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Hi Rock Class 101 Community!
We are back with site member challenge #90! WOW, there has now been over 4,500+ members participating in our challenges! If you’ve sat on the sidelines, please join us for this month’s challenge! Challenges are a fun way to stay motivated and a great way to meet fellow ukulele players who are passionate about learning and becoming better players. 🙂
And I offer feedback on ALL submissions!
Please watch the video above and read instructions below carefully for details/instructions on this month’s challenge.
Pick 1 from the following 4 RC101 Lessons:
1) Kakariko Village – We’ve arranged this beautiful song from The Legend of Zelda as a beginner-friendly duet.
Note: You can choose to perform either the melody ukulele part, rhythm ukulele part, or both parts. If choose to perform only one part, you MUST perform to the backing track. The backing track requires premium membership to download.
2) Wildwood Flower – Learn an American folk song that’s entirely played with clawhammer technique.
Note: You MUST perform to the backing track. The backing track requires premium membership to download.
3) A Duet from the Heart – Learn a charming duet for ukulele and acoustic guitar.
Note: You MUST perform to the backing track. The backing track requires premium membership to download.
4) Arabian Nights – This Eastern-sounding ukulele duet will level up your lead and rhythm playing chops!
Note: You can choose to perform either the lead ukulele part, rhythm ukulele part, or both parts. If choose to perform only one part, you MUST perform to the backing track. The backing track requires premium membership to download.
** If you need assistance with how to record yourself check out our FREE course on recording audio/video and/or private message me and I will be happy to help you out. **
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GOALS FOR MEMBER CHALLENGE:
1. Beginner Level: Be able to play one of the lessons as shown by Andrew smoothly and in time. Do not worry about trying to play fast; slow and steady wins the race.
Recommended Piece: “Kakariko Village”
2. Intermediate to Advanced Level: Be able to play one of the lessons as shown by Andrew smoothly and in time. Do not worry about trying to play fast; slow and steady wins the race.
Recommended Piece: “Wildwood Flower”, “A Duet from the Heart”, OR “Arabian Nights”
3. Participation Goal: 35 Rock Class 101 Member Participant Videos/MP3 posted.
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GROUND RULES FOR PARTICIPATION:
1. Post your Youtube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud links of you playing 1 of the 4 RC101 pieces anytime between Sunday, September 1st until Monday, September 30th, 11:59pm ET.
The upload feature on the site only supports photos. Members must host their own files. Creating an account is easy and free! Here are the links to create an account:
YouTube (For Video) – https://www.youtube.com/create_channel
SoundCloud (For Audio) – https://soundcloud.com/signin
2. Submit individually, as a reply, IN THIS POST.
3. Feel free to submit more than one video for the challenge, but additional videos will not count as extra entries into the raffle for the prize.
4. Have fun and don’t be intimidated by this challenge!!! Use this challenge to help you set goals and complete them by a deadline. You can also use this as an opportunity to chat with your fellow Rock Class 101 members and share tips or tricks on this challenge that you think are useful.
5. You must perform the entire piece to receive an entry into the prize raffle. Performance must be submitted by the deadline listed (in #1) above to gain an entry in the raffle, as well as, to receive feedback.
* Note: In my opinion, it is better to show progress versus perfection with these challenges. So if you are a beginner and can only play the first couple of measures. That is completely ok. If you play two more measures of the next challenge piece than you did the previous one, you are on track to getting better. This is what these challenges are about… you learning ukulele and getting better. Remember we are all here to support you no matter what your current playing level is.
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COMMON FAQs:
1) The prize and the challenge is open to the entire world!
2) Premium membership is NOT required to participate, but will make participation easier as it gains you complete access to the full video lessons, tabs, and the on-screen tab viewer.
3) Basic membership (free) is required to submit a reply on this forum post. You can sign up for Basic Membership HERE.
4) To post YouTube video links (in which they appear embedded on the forum), simply copy and past the video URL in its own line. For example:
YouTube URL
5) If you live in the Continental U.S., we will ship the giveaway ukulele to you for FREE! If you live outside of the Continental U.S., there will be a shipping fee ranging between $40 USD to $80 USD. This fee will be collected by Uke Republic. You are also responsible for any custom fees or duties.
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Giveaway Rules:
There will be 1 winner, selected by random drawing on October 5th. To qualify to win, you must submit your audio and/or video links of your playing by the deadline listed above.
Grand Prize:
1) $159 Grand Prize: KALA KA-PWT Pacific Walnut Tenor Ukulele
Watch our review on this ukulele or click here to read the article.
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THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR!
Uke Republic: https://www.ukerepublic.com/
Let’s crush this challenge!
Bravo @misterbones ! I think that is the fastest I’ve ever seen a first post😂…..Well-done! Your claw-hammer is impeccable….I even like the slight tapping sound you get as your thumb plucks and hits the banjo-uke head….a drumming effect.
I also went back and listened to your January clawhammer submission…(wow!)…and I liked the raspy voice….it suited the style.
Where did u get the tabs for your January submission…..(meant to ask in January😜)
@misterbones – Aced it and sounds awesome on that banjolele! I’ll send it to Chris. I’m sure he’ll be impressed with how well you played it 🙂
Wow @misterbones, as @dianna said, fastest entry out of the gate! Nice. Love the claw hammer and hope to try it out.
@dianna Thanks a lot! I got the clawhammer tabs from Aaron Keim at quietamericanmusic.com He’s got two clawhammer ukulele books out, an instruction book and a song collection book, which I can both highly recommend. He also has a few free tabs on his website, and performance videos of all the arrangements on his youtube channel. When I fell in love with the clawhammer technique (thanks to the awesome clawhamer course taught by Chris here on RC101) and was looking for more stuff specifically for clawhammer uke, this was by far the best and most comprehensive source I found.
Of course I had to learn the new clawhammer song right away when it came out, and when the information was leaked that this will be part of the September challenge, I recorded it and challenged myself to post it right away as soon as the challenge opens, just for fun. Otherwise I would have loved to learn and play the bass part as well, which I will most likely still do.@misterbones, that was really amazing! You’re such a clean player and utilize the clawhammer technique so perfectly. 😊 It’s always so fun to hear a banjolele. 😅🪕
I’m hoping to learn that one, too, hopefully I can do okay with it and the backing track. 😅
Heyho Rockclass,
i’m not as incredibly fast as @misterbones 🥳
(congrats, very well played and i really love the clawhammersound on your banjolele).
I did not participate two months but had much fun with “Hawaii 5 o” at my Holidays.
A few days ago i heared “Duet from the Heart” which catched me instantly. Then it filled my weekend and i recorded myself the first time with a backingtrack today. Thanks Andrew …. you got me completely 🤭.Good luck and much fun this months for all of you!
I am a premium member
And here I am thinking I might be able to be the first to post! How naive I was! lol
I went with Kakariko Village for start of the month! This is my first attempt at doing two videos combined into one 🙂@misterbones….thanks for the info, I’ll check it out🙂
I’m blown away by these early submissions!
@otzepeng….that was gorgeous….I could feel the emotion….😁
@jbmills07 …..so cool!….what program did u use?Hello everyone!
So many great early entries!
As a big Zelda fan, learning the Kakariko Village theme was a no brainer! But I wanted it to be a solo chord melody, so I combined both parts. That was a lot of fun! It was actually quite easy because the base of chords and melody notes were already there. This time I recorded audio and video seperately again.
Oh, and I played it a bit slower than Matt’s version because of some tricky chord transitions.(Exclude me from the price drawing this month)
@dianna thank you! I used OBS studio for recording the videos, and then used davinchi resolve for the editing. I did a google search for how to have two videos side by side and it’s fairly simple 🙂
@otzepeng and @deadbuggy, really beautiful takes on that one! You both brought out the spirit of that song so beautifully (or at least what I perceive to be the spirit of that song, lol). Really lovely! 😊
@jbmills07, really glad to hear you share again! 🙂 Such a beautiful take on that, really well put together. The ending is great. That moment of satisfaction when you nailed a take! 😂 I know that feeling very rarely, lol. Really well played! 😊
@johanna2509, very, very beautiful! The chord melody edition you made is so perfect! When I first saw that video, I had the exact same thought, that those parts were destined to be combined, but you did it really perfectly! 😊❤️Oh, I was going to say, for “A Duet From the Heart,” when I first heard it, I thought it had high clawhammer potential, and I still do think that, but I guess it would be silly to try to turn that into a clawhammer version when there’s already a clawhammer song this month. That’d be so silly to do that………… Who would do that? 😉 😂
@The_Bumble_Bard thank you so much!! 🙂 it’s certainly good to be back posting 🙂
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