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Last day to download free if it’s something anyone is interested in, otherwise it’s $50 in the future.
It’s really valuable in my opinion to learn where at least the high G notes are on your fretboard and how to use them if you really prefer to play on Low G and don’t have two ukes strung high and low.
Been bumbling down that road myself. If I try tackling a high g arrangement, It’s extra work, and frustrating at times, but it’s been worth trying in my opinion.
Some arrangements translate easier than others btw, and i’ve noticed different degrees of playability challenges.
I started on simpler songs, but Andrew’s Stranger Things Theme arrangement plays with a LOT more crazy finger movement to get those high g notes on a Low G uke, then if it’s played on high g which it was written for. (Especially for the speed it’s supposed to be played at! I felt like I was trying to shred lol.) That particular arrangement used two different positions of the high g note on the fretboard though.
Anyway, good luck! Sorry about babbling 🙂
@mac1984 – Don’t feel stupid, You need digital audio workstation software like Ableton Live, FL Studio, or other brands that can use Vst plugins before you can use it. The Native Instruments software is just for their products.
Do you have a DAW yet? If so, which one? (And don’t bother reading the rest of this)
If not, only get software from legitimate company websites, but:
Ableton Live (Andrew’s recommended DAW in the recording course here) and many other DAWs, have free trials if you want to test some out.
FL Studio has an unlimited-time, free trial with some blocked features like saving your project. You still can make mp3’s of your ukulele playing using the trial if you have a way to record your uke. (See Andrew’s recording course for basic equipment and details if needed.)
Ableton Live is a 30 day fully functional trial I think? (I don’t know for sure now, you’d need to look it up.)
Sweetwater has a list of premium DAW software to start researching different brands if you wish too. Other large music dealers in other countries non-USA probably do too if you are not in the USA. Each brand has different tiers, from the basics to fully loaded with extras. Prices reflect how “loaded” they are, or if they’re intended for schools, pros, etc.
Don’t buy one though until you try some different ones out.
@slasher78 – Hi Diane! To link your entry put the share link on its own line.
Like this, if it were a link
The soundcloud or youtube video inbeds automatically in the post that way.
Good luck and welcome!
@Andrew – Thanks 🙂 I’ll work on it. Apologies for uploading a cringy version.
I send my friend a link when I record, and he was agreeing with me it was cringy. If we have internet i’ll repost. Still practicing it.
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@everyone – Any advice, videos people found, or whatever about adding in a second melody B? (And making it sound like it’s supposed to happen?)
Uploading in case something happens that stops me from recording like last month.. I may re-record on the Tiny Tenor if I get something worth reposting.
Supposedly Tarrega wrote Lagrima when he was on tour in Europe somewhere and was really missing home. I tried to play it to reflect that…
Featuring the new Yamaha GL-1 Guitalele. It’s set up, but still with the semi-rusty stock strings. It still sounds stuffy too. Hope it opens up!) It’s a 6 string Low G uke. I didn’t use the two extra strings obviously, but it sounds pretty good imo. I didn’t try muting the string drone from the unmuted strings. I was having enough of a time visualizing the fretboard without the extra strings.
Question, how do we go about adding in a second B melody to play it AABBA? (sounds awkward when I try to add in a second one)
Lots of string noise and played it slower then I wanted to, to minimize mistakes and flubs. Played it free time by remembering phrases. Seems like a common thing to do with this song on youtube…
Recording quality is awful, sorry. (Thank you for picking something by Tarrega btw. I really like a bunch of his songs.) This one really made me think about how to move my hand, and has a bunch of technical stuff I need to work on.
Lol! That was awesome Jina! You totally rocked the melodica. (Not surprising since you are a pianist, but the melodica was unexpected! It fit in so well lol) 😁
I Loved the tiny drums shot 😁👍
Great way to wake up todayThe luthier called me today. So excited! Getting the guitalele back, freshly set up tomorrow afternoon sometime! 🙂 I can’t wait to see how it plays with a lower action. Not sure if he is changing the strings. Friend said he’d get me a pack though, if he leaves the stock strings on.
Going to record where i’m at with Lagrima on it hopefully Sunday, (or tomorrow.)
I’m having a lot of difficulty making bars 15 & 16 sound musical still. Haven’t gotten B smooth yet, but it’s memorized early for once.
Need to revisit the lesson again and see where I went wrong.
@omaon4 – You would have laughed if you heard how I was pronouncing it! 😄 Thank you for the Tear translation. 👍
@robinboyd – I enjoyed the progress videos on Moon.———-
Working on Lagrima for the challenge. Need to check my fingerings against the lesson for bars 5 & 6. It took me a long while to figure out how to do that, but I don’t think it’s right still. I started by dropping that first joint to bar, which worked fine but probably isn’t great to do, then was working with that middle and pinky shape not remembering if we used it for that part too and worked something out with fingertips I thought might be it finally.
Having a problem with my pointer finger sticking straight up in this one like i’m signaling for something or saying “hold on” when it’s not being used. Having to focus a lot just to keep that stupid finger down in playing position or at least relaxed for some reason on this song so far.
I feel like people should be trying to toss rings on my finger to win a fish at a festival. :/
Okay. guessing this was the lost in space post.
This is highly embarrassing but I embrace my inner child lol!
This is super long but I get to the point eventually. Which doesn’t help you probably because i’m kinda doing the same as you. Basically it became babbling becky’s storytime like usual.
The first rock band I pleaded to my parents to buy me tapes of was Heart… I wasn’t allowed to listen to FM radio when I was little because of my older sister. I knew girls could sing in bands from the radio. It didn’t really occur to me they were also epic guitar players until I saw Nancy. ☺ I just loved the music and band though.
Tell me this video isn’t epic! I’m highly embarrassed but not ashamed to say I fantasized of what it would be like to be like her! She’s awesome!😁👍
And after you’re done laughing picturing me running around pretending I was Nancy or Anne as a kid, NO ONE can say they don’t have at least ONE influence like that! If anyone denies it they’re totally lying! 😄
Yeah Evan is really laid back playing! 😁 Remember he’s been playing like Jake since he’s pretty much been able to count how old he was on one hand. He’s also from a family of great musicians who can help him learn from and play with, which most of us don’t have the luxury of. He’s one of the special ones we look at and say “DANG!” 😉 He also has perfect pitch. Jealous of that!
Perfect pitch is something I wish I had since I think music in tones and most of the intervals are really hard for me to hear, seperate and properly ID still. It’s hard to play what you hear in your head if you’re thinking it wrong or can’t properly hear what someone is playing! I can’t even hum a low G off the top of my head and get it right. I can replay notes in my head from stuff I hear and remember, but I’m not thinking them correctly in a lot of cases.
I just tried to think really hard about what open low G sounded like, hum my open low G cold from memory without playing anything yet today and actually NAILED the note F on the guitalele a string lower…. Which is actually interesting and kind of cool I nailed ANY note dead on actually. Maybe my effort is starting to pay off… No cigar still, but I was dang close this time!👍 I didn’t really have a way to check lower off-notes before easily… Still proves I can’t nail a G though lol. Got sidetracked there for a minute and wrote a novel about it, sorry.
After a ton of babbling THE POINT! 😄
I have been trying to look at players I like and determine WHAT EXACTLY it is they have that I want or need to accomplish my own goals. Like why do I admire the player, and what am I noticing that they’re doing that i’d like to be able to do? Then I try to figure out what direction I need to go to start going there. (Since I just started, There’s so freaking much! Convinced Theory is the owners manual for music though imo. It makes fuzzy things clearer. Ear training because maybe i’m old school? I want to be able to play what I hear which is a freakishly high bar I probably won’t ever reach. Learning how to actually PLAY helps a ton lol! Andrew and the gang are helping with that. He’s a freakishly good teacher! And I can have a lesson at 3am if that’s when I want. Also been digging up info from all over the internet as you all see in some of my crazy posts that helped me understand junk. So i’m in the same boat as you except i’ve been told 2 different places now, I’m going about making sense of stuff very strangely. I really don’t know what’s actually wrong with me but it is why I always sucked at school things. (Again ty Andrew and the community here for putting up with me!)
Sadly in my case almost everything I want to do or play is stupidity difficult. The fun part is seeing how close I can get to where I want to be, and running around with my inner child screaming “Wheeeeee!” Like a kid in a candy store.
My avatar is a Jacobs Ladder flower I grew and photographed. It got ripped out by a family member. Thought it fitting for doing music since if music is the supreme thing at the top of a ladder I never will stop climbing those rungs and life seems to be all about putting all kinds of things on that ladder to make me fall off or stop me from going further. I may suck at music and playing, but i’m going to have it in my life. It’s fun, i’ve always loved and been highly passionate about it, and it makes me happy. If I can get good enough and muster enough nerve to play one song with my friend, or solo, for a bar full of extremely drunk people a couple years from now i’ll be happy. 😂 I’ll get there eventually hopefully.
I can do the riff with it. (And I am learning to bum-ba-de-da on the guitar side of it which is helpful. lol.) It’s tuned the same as a uke with an extra A & D string, so yeah, can do any low G thing or high g thing that can be done low G.
Action is so high and the stock strings are really annoying me. But yeah I like it. I just need to take it somewhere to get set up when I can.
Robin yours is nicer. This one kind of seems built to travel around with and not worry too much about. It’s built pretty solid..
Haven’t started the rest of the song yet, seems do-able for me if I take it slow.
I’ll toss up a quick recording
Nice Smokealot! It’s a handy thing to be able to do so your work won’t go un-rewarded. You can work harmonics into all sorts of places in tons of songs. 😁 Glad you stuck it out!
Loved everyone’s entry I missed! I got super sick for at least a week, lost track of time, fever was so high I even hallucinated. (Which was my only highlight of how I felt lol.) I have no idea what kind of cold this was but it lingers and makes it feel like I’ve been sick for a month.
Jealous of all the awesome clawhammering. And welcome Nathalie! 😊 Crossing my fingers I can get these harmonic chords down. (I know it’s not the end of the world if I don’t right away, just been trying so I want them to work lol)
@surfnrz – Even though it wasn’t technique specific surf, that was mighty fine thumb picking in the first video. Makes me wonder what else you play or if you’re just a wild thumbpicker. 🙂 I can see why you’d say you have a hard time keeping your thumb from going nuts lol. Mine definitely can’t move like that! Nice progress on the second video too. Looks like your thumb REALLY wants to go a-pickin’ in a couple spots but you controlled it really well!
@lakeside339 – A perfect joy getting older lol! I just hate these unexpected surprises that pop up when I think i’m fine. If I don’t plant my thumb correctly I can make the claw shape. Might be able to compensate enough both on thumb and pointer to actually do this. (Just not for the challenge this month. Need to take this one slow or i’ll hurt myself)