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Wow, I get improvement points for this little ditty? 😀 Thanks Andrew.
Rickey, that’s a great verse two. Verse one is I wanna be a kitty cat. Because I really do.
Welcome Frédérica! Habe fun. Glad top see you joined the challenge.
Lol, your neighbors probably thank you for choosing uke.
Woo-hoo! Thanks Andrew. It’s easy to lose sight of progress when playing over and over and over again. I appreciate the positive feedback and am motivated by it.
Onward and upward.
I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
This is imperfect, but it’s representative of how I’m playing. I was hoping to really nail this one and make by teachers proud, but let’s be realistic.
Tweaks: I changed the strum pattern because under Andrew’s influence ☺ I’ve come to be bored of the island strum. It’s a simple substitution but I think it works. I also added a middle run of the tune which combines the picking and strumming versions, so three rounds.
The good: I actually have dynamics in here. Not sure how well the crappy mic picks it up, but there’s definite build. I rarely get dynamics in so this is good.
The bad: tough chord changes I can’t get smooth.
Critiques please. Help me find more bad so I can fix it. I love this tune and want to keep it up.
Rickey, you’re making great progress. Go back and listen to one of your early uploads and you’ll hear the progress. This is really good!
I have to record today. It won’t be what I wish, but hopefully I can get a take without disasters.
Ha, fun! That’d be a great song to get arranged.
Tangents like that are exactly how I write songs. I’m doing something else, and, hey, that sounds interesting. What can I do with that? And bang, I’m into guitar pro trying to work out my own little ditty and add to it and build upon it, the original task forgotten.
Ahh, I just tried recording Sound of Silence about 40 times and I can’t get even a remotely clean take. I have dreams of really nailing this one and making my teachers proud… Maybe next weekend it’ll be shareable, but I’m starting to squirrel to other songs. I need this one though!
@Pieching, welcome to the challenge! Great job!
I accidentally wrote a little song this morning using this technique. Like all my songs, it’s very basic. I was messing around with regular triplets, then put in a chord I liked (ok, fine, a chord my cat showed me, 8888), then found chords that go with it and moved around the neck.
Then I remembered this lesson and threw these triplets in! It makes it more difficult, but it add some spice to my silly messing around. I need to learn to speed these triplet picks up before I can share.
Thank you, Matt, for the technique!
Ah I missed it again! We had a long weekend so my brain was on Sunday.
Caught out offline. That was an interesting lesson. Thanks! Will work on it.
I’ve not had a problem. I have a tenor, purchased with high g, that I string to fluorocarbon low g with no problem.
I think at worst you take it to the shop and they spend a couple minutes widening the nut.
