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Robin, I’d love to see you on the guitarlele some time. That sounds cool! Post something in Showcase Your Playing when you have a song!
I wish I had the capacity to work on more than one song at a time. Alas, I’m still trying to clean up When I’m 64. I have a couple mediocre takes I could pick from to submit for the challenge, but I’m really not happy with it. I feel like I should be showing more progress after 11 months in RC101.
It probably doesn’t help that I switched to using my tenor after restringing from low G to high G. The span width difference is an added challenge I probably could have done without.
Hi, Anne. You might need to set your video to unlisted as opposed to private. The video doesn’t seem to be working…
Heads up for next month’s live lesson. I spoke with Matt yesterday and I asked him to make next month’s topic, “playing with finesse”. This is going to be a great one for everyone to check out because the focal point is: Not only playing the correct notes, but instead, focusing on how you play them.
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So many great tips! Thanks for the amazing lesson. I love these live sessions! The ability to interact real time is awesome.
Five out of six of my ukes came strung with Aquila (Nylgut or Super Nylgut) and of those five, two are low G (wound, which I didn’t care much for). Well, one of the low G strings randomly popped broken while the uke was still sleeping in its case one morning, so it gave me a really good excuse to go looking for a new low G set that wasn’t Aquila or wound.
Based on this thread and having seen Baz’s review on Got a Ukulele, I went to Ken’s site to purchase some of the Living Water strings to try. Gosh, after international shipping and foreign transaction fees, it came out to more than $12 (USD) a set. That’s more than I’ve ever paid for strings, so I hope I like them!
The sixth uke that doesn’t have Aquila is strung with Ko’olau Alohi (plain nylon). I’ve always liked them better in terms of sound and feel (strumming or plucked), so I’m hoping the fluorocarbons will be a nice change from Aquila.
I’ve been wanting to try Worth strings too, but they’re even more expensive than Living Water! 😲 But I just realized that they’re all double sets that I’ve been looking at and I don’t know if that’s the standard, but it explains the prices (average $15 USD per set). So I guess that’s not so bad.
There are so many choices I want to try next (Fremont, Martin, Oasis…).
Nathalie, I’m telling you, you’re the ukulele equivalent of the pied piper! Such a great groove to your playing. It totally captured the Ben E King vibe and your hard work shows!
So amaziiiiiiing.
Is this what you’re looking for, Eleanor?
I know zero things about Van Halen, so I’m going to take a super wild guess just to play along…
Jump
@hotmilktea – did you get your UT200?
I have serious uke envy for those with a Moon Bird. I’ll live vicariously through you. 😉
Congrats, Misty on your new uke. It looks and sounds fantastic!
@tessa84 – Writing “I am a premium member” is if you want double entries in the April/May/June challenges for the chance to win the Kanile’a. It normally isn’t required to state.