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That’s what I’m here for guys, your Uke Drill instructor lol ๐ And that’s awesome Connie!
Guys, since this challenge is harder, post all your questions on this forum post as it relates to the 2 challenge songs. The deadline for questions will be Aug 11. I’ll post a video on the 18th answering all questions that I deem to be of quality and helpful to those working on these 2 tunes.
Wow! We had 37 site members participate in our fourth challenge for the month of July! I am blown away and extremely humbled. Great job to everyone who participated!
Watch the video below to find out who one this month’s giveaway ukulele. Also below, I have left feedback for everyone who submitted on the last day ๐
krasimirka55 – excellent playing, it shows that you practiced a lot. Great job!
zukulele – well done! My only suggestion for you is to slow down a little bit to focus on cleaning up some of the notes.
ramilog – great job! Watch your timing when you switch to the chords, as you sped up quite a bit. So your goal would be to keep the tempo even throughout the entire piece. Also, scroll back in this forum post as we talked a lot about using the thumb to mute the 4th string when you are strumming the chords.
ukuleleloo – very well played! I love your strum attack, it sounds great!
theandersons – I loved it ๐ I can tell the nerves set in a little bit when you’re recording. Happens to all of us, even me still! No worries on the ending, but go back and check the form for the chords. The last chord is played for two bars.
gmriley1018 – nicely played! Clarity of the notes and timing sounds great. I think your next step should be to memorize it, that way you add one more song to your repertoire.
jhooddelsigs – Great job, I dig it with the thumb approach.
Thanks to all who participated in this months challenge! I’ll be announcing the winner tomorrow, as we are enjoying a couple days off in the mountains ๐
Here’s a little jam from yesterday!
In the meantime, be sure to check out our August challenge, which is Hawaiian themed: https://rockclass101.com/august-2017-challenge
Lol Kay ๐ If you think this arrangement may be too hard for your current ability, try it anyway! Even if you don’t end up learning the whole song, you will get better in the process! Hope you have fun and good luck!๏ปฟ
And if you need help, I’m here for you ๐
YK (cyberloh), that was really really cool! Love the variations and great playing ๐
Margo, you rocked that U-Bass ๐
Lisa, I always say slow and steady wins the race ๐ you did very well, keep up the great work!
cbrashear – that was so good! I’m jealous I wish I was that good at that age, keep it up! And I loved the dog laugh, that was hilarious. My only suggestion for you is to go back and touch up the ending, with a little practice you’ll have it down. A truly great job! Love seeing younger members participate.
Hi Lisa, the upload limit is only 5 megabytes. The upload feature is more for sharing photos. In the last 3 challenges I have accepted videos from members and hosted it for them. This time around, Iโd like to ask everyone to please create a YouTube account to host your videos and share the video link on the forum.
Creating an account is easy and free ๐ here is the link to create an account: https://www.youtube.com/create_channel
th1234 – Great job ๐ Couple suggestions: Try to ease up on the strum attack. A lighter strum will produce a sweeter/softer tone. Also, tighten up the ending a bit and you’ll be rock-n and rolling!
Excellent playing Margo! My only suggestion for you is to keep your fingers curved at the first knuckle when you make the G chord.
That’s awesome that you bought one ๐ Stephen, myself, and a couple friends are headed up to the cabins tomorrow for a couple days in the mountains. I think this is our 8th annual trip, crazy how time flys! We’ll be working on devising the U-Bass lesson schedule when we’re up there. So hang tight on Canon for now.
I can tell you that the first two U-Bass lessons will be for our concept lesson series. The first one will be a rock tune in the style of the Rolling Stones and the second will be a Bossa Nova style tune. Both of these lessons will also feature drum tracks. The Bossa Nova one has an awesome Latin Groove feel, I’m really pumped for that one to come out ๐
Awesome job Rickey! Did you just start playing in January?
I’ve got a few tips for you ๐ First, great job memorizing the tune. You’ve established a great foundation. So one of the things that you want to work on is getting the piece to flow a little smoother. So this comes down to timing. A great way to approach learning and practicing is by breaking it into sections.
So for example the Riff is 4 bars in length and each bar contains the same rhythm: Eighth notes. Practice one bar at a time, when you can play it cleanly and perfectly in time, try the second bar. When you can do that cleanly and perfectly in time, try bars 1 through 2. When you can do that cleanly and perfectly in time, do bar 3 , then 4, then 3-4, then 1-4.
Continue throughout the rest of the piece with the same approach. Also, when you’re strumming the chords, you want to either mute the 4th string or target your strum to only hit strings 3 through 1. Scroll back in this forum post and check out the advice I left for another member about using the thumb to mute the 4th string. Overall you’re doing a great job, keep it up!
I’m going to lump Kay and James together. I think you guys did an excellent job! It sounds like with just a little bit more practice you’ll have it down perfectly ๐ One thing I do want to point out Kay: If you ever mess up in a performance (in regards to the second to last note) keep going. In other words, don’t stop the performance and try to catch that note to correct it. I love the analogy of thinking of your performance as if it was with a band. Would the band stop and wait for you if you missed a note or a section? Nope, they would keep going ๐
Great job Eliza! I do have one suggestion for you. Watch out for pulling the string down when playing the chords or single notes. This causes the note to go a little bit sharp. We always want to keep the string completely straight. Keep up the great work!
Hi Will, so this question is in regards to the interval lesson. The diagram you are looking at is simply showing you the distance between the 8 (counting the root, twice) notes of the major scale. I labeled them on alternate strings to help visually represent the distance on the staff (standard notation) and tablature.
C to D is not shown stacked, because they are on the same string; And the closest D would have been the 5th fret of string 1, which would have been an octave further. The distance would be the same if you played it all along the third string.
Further along in the course, you will learn multiple positions for playing the C major scale.