[Andrew]

@rucha11 – Try not to protrude your forearm as much. Take a loot mine vs. yours:

[Andrew]

@rucha11 – well done! Sounds great 🙂 One tip, try not to pull the strings down when you fret notes. For example, if you pause your video at 12 seconds, you’ll see the C strings is pulled down quite a bit. This causes the note to sound sharp. Try to keep the strings parallel at all times.

For the ending tap harmonic, you need to do a quick tap. Check out the video I left above to see this demonstrated/explained. But, I’d recommend starting out by learning to tap single note harmonics instead of chords.

You can learn to do single note tapped harmonics in Module 3, Unit 2 of our Harmonics Course.

[Andrew]

My pleasure!

[Andrew]

@cncamacho – well done! I’d sub out that tapped harmonic-chord for the same single note harmonic that you play earlier in the tune. But, overall sounds awesome!!

@qiuyan – Here’s my feedback for you and the lesson I referenced.

@elixir123 – Wow! That was awesome, Elixir! 🙂

[Andrew]

@rucha11 – form looks spot on as to what we recommend. Can you post a video playing? I’ll be better able to see if something else is happening.

[Andrew]

Hi Grace, here is a video to help you and here is the first and second lesson I recommend reviewing.

[Andrew]

You should be able to do it after watching this one lesson. The majority of the other lessons in that course focus on a different type of harmonic 🙂

[Andrew]

Hi Grace, we actually just had this question come up in this topic yesterday.

I wouldn’t worry about the A chord tap at this point, instead I’d focus on learning natural harmonics (your 2nd question). That, and single note tapping, is taught in our Harmonics Course.

[Andrew]

@lisotta – Congrats, Lisa! I’m so happy for you. I sent you an email 🙂

[Andrew]

Welcome, Grace! Looking forward to watching your performance 🙂

[Andrew]

For that technique, you’re tapping 12 frets (an octave) above the A chord: 2100

Which is done by diagonally angling the index finger to hit the second metal fret of (starting on string 4 to 1):

14, 13, 12, 12

I’d recommend tackling single note taps before multi-string. Jump into the Harmonics Course. There’s a section that covers tapping single notes 🙂

[Andrew]

Hi Audrey, please watch this video and I’d highly encourage you to jump into our Beginner’s Course. 🙂

[Andrew]

Hi Sarah, start here and let me know if you have any questions 🙂

[Andrew]

@deadbuggy – I love the change at 50 seconds! You have the most creative variations 🙂 And this was super well played. Triplet strum sounds fantastic. Great job this month!

[Andrew]

We did it! We crushed the Spring Challenges!

321 members participated in our last 3 challenges and I have been blown away by everyone’s performances! Thanks to each and everyone of you who participated.

We are going live at 12 PM EST (check your local time zone) on July 4th to announce the winner of the $1,370 Pineapple Kanile’a Ukulele. The live stream link is below:

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Here is everyone who participated this month. Please let me know if there are any discrepancies.

rebeca
lisadmh
lisadmh
planetfink
planetfink
turkgoose
turkgoose
tim0721
tim0721
mark1256
mark1256
peiching
tric_o_tronic
tric_o_tronic
janett75
janett75
ccwuke
ccwuke
barbecueblack
barbecueblack
nickyg
nickyg
johanna2509
johanna2509
cncamacho
cncamacho
shmu88
shmu88
funtime2018
funtime2018
lhamilton
lhamilton
flaaaaaame
flaaaaaame
brettboy
brettboy
nathalie
nathalie
debb1985
debb1985
lyndallk
lyndallk
surrealflea
surrealflea
surfnrz
surfnrz
cyukug
cyukug
schaap123
schaap123
yooki-h
yooki-h
kkaszuba
kkaszuba
lisamcc
lisamcc
kellyblackburn
kellyblackburn
elealong12
andrewvh
andrewvh
rockmyuke
rockmyuke
holly1
holly1
nthibode
nthibode
marianne
rickeymike
rickeymike
katazumiri
laurasil
robinboyd
robinboyd
eszti5mail
eszti5mail
coffeemug
coffeemug
brightwing
kaidunc
kaidunc
stianukulele
stianukulele
smudge
smudge
sir_anzalot
sir_anzalot
morrieuke1
morrieuke1
simonalexander
simonalexander
verity2003
verity2003
b_ukes_101
b_ukes_101
miztaken
miztaken
riley_ukulele
riley_ukulele
wongbrown
wongbrown
amandali
amandali
mljordan3
mljordan3
rufio0
rufio0
givingtree89
givingtree89
willymac
willymac
bklynsoul
bklynsoul
cimarronsailor
cimarronsailor
emiliano
emiliano
ukukelley1
ukukelley1
rustypal
rustypal
jinajupiter
maryjanew
maryjanew
kirpuff
kirpuff
audreyrozowykwiatlucie
audreyrozowykwiatlucie
lisa-k
lisa-k
santai
santai
karenj
karenj
jkulele
jkulele
ronnieg
ronnieg
gardn_gnome
gardn_gnome
sticks366
sticks366
timolnz
timolnz
joannetala
joannetala
iyers408
iyers408

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