[Andrew]

I’m not sure, Kelsey. Reach out to them with that question: [email protected].

[Andrew]

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED THIS MONTH! WE HAD 121 ENTRIES! YOU GUYS ROCK!

Hope to see everyone in our December Challenge. December is your LAST CHANCE to win the Kanile’a!

Here is a list of everyone who participated. Please let me know if there are any discrepancies.

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bdenham14
bdenham14
mark1256
mark1256
concan
concan
pippin105
pippin105
deadbuggy
deadbuggy
johanna2509
johanna2509
krolik
shmu88
shmu88
qiuyan
qiuyan
rebeca
simonalexander
simonalexander
nthibode
nthibode
cauer2
cauer2
apoole
apoole
janett75
janett75
schaap123
schaap123
shann0potato
shann0potato
lisadmh
lisadmh
sir_anzalot
sir_anzalot
ukulelee
ukulelee
misterbones
misterbones
cncamacho
cncamacho
robinboyd
robinboyd
laurakarr12
laurakarr12
turkgoose
turkgoose
lyndallk
lyndallk
lisamcc
lisamcc
emiliano
emiliano
eszti5mail
eszti5mail
ukandrea
ukandrea
mennloo
alisoniles
alisoniles
marianne
marianne
isabelm
isabelm
tsetsova
tsetsova
debb1985
debb1985
allesyone
kelsey91
addilein
addilein
antotonin
antotonin
amylilley
amylilley
brettboy
brettboy
surrealflea
surrealflea
ukesilver
ukesilver
kirpuff
kirpuff
sdorunga
ealtman
ealtman
tric_o_tronic
tric_o_tronic
marlongas
marlongas
lhamilton
lhamilton
smokealot
smokealot
willymac
willymac
gstriph
gstriph
morrieuke1
morrieuke1
aksiomatic
aksiomatic
karenj
karenj
kanae926
kanae926
hibiscus
hibiscus
andrewvh
andrewvh
akukes73
akukes73
patparr
patparr
bklynsoul
bklynsoul
rockmyuke
rockmyuke
andyrose
andyrose
katazumiri
b_ukes_101
b_ukes_101
lbilkie
lbilkie
lynnwatson
lynnwatson
robinl
givingtree89
givingtree89
wongbrown
wongbrown
dododudus
dododudus
bemarlie
bemarlie
mozcyc
coffeemug
coffeemug
happyonuke
luizaveit
henri0
henri0
jkulele
jkulele
annemarie
annemarie
ccwuke
ccwuke
beauke
beauke
joannetala
joannetala
alana_
alana_
mademoiselleannette
goody2shoes
goody2shoes
joe150
joe150
ebetsimo
miztaken
miztaken
pika80019
pika80019
tiff27
stianukulele
stianukulele
andracass
andracass
aloooy
aloooy
whollyprofit
whollyprofit
janaq1
janaq1
Catherine
Catherine
rucha11
rucha11
dal08260
dal08260
kayleighb
kayleighb
brabbit
rufio0
rufio0
humerosa
humerosa
celia21
santai
santai
ukandoit
ukandoit
cloud_cactus
jayton
jayton
lissid
lissid
oldan_
oldan_
pgoody
pgoody
uku_on
uku_on
cyberloh
cyberloh
unclemymy
unclemymy
themccoys
themccoys
dividedsky
dividedsky
iyers408
iyers408
mac1984
mac1984
lakeside339
lakeside339
lildevil
lildevil
maryjanew
maryjanew

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Andrew. Reason: Updated

[Andrew]

@maryjanew – I made this video for another member earlier this month. It talked about reworking fingerings to match your playing style. NOW – after watching your video, I don’t think you need to do this. The D chord w/ index is sounding good! It’s just one of those fingerings that takes awhile to get comfy with. But anyways, I’d encourage you to watch the video and remember the tips, it’s good for future use 🙂

For memorizing: Try sections at a time. Like 4 or 8 bars. Play while looking at the music for that section, then cover it up and play without looking. If you fumble, target your practice on that specific area. Don’t move onto the next section until you’ve got it 100% down w/out looking. That approach has always worked well for me!

And btw – your performance was great. Great tone and I heard no misunderstandings of rhythms. Keep up the great work and def play it for the grandkids!

[Andrew]

@humerosa – For that song, I’d only use rubato for the intro. I’d keep the rest of it steady 🙂 Matt didn’t really use rubato on this. Check out the lesson I linked for a better example of it.

[Andrew]

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 🙂

[Andrew]

@humerosa – got it 🙂

[Andrew]

@xarqin – You posted the October challenge video, please post the November challenge song 🙂

[Andrew]

Friendly Reminder – The deadline for receiving feedback and an entry into the giveaway is tonight at 11:59 PM EST (check your local time zone).

[Andrew]

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!

[Andrew]

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 🙂

[Andrew]

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:

[Andrew]

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.

[Andrew]

@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.

[Andrew]

Sweet! Makes me miss the beach 🙂

[Andrew]

@ukesilver – Bravo, Johnny! I’m gonna share this on our social this week 🙂

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