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@ruiafonso70 Nice first post! Well done and welcome.
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First: To everyone who worked on Toccata and Fugue – BRAVO! Amazing work, each one of your performances were spot on……so impressed!
I worked on Blue Moon this month…..I love the standards and this arrangement is so well done……thanks to Steven and Rockclass101…….
Happy Halloween to all my Uke friends!🎃
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I did The Walking Dead this month. Loving all of the fun songs every month, this was a hard one to pick from!
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I recorded a version of this six years ago. It was nice to revisit it. I played it better this time and relearned it way faster than learning it the first time. It’s nice to see evidence of progress.
@ruiafonso70 – Excellent first post Rui! Fingerpicking sounds great! The one thing I would work on is getting those triplets to be more defined. Check out this lesson for help with the rhythm side of it. For practicing it with this song, try playing them with a metronome or with the tab player (w/ the metronome activated).
@leb397 – You nailed the vibe Louisa! Great playing 👏
@dianna – LOL @ the ending. I thought you did brilliant! This is a tough tune and you played it beautifully. From here, I would work on polishing. I want you to try practicing along with Steven in the tab player w/ the metronome feature on. Try to match his playing as best as possible. This “copying” approach is the same method they taught us to use when practicing in college.
@kittycatlin – Excellent performance Cat! The only thing I would practice is getting the transition a little smoother going from the first chord to the second. Overall, fantastic playing!
@planetfink – That was awesome Kathy! Great feel and timing! The only tip I have is for the strumming section. Make sure your wrist and forearm are as loose/relaxed as possible. That is the trick to getting those fast 16th and 32nd strums to be effortless and fluid-sounding.Thanks @Andrew, I will continue to work on it this month with the tab player. I am having some tech issues with this site. More often then not, when I click on the tab player or any posted videos a message comes up that says something like, “please sign in so we can confirm you are not a bot…” I have signed in again….and it still happens……With the videos I can just hit go to U-tube and that seems to work. But I haven’t figured out a go around with the tab player. I know you posted something about a tech glitch a while ago….but at that time, I wasn’t having any difficulties, so didn’t pay too much attention…….I went looking for your message, but didn’t find it….Now I’m having difficulties, is there a fix for this? Thanks, Dianna
Just tried clicking the tab player and it says “this site cannot be played outside of U-tube.”
On the video that is tied to tab player it says “please sign in to confirm you are not a bot.”@andrew thank you so much! Time to learn Blue moon
@dianna nicely played 👏☺️
AND YES @andrew I think @Dianna is right there is a glitch as @dianna says. I thought it was just me but I was with mysticrick yesterday and he too mentioned it and I agreed. It’s only been in October.Great month of lessons. Thanks Andrew and Stephen. Louisa
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Long time since I’ve participated in the monthly challenges, but now I’m back!
Here’s a version of the Adam’s Family.
Thanks @andrew Getting the strumming fast enough was a struggle. I could play the rest of the piece up to speed but when I tried to record the strumming fell apart. So I slowed the whole thing down to keep everything in rhythm.
Such an amazing month of entries so far, enjoying watching every one when I can! 😊 Just want to comment on a few…
@brettboy, such amazing playing! Your puppet friend at the end has a surprisingly deep voice. 😂😉Loved seeing all the different playthroughs of Toccata and Fugue, so inspiring and incredible! I still brazenly think I can at least get through the first theme, even though the madness this month meant I haven’t physically played through it but I’ve listened to the lesson multiple times and think I can do it. 😂😊
@dianna, that was so magical! Really beautiful playing and very spirited! 😁💕 Haha!!! If @Andrew hadn’t mentioned in his feedback about the ending, I probably would’ve been super spooked by that but I was braced for it!! 😂🎃👻🍂💕
@leb397, really beautiful playing, friend! That theme is so lovely and you captured the flow of it!! 😊💕
@yukalele, that was so funny, crazy how you did the snapping too! That “Thing” hand always creeped me out, I hate the idea of that existing (thankfully it doesn’t…). Well played!! 😊@dianna & @leb397 – I actually got an email earlier this month from another member detailing this issue. As I looked into it, I found this post on Reddit.
It seems to be something that YouTube has just started doing, but there doesn’t seem to be a solution other than signing into YouTube via the browser you use to access RC101. Doing that will bypass the warning.
And just to clarify, the log in warning is not saying to log into Rock Class 101 but rather log into your YouTube account via the browser you use to access RC101.
@Andrew thanks – yes it was YouTube requesting log in in order to view lesson or the tab player. I’ll check it out. Thanks. Louisa
@leb397 – My pleasure! I added a new FAQ covering it, incase it happens to other folks. I appreciate y’all bringing it to my attention.
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And yet another Toccata and Fugue take. This has to be one of the most satisfying arrangements here on RC101. What surprised me most was how easy it is actually to memorize. Everything flows organically from note to note and from part to part, you never have to think what’s next, it just comes naturally. That’s the genius of Bach as a composer, I guess. And who would have thought it possible to take a piece form an instrument with a range of about a million octaves and create an arrangement for an instrument of little more than two octaves, even maintain the original key, and capture the whole essence without making he listener feel that anything vital is missing. What a great arrangement, and what pleasure to play. Of course this is one that is almost impossible to get completely right from the first to the last note, but here’s my best attempt.@yukalele – Great to see you back David and with an awesome performance! Very well played and I loved the cameo by the Thing 🙂
@misterbones – ️🔥 performance Michael! Bravo! The only suggestion I have is stylistic. I would add a little more of a gap between themes. For ex, between theme 1 and 2 (52 seconds in your video), I’d hold that Dm longer, letting it sustain and fade out to add more tension instead of jumping right into the next section.I appreciate your kind words on the arr., and yes, Bach is the greatest!
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