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Hey @kngrieve – nice to see you here – sounding good!
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Welcome, @granny, from one granny to another! Sounds to me like you’re already learning very well.
This was the most challenging – and frustrating – challenge I’ve faced so far. It looked like an innocuous take on an old folk song-turned-popular tv lead-in, but all the permutations of second-fret barring were a bit much. And I must have missed the part about picking with just the thumb. So here’s my best effort so far. Lovely arrangement, Andrew, and thanks for the instruction, Matt.
Loving hearing everyone’s submissions this month. To the three who played Spanish Days – @marianne, @shmu88 (in three parts, no less), and @brettboy: I bow down in complete admiration! The fingering and speed are so crazy, and you nailed it.
You may recall that I had more or less given up on The Skye Boat Song because of difficulties getting the Bm chord that pops up so annoyingly throughout, but after encouragement from @otzepeng (complete with pics – thanks – but the last joint of my ring finger wants to head off in another direction, so I’m making the chord work with my pinky instead) and after seeing @planetfink play through it despite arthritis, I decided it wouldn’t be in the spirit of rockclass101 to give up. So I’m soldiering on and will post something soon (and it has to be soon).
Welcome to our new members, @uketime, @capurvis, @turbopstros. You’ll find this group is so very supportive, and the online instruction, with so many options available, is superb. I feel so much gratitude to Andrew and crew every time I sit down with one of their lessons or songs.
Oh, another gorgeous uke to dream about! I’ve been working on Skye Boat Song, but my knobbly index finger doesn’t want to bend enough the wrong way to consistently play the three-string bar chord, so I think I’ll switch to one of the etudes. Hearing the lovely melody of the One-Finger Etude so nicely played by @heike_uke and @malku2603 has convinced me to go with that instead.
@leihali: Wow! I’m glad you did post your singing – you have a beautiful voice, and this was a lovely rendition of a beautiful song.
Oh, @The_Bumble_Bard, I’m so sorry to hear you’re facing some serious challenges now, and all I can do is wish you strength and hope that it’s all resolved quickly. Know that you’re getting many long-distance hugs of support from your friends on this forum, and take care, my dear.
Winter Glass is going to be one of my favourites that I’ll play often – thanks for another beautiful piece, Andrew. And well done to those who took on I Fall in Love Too Easily this month – you all did justice to this languid, smooth song, which is now going on my I-want-to-work-on-this-one-someday list. (Always impressed with your ensemble, @katazumiri!)
Here’s my entry for this month. Please exclude my name from the draw.
@malku2603 – I like your regular updates as you become more comfortable with each new piece over the weeks, showing us how regular practice really makes a difference. You’ve got this one now: the last few bars are almost the same as the first, which you’ve already nailed. Happy birthday tomorrow!
All you early posters are so inspiring! @marianne, @otzepeng, and @abster (good to see you back!) did so beautifully on the piece my fingers are still struggling with; @misterbones – OMG! I could listen to that all day! @The_
bumble_Bard: I hope your neighbour appreciates your talent, and I also hope you’ve made it through the storm okay.I’m with @nat_uke now: time to get serious!
Congratulations @lhamilton! That’s a snappy-lookin’ uke, and we’ll look forward to hearing it.
And @mysticrick, thanks for showing us how your new beauty sounds. It sounds great!
Everyone’s submissions were great this month. I so enjoyed the various renditions of the beautiful arrangement of Tennessee Waltz, that timeless classic that was part of the sound background when I was a wee one (and I smiled at the canine(?) accompaniment to @lhamilton).
I’m glad Stephen warned us that it can be slow going to get the fingers used to the triple strum technique, because it was two weeks before I could get that strum going smoothly while the other hand was learning the fingering. This is still pretty choppy – something to work on.
Please exclude my name from this month’s draw.
@marianne – as always, wow!
@The_Bumble_Bard: You must have spent so much time on that video, syncing everything – thanks for putting the tabs together for us.
@leb397: Lucky grandbaby, lucky grandma! And yet you had time to put together an impressive rendition of yet another song I’m going to put on my one-day list.Everyone is sounding so good this month!
This was interesting, taking a little riff all the way through to a finished song, such as it is – I’ve always had great appreciation for those who compose their own music, and now the admiration is even greater! I was challenged by someone (that would be my hubby) to write lyrics about fog, so of course I had to try. But I found it difficult to sing at the same time as concentrating on the fingering, so I added the singing at the end, with a simpler version of the tune along with a photo montage of what my world looks like at this time of year.
@The_Bumble_Bard: Same here. I often make up little tunes to go with what’s happening around me, and I’ve started recording them so I don’t lose them. I have to compose by ear because of an odd little neurological tic (once-perfect pitch that has shifted by a minor third, something that happens with age, apparently), which means I can no longer read notes on the page (and I can no longer play on a keyboard) because my brain wants to hear something different from what the notes actually are. So I write in the tabs according to what the frets sound like to me and I write in the notes as I’m “hearing” them, but if I wanted to write the notes as they actually are (in proper notation), I’d have to go through the laborious process of transposing each one down a minor third. I don’t know if that makes any sense, but it’s a good little challenge for me (who always found music easy).