily worked out by playing a bit slower to a metronome a few times. I enjoyed your playing stellar performance!
dododudus – Hey brother nice video. This was a really great submission. I would suggest only low this piece down slightly to match the song but it was really good. Great work!
bluewater671 – Great submission!!! I also really love the tone of that uke. Love that ending.No suggestions keep on posting great videos! Thank you for your submission
cncamacho – Hey cncamacho. Love the profile photo, is this you? Well first off it sounds like you’re off to a very good start with the piece. With newer music what I would suggest is to take the song 4 bars at time. Once you perfect the first section, move to the next 4 bars and so on. Love hearing it coming to coming. Keep it up.
gstriph – Jerry we always appreciate our premium members videos! Glad to have you apart of our community. I know you said you bit of more then you can chew but it’s not too shabby for a quick tune. Keep on keeping on thank for for your submission to our Fall Members Challenge!
karenj – Karen great submission! I enjoy your presence with your instrument! I noticed you were playing from the tabs so of course there were a few slow downs however that’s normal on a new song! Breaking it down 4 bars at a time should help if you didn’t already finish getting this memorized. Looks like it’s coming along great thank you for your submission to our Fall Challenge! 🙂
annemarie – Hey Annemarie great video. You have a great grasp on keeping your chords sounding nice and clean when you play. Great video submission thank you!
morrieuke1 – Hey man sounds great! This was one of my favorite performances so far. Keep making awesome videos for this community we enjoy seeing videos like this at rockclass101! Killer performance.
biancak – Biancak. Seen your comments. Yes a little practice for those pull offs and you’re good to go! I would suggest slowing the tune down a little bit for practice and performance to get that. Still a very great video good job!
janaq1 – Hello my friend! Yes sometimes making the video can be the hardest part. Nerves can someotimes play a roll but you made it through the song fine with that being a factor. That being said you have a good video. Thank you for your submission!
mermaidofca – The Mermaid of CA hello! Always appreciate seeing our premium members get down on their uke. It looks like you’re learning the song and it’s coming along nice and will be smooth with a little love and practice. A suggestion to help out is whenever I learn new songs like this I will learn 4 bars at a time. Then when those 4 bars are perfectly how I want them move to the next 4 and so on. Do that and this should be top shape in no time! We appreciate your video thanks for your submission in the Fall Members Competition.
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Here is my entry for the October Challenge… Moon River. Congrats to all and good luck!
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Hello,
this is my first rock class 101 challenge, my performance is far from perfect but this is the best i could achieve till the deadline ends, but i had really fun learning this piece, i hope this counts.
I wish everyone a spooky and fun Halloween 🙂
Hannes
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Hi Everyone,
The end of the month really sneaked up on me, so despite practicing this video was unfortunately no very rushed. Nevertheless the take was probably a fair representation of my playing but with a few more takes I would definitely get those bars 17/18 much cleaner. Happy Halloween!
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