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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!
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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.
haha, awesome! and yes! I like fifths, but the 6th fret (D#) should be played with a B above it (minor 6) to keep it in the key of E major.
A string: 7 6 7 2 0
E string: 7 7 7 2 0Are you playing Jurassic Park? 🙂
There’s two ways you can look at this. Intervals can be ascending or descending and they can also be inverted. If your melody line is on the highest string (A), you could consider these notes to be the roots. So if you want to harmonize by fifths for the first note (E – fret 7, string 1), you could play the B note (fret 7, string 2) above it.
But, this could also be viewed as a perfect fourth – if you considered the B note to be the root. And this is along the lines of what you were thinking when you listed notes for thirds.
I could use Halloween suggestions, so please fire away! 🙂
Here’s a list of all Halloween tunes we already have: https://rockclass101.com/seasonal-songs/
Sounds awesome Lisa! Great job, I’d only suggest maybe pluck/slap a little lighter. See how that sounds, it should be a little sweeter of a tone.
Here’s my update (triplet work on hold). I’ve been busting my butt to get this Magic Ukulele Waltz tune down and am feeling ready for the performance shoot this week 🙂 Here’s a snippet of the B melody and some tips on sustaining notes/chords.
So glad to have you on board Kay 🙂 I love watching your performances in our monthly challenges, you are constantly improving and it’s very inspiring to see!
Oh boy Lisa, Mahler… I saw a couple of his works performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, needless to say, it was stellar. Although for uke, we may have to forward that request to Jake 🙂
Added Kay!
Lisa, sustaining comes down to letting the notes/chords ring for the duration of their respective rhythmic value. Physical factors include holding down the notes/chords long enough to let them ring into each other. Part of getting this down easier, includes memorizing the piece so you can focus on how you are performing it. Actually, Kay did an excellent job on this! If you watch her performance above, you can hear how everything rings into each other. She’s going a great slow and steady speed, but most importantly, it stays constant. A great lesson for the future would include covering all the variables for “perfecting” a piece – although nothing I ever play is perfect lol.
I really loved your performance Kay, it clearly shows you worked hard! Excellent job! My only suggestion for you is to loosen up on the right hand wrist. We should have no tension in our plucking hand/forearm. Also, take breaks and stretch if your wrist is bothering you 🙂 Now I sound like my Physical Therapist 🙂
I love the ending Lisa, too funny lol! You did an awesome job, so cool! That’s a looong tune too! I think you have a great base established, so what I work on moving forward is the same advice I gave to Marisa and is featured in this article/video. In summary, it’s to memorize the tune and then focus on how you are playing it, so smoothing it out and connecting the transitions. Also, check out the video I left above for Vida, that would be great for you to work on too. But, truly great job, keep up the good work!