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This month I tried the Game of Thrones theme. Definitely a challenge. I fiddled a bit with the ending — I practice on more than one ukulele and not all had frets as high as the score showed.
Linda
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Congratulations, @morrieuke1!
Linda
Thanks @leb397 ! My son watched Ghostbusters again and again and again from the time he was 3 — and when he wasn’t watching it, he was dressing up as a ghostbuster and hunting ghosts throughout the house.
Linda
I’ve done a bit of noodling on the uke. However it’s far easier for me to do on my celtic harp since it’s diatonic so all the notes I’d noodle with are all that are available in a particular key till I flip a lever to change things.
Linda
Forscore is lovely! I’ve stored my sheetmusic in it for years. It also syncs across devices. I work through the lessons with my apple pen and Forscore, marking up what will help me learn the piece and then print. Having Forscore means I have all my sheetmusic available everywhere I go. It also lets me categorize the pieces in a number of ways. So when I want to find a Christmas or a clawhammer piece, I just pick that category and it shows me what I have.
Linda
I still periodically have trouble with Soundslice dying while playing a loop on my iPad. It crashed actually tonight after working with it for a few minutes and I couldn’t get it back on either iPad. In one case, it just let out a single note. It’s not all that serious for me since I usually copy the piece I’m working on into Amazing Slowdowner. I’d prefer it didn’t freeze of course. I tried it with earbuds and that made no difference.
I like Soundslice very much for providing the sheetmusic for a piece and it never freezes while I’m doing that. I’m nearsighted and can’t read the numbers on the tablature pdfs provided with the lessons, so I set up Soundslice to have the tablature a bit bigger, bring it up into page view, then screengrab each page into an image which goes into the iPad photo area, and then select the photos and generate a single printable pdf which goes into my Forescore app.
Linda
Thanks, @Stephen! I’m finding the U-Bass fascinating. The circle of fifths built into the tuning so beautifully! I bought a Journeyman Acoustic-Electric U-Bass and a small bass amp and love the tone. I’d always been curious about bass playing and how it was done. I’m working through Sokolow’s Bass Ukulele Method at the moment and applying what I’m learning to accompanying simple music soundtracks in various keys that I have.
Linda
Thanks, Stephen! It’s a lovely piece and I’ll keep with it. I probably didn’t spend as much time with it as I should have this month — a U-bass arrived early in the month, and I’m having fun getting to know it a bit.
Linda
Here is how it works. The second strap I don’t force around the strap pin at the top of the body since two straps are usually too much for the pin. Instead I use a bit of cording below the first strap attached to the head pin.
Linda
@The_Bumble_Bard, I did a bit of looking through the Internet about straps for guitars and ukuleles and what might work best for females since we’re built differently from guys and often have trouble with holding stringed instruments securely and comfortably.Based on what I found, I’ve double-strapped some of my ukes, attaching one strap from the headstock to the end of the body, and one from the bottom to the top of the body. I attach the two straps loosely together using bits of cord to prevent them tangling. I’ve found this arrangement works well for my Flight electric uke.
Linda
