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Hey Snehit, it sounds like you are interested in transcribing. Which means, figuring out music by ear and putting it on paper, i.e. notating it. To do this, there are few areas you will need to develop:
1) General understanding of harmony. Start with our music theory course, it will provide you with the fundamentals.
2) General understanding of rhythm. The best way to understand how rhythm and timing connect is to learn to read standard notation. Start with our course on reading, but after that you will need to begin to learn to notate. And for this, I’d suggest picking up a copy of this book.
3) Lastly, you’ll want to start developing your ear. The best ear training tools can be found here. Start with the interval ear trainer (bottom of page).
4) I’d also recommend picking up a slow-down program to aid in transcribing. This is the one I use:
Here’s the download link for Windows.
Here’s the download link for Mac.Pluck it, or you could form the full G chord shape there and strum it. Which would be 0775.
Glad you dig the lesson! 🙂
peiching – Great playing! You have a very nice tone to your playing 🙂
I have two suggestions for you. First, for the fingerpicking section, work on increasing the tempo. Start with 5 or 10 BPM faster than what you are currently at. Overall, you played this section very well, so the challenge for you will be to push yourself to play it just a little bit faster.
Second, in the strumming sections, you speed up. But you only speed up when strumming, fingerpicking remains at the previous tempo. So I would practice this section at your current tempo, but play along to a metronome. That will help keep you in time.
@ultramom – Great start! 🙂
Most of the time, yes it requires adjustments to be made.
Pretty much any uke can be set up for high or low G. But some may be better for one or the other depending on scale size, nut width, etc.
@cauer2 – Our participation goal is 100 folks. You only need to submit once 🙂
You def can, Dhruv! Start here with our lessons and let me know if you need any help. I’m always around to help! Have fun 🙂
@deadbuggy – That sounds better! But I would still work on getting it 100% accurate to the arrangement.
johanna2509 – Great job! Here is my feedback and the lesson I referenced.
Thanks for your support, @parkin73! If you need help on the lessons, please don’t hesitate to post ?’s on the forum. Happy to help! 🙂
laurasil – Beautiful playing! At this point in your playing, I’d start thinking about adding accents and dynamics. Most of your playing has a very even range, but you can really make the piece pop in certain places by using either of these concepts. Check out this live lesson that Matt taught for an idea on how to incorporate this into your playing.