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Here are the rest of the folks on page 11.
rufio0 – Great playing, Ilija! Only thing I’d suggest is to work on the areas where you had little pauses and the outro – which is the trickiest part of this tune. But overall it was awesome, keep up the great work!
celia21 – Beautifully played! I loved listening to your performance. Keep up the great work!
sarahd – What a lovely performance, Sarah. Well done!
henri0 – Beautiful performance, Rhian! I’m so sorry to hear that you aren’t feeling well. I hope you feel better soon and thank you so much for the donation!
morrieuke1 – I would rock that sweater it looks awesome to me! Now I gotta see if they make one for RATT lol!
I gotta tell you, you’ve been knocking these last few challenges out of the park! Amazing job, keep up the great work Michael!
Here’s everyone on page 11 so far.
kidelozzi – Brilliant take, Steve! And your Kanile’a sounds incredible! You’re playing was excellent throughout. But there is one section that I would suggest altering. When you get to the chorus, the rhythms change a bit as it introduces half notes and quarter note rests. So watch out for that change in feel as it’s more drawn out.
Thank you so much for your generous donation!! 🙂
themccoys – You should definitely sing more, Emily! What a lovely take. Great job this month!
biancak – Beautiful playing! My only suggestion is to slow the tempo down a little bit. This is one of those songs that I think breathes better at a moderate pace.
stinyuke – I thought you played it beautifully! This song has such a great melody that it never feels like work to practice more 🙂
Thank you so much for the kind words and for your generous donation!
smudge – I actually really like the pace that you played it at. And the fills you through in, love them! I also have to say great job with the swing feel. Such a cheerful take, well done!
@patdrehu – Thank you so much for the donation! Please send me an email with the amount so I can update our tally 🙂
Here are the folks on page 10 we hadn’t gotten to yet.
rockster – Great playing, Rocco! And thank you for the kind words. I want you to try playing along with the tab player (in synthetic mode with the metronome on). Take 4 or 8 bar sections at a time and try to match your playing to it. The playback will act as a guide to help keep you locked in and strengthen your timing.
richard_siegert – Well done, Richard! One melody change: For the third bar, which plays out of A minor, you want to vamp on the E string, not the A string.
A couple times you messed up a little section and then restarted. Always play through your mistakes. Pretend like you’re performing with a band, if you mess up, they don’t stop, they keep going.
Now that you have your performance recorded, it’s always great to go back and note where you struggled. Because then you can target your practice in those areas.
ukealori – I loved your performance, Lori! And don’t worry about the nerves, it hits all of us when we hit record. I noticed there were a couple tricky chord transitions, so just target practice on those spots. But great job overall, keep up the good work!
We’ve SMASHED through our participation goal of 72 members! So I went ahead and made our donation of $500 to The UKC today 🙂
This means we’ve also SMASHED our fundraising goal and have now raised $2,540 for the charity! AMAZING!
Let’s set a new goal and go for $2,750!
P.S. The Kanile’a winner will be announced tomorrow at 12PM EST at the link below:
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).
@ukandrea – thank you so much for your generous donation, Andrea 🙂
Welcome, @miscmargaret! Happy to have you on-board 🙂
riley_ukulele – Looks like Steven missed your post on page 9. But I took and listen and have to say the rhythmic changes you added really made for a cool rendition on Steven’s take. Very creative, well done!
@ldarrow – Thank you so much for your generous donation, Linda 🙂@riley_ukulele – Can you upload it to YouTube? Our upload feature is for photos.
Here’s everyone on page 8.
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laurajax – Wonderfully played! Looks like you may have been reading wile playing, so my only suggestion is to memorize it so you can focus 100% on playing. But overall, well done!
bethany_guardiani – Love the pickup you added before the melody! Playing sounds great, well done this month! And thank you so much for the donation! Please send me an email with the amount so I can update our tally 🙂
bemarlie – Way to go, Marlie! Sounds awesome! My suggestion as you continue to practice is to play the piece at a slower tempo. This will help you keep the tempo consistent throughout. But great job overall! This is a toughy to play and you did well!
yukalele – Sounds great, David! You should def sing more 🙂
Check out meetup.com or ask folks on this facebook group if there’s a local uke club near you. Lot’s of cities have one, hopefully yours does too. (P.S. not sure if you meant uke club or an actual choir)
@ajk101 – Thank you so much for the donation! Please send me an email with the amount so I can update our tally 🙂
Here’s everyone on page 5 that I hadn’t gotten to yet.
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brettboy – Amazing feel as always, Brett! And great job on nailing those harmonics in the instrumental breakdown. Watch out for the 2nd bar in the instrumental breakdown. It starts with 2 quarter notes – very tricky change in the rhythm since it feels like everything is suppose to be an 8th.
Thank you so much for your generous donation!
tules14 – Here’s my feedback for you and thank you so much for your generous donation!
turkgoose – Brilliant performance! Keep up the great work 🙂
andyrose – Here’s my feedback for you and thank you so much for your generous donation!
joe150 – Love the ending, Joe! You did a great job on this tune! One tip: check out the video I left above for Andy. It’ll give you an idea on how you can sing/play that opening phrase to help get the timing/rhythm down a little tighter. Also, watch your tempo on this one. Try to go a little bit slower to let that melody shine 🙂
@mkstewart67 – Beautiful playing, Melissa! And thank you so much for your generous donation and kind words 🙂
The only critique I have is: A couple times you messed up a little section and then restarted. Always play through your mistakes. Pretend like you’re performing with a band, if you mess up, they don’t stop, they keep going.
Other than that, keep up the great work! You are rockin’!
@lbilkie – You should def sing more! You sing and play beautifully 🙂
Thank you so much for the donation! Please send me an email with the amount so I can update our tally 🙂