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Andrew! Sorry I typed your name wrong! I was thinking of my boss’s name Anthony and well anyway oops sorry 🙂
Hi Uke friends,
I just got home from two weeks in Paris and Nice. It was a wonderful (tho very hot) family vacation until our final day in Paris when I slipped one a wet stair and fell “weirdly and very hard” on my left wrist. I heard and felt a bone break and instantly experienced some of the worst pain I’ve ever experienced 🙁
I will not be able to work (I’m a line cook) or play Uke (or do many other things that require two hands, typing this right now, for example, is very tricky) for about 6 weeks (if I’m lucky). This development has me feeling very depressed. It’s just a stupid, humbling accident… but of course it could have been worse. For example, I’m very grateful it was: A. not my dominate hand, B. at the very end of our trip rather than the beginning, and C. that I wasn’t hurt any worse.
I do want to participate in this challenge and to keep my perfect attendance for all RC101 member challenges but I’m not sure how 🙁 Anthony is there a way I could post something using only my right hand that would satisfy the requirements of the challenge? Or should I just accept my sad fate and sit out this month (and probably next month too) – thought?
merci beaucoup, Brett
Andrew, after some soul searching I think its gotta be Kemp’s for me this month (although I did just post an IG story of me playing bars 16 to 19 of La Vie 🙂
@the_bumble_bard Absolutely a wonderful idea 🙂 It didn’t come down to that this month but I’m going to keep that in my back pocket!
@planetfink Awesome 🙂 Looking forward to hearing your performance!Aloha Teacher Andrew and RC101 Friends. I’ve already done Sakura, Red is the Rose and Cielito Lindo (all excellent arrangements!) for past challenges. Jasmine Flower is not really calling my name right now which leaves Kemp’s and La Vie. Kemp’s seems a little more fun and the melody is appealing to me. In the past I’ve really enjoyed your other jigs and reels such as: St Anne’s, Morrisson’s and Smash the windows lessons. La Vie, on the other hand, seems like its might be a bit more challenging and has some beautiful chord voicings. I just can’t choose between the two anybody have any thoughts? 🙂
Oh no Bard! I’m so sorry to hear life has thrown you some horrible curve balls. Wishing you all good things going forward.
Aloha Uke Friends,
I have had a very busy month musically. An old friend just roped me into her bluegrass/americana band to play guitar at a bock party this summer (this will be just a temporary thing for me, as her usually guitar player is traveling during the gig so I’m happy to just be a substitute). I also have my own little neighborhood band “the Rainier Beach Allstars” and we’re getting ready for a couple fun little gigs in the coming months. In addition to those two things I’ve been quite obsessed with Hollowknight Silksong (IMO one of the best video games ever created) and I’ve actually been having a great time trying my hand at arranging some of the games iconic music for ukulele. This month I made an arrangement of “Bilewater theme!” If you want to hear it and the others please check out my YouTube shorts 🙂
All that being said I have to keep my perfect attendance record for RC101 monthly challenges and Brahm’s Lullaby was definitely the right choice for me this month. Such a pretty melody and a great Uke arrangement by Andrew and Angelo.
Hi Andrew, I’d like to learn Brahms Lullaby. I’d prefer to skip Mary and Twinkle but I’ll add them if you require it. Is that OK?
Aloha Ukulele Friends. I took on the Spanish Days Lead Part! It is definitely a finger-frenzy and I know I could use a bit more practice but I needed to get something up today as I won’t have another chance this month. I tried my best to sink up my video with RC101’s audio file but that is always super hard for me to get just right. (The pros must have all kinds of tools and secrets for this I never learned 🙂
Evan and Andrew—>Thanks for this great challenge!
Aloha Uke Family. I learned the Tennessee Waltz this much. Thanks Rc101 for another excellent challenge 🤓
Here’s my best take. (I know there’s a couple slight hiccups in the last bit of this performance but otherwise it turned out pretty groovy😅)
Ahoy Ukulele Friends. This month I played Rockclass101’s 3 levels of walking bass blues bass lines on my Bass. It was a good challenge and really made my brain work to rewrite the tab for the basses EADG tuning. Here’s the video:
P.S. I got tickets to see Taimane on Friday here in WA state 🙂 I’m sure it will be an amazing show!
Happy New Year Uke Friends 😀 Execution: my goal this month is to play the “3 levels of walking bass for low g Uke” (a piece I learned a few years ago) on my Ubass. Application: this challenge will involve transposing the piece to work with the bass’s tuning which for me will be good practice reading notation and ear training. Evaluation: after mastering the piece I’ll post a performance here on the forum.
Happy Holidays Ukulele Family! This month I learned Stephen’s excellent UBass Silent Night arrangement. Here’s me playing it with my buddy Ozias:
I just sent $25 to Ukulele Kids Club. Andrew, Thanks for organizing this fundraiser 😀