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Here’s my version of Dream a little dream of me — I really liked Matt’s lesson and learning this song. You can hear a little where my memory fails me but I like the song enough to keep working on it. I love the youtube record of these challenges. I joined RC101 shortly after I started playing and it’s fun to hear the difference in the posts and listening to the better students gives me something to go for…
Jerry
Andrew – thanks! I’m still at the stage where I’m focused on remembering the next notes and getting them out and I think I totally missed the 1/16ths and the change in rhythm. I’m amazed at how you pick up so many things on everyone’s videos (where they just sound good to me LOL).
I did work on the chord melody of Greensleeves during February. Here’s a recording. I’m trying some new strings for low G with wound G and C strings — I apologize for the twanging and scraping. It was fun trying to voice chords keeping the melody on the top and using more of the low G string.
Jerry
Ok Sprintingyogatini and Andrew- I figured it out. Your tech guy was sort of right — my iPad doesn’t have a silent switch. Volume goes up and down with side rockers. And I can hear videos and the sound slices that include videos (like the song lessons) so silent mode is clearly off. So what’s going on? In iOS12, there is a control center. There’s an icon that shows silent mode. Somehow, something on the web site or the sound slice, toggles the silent mode in the control center. With silent mode on, there’s no sound even when the volume is up. What’s odd, is that silent mode is being toggled without me doing it… when I go to a song lesson, silent mode is toggled off. When I go to a lesson w/o a video (like notes on the G string in the reading course), silent mode gets toggled on without me doing it. When I go back to a song lesson (like 12 bar blues with video/sound slice), silent mode gets toggled off without me doing it. I’ve gone back and forth and see this happen. So if I’m on the 4th string lesson, and I open up the control center, I can toggle it on manually and listen. If I leave, and come back, it gets toggled off somehow… There’s a bug somewhere… or there’s a ghost… but that’s the solution.
I have the same one. It’s interesting. I wasn’t really sure it was needed. I live in Ohio. We have central heat but no in house humidifier. After reading about the ‘need’ online, I decided to buy a cheap meter that shows humidity and temperature. It showed my house was 20-22% relative humidity. So I bought a hard case and the OH-18. In the case, the humidity went up to about 40%. One thing that I noticed was before the humidifier, if I ran my hand down the edge of the neck, I could feel the edges of the frets slightly poking out (and was surprised as it’s a pretty good ukulele). After a few days in the case, the neck was totally smooth so I guess it had shrunk in the dry house. The tuning changed more at first but then stabilized. So I guess this humidity thing is real!
Jerry
Hi all – I finally finsihed all of the string lessons in the music reading course and am trying to memorize the fretboard. It still seems very weird how notes hop around on the strings but are adjacent in music… I’m not great at memorizing music but Ode to Joy was pretty straight forward and I used a metronome to try and stay at the right speed. So here’s my contest entry but I may try to memorize and record Scarborough Fair or Greensleeves just as a challenge.
Jerry
Do you think this would justify a new iPad (along with a low G tenor ukulele as rockclass101 is going low g) with my wife? Clearly, I *need* newer stuff… Perhaps you could send her a note… you know, from my teacher…😀
Thanks for trying. Just to let you or your tech guy know, I went through the iPad sound and safari settings – no help. I moved the volume button up and down. I rebopted the iPad. I stood on one foot and looked right and left. No help. I tried using the chrome browser instead of safari. No help… but I did notice something. I went to the song lesson for Aura Lee. It has a video. If I started it with the setting on audio only it didn’t make noise. If I started it in the default way with video it worked, even if I then switched it to audio only. So it is something about a page that has no video. So the solution is clear – more videos 😀
Jerry
No – that’s not the case. You might point out to him that if the volume was muted, I wouldn’t be able to hear the tab player with the video, the videos, etc.
Literally, I try the tab player in the G string lesson of the music course – no sound. I click over the the blues song lesson, and it works. Both work on the computer.
I agree with sprintingyogini (I love that name – gstriph is just too boring) — it sometimes does work without problem. But it’s happening now and often enough that I’d ask.
And don’t be too hard on the tech guy. I had to explain to someone that a printer wouldn’t work until the power was switched on… 😉
Jerry
Andrew –
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll try those things.
I actually painfully memorized that piece (though certainly tenuously…) so I’m curious what you saw that made you think I was reading it – the choppy nature? I can actually play it pretty fluidly if I have the music in front of me. I can strum open chords pretty fluidly (or at least the timing and mistakes aren’t as obvious…)
I’m memorizing Yellow Bird – as you can see, I screw up in places. I always thought the buzzing was from hitting an adjacent string (not arching my fingers enough?).
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Andrew – I thought the ukulele charity was pretty cool and made a donation. Actually, if I ever got good enough, this looks like something I’d like to help with 😉
So here’s first Noel. Surprisingly hard to memorize given how easy it is. I know it needs work to be more fluid and played cleanly but time is a runnin’ out…
Happy holidays to all.
Jerry