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Love the duets guys! Very cool! Great playing Alissa, glad to see you back for this challenge 🙂 Great job Edward! Helpful tip: one melody is very high up and tricky to play, you can always sub it out as suggested in the helpful tips area of the lesson page.
Great playing guys! Carrie, no worries on anchoring, I know a lot of great players that prefer that way 🙂
Couple tips for Joey: I would highly recommend to sit up and adjust how you hold the ukulele, it will make playing much easier 🙂 Here is a great write up with some tips and pics from our beginner’s course. Also, I would suggest to slow down a little bit and watch your timing. Again, great job to all!
Welcome Bill 🙂 Personal preference is usually the answer I give, but a high G will get you that “traditional” uke sound. Chords are the same regardless of which you choose. I highly recommend a high G uke for our lessons.
Hey MT, no lesson from us yet, but there are some good lessons on YouTube for this technique: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=triplet+strum+ukulele
Hey Phil, timing is the hardest for me too. It’s almost a natural feeling to want to increase gradually in speed as you play. This is especially true for solo performances. It’s much easier to play in time along with a drummer (seeing as he/she has great timing, lol). A metronome is always your best friend, that’s my 2 cents 😉
Great job on Canon Emily, I enjoyed watching your performance 🙂 One helpful tip, when you are making chords watch out for applying too much pressure. If you notice at 1:19 you are pulling that major chords third string down, which will make it sound a bit sharp.
Wow, I am really impressed with everyone’s playing! James, you did very well! It’s tricky to play that last melody up the neck!
Great job Jess, I see you take after your dad 🙂 Keep up the good work, I wish I could play like that at 13!
Alain that was wonderful 🙂 fedindark and kentuckyfriedpenny, you guys did great too!
Hey Eljan, as according to the rules on page 1: You must perform the entire piece to receive an entry into the prize raffle.
Feel free to post a partial arrangement if that is all that you can play. I will be giving feedback on everyone’s post too 🙂
Hey Mark, I love your take on the A melody! Real cool vibe that I hear often in piano interpretations 🙂
Hey Phil, I thought you did extremely well! Timing and fluidity were excellent. Did you see the comment I gave to MT on page 4? Those tips should help you on that section. I’d be more specific, but I couldn’t see your finger choice for that section 😀 Let me know if you have questions.
Hey Gabriel, actually you can play In The Hall Of The Mountain King on a Soprano. In the helpful tips section (top of page) for that lesson, there is a note that says:
* Note: For Soprano ukulele players: Theme 3 and 4 expand past the 12th fret, but you can still play the entire song. Since we now know that the Themes repeat, you could play: Theme 1, 2, 1, 2, 5.
If your mom has questions about membership, please let her know that she can email me here 🙂 Looking forward to hearing your performance!
Great job Maria Teresa (andracass)! Question, did you have a metronome on in the background?
So, this Friday’s lesson will be a great one for you! It brings up some of the points I’m about to talk about with your performance. So def, make sure to watch it 🙂
Let’s talk about the B melody, bars 11-12. Here we have a C to a G7. In part 2 of the lesson video for Fur Elise, it highlights the best fingerings to use for those 2 chords. The chord diagram on the tab also lists these fingerings. I would highly recommend to use the fingerings laid out here, it will make the transitions from 1 chord to the next much easier. If you are new to barre chords, check out this lesson for help on proper left hand form.
If you jump to 5:27 in the part 2 lesson video, I suggest a way to practice C to G7. Give that way a shot after you get the fingering down. You can always put it into a timing too. For ex: play C for 1 bar, then G7 for 1 bar and loop this. Start slow and work it up to speed as you get the muscle memory down for each chord.
You did very well on the A melody, great job! I would just loop the harder bars of the B melody and check your fingering on some of the other sections in that melody. Let me know if you have any questions.