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Just wanted to say, the unsimplified ending on Greensleeves was tricky to get to sound smooth. Getting from the 2 fingers shape to the 3 finger Dm shape took a bunch of practice for me because of the quick timing right there! Even watching the performance, or the lesson. Nailing that change takes a good bit of agility. I ended up sustaining the note on 5 as long as possible so I could start moving my finger a tiny bit early to swap to the low G string. Still took/ is taking, a bunch of practice. It’s the trickiest part of the song for me, other than memorizing anything off paper.
Neat that you put in an alternative at the end of the video though, especially seeing the topic on the live lesson this month.👍
Roughly 3 hours and amazons lightning deal ends for 79.99$ on power director. (If anyone wants to save 20%)
Adobe looks like it has a trial for their video software. You might be able to do a project in it before it expires. I don’t know. Adobe works off subscription these days.
Blender is coming up as a video editor! If that’s true, Blender is REALLY awesome! It’s free but has a steep learning curve, it’s made for 3D animation. I used older versions till I burned my video card again. download from the main site though since its open source.
@johanna2509 – Congratulations on your 1 year and your new ukulele!! 👍 Nice playing on White Christmas!!
I mostly just stick with my tenor, it’s my main ukulele. The difference in fret size between my soprano and tenor is awkward for awhile, but it’s not bad once I get warmed up. For me, it took awhile to get my fingers reaching the larger frets. Once that happened, going smaller was not a problem.
Happy ukulele-birthday again!
@Andrew – I might try to get a little fancy on Greensleeves with some, probably poorly executed, add-on embellishments. Depends on how long it takes me to memorize. (just might try adding in some things I need to practice.)
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(Last month’s elvis song is recorded but having problems with the project file. Think I got dynamics in it hopefully.)Nice Jina! – Congratulations on finally getting it! Sounds great on Sweet Child! (I missed posting by the cutoff due to technical difficulties.)
I found this guy. He says there’s a volume and a tone knob per pickup. He also demonstrated how to set some sounds on an amp set to middle positions. Pretty neat.
The screws on the bridge are for setting intonation on the neck and action and stuff. You probably don’t need to mess with that. There’s a lot to it.
Joannetala -31 seconds in, your high note right there is tasty. 😁👍
(it sounds great to me. I like the way you hit it, and how it sounds in context. Super clean note, and you hung on it perfectly in my opinion.)
Not sure why i’m geeking out on a single note, but good job.
Looking forward to the new coarse in December. I’ll probably be working on that if it goes wild in Dec. (Can’t remember 100% but I think Andrew said it does.) and I’m continuing to figure out what I can of the St. Elsewhere Theme. (Eventually i’m going to need some help on that one.)
I really love the song Greensleeves though, so i’ll do that one most likely. I learned the uke underground version last Christmas, and need a high G to work more on Daniel Estrem’s ukulele arrangement,(and make it sound right. 😢) His is definitely really advanced but my absolute favorite i’ve ever heard on uke. Chock full of awesome techniques and time periods to practice in a song I love too.
Dan is worth checking out on youtube at least if you haven’t, he’s awesome! He just really doesn’t advertise himself on youtube like a lot of people do. Even if you only check out his ukulele pieces, he’s definitely awesome. (He plays lute and a variety of guitars too.)
BTW– At the time, Daniel Estrem, and John King were the first and only two classical guitar guys to publish all-ukulele records. (Fun fact 😁👍)
Sorry it got long again. Everyone knows I type novels.
Dang Brett! Nice job!
I’m eventually going to learn this but there is 0 chance for me to get it close to playable in a month at my current level of experience, let alone memorized. (I feel you with the “I did it” fist pump at the end. 😁👍)
Think it’s a high G in Stu’s video, but I only clicked for a few seconds. He usually only plays high G or banjo uke. I kind of got turkey in the straw from him, because I was hearing the ice cream truck blasting it.
In Can’t Help Falling in Love, is it ok if I substitute the chord you have as G(3) to use the g in the 7th fret on the C string too? (Offhand I have no idea what that turns it into name wise. I’m happy with G(3) for now.)
In measure 31 it sounds pretty cool to me, to play that G there, instead of the low G because of the higher notes he was wrapping it up with.
Offer is for anything btw. Not enough of us are asking each other for help, in my opinion.
Sucks to not be able to talk to anyone anymore 😕
Can’t edit, but it may help to try thinking of notes you’re trying to play as midi tones, rather than instruments? (Like old video games, or the tab player on synthetic mode)
Not sure what that one would be honestly. It might have to be a duet so someone can play the strumming while someone does the guitar part he’s playing in the video? You might be able to swing in strumming around the main part like I did with the x-files thing though? Since i’m having a beastly time with chords I have no idea if it could be a solo arrangement.
Below is based on my assumption everyone tries to figure out songs they like by figuring out the single note version.
Most of the iconic guitar part sounds like it’s single notes? If you have a device/browser that youtube can be slowed down on, it might be easier at 50% speed or whatever? In your case you’re lucky you can look at the guy playing the ukulele in a bunch of it too. The song doesn’t seem jazz based either which gives you another super advantage. (Nothing weird or overly complicated.) Biggest thing is writing down the bits you figure out as you go.
If you share tab as you go, I can help check to see if it sounds right to me.(best I can personally do) Might be able to help with more depending if you’re stuck and I can hear it. (If I can, but you already know I kinda suck lol.)
I got on figuring out St. Elsewhere (Grusin) when I saw the teaser for the new coarse. I’m stuck at a walk up at around 14 seconds in, that I’m having a tough time hearing correctly. (Think it’s just 3rds or something, but can’t hear the FIRST note it drops to, to start it. 😭 After I try something wrong, no note on the uke sounds right anymore.)
Anyway, offer is there. I can help if you want help if im capable.
Congratulations Joe! 😁 It does feel great!
I love the song Greensleeves btw, putting the melody on the low strings is interesting. I’ve got to look more into that, thank you Andrew. Awesome lesson. 👍
@Lisa – I agree, I always watch the whole lesson at least once. There’s always great additional information in them.
