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We BLEW AWAY our participation goal with 96 members participating this month! Big congrats to each and everyone of you! Stephen, Steven and I loved hearing everyone’s performances and you guys did SO well! 🙂
So without further ado, the winner of this month’s challenge is ** drumroll **
Our February Challenge is LIVE: https://rockclass101.com/february-2022-challenge
The theme is Strumming Songs and we’re giving away 2 PRIZES! Hope to see everyone in the challenge!
@shmu88 – Excellent job on getting the 4 techniques down and the melody! Well done 👏
@johanna2509 – Well played overall! With the ghost note, it sounds a little staccato-y at times. I think your right hand might be touching the G string in-between strums. Try to stay above the strings during the entire up/down motion so that each hit (strum or G) sustains without interruption.Low G is too pronounced in its volume and pitch to create the proper depth characteristic that high G gives.
@gi_gi_ – I’d recommend high G so you can take advantage of the ghost note strumming technique 🙂
@unlegendaryn00b – Keep an eye on the thread or you can click subscribe at the top to receive email notifications on new posts. But I’ll post the winner in this thread in the next few days 🙂
Friendly Reminder – The deadline for receiving feedback and an entry into the giveaway is tonight at 11:59 PM EST (check your local time zone).
Hi Nicolas, as far as finding the new Friday lessons, on the right hand of the screen (sidebar), you’ll see “Recent Lessons”, which will list the five newest lessons that I’ve posted. It looks like this:
FYI: It only shows up on the sidebar for lesson pages, not search pages like: “Ukulele Songs” or “Courses“.
@mkstewart67 – looks like your video is private. Could you set it to public?
@bonnns – Could you post a video playing hammer-ons? I’m happy to take a look and make sure your technique looks good 🙂
Hi Trace! Thanks for the kind words and glad to hear you are enjoying the lessons 🙂
You can play those exercises out of position 1. It would actually be a good workout for the pinky finger. But it def is easier to use index and ring than middle and pinky, hence position 2.
Here’s my thoughts on playing in different positions:
@malcolmh – Sounds great, Malcolm! Have you tried playing along with the tab player in synthetic mode? You can activate the metronome, slow it down to a speed that comfortable, and loop sections. Try 4 bars at a time. Tap your foot along to the click. When that feels good, try the next 4, then connect the 8.
It’s clear to me that you understand the rhythms you’re playing. We just want to smooth it out and keep it steady. The method above will help with that 🙂
@herbdrawsaline – That was a great performance! Glad you joined us in the monthly challenges, Herb! 🙂
So I’d suggest two things. First, keep doing what you’re doing – but break the song into sections. Try 4 or 8 bars at a time and focus on keeping the timing/tempo nice and steady.
Second, I want you to soften your thumb pluck/strum attack. Check out this video first and then this one. The first video explains the diff between soft vs loud attack and the second video talks about it as it relates to playing with the thumb.
@barbecueblack – Great job on the techniques! The one that I would work on is the split stroke. Try to get those melody notes on the A and G string to pop individually more. Also, try to keep the tempo steady throughout each section. Which is hard to do b/c we always play the easier techniques faster than the harder ones 🙂
@katazumiri – Bravo! Excellent take! You’re ready to start boosting tempo now. Start with a 5 or 10 bpm increase and take it from there. Keep up the great work!shmu88 – That rocked, Sam! Great feel and groove and I loved the taps. That was a nice touch! Well done this month 🙂