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Welcome, Mike! I’d recommend starting here. I’m always around so if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask 🙂
@theukuelenoob – Can you share a video? I’ll be better able to help if I can see/hear what’s happening.
Welcome, Tom! That’s awesome to hear you’ve been to UR. Mike and Donna are good people 🙂
I’d jump into our Reading Course to really gain a through understanding of how timing & rhythm connect. And do please join this month’s challenge! I look forward to watching your performance!
@willymac – Nice! Check these out. They are what Dave Kear uses and ohhh my, you’re in for a treat if you haven’t heard him play.
@joe150 – This is your best performance I’ve heard to date! Bravo, Joe! So if you watch your video back, notice how the last 2/3rd’s is played from memory and the first part has you looking at the sheet music. Notice how smoothly you play from memory. That’s the goal and so my only critique is for you to get the first part down without reference. Keep up the great work!
@funtime2018 – I think it’s this one. The idea is to match your feel to what the song is – so in that video I play “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, which has a soft, gentle and loving feel – which is the feel that you want to mimic on the uke 🙂Very nice feel, Rick! I’ll share this with AJ!
P.S. you just might see this song pop up in next month’s challenge 😉
@funtime2018 – Well done! The only thing I’d suggest is to lighten up your right hand picking attack. Lighter picking and strumming will produce a softer, sweeter tone. Check out this video that I made awhile back for another member that expanded on this concept.
@brabbit – I thought your timing was excellent! That was very well played overall. For the harmonic chord hit at the end, I’d substitute it out for a single note tapped harmonic of the A string at the 12th fret. You can learn how to do that in this course. Work on single note tapped harmonics before tackling chords.
@maryjanew – fantastic, well played! There’s really not much to critique; if I have to be very nitpicky… sometimes there’s a micro hesitation when you move from one double stop phrase to the next (up and down the neck). So just work on getting that to flow a bit smoother, but I can tell that what you’re doing is working! So keep doing what you’re doing! Sounds awesome overall!
@dryossi – that was so good! The only suggestion I have is to listen back to your performance for the areas where the tempo slows down a bit. This tends to be a phrase where the chord transitions, or the rhythm, becomes pretty tricky. So I would target those areas in your practice. But overall it was excellent, keep up the great work!
@willymac – Bravo! I was extremely impressed with how well you did with the timing. I think I hear your foot tapping along. I can’t stress enough how much that helps at keeping the rhythm consistent (tip for those of you reading this feedback).I was also impressed with the sound of the accented strums – which is a big part of this arrangement. Those nails really do sound great, how do you like them?
The only thing that stood out to me, that I want to point out to you, is the first two bars of the song. That phrase that gets repeats twice, try to swing it a little more. How you played it sounds a bit too straight to my ear.
Correct.
There’s only one chart symbol that is used for more advanced songs that can be confusing at first. This symbol is actually a direction called: D.S. al Coda. It’s good to see an example of this. If you look at the tab player for this lesson, you can see how it works.
Hit play from the beginning and stop at bar 16 (continue to play the tab after you read this). At bar 16 it says: “D.S. al Coda”. This means to return to the measure with the sign, which looks like an ‘S’ with a slash and 2 diagonal dots. You can find that symbol in measure 1.
So you jump back to measure 1 and play until you see the text that says “To Coda”, which is in bar 9. At that point you jump to the Coda sign, which looks like a crosshair and can be found at measure 17. Play from bar 17 until the end of the piece.
To summarize, you play:
1-16 (D.S. al Coda back to the Sign)
1-9 (Sign is located at bar 1. Play until “To coda” which is at bar 9)
17-24 (Jump to Coda symbol at bar 17 and play until end)Welcome, Henri0! That was a super fun song to arrange! Glad you found us through it!
Check out this guide for ideas for putting together a structured learning plan 🙂
And if you ever need any help on the lessons, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Robin linked our Reading Course. Which is an excellent resource for learning to read standard notation. But, I think your question is dealing more-so with reading chart symbols.
If they appear in any lesson on our site, I always address them in detail in the video tutorial. This includes an explanation and demonstration.
If you ever have a question on anything, please don’t hesitate to ask 🙂
