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Welcome back, @delugehound 🙂
Welcome, @gracme2! Glad to have you on-board 🙂
@richo_uke – You played it beautifully! Try practicing at a slower tempo to a click and gradually bringing it back up to the current tempo.
@brettboy – Wow the uke on the second take really gives it a haunting vibe. I dig it! Great playing on both takes, Brett!@june2020 – Bravo, June! This is one of your best performances to date! My only advice is to practice with a metronome. Work on one melody at a time. And focus on connecting each phrase while avoiding pauses in between.
@leb397 – That was awesome, Louisa! Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working! And TY for the kind words 🙂
@marianne – Wow! I can’t believe that’s only 3 days of practice. Phenomenal playing and your tone is fantastic! And totally cool on the fingering change!I’m gonna share your performance in our newsletter tomorrow 🙂
@marlongas – #3 was beautifully played!You aced the tempo, timing, and feel with the B melody in #12. Very impressive! The other 2 melodies were well played too. Love seeing you guys challenge yourselves with hard pieces. Keep up the great work, Carlos!
@mepasha – The picking pattern is a bit uncommon with this etude. Which adds to the challenging aspect of it, but also makes it fun to learn as it’s unique. You played it beautifully. Keep up the great work, Peter!@starry – My pleasure and it looks much better now 🙂
@jvchong – Beautiful playing! Great first post!
Couple tips. It looks like your right hand is a bit tight when fingerpicking. Try to loosen any tension. A relaxed picking hand improves dexterity.
When playing the F chord, try to not touch the bottom of the neck to your palm. Keep it in form 1.
As far as your embed question, take a look at the post above from @jgillard. He answered it 🙂
Welcome @pandansarianom and thank you so much for your support! I really appreciate it!
I’d recommend starting here. That page helps you figure out where to start with our lessons 🙂
Let me know if you have any questions on the lessons. Always happy to help!
@lhamilton – Great job, Linda! One tip for Melody B. Try to use more of a claw-shaped strum attack hitting the strings with the nails. This will help you go faster and be more accurate in the attack. Here’s a video showing how the technique mirrors strumming:
@smokealot – Good to see you back, Ulli! I especially loved the triplet picking. Great idea!
@k_ra11 – Beautifully played 👏
@misterbones – Excellent playing as always, Michael! 2 suggestions: Bar 2 seemed a bit fast to me. If you listen to how I play it, it’s very slow-rubato-y, which IMO adds more suspense before the melody kicks in in the next bar. It’s the same effect you achieved in 14 sec to 21 in your performance. I’d just do that again in bar 2.Watch out for rushing at 24 to 27 seconds.
@lisadmh – Beautiful playing Lisa with very tasteful adaptions!@starry – Playing sounds beautiful! As for your question, it looks like the motion when fingerpicking is coming from your wrist. Instead, the wrist should be more stationary while the fingers do the work. Try moving your hand back, down towards the soundhole (as shown here).
You’ll be able to make better contact when fingerpicking the strings there as the neck isn’t in the way. After that, try to minimize wrist motion when fingerpicking. Here’s a short video of me vamping on C. You can see the finger are doing most of the work:
@johanna2509 – Beautiful playing!
@deadbuggy – Thank you for the compliment, Sara! You played it so well! I loved it!
@jgillard – That rocked, Jeremy! I’m gonna share your performance in our newsletter tomorrow 🙂
@zongozongo – Excellent fingerpicking!
@rafaela – Another fantastic take! You’ve been acing them each month! Keep up the great work, Rafaela!
@annemarie – Timing sounds great! Excellent playing! I’d start boosting tempo by 5 to 10 bpm and gradually work it up to speed. Keep up the great work!Thumb placement depends on the context of the music you’re playing. Check out this lesson. It explains this in more detail and shows you a few forms that you can use.
Welcome, Alet! Glad to have you here!
I’d recommend starting here. It’ll help you plan a path for success 🙂
If you ever need help on the lessons, please don’t hesitate to ask.
@The_Bumble_Bard – In other words, you adapted it so well that it fooled me into thinking it was Chris’s arr. Great work!