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Hi RC101!
I had so much fun learning and recording both melody and rhythm for the exquisite Valse Venezolano by Antonio Lauro. Thanks @Andrew for a beautiful duet arrangement!
The biggest challenge was bringing it up to a speed of 100% (so fast!!) as some parts were getting muddled, but here it is finally! First time experimenting with a side by side editing. Not as hard as I had anticipated.
Loving everyone’s submissions so far!
Thank you very much @wannabgood, @muzikmama, @The_Bumble_Bard, @leb397, @gi_gi_, @akukes73 for your lovely feedback! Everyone did wonderful this month!
And congratulations to @mysticrick and @ccwuke!Thanks @wannabegood and @Andrew!
So fun to see what everybody’s been up to!
This is my 2-week progress with Malagueña. I will not be able to post another video at the end of the month as I have a work trip but I will continue to finesse certain parts that need it.
For now, happy of where I am at in terms of the set goals 🙂This was a super fun experience, thanks @Andrew!
This month’s challenge is super fun – an opportunity for creative and constructive auto-analysis at any and every level! Thanks RC101!
1) Execution
I consider myself an intermediate player aspiring/pushing to become a seasoned/proficient intermediate player by continuing to work on expression and feel, especially in fingerpicking, which to me is the most telling sign that someone is at that more advanced level.I’ve also always been mesmerized by how cool flamenco and Spanish style picking/strumming is. Separately, I find it really impressive when I see/hear people doing harmonics successfully. It both looks and sounds cool.
This is all to say that I am interested in learning a new picking technique – the triplet picking technique and then applying it to something like Malagueña for this month’s challenge. Malagueña brings all of feel, Spanish style playing, and harmonics (if I take that route on a couple of instances) into one beautiful and addicting composition.
My plan is to start off by studying through Taimane’s video or Matt’s lessons on the Triplet picking technique (EP011). I will practice daily until I feel I have mastered it – where it feels natural vs something I have to constantly think about executing. In parallel, I will review Rasgueado and Picado, and continue to practice nailing/polishing my harmonics (right now I am at a hit-or-miss situation with the latter 😂).
2) Application:
When those are down, I will start learning Evan’s version of Malagueña, taught by Andrew. As the month goes, I will make sure that I am playing it with expression and feel.3) Evaluation:
The end goal: by the end of the January, I am comfortable playing it with all these parameters, by memory.
I will keep evaluating my progress week by week.Thank you @leb397! And lovely job memorizing the piece!
thank you @Andrew!
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I was torn between Merry-Go-Round of Life and Always With Me for this month. I chose the first at first but then upon starting to learn it on my baritone, I quickly realized that it was actually impossible to play on the baritone given the enormous stretches and the distances on the fret board 😀
Always With Me was a big challenge on the baritone too as it made section C much harder and I also had to take the liberty to rewrite/interpret some of the melody and harmony notes so that it works with the low G without ringing too far off from the actual tune. Not very satisfied with the take (Section C is obviously weaker) but it is what it is given the constraints I accepted to set.
Thanks @Andrew!
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Here is Into The Wild! what a beautiful composition @Andrew and lovely backing track @AJ!
Thanks @leb397! Your entry is lovely as well!
I picked up the uke in 2019. No prior guitar experience but I have played the piano and the violin 🙂Thank you very much @jeg143, @gi_gi_ and @The_Bumble_Bard!
@jeg143, yes it’s a Kanile’a Oha but baritone 🙂
@gi_gi_, I picked up the ukulele beginning of 2019! Thanks again! all the praise goes to this amazing Rock Class 101 family that provides all the tools and approaches to progress/advance if one really wants to get better. Thank you Rock Class 101 as always!Thanks @Andrew!
