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Thank you for your donations Brett and Debb!! Debb, please email me with the amount donated as I’m keeping a tally of how much we raise 🙂
@humerosa – got it 🙂
@xarqin – You posted the October challenge video, please post the November challenge song 🙂
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Here’s everyone on page 11.
mozcyc – well done! One tip: Try not to bend your fingers inward at the first joint on the D chord. We always want to keep it curved, like you did with the other chords. But overall, you did a great job – it was very well played!
coffeemug – Here’s my feedback for you and the lesson I referenced.
happyonuke – Great job! I thought you did very well! Moving forward, I’d probably take a section (like 4 bars at a time) and work on building sustain, which in-turn will help you build finger strength as this is a pretty barre chord heavy tune.
luizaveit – I dig the free time intro! The whole performance was well played, keep up the great work!
henri0 – Ok I see what you did – those measures were fine, but you played bar 26 as all eighths – which honestly doesn’t sound bad at all as a solo arrangement, because it turns it into a measure of 3/4. If you were doing that in an ensemble, that would put you ahead of everyone else for the remainder of the song. Which obviously wouldn’t be good thing.
Other than that, your playing was great overall. I enjoyed the performance!
jkulele – Great performance overall! The only thing I’d work on is that some of the melody notes, mostly on the A string, where cut a bit short. Make sure that you keep your finger pressure held down for the duration of the notes value. In other words, don’t lift up prematurely.
annemarie – Well done, Anne! Keep working on Witcher. For DS, it was great overall. I think some of your fingering choices could be changed to make it easier to play – like the barre chord in bar 15 or the double stops on the A and E strings in bar 9 (and when those licks reappear throughout the song). I’d recommend using the fingerings taught in the lesson video. It’ll make it much easier to play those parts.
Other than that, you may also want to play along with the tab player. Stephen tracked it to a click, so his timing is spot on. His playing would act as a guide to help keep you in time. Which is a fun alternative over the tried and true metronome.
P.S. For the future, please post your submissions as a reply in the challenge post instead of creating a new topic.
ccwuke – Nice job! You’ve got a great base established overall, but you may wanna double check the intro. I’d also suggest listening back to your performance and targeting your practice on the areas that you struggled a bit on.
beauke – Excellent performance! Honestly, the only thing that stood out to me were the strumming parts. Try to not rush the rhythm/timing there. It’s mostly eighth note strums (down/up) with a quarter note strum thrown in. Try to count that section when you play it – but it should stay even with the fingerpicking parts.
joannetala – Performance was awesome! You did great on some of the big subtleties of this arr. – like the volume build up in bar 12. And the timing, great job on that too! Only thing I’d do differently is the Em chord in bar 4 (and when that section pops up again), keep your fingers held down as you build/pluck outta of it so it sustains more. Keep up the great work, Joanne!
alana_ – You did so well!! You improved A LOT on the areas I talked about in that video for you. I’m also really impressed that you tackled this one so well! Bravo, keep up the good work! The only thing I noticed to address is in the beg of the performance. In the first few bars, when you go up to 10/9, 8/7 and so forth. Pluck only the bottom 2 strings, not all 4 for those hits 😉
mademoiselleannette – Wonderfully played, keep up the great work!
Here’s everyone on page 8 that I hadn’t gotten to yet.
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ealtman – Well done! Great job on the timing and TY for the kind words 🙂
tric_o_tronic – Great job! Try not to bend your left wrist inwards while playing – I’d actually recommend not playing on the couch – it puts your body in a weird position which makes holding and playing properly much more difficult.
I’d like you to work on note clarity a bit. Check out this exercise. It’s a good one for working on just that 🙂
oldan_ – Great job, Dan! Question: Where you reading while playing? Try this: break it into phrases – like 4 or 8 bars – and read/play 1 phrase. Then do it w/out looking. If you can’t, pay attention to where you forget and target practice there. Keep bouncing between looking/not-looking until you can play without looking 100% all the way through. Master 1 phrase before doing another.
marlongas – Bravo, brilliantly done!
lhamilton – Well done, Linda! I’d suggest working on timing, specifically keeping it a bit more steady. Try to play along w/ Matt in the tab player. That’s a great way to work on it.
smokealot – I thought it sounded awesome! Keep up the great work, Ulli 🙂
My apologies for the delay, I missed your response. Here’s my thoughts and the lesson I referenced.
Here is the exercise to run through. Use it as a warm up exercise:
Great feel, Lyndall! It was very well played overall. Only thing I’d suggest is to work on keeping the beat in bar 13 going. Remember, it’s all triplets – don’t let the grace notes through you off.
@kirpuff – Great job, Sara! I dig the slower tempo-d intro then out the gates running for the rest of the tune! Cool idea 🙂
@sdorunga – For the harmonics, check out the first 2 units in module 2 of our Harmonics Course. That will teach you the correct way to do them 🙂As for as your performance, you did great! I’d recommend following the steps we teach in our Practice Guide. Basically, take a section (4 or 8 bars) and loop it until you can play it cleanly and steadily (tempo wise). Then do the same with the next section and piece them together. This helps you build the songs step-by-step instead of trying to tackle everything all at once.
@ukesilver – Bravo, Johnny! I’m gonna share this on our social this week 🙂
@surrealflea – Well done! I’d say it’s a great piece to work on for your playing level. Check out the harmonics course to work on that technique. As far as the performance, it was great overall! Try to take 1 section and see if you can boost the tempo ever so slightly. This will help you work on gaining speed.
Hmm… it’s hard to say without hearing/seeing what’s happening. Can you upload a video playing this section and the other section which rings louder?