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@dianna, that’s awesome! Congrats on almost a year of challenges. Sigh, yes, that has been one of the most challenging things for me, as well, is working on my fear of being on camera and playing on camera, but I feel like I’ve come a long way with that, even though it’s still a work in progress. Yes, that’s what’s so neat to see is how each person here overcomes their own personal challenges within these musical challenges. 😅 Challenges!
As far as memorizing songs, for me, I don’t try to keep every song I learn in memory, but for the ones I do want to remember I keep them in my “rotation” of songs that I play almost every day, or at least every time I play. I do also have a list of all the songs I know by heart that I can reference but I personally only have… maybe ten songs memorized. Not many.
There should be a ukulele anxiety thread where everyone can vent about their various struggles like these. 😉😅
@katazumiri, heck to the yes! That was amazing! You shredded that swan… lake.
@leb397, thank you so much! I might cry from encouragement from you and @gi_gi_ and also @Andrew and others who are so supportive here. I look forward to seeing everyone’s entries in these challenges, too! 🙂Beautiful! Someone has the voice of an angel and it’s her. 😅 Thank you for sharing that, @camper! 😊
@gi_gi_ thank you so much, friend! 😊Sometimes I do feel more confident with certain challenges, but even though this one is classical-themed, which I am pretty familiar with, the techniques and the songs are unfamiliar (mostly). It’s good to know I’m not alone in feeling that way. You’re right. Maybe I should just give it a go before getting all anxious but, well, that’s just my brain. 😅 I’m trying to work on that though. But thank you! You’re right that these challenges are all about overcoming and growing which everyone pretty much always does. I haven’t cried yet though so that’s progress! 😉😅
@jbmills07 that was lovely! Lovel-ily played. 😊
Not sure what song I’ll go with myself. Honestly I’m feeling a little overwhelmed and intimidated by the course, more than I expected. Hopefully I can get passed that and learn one of these in time for this challenge, because one of my sub-goals this year is to join in on every monthly challenge. We’ll see what happens. 😳😅
@robinboyd, that would be lovely if you gave “Stars” a go at some point!
I just see one problem with your take with the guitarlele: It’s only the chorus. 😉😅…😭
@surferjay, hmmm, not sure I care for that very much! I am a lady, but I’m not “the ladies.” Nope, I reject that! 😉😂
You not wrong though on one level. He’s just as good now as he was back then. I need to look that up, @robinboyd.
Have you ever sung “Stars” from Les Miserables, Robin? I feel like that would also suit your voice quite well. Literally taking requests now… 😅
@Andrew, same! I love the original, and the music video for it, just a classic, and especially A-ha’s slower version, but I love a cover like this–so good. I have seen the faster version arranged for the uke, but not the slower one as much. Seems to be pretty popular right now with this cover from The Last of Us being out and all………… 😉😂
@jgillard, ha, yes, that’s the hardest part of learning any song is trying to get it perfectly smooth. At the same time, some amount of hesitation can be good. No one wants a perfectly mechanical performance. But also, at some point you have to start forgiving your human imperfections. 😅
@gi_gi_ ha I know what you mean. I get these songs stuck in my head real’ bad’. 😅 That’s awesome that you learned two. I wanted to as well but I thought it’d be better to focus my energy into getting one as good as it could be even though they’re short. It takes me a while to get any song smooth.
@robinboyd, that was so awesome! You sing with such feeling and have such a rich and unique voice–you captured the spirit of this song so beautifully. Thank you for sharing! And glad your poor hand is doing better. 😅
Side note, the slow version of this song pretty much always instantly makes me tear up so that may have happened. I’m ridiculous. 😂😅
@gi_gi_ haha of course all of that would happen. It’s the universe telling me I shouldn’t be doing such things. 😉😂
Both your riffs in this month’s challenge were awesome, by the way! I like how we use these threads to comment on things going on in the challenges. 😅
@jgillard, that was awesome! I love RC101’s version of that song and you played it beautifully! 😊
@surferjay, thank you kindly, my friend! 😊 Ha, that would be beyond amazing, but I dare not truly dream such things.
Hahahaha!! Thank you! 😂 Part of why I did that was to force myself to speak on camera because I’m trying to build up courage in that regard, and other regards. I’m trying to do things outside my comfort zone, man. 😅😉
