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A lot of people fall into that routine Lynda (including I at times!). I think you have a great plan laid out. I would suggest to flesh out these 5 points in complete detail:
– Strumming – growing my strumming repertoire
– learning new songs that challenge me
– learning new chord inversions, that I can have at my finger tips (so to speak)
– practicing songs I know, and learn them by heart
– build a good repertoire of sing a long songsFor example the first topic, strumming, are you focusing on technique or rhythm? I like to dive “three deep” into topics. Meaning:
Strumming > develop rhythm > practice 5 strum patterns each using a different rhythm > apply strum patterns to songs
Hope this gives you some food for thought 🙂
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Glad to hear the finger is healing James. Looking forward to the video!
Haha that’s awesome! We are writing a Bossa Nova piece for concept lesson EP008. Its got a sweet sounding latin drum track and uses some great jazzy uke chords. We’ll prob roll this lesson out in late October as there are a lot of tunes in que before it 🙂
Glad I could help Vida. Keep working at it! Perhaps something else could be done to your ukulele. Email Mike at Uke Republic, he should know what to do 🙂
Wow Tessa! I hope it passes fast. I’ve driven through those before and they are awful!
Vida, the reason you are having difficulty with this technique is because you are attacking, or hitting, with too much force. Try to tone it down about 90%. So if you watch the video again that I had emailed you, and I’ll paste it below, skip to 1:19. Notice how my attack is much lighter than yours. It’s the same force you would apply if you were sitting at a desk and were so bored that you were tapping your finger on the desk. So if you lighten up and hit directly over the second metal fret, you should be able to create the harmonic.
I would also encourage you to continue doing the plucked harmonics. That is another great technique and is very useful to have in your arsenal. Let me know how it goes 🙂
Great challenges Rickey and Vida! Let me know if you need help on the plucking Vida. Here are my thoughts on Overcoming Stage Fright.
My pleasure, glad you enjoy the lesson 🙂 It’s an awesome melody. Check out this lesson for Freight Train if you want to learn another awesome sounding vintage tune!
Fantastic playing Rickey! Thanks for sharing this with me via email earlier today 🙂 Don’t forget to post that you will be working on “Yankee Doodle” in our September challenge thread, when you get a chance 🙂
Welcome Terry! Glad you found us 🙂 I’ve never been to Australia, but have a friend that lives there. I hope to visit one day!
Hi ser_ser, you stated two different things, so let’s break it down. First, if you are only trying to memorize a piece, try to approach it this way: Break it down into sections. Most of the time songs are in 8 bar sections. With the sheet music in front of you, play those eight bars. When you feel like you have a good handle on it, turn your music stand around so you can’t see the sheet music. Try to play those eight bars again. If you can’t, turn it back around and read it some more and then repeat until you are able to play without looking (from memory).
If you want to understand how the three parts of music come together to create a Chord Melody, check out our course: How to Write a Song on the Ukulele: A Beginner’s Guide to Chord Melody. The course deconstructs the three parts to explain how the demo song was written.
Sounds great James, and the local Jam will be a lot of fun to use that technique 🙂
Awesome Sheryl, glad I was able to help you!
Great challenge Carrie! Couple tips, try the same advice I gave above to ser_ser. But with this song, try one bar at a time, and then two bar phrases. For example: Bar 1, bar 2, bar 1-2; and so forth. Memorizing is really important for this song, because it’s such an emotionally expressive tune. This will help you focus on how you’re playing it too, which was the focal point of this lesson 🙂
Great job Lisa! You’ve got a great base established, but I would suggest to tackle one section at a time, before trying the entire tune. Breaking it down into sections and memorizing/perfecting them is always the easiest way to get a tune down 🙂
Wonderful playing Margo! I’m not sure what you were talking about earlier, that was great! With a little more practice, you’ll have it down! Keep up the good work!
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So overall we had 12 members participate this month! Major props to all of you, this months challenge was HARD! I thoroughly enjoyed watching everyone’s performances 🙂
So without further delay, the winner for this month’s challenge is: *drum-roll*
Congrats! I’ll be sending you an email soon 🙂
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Our new challenge for September is live and it has a new concept! Click here to check it out: https://rockclass101.com/september-2017-challenge
Hi ser_ser, it sounds great to me! Although, I would suggest to start working on understanding/memorizing the notes in week 1, as it takes awhile for this information to “sink in”. Luckily, that song only has 5 chords, so it’s a great introduction piece for working on that theory aspect. Looking forward to watching your progress throughout the month 🙂
Wow Sheryl, I’m glad to hear you are safe! It’s a tragedy what has happened there.
No worries on the pressure, I still get it when I hit record! And that makes sense on your uke, it sounds amazing, but it also takes the player to make it sound good! Keep up the good work 🙂