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Happy May everyone! Well done @marianne, that was lovely!
I will most likely work on Tonight You Belong to Me, but we’ll see maybe I will try the lullabies with Brahams or that cute Lover’s March (but I only have a high G).
Cheers, Caryn
Morning all!
I’ve been trying to clean up the One Finger Etude so here is an update. I’m still struggling with the double pull-off, and consistent volume withe triplet strum. And a little with anchoring to keep a good hold of my uke as I move up and down the neck (lol). But I think this song is just so pretty.
Really nice to listen to the other submissions too. You all are inspiring me to keep at it.
Have a love weekend everyone.
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Really great to see the videos folks have shared so far! I also love the Skye Boat Song but I’m a little nervous about some of the chords so I worked on One Finger Etude, which is absolutely lovely to play. It’s not perfect here, but I’ve recorded so many videos because I didn’t like the faces I was making while concentrating on playing and this was the best take (LOL… where is the tutorial to work on less awkward faces in your videos while your concentrating and listening??).
It’s still early in the month so I will likely clean it up more, or I might my try hand with the Skye Boat Song too…
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Happy March all!
Here is my submission for this month. I worked on Matt’s beautiful Winter Glass and I’m sure I will keep practicing it. I haven’t played much since January, but I don’t want to let a little time away stop me and it was so encouraging to listen to everyone else’s submissions!
Hi all and Happy New Year!
I had to think about the details a bit, but really I want to work on my finger picking so here it goes:
1) Execution – I want to work on finger picking, specifically getting away from just using my thumb for all finger picking (so far I’ve let myself be a little lazy with this).
2) Application – I thought about this a lot last month because I wanted to play Away in a Manger but didn’t discipline myself to move away from thumb picking and then I came across that course on Fingerpicking Concepts, which seems like a great place to start. I’ll work through some of those lessons and pick a song by next week to focus on for the month… there is a section of Zombie by the Cranberries I can kinda stumble through thumb picking, but it feels a bit too advanced for me just yet. (But future me will enjoy it!)
3) Evaluation – I will record practices with my song each week to see how I’m progressing with expanding beyond my thumb picking and plan to share back one each week that I’m not entirely mortified with.
Cheers,
CarynCongrats to @mysticrick on your win!!
I had so much fun with this Dec challenge (a first for me!), that I convinced my sister to record a cute adaption of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” LOL. Cheers to all!
Happy Friday all!
Here is my attempt at Baby It’s Cold Outside:
It’s been a struggle to hold my rhythm while singing and playing at the same time but this is MUCH better then where I started the month. If I can figure out YouTube I’ll try to do that, but wanted to get a full recording up that I have now. I’ve been a long time background person, so I’m excited about joining you all for these now! One of my goals for 2026 is to do the challenge each month and I decided why not start now :).
Cheers,
CarynGreat job @cheun133! I’ve been hesitant to enter challenges because I’m not too comfortable on video, but you’re inspiring me to try SoundCloud!
And @malku2603 your video is great too!!
I’m putting this out into the universe: I will join this challenge this month. I’m working out whether I’d rather tackle signing and playing together with Baby, It’s Cold Outside, or try Away in a Manger.
