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sgwarren – I don’t know what to say… Let me know if you’re interested in making performance videos for us. Total pro playing!!
kkaszuba – killer job for 6 months! Triplet strum sounds good and the technique looks fine. What I would do is slow the tempo down and work on keeping it steady. Work on 4 bar sections at a time. When you get comfortable with one section, do the next section, and then build it from there.
goody2shoes – that was awesome! The piece flows well and has a great feel overall. One thing I would experiment with is plucking the harmony chords a touch softer. That will help the melody pop and stand out more.
b_ukes_101 – Excellent!! Triplet strum sounds great! One thing I want you to do is to slow down and work on keeping your timing a bit steadier. Try this: Take a four bar section and loop it in the tab player. Slow it down to 65% speed. When you get comfortable with that, try the next four bars. Then put those eight bars together. After that try to increase the speed by 5 to 10%. Repeat this process for the rest of the tune.
And check out this lesson/article. It talks about where to place your right hand when fingerpicking. So in your video, I see you’re holding onto the end of the neck. That’s something that we don’t want to do, but it’s an easy fix 🙂
ukuleleloo – beautiful playing, Lucinda! The only thing I can suggest is to work on cleaning up any notes or chords that aren’t ringing out.
laurakarr12 – you did a wonderful job getting it to sustain, sounds very pretty! I’d double down your practice on the campanella runs and work towards gradually increasing the overall tempo.
philbateau – awesome first entry! Sounds great overall. I’d recommend playing with the tab player. You’ll have Matt’s playing as a guide and the backing track to help you stay locked into the groove. Both of which will help reinforce your timing.
timtamaus – so good!! You sound great, so keep doing what you’re doing – but, I want you to memorize it. So that’s my challenge for you 🙂
ivo_zag – Well done! I’d recommend slowing the tempo down so you can focus on getting the triplet strum consistent for each time. So if you listen back to the performance, you’ll hear that you nail the rhythm sometimes, but other times it sounds like swung 8th notes. Should be an easy fix, once you get more comfortable with performing the strum.
And great job on the fingerpicking section!
cimarronsailor – beautiful playing! Keep up the great work 🙂
@maryjanew – Check out Matt’s live lesson for tips on memorizing music 🙂
@maryjanew – that’s something that would take 1 on 1 help. I’d recommend booking a Skype lesson with Stephen. He’ll be able to help you get comfortable playing in an ensemble.
@zerratheterra – Unfortunately, any entries submitted beyond the deadline will not be counted for the giveaway. Sorry! But there are two more months to participate in 🙂 Hope you join us for May and June!
Lisa, you can do that. But check out this lesson as it talks about muting with the palm of the right hand, which is what that song uses 🙂
@johnnyrotten – please upload it to YouTube. You can make an account for free. Copy the URL and share it here. Simply post the link in its own line:
YouTube Link
@zerratheterra – your posts are blank – no video or audio.@hotshot – your video is set to private. Can you change it to public?
@sgorsuch – got it!
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).
@katariin – can you upload your video to YouTube and share the link here. Our upload feature for the forum is only meant for pictures.
That’s normal, happens to all of us. You can try some right hand muting to stop this when moving from fretted notes to fretted notes (not open strings). Check out this lesson which talks about this concept.
@lisotta – yes, you can play it on high G 🙂