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@mark1256 and @brettboy, both your videos are crazy good! For a split second I thought, “I could do a duet!” After seeing that, “yeah, nah.” 😅 So good!

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@amybeth, agreed! So good! I… I cried when I listened to it the first time. @surferjay inspired me to get a looper pedal thing (but I haven’t gotten it yet). Clearly my knowledge is also advanced. 😉😅 I’m sure you’ll do great! There’s so much great material on RC101. 😊

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Awww thank you kindly, @amybeth! There are other things I hope I can do with it other than make my performance slightly less clumsy. 😉😅

And welcome by the way! 😁

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@jbmills07, thank you kindly! ☺️

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Congrats, @nelsonlin2021!! Your playing is a beaut and you won a real beaut! 😁

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@robinboyd, thank you kindly! If you think you hear it, it’s probably what it is. 😉😅

@surferjay, thank you kindly, too! I did. I made up the melody while I was at work. Then I figured it how to play it on my uke later.

I’m obsessed with Robert Frost, like I said, so I have that poem memorized and just figured it how I would sing the words.

That said, I’m not good at singing, at all. 😂🥺

I have to figure out what the chord progression is. I know some of the chords but not all of them. Also I just wrote this song a week ago. I am bad at things. I only wanted to do the fun part which was making up a song.

Obviously, I’m really interested in feedback from @Andrew but I’m sure it’s crunch time with the monthly challenge being almost done. I would guess anyway.

Okay, that’s all. 😅😳

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@karenj, that was so lovely! 😁

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Okay, Steven Spielberg, I mean, @Mark65536… 😅

That was really amazing! I feel like that guide might be worth watching………. 😳

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Hehehe nice! I feel there must be a time that could be tolerable for everyone. I’m earmarking this idear for shizz. Let’s burden Andrew and co. with more ideas like this. 😉😂

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I replied, but my post disappeared. I think that happens with posts if you edit them too much. We were on a hot streak for that not happening for a minute … 😅😂🥺😭

I’ll just wait for Andrew to notice this time … 😂😳

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@surferjay, that would be so neat to try! Probably way more practical / realistic than an in person convention anyway. Another thing you could do with that is coordinate with other people and play two or three parts of a song live. Not sure if that would work though. That’s a cool idea though! ☺️

@robinboyd, thank you kindly for that! Andrew kindly changed my user name because I wanted it to be the same as on YouTube for the monthly live lessons.

Hehe I know what you mean! That’s why I’d be too scared right now to do things like that because I’d be afraid of wrecking my uke. I’m even scared of changing strings because I’ve snapped them before. I’m glad you guys brought up setup though, just another interesting layer to the uke world. 😉😅

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@robinboyd, thank you so much for that explanation! I definitely am going to have to look into that and read up on that more. You have done some of your own modifications to your uke?

@surferjay, thank you kindly for that suggestion! Now I may have to investigate some of my ukes to see where they stand in that way. I’m mostly curious what the difference might be. I guess I could take them in to the local guitar shop. They have many a uke there too. I just don’t know enough to be able to tell these things myself yet. 😅

I feel like we need to have an RC101 convention at some point. Such a lovely community here! I don’t know if that’s something that’s ever happened or if I’m crazy for suggesting that. Probably. 😅😳

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@robinboyd, that’s quite interesting indeed! I’m not sure that I have played on any uke that has been professionally set up. I’m guessing not. Next question: What is an action? 😅🥺

I mean, what you have there on your custom uke looks pretty nice! Some of setup is just smoothing the rough edges and such?

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@surferjay, I know exactly what you’re saying about the uke being in “C,” sigh. 😅 Again, the piano brain I have increased that confusion (as the lowest notes on a high G uke are on the C string (which is string 3 🥺)). It all seems random and out of order compared to a piano.

1. Ha, yes. I found this video one day that is pretty helpful in starting to see how the uke is laid out. Because I also struggled to know where the notes are. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3c5Gjb-URs

2. Ah okay. So I think we were on the same page there with the capo / tuning of the strings.

Now I’m thinking if you tuned just the E string up one half step and used a capo on the first string to make a D major tuning that may just make things more confusing? I’m probably just going to have to try this now. 😂

Ha, same. I always like to emphasize that I know literally nothing…

Sigh yes, very true. Kindness is what the world needs. And it’s much nicer to talk about ukes and cows than politics. 😅😳

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@robinboyd, you are correct! It was a many-layered confusion sandwich. 😅 I’ll get back to that topic…

Thank you for explaining so clearly pickups and setups! They seem like they go together but they don’t exactly, lol. I have a hundred more questions from that explanation though. Things like, can you have a pickup added to your uke, built-in or an attachment? I did know what that was I think, but didn’t know that’s what it was called. 😅🥺 Thank you!

And why is it necessary to setup a uke? Is it only necessary if they were made poorly to begin with?

I may have to look into both those things for sure. That’s why I like to emphasize that I don’t know anything yet. 😅 But thank you so much for that explanation!

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