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@Andrew, thank you so much for your feedback! Step one for me: Get a metronome. 😁 That is probs the thing I have the most trouble with, is timing. Also, I’m realizing I have to get over the anxiety of hitting the “record” button.
This may be a dumb question, but even if my video has mistakes and such, and needs some improvements, does it still count as an entry in the contest? Also asking that for future reference, because I hope to continue joining in on these challenges! So much fun and such a great motivator for trying to learn and polish a complete song! Another thing I have trouble with.
Anyway, thank you!! 🙂
Hello everyone!
Here is my entry for this contest, my take on “Aura Lee.” I hope that it’s okay and that my approach is okay.
Just want to say that some of the entries so far are so amazing! So many talented people on this site. Thank you for sharing. 😊
This recording took about 200,000,000 tries–and even though this is the best one–there are still mistakes.
Thank you for listening!
Also, VERY excited to see that there is a lesson for this song on this site and other clawhammer songs and lessons! 😀 Definitely going to look at that. It seems like I know the song, but I’d say 1 times out of 10 it goes as well as this recording.
Sorry to double post, but that seemed relevant to say. 😀 So excited to dig into all the songs and lessons here!
@ldarrow, thank you kindly for that! That means something coming from someone who knows how to play an instrument well. I grew up playing piano, also a lot of classical music, but am relatively new to the uke, only 6 months or so. Hahahaha fiddle around! I see what you did there! 😀
@surferjay, thank you kindly!! 🙂@surferjay, oh, thank you! Maybe I will. Having looked around this site a bit more, and looked at a bunch of the lesson songs, including some of the originals, I am reminded how much of a newb I am. Hashtag, humility. 😂
@Andrew, that’s really amazing! I’ll definitely have to look through that thread! I felt like odds were you had done something like that in the past, a bit sad I missed it. Can I still submit an entry almost two years late? 😂 I really appreciate you replying, by the way! Thanks for taking the time. 🙂That makes perfect sense! It is a very lovely and beautiful arrangement; that definitely isn’t the reason I asked. I just am a manic human being who has trouble coloring inside the lines. 😂
All of the songs you have on the site are really beautiful and I look forward to learning them, especially the Rock & Blues one you just posted (though that will likely take me longer to learn than the time for the contest, but that’s okay), but I just wondered if you’ve ever had more open-ended, creative contests–because that is my favorite way to play songs on the uke, with total freedom to vary and explore as the wind takes me, on the strings ‘n’ wings of the uke-icorn-asus (ukulele + unicorn + Pegasus).
If you or anyone read all of that, I apologize…
Anyway, thanks for your reply! I look forward to exploring this site! 😀
Hahaha, why, thank you! I cordially accept that award! LOL!
Question for you: If you play the complete song for the most recent Member Challenge, say, Aura Lee, how much variation is allowed? Does it have to be the exact version from the site? Really I’m asking, how far off the rails can you go and have it still count as a legit entry?
Please forgive that rambling, perhaps foolish question… LOL.
