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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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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 🙂
Not too late at all kala_uke 🙂 Very clean playing! I do have one suggestion for you: try to pace yourself a bit, as it’s a slower tune. But overall great job!
Margo, if you have a video please post it! I’d love to watch it 🙂
ukuleleloo – That was awesome! So cool to see you tackle the solo 🙂 You did great job, keep up the good work! I can def tell you put a lot of time into this one 🙂
That was beautiful Sheryl! Well played 🙂 What uke is that? It has a sweet tone. My only suggestion for you is to watch the right hand wrist, as you curve it up a bit, we want to try to keep the hand and wrist parallel.
Awesome guys! Great goals to aim for 🙂 Sheryl, I’d also recommend to add some more barre chords to your practice routine. Always good to practice as many as possible.
Here’s a good place to start: http://ukulelego.com/find-ukulele-chords/
It’s a cool feature that creates chord progressions for you 🙂
No worries MT 🙂 I appreciate you participating, we all know how crazy busy life gets! Let me know if you need any help. Keep up the good work!
For all members already participating, this thread just became our September site member challenge 🙂 Scroll up to the first post to read the rules/details and to see what the prize for the month is!
Good questions Dave.
1) I’m a little unsure why the D# has a B above it rather than an A?
You have to consider each note on the A string as the root. So we would be considering a scale of D# major (which brings up another point, in that most would consider this an Eb Major scale – but this is another topic).
Anyways, a perfect 5th from D# is A# because a perfect fifth is made up of seven half steps (up 7 half steps). So it wouldn’t be an A but instead is an A#.
A# isn’t in the key of E major – which your melody derives from, so I subbed it out for a B note (minor 6).
2) Why does the B have an F# and not just an F above it?
Same reason we pointed out above.
Let me know if you have more questions.