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@effortless – Steven says “should work fine on any strings. I use fluorocarbon strings so it definitely works on those.”
Post a video doing the technique. We can take a look to make sure everything looks okay 🙂
@ukandoit – All good, Matthieu! It’s very similar and the bars that differ are well arranged. Great playing! I enjoyed watching it 🙂
And I hear no issue with the 12th fret.
We BLEW AWAY our participation goal with 60 members participating this month! Big congrats to each and everyone of you! Stephen and I loved hearing everyone’s performances and you guys did SO well! 🙂
So without further ado, the winner of this month’s challenge is ** drumroll **
Our March Challenge is LIVE: https://rockclass101.com/march-2021-challenge. The theme is Love Songs and we’re giving away a NEW PRIZE! Hope to see everyone in the challenge!
P.S. I left feedback below for everyone that we hadn’t yet.
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Here’s everyone on page 10.
marlongas – Bravo! Pacing and phrasing is spot-on. Great feel and well played overall!
rockmyuke – Well done! I’d slow down the tempo to focus on cleaning up the B Melody. Which is actually the same thing I’m focusing on at the moment for a blues song 🙂
andyrose – That was so good, Andy! Timing and feel were great. My only suggestion is to try not to tug down on the strings in the B Melody. Doing so pulls the notes a bit sharp. Try to keep the string parallel as best you can.
cashmpe – Great job on your left hand form – chord work is excellent! You did great on the sustain as well. That’s a big takeaway in this tune. Keep up the great work, I’m very impressed!
ldarrow – Bravo, Linda! You played it beautifully. The only thing that I would point out is to work a little bit more on barre chord form consistency.
There’s a barre chord walk-down (bars 6-8) which happens twice. If you listen to the second time you played it (end of tune), your form is better which results in a cleaner take.
The beauty of recording ourselves is that it allows us to listen back and target our practice. So I’d loop this section section and maybe do it as a warm-up exercise 🙂
santai – One of the big challenges of this tune is creating sustain from one chord to the next. And I think you aced that! So you’ve got a great base established, what I would do next is focus on one section at a time and boost the tempo a little bit.
mac1984 – Well done! You mentioned struggling with memorizing it, check out this lesson for tips.
I think you’ve got a great base established, but I would work on one section at a time with this tune. Your goals being to memorize it and increase your sustain.
Memorizing is great because it allows you to focus on how you’re playing it. Which was the focus of this lesson. For this song specifically, focus on sustain and pacing it at a nice slow, steady tempo.
joe150 – Great job, Joe! Question: Do you use the tab player? After you learn a section, I want you to take two bars at a time and loop it in the tab player. Slow it down to whatever speed you need, and I want you to match my playing 100%. When you’ve got that down, move on to the next section. And piece this song together. So 2 bars, becomes 4, becomes 8 🙂
cimarronsailor – Well played! There’s a couple of spots that need a little touching up, but I think for the most part you’re at the stage where you want to start to push the tempo. Try 5 or 10 BPM faster and take it from there. Keep up the great work!
newber – I agree with you, this song is always so much fun to play! And I thought you played it very well! Great timing and note clarity. Keep working on building speed, you’ll def get to 100%!
emiliano – Perhaps the perfect song for your dog to take a nap to, lol! Excellent feel and articulation of the notes and chords. And quite an interesting take on rubato – a lot of space. I dig it.
kirpuff – Well done, Sara! So I’ve got two things to share with you. First, I’d keep your middle finger fretted on the D note (string 3, fret 2) in the first bar of the B melody (and when it repeats) so that it helps increase the sustain of that chord/phrase.
Second, try to keep the tempo consistent between A and B. We want to seamlessly groove A to B to A.
Yes, baritone is coming soon! 🙂
I remember your performance of White Christmas. It was very good! If you can play that song, you can tackle these! But I will keep your suggestion in mind.
Bravo! You have a great feel to your playing 🙂
There’s a couple things I’d suggest working on:
1) Try not to bend your fingers inwards at the first joint. For ex: 17 seconds into your performance with the ring finger. We always want to be curved at the first joint and fretting with the fingertip.
2) Your timing gets a little off on some of the harder bars. Follow these 3 steps and apply it to a couple bars at a time. Master the timing there and continue to tackle the rest in small sections.
@biancak – Katie made a great video on uke maintenance 🙂
Glad you enjoyed the lesson 🙂
As to your question: 5 is expendable. The 3rd is what determines the quality of the chord. So in the example above, 1 (G) and 3 (B) is enough information to discern a major 3rd interval which alludes to a major triad.
@malku2603 – Check out this explanation, it covers the technique of the strum. You want to work on doing the strum and “flick” in unison.
@biancak – Try practicing that section but at a much slower tempo. Keep the tempo steady (no rit.). When you’re comfortable with the jumps, boost the tempo and then try adding the rit.Looks and sounds great to me 🙂 I’d work on increasing tempo. Try 5 or 10 bpm faster and when that’s clean, go up another 5/10.
@cncamacho – Looks like the track isn’t available on soundcloud.
@samash07 – Sounds great, Sam! I would just work on the transitions, so you don’t have pauses. Keep up the great work!
annemarie – Here’s my feedback for you. And here’s the lesson I referenced.
qiuyan – Well done, Qiuyan! Excellent job on the pace of the piece and I love the arpeggiated plucks. Keep up the great work!
andrewvh – Well done, Andrew! Timing & feel is spot on 🙂
lisadmh – Performance sounds great! From what I can see for the barre chords, it looks like you are pushing too hard. So it’s like a clothes pin, the thumb and the index push inwards together. Only push hard enough to get the notes to ring clear. So experiment with how much pressure you need to accomplish that.
coffeemug – Playing wise, it was great overall! I know Steven’s lesson touched on rubato, which works great for this song.
But the key to rubato is how you use it. If you listen to the first section of your performance, it has a slow and elegant feel to it.
At 44 seconds, you kick off into the next section. And you can hear that it sounds rather rushed compared to the first.
So when you listen back to performances, that’s the thing that I would be keeping an ear on. Which is: how does the section or phrase connect to the one before and/or after.
amaddi – Sounds great! The only suggestion I have is to slow the tempo down a little bit. It’ll allow the music to breathe more.
terryfallon3 – Here’s my feedback for you. And here’s the lesson I referenced.
turkgoose – Bravo, great performance!
brettboy – Sounds great with the guitar! Keep working on the B Melody so you can get it a little bit cleaner.
ukandoit – Love the reverb, tone sounds great! And of course a lot of that is due to your performance 😉 Well done, Matthieu!