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@The_Bumble_Bard Aww your new friend is sooo damn cute! 💕😻 Everytime I see a cat, my life gets a bit better, haha. I hope we can see her in some of your videos! 😊
Hello!
Here is my updated version of House of the Rising Sun. I think I can hear the notes on the A string more clearly in the strumming section and I managed to use a four finger picking approach in the picking section, so I guess there is an improvement. 😊
I’ve been looking through my very first RC101 submissions and found House of the Rising Sun, which I submitted in November 2019.
Andrew suggested in his feedback to slow down the strumming sections and focus on transitioning to each chord while keeping the timing steady. I also want to accent the melody notes more. And maybe I manage to switch from a 3 finger picking approach to 4 fingers as suggested in the lesson. That will be quite a challenge for the muscle memory. 😅
I played through the arrangement a couple of times today and I am still struggling to get to the 12th fret in time in the strumming section. 😅 So I hope I can accomplish that in this challenge. 😊
Here is the recording from November 2019:
Hi all!
For the last two months I haven’t found much time to play ukulele… I wasn’t sure if I would be able to participate this month, but today I decided to participate last minute. 😅 I revisited Aura Lee because last time when it was part of a challenge I was on holiday and only had my travel soprano ukulele with me. So this time I played it on my tenor and went with all thumb picking because I like the soft sound 😊.
@Andrew Thank you so much! Here is the original recording with my smartphone and I think the melody notes are more audible in that version actually. 😅
In my entry I used the pick up of the ukulele and it feels like the high notes get picked up differently than the low notes. I can adjust tone and volume on the uke itself, but I can’t hear any difference when turning the tone setting completely up or down. That’s a bit strange. I’ll keep experimenting with EQ and compression though!
@The_Bumble_Bard Thank you! 😊💕 Now that I’ve had a closer listen to the smartphone version, I think it actually sounds a bit better. 😅 I like the audio effects on the pick up version a lot though, so I’ll try to experiment more in the future. 😊
When listening to your entry, I was smiling constantly because of that (emotional support?) reindeer penguin 😊😅 (I love plushies so much, no matter how much older I get, haha 😂). I was sick at the time, lying in bed, and it just brightened up my day! And the clawhammer version was great too, you always come up with so much creativity. ❤️I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Hi everyone!
I chose Feliz Navidad this month and really enjoyed learning this arrangement. 😊 The chorus section is quite challenging in comparison to the verse. I’m still struggeling a bit to get a loud sound out of the slides (especially measure 11 with the g chord shape).
This time I used a different recording setup again. 😅 I watched the Ableton tutorial from the recording guide and I was surprised how much of a difference the living room reverb and the acoustic compressor make. I was kinda overwhelmed with all the audio effects and which reverb to choose from that big list of in-built reverbs. 😅 I guess now I finally have a setup to work with. 😊 However, I am not completely satisfied with the result, mainly because of the low g string being way to loud and the a string being sooo quiet. I tried an equalizer, but reducing the lows makes it sound a bit flat… Anyways, time is up so I live with that version now. 😅@Andrew Thank you so much! I use the ukulele’s built in pickup and an external audio interface. I didn’t add a lot of effects in the recording program, I just amplified the higher frequencies (which amplified the string noise as well I guess) and added some noise reduction. I still have to learn how the effects affect the recording and how to combine them though. 😊
@The_Bumble_Bard Thank you so much! I enjoyed your clawhammer version of Etude no. 5. I like how you can achieve a completely different vibe with that technique. 😊 I love this etude too, it is so relaxing to me.I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Hello everyone!
What a fun challenge, I really like the variety this month!
After listening to all the etudes, I narrowed the list down to 5 etudes and chose no. 22, really beautiful. 😊 I enjoyed to hear the theory behind the tune, the lesson was great. I didn’t know that key change actually has the fancy name modulation. 😅
The etude was harder than I expected and I had more problems with string noise than usual…
So here is my best take.Looking forward to learning a new Christmas tune next month. 😊
@The_Bumble_Bard and @Andrew Thank you so much! 😊
Hello everyone!
So many great early entries!
As a big Zelda fan, learning the Kakariko Village theme was a no brainer! But I wanted it to be a solo chord melody, so I combined both parts. That was a lot of fun! It was actually quite easy because the base of chords and melody notes were already there. This time I recorded audio and video seperately again.
Oh, and I played it a bit slower than Matt’s version because of some tricky chord transitions.(Exclude me from the price drawing this month)
@Andrew Wow, thank you so much for the feedback!
@bibilele Thank you! Haha, yes, I thought I’d just be brave this time. 😊 Your performance was great too!
@The_Bumble_Bard Thank you so much! 😊💕 Next time I make sure to include a cat edition as well haha. 😂Hi all!
Another last minute post from Germany! I recorded today morning but then I visited my parents and did the video editing afterwards. 😅
I didn’t plan to participate in this month’s challenge as I don’t watch TV (or netflix, amazon series in general) and so I am not really familiar with the tunes (the arrangements are great, though!). The easiest of the arrangements requires singing and I am a bad singer… so I thought I just skip this challenge. But then I thought I could maybe play the melody on piano to dodge the singing part. So I figured out the melody and put the uke part and the piano part together. 😊 I am totally fine with this not counting as an entry. 😅
Edit: Okay so I decided I just go for it and post a video of me singing. 😅 I wasn’t happy with my recordings though because when I sing, it always sounds like I’m whispering or just talking (I guess because I don’t want to be heard and I am not loud enough). So I looked up some warm up excercises for singing and recorded again. I can actually hear a difference in my voice before and after the excercises. I kinda like the “lip roll” thing lol. My voice is still quiet (not to mention in pitch 😅) but well you can’t learn to sing in a day haha. 😂
@The_Bumble_Bard omg that was so funny! 🤣 It is especially funny to me because when I learn to sing and strum a new song (and I still need to get the strumming pattern into my muscle memory) I start by humming the lyrics or I meow them exactly like you did! 😂 The animation is so cute as well! Aaand I love cats so much. 💕
Hi all,
this month I chose the Travis Picking Etude – a simple and beautiful arrangement. 😊
The recording features my new low G ukulele from the February challenge! 😊 I love it soo much. 💕
(It’s still in that state where it gets out of tune very fast and it still smells like new haha 😅)I didn’t find the time for creating an original (maybe I have too many hobbies and not enough time 😅) and got sick (influenza) for one week as well…
Good job everyone who posted an original tune! 😊 I listened to all of them and I am impressed by the composing skills of this community.
