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holly1 – Super impressive for how long you’ve been playing! I’d be proud of that performance 🙂 Timing was excellent, as well as, note clarity.
For dynamics, give this a shot: accent beat 2 and the e of 2. So 2nd and 3rd strum. Try to hit these harder than the others. That will create a nice contrast in your strumming. This is also what @nthibode did.
One tip for fingerpicking the outro, try to keep a claw shape with the right hand, as shown in this guide. This is a more efficient way to pick.
willymac – Excellent roll in your attack, Wilfred! Wonderful performance, keep up the great work 🙂
Yikes! I’d play 6566.
I once watched a video lesson from Joe Pass and he said he only plays chords that are easy to fret/transition too. Really interesting to hear that from him.
@lyndallk – that’s so cool!
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! Feel free to post a video and I’ll be happy to take a look to see if there’s any suggestion I can make to help with the stretches 🙂
Wow Hong, that was amazing! Congrats on how far you have come 🙂 It’s an honor to be a part of your ukulele journey and I will def be sharing this video as it will be very inspiring for others who are just starting.
@gaberdude – Well done! I’m hearing that you are sustaining some phrases, but not every one. So that would be what I would work on, which is holding the double stops out for their entire duration so that they ring into each other. Everything else sounds great!
@planetfink – Here’s my feedback for you 🙂If it’s an iconic part of the song, I’d incorporate it into the arr. I haven’t heard that song in a while, so I can’t comment specifically on including it or not.
@lisadmh – Make sure all fingers are on fingertips so that you enough room to fit each finger in the fret(s).
@lisadmh – Your progress the last 2 months has been phenomenal! Great timing, way more relaxed, and sustain throughout.That’s a solid mix of showing development in the fundamentals and subtleties. I’m proud of you!
The intro is the area that I’d work the most on. This is the one area where you are lacking sustain, b/c you lift up to grab the 2nd and 3rd notes, which breaks the sustain. Keep working on it, stretch chords are tough!
@mypamela1 – La Gitanita is taught in its entirety for free and includes a free tab 🙂 The others require premium membership to access the full lessons and/or tabs.
Hey Martin, it’s a hammer-on on the:
&a of 2 (0 to 3 on string 1)
Hold (tie) the last note (C – 3rd fret of string 1) into beat 3.
Also on beat 3, you tap the percussive hit.
Then pull-off to the first fret on the e of beat 4.
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Pull-offs do not have to be picked, followed by an immediate pull-off. They can be executed just by the left hand itself, as this example does.
Does that make sense?
Timbre. I really like the punchy sound of picado, followed by the smooth, legato pull-off.
You could change it up however you like. There is no right or wrong 🙂