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It’s amazing how much better I sound til I hit the record button LOL.. Here’s my take of Carol of the Bells – I really liked this arrangement.
Jerry
A great year – thank you. I love having all different topics and songs from different genres. I do like the low G as well and am happy to see a song a month. Perhaps more of the songs could be “G” neutral to make everyone happy? Matt Dahlberg’s arrangements seem to have moved that way.
I really liked the Out in the North concept with multiple levels of the same song. I’d love to see a lesson on a basic song and have the instructor teach how he might “dress it up” – extra notes, walk downs or fills, chord substitutions, better strumming, etc.
I also agree with the suggestion of getting Vasko from Ukulele Cheats as a guest instructor.
All in all, I’m really happy with the way things are going at RC101. Happy holidays, Jerry.
cauer2/chris: Thanks for the kind words – I clearly need to speed up and emphasize the triplet beat like you did – great job!
I may have overdone some of the trim (LOL) but it was my one chance to work with a luthier and I wanted to learn how to do everything (multilevel bindings, rosettes, inlays) before I tried to do this on my own. Thanks for your comments!
Jerry
Here’s what it sounds like. I’m playing Yia Yia’s Lullaby from Daniel Ward’s Melodic Meditation book. This was one take – I *never* do that for RC101…
I had 2 tenor ukes before building this one. One is a Ko’Aloha Opio made out of acacia and strung low G (Freemont soloist wound 4th and Worth clear strings). The other is an all mahoghany Pono strung high G with Martin strings. My new uke is strung like the Opio.
The new one is much louder than the Pono and a little louder than the Opio. The Opio has a much more mellow sound (my new one has essentially a spruce soundboard so I assume that’s a lot of the difference). I was surprised by the volume difference between my new one and the Pono — I don’t know if it is the wood type or something to do with the construction (different thickness of the wood). The bracings look about the same. The bracing is much different in the Opio – they’re known for their “unibody” brace. Anyway, here’s a short video to hear the difference if you’re curious. I tried to make strumming and picking as similar as I could. It’s done with my webcam mic so they should be equally affected by mic quality…
I decided to build mine a little different so I made it 12 frets to the soundboard… I found I missed the longer length. OTOH, the tapped harmonics are louder and easier…
Jerry
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I was working on 12th street rag but never got there so decided to learn Yankee Doodle.
Hope everyone is staying well.
Jerry
Andrew
Thanks for the video! I think I was too much into playing it like the lesson and not as much about making music… I’ll try and add that as well as trying to get to the third level. I like this song a lot.
Jerry
