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Totally Awesome Lisa!!!!
I swear you’re really good with percussive techniques. You didn’t look or sound tight or strained to me. (But i’m no expert) That was super smooth and sounded great!
@ukecandoit – Gotcha. No worries! I agree with going as slow as cold molasses when learning a song. Performing it just as slow was something I singularly needed to work on. (going faster.)
Some of my performance recordings are SO painfully slow! Slow became a comfort zone I needed to break out of. Andrew noticed & pointed that out for me in feedback because I had other stuff down okay enough. My timing is another thing I know needs work.
I wouldn’t object to being able to shred like Guthrie Govan or Chris Impellitteri someday on uke though lol! (Yep, I said it!) I AM an aging metal-head hippie-chick with a serious case of jazz denial and a love for “grade 9” classical guitar pieces, who has no concept of what’s really “easy,” 😂😂😁😉 after all.
Your socks analogy just made me laugh and cheered me up quite a bit! It’s awesome! 😁 I aspire to be a fine fur like Andrew and Evan etc. Someday too.
Right now i’m just a value pack of plain white Walmart tube socks. 😛 Maybe in a few years I will attain department store argyle sock status! 😉 A girl can dream! 😂
@rjin1952 – Any metronome or metronome app will work fine. I only have the body beat pulse and a cheap combo tuner/metronome.
The Body Beat Pulse from Peterson, shakes like a phone on vibrate to each beat. If you have a cell phone you can probably do the same thing this does, with a free app.
I don’t really recommend this part but this one is great at annoying my family too, because like a phone on vibrate, if it touches furniture or the floor while it’s on, you can hear it through the floor and walls like said phone on vibrate. (“MRR! MRR! MRR!” -but nonstop.)(Honestly, revenge was pretty sweet with this because it stops when you decide to stop it if you power it while it’s on. Family doesn’t leave their rotten cell phones buzzing away on tables or their beds while they sleep anymore. They understand why they drove me crazy for years now, which was a great bonus perk with the pulse for me.)
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Love the socks analogy! 😂 So good!
Yes good advice from Andrew. Started approaching my playing speed by going faster then I can, then slowing down. It seems to be helping. Even broke out the metronome the other day and found I can do that whole fretboard chromatic finger exercise at 230 bpm now, but not without any mistakes or missed notes yet. (180ish is my comfort zone for that) Big difference from 75 bpm I started at though!
Most are probably doing clawhammer but needed to ask
Anyone else finding themselves drifting into a 4 finger death grip on their left hand when they miss an artificial harmonic with their right hand?
Ouch, jeeze. I don’t even notice because it’s sort of gradual as I miss, I start mashing down harder until my hand starts hurting or my strength starts giving out.
Next bit of practice I get in today, I need to work on that. Haven’t gotten quite to the main song yet. Tapped harmonics is super hard for me, and muscle memory for spacing between hands is taking me time.
@lakeside339 -That’s awesome! Hope your banjolele is fun when you get it! & Hope you have a blast with the clawhammer coarse! 🙂Realized if no one can help here with the first question it says 3 weeks ago, no one can likely help with the second! LOL!
@Andrew -could you delete this thread so I can ask somewhere else please? 🙏💖 I really need help.(Proper internet etiquette not to ask the same question multiple places.)
If I add in the 7th to the above I should make sure to keep it a higher note than the rest of the triad right? (For basic key memorization purposes not possible inversions and whatever else happens when the notes are stirred up. I should keep the notes to build it in order to keep the 7th out of the basic triad order?)
Example: So the building blocks would be CEGB or 5(4),9(4),7(3),7(2) To keep it in the fretboard area I have (hopefully correctly) set above?
@cornishdpt I can’t answer your question but if it is, try looking up left handed banjo players who might play on right handed instruments. You might find someone developed a technique to get the job done, since the high drone string on banjo is not as long as the other 4 and can’t really be moved easily.
Perfect excuse to get a lefty or maybe have the nut turned around (or diy it) on a cheap uke.* Even if it just stays your ‘banjo’ in my opinion. Since the technique is so different you can treat the modified uke as a completely ‘new’ instrument maybe? (Just a thought anyway, if you’re determined to learn it, and it’s not possible to do backwards.)
*I think the bracing inside each “handed” instrument might be positioned differently to take the stress the different string tensions put on the body. (or something.. There’s extra bracing on guitar tops in the spot your strumming hand might contact the top from luthier videos. Those might be there for a million reasons, i’m just guessing.) If you do flip the nut on one, I would try it on a super cheap uke just in case it ends up ruining it somehow long term.
Thank you Andrew and Lisa. I’ll keep at it. I’m determined. ( @lisadmh bet you’re going to be awesome at clawhammer btw, you seem to have a natural knack for percussive techniques)
On the flip side the harmonics coarse for the challenge is fun btw, and thank you! 🙂 The plucking distance for them, is also exactly where I need to fret the strings to get notes off the fretboard. The spots seem to be the same so I can work two techniques this month in one shot.
Can’t wait to start hearing everyones entries. It’s really cool to see how everyone progresses month to month
@Andrew -Thank you, I’ll see what I can do. I was shooting for trying to play a warped “broken” feel in the 1st part with the slide downs. Supposed to sound like it was a music box or something running down. Not sure how to accomplish that.
Since that wasn’t supposed to be the entry not sure if the slide up to the steam organ circus part made it in offhand… I was trying to make it sound like the “tape”/record sped up there… When it’s not 100% humidity i’d like to re-record and see if I can get closer to what I was shooting for.
Recording fluff below, if you care. Otherwise not important.
That’s almost entirely just RAUM btw. I LOVE that reverb plugin with the mic! I need to stop using it or I’ll end up using it like the Franks Hot Sauce slogan. Greensleeves was default Airy and E19 was a tweaked down Airy setting. (I think, it was practice..) Same effects can be added as RAUM adds, but you need multiple, instead of just 1 that does it all in a cool way.
I used the tracks built in 3 position eq line thing you pull around in FL Studio under track 1 and 2 pre recording, to get rid of a little hiss and “parametric eq 2” post, to drop the #2 high freq to get the fans, and electric noise down a little more. Dropped a low one a bit to try and get rid of the woofy bass noise that shouldn’t be there but it’s diffuse.. I have no idea how to use the eq properly to nix all the hiss from the overly sensitive mic without squishing it really bad.
It took me almost a year and a half to figure out, but I finally got recording volume just by activating recording with channel 1 AND 2 at the same time…. (Yes, I’m THAT stupid. Sigh.) I had no idea that’s what the 2 channel interface meant. At least you can hear me now without cranking everything to 100. Thank you for adding 19 to the challenge though!
Question, although it’s unlikely I can do the clawhammer stuff for the challenge, I really wanted to learn this technique.
Chris says we can use the first finger or middle to hit the A string, and demos the claw position to knock on the uke. I can use my middle finger okay.
My first finger, finger joint doesn’t really bend into the knocking position anymore without pain unless I un-anchor my thumb. Do we need to use the first finger at all? Can I just ditch using it playing clawhammer and leave it relaxed and sticking out? Or should I claw up my hand less?
