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It was pretty harder than I thought. I’m realizing that I played it a little faster. Also the strings are new and the C string sounds out of tune even being in tune…
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Having watched the original Adam’s Family in black and white, this month’s challenge was fun. I learned many things, guess what? I can’t snap like I used to. I also wasn’t able to consistently get my fingers to go fast enough to increase the speed.
Thanks for the fun!!!
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Here’s my October entry, A Frightful Strumming Etude. I chose it because I wanted to work on the chunking technique. One month in and I still haven’t nailed it but will keep working at it.
@corey_mclean – An amazing first performance, you aced it Corey! Great feel and fingerpicking skills! Your recording quality sounded great too, but I could only hear you in the left speaker. Looking forward to watching more of your performances and TY so much for your support, I really appreciate it!
@marlongas – Beautifully played and wow, your tone is incredible! Fantastic job this month, Carlos!
@leslieb – Awesome performance Leslie, your fingerpicking sounds great! I only have two suggestions. The first is to work on getting the 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). And that’s also the second point, once you feel comfortable with the triplets, try playing the entire song along with a click. That’s a great way to work on timing and building speed 🙂
@giveittomebaby – An excellent first post Hanna! Fingerpicking sounds great! One tip, try not to curl your right hand pinky finger so much. Even though it’s not used for this song, it’s better to keep it closer to where your ring finger is, kinda like where mine is:
This will make it much more efficient to switch back and forth between strumming and fingerpicking, especially if you have to do a strumming technique that uses the pinky, such as the rasgueado strum (a.k.a sweep strum).
@anikali – You threw in some very cool and creative changes! Playing sounded great! I have one tip, and it’s an educated guess since you shared only an audio performance. For added fluidity, try keeping your right hand in a consistent 16th note down/up motion, even on the beats you’re not playing.I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Great fun to listen to all the participants this month and it’s been fun learning The Adams Family Theme. (Fortunately, Missy never tires of hearing me practice. Ha!)
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Thanks for another great challenge!A Frightful Strumming Etude – Mini Lesson 025
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Thank you for your comments.
Andrew have noted your helpful comments and will try and incorporate that in my next attempt…I love being part of this community
Thanks @andrew!! It wasn’t my best performance but it was hard to learn..
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Hi, the originally plan was to do a Blue Moon Ukulele & Piano duet. Which I did in fact playing the piano to Stevens Ukulele, which was quite fun. But I will not manage in time anymore to play the ukulele good enough plus record it.
So I hope to at least qualify for the challenge with my “old” recording of Blue Moon on the ukulele.
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Hi Andrew and all,
I’m missing this month’s challenge (travel w/o uke most of the month) but really enjoyed the Halloween entries (shout out to @otzepeng foe the spooky backgound!). Sorry to miss my favorite holiday, but it’s a rather non-event in China still. Will be back next month!
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