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My Plan for improving for the January 2024 challenge
1) Execution – I will be working on Spanish Romance which I first tried to learn in the Love themed monthly challenge March of 2021. I always wanted to relearn that one and now is my chance! I find I am learning things a little faster than I did almost 3 years ago! I would hope so. I guess I am a budding intermediate. I plan on memorizing this song and applying Vibrato, Rubato and Dynamics that are taught for this song. I would really love to have this song in my “pocket” so to speak, one that I can perform for an open mic or for my family. I am NOT able to practice every day but I will do my best to set aside practice time as often as possible.
2) Application – I will first work on the “tricky bits” as Steven would say, such as the difficult chord transitions in the B section. I will work on memorizing by taking it 4 measures at a time and also get better at practicing with the Tab Viewer. When I have those bits in hand, I will work on the Dynamics, Vibrato and Rubato as appropriate in Spanish Romance.
3) Evaluation – I am just beginning to work on it but I watched my recording from March 2021 and it was terrible! I already can execute the A section better than in the past. Now to work on the “tricky bits”! I will post a few progress videos as I am able.
@andrew hi, I found one issue with the participants list- @planetfink is in the list twice, I mean two pairs of the name. Thanks
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“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
I couldn’t get away from the paper! I’m too sleep deprived 😩
I love learning this song but it was more challenging then I thought it would be.
Happy Holidays!
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I didn’t have much time this month but I gave it a go! I know nothing about Anime bu I loved this
piece! I watched the movie “My Neighbor Totoro” the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it!@Andrew – Thanks for the encouragement! I’m a slow learner, but at least I can see that I’m learning and improving! I am getting a bit better at practicing with the tab viewer too!😜 – MJ
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My version of The Haunted Uke –
I didn’t want to do this song because I did it last year and I wanted to challenge
myself with a harder song. So I started working on The Hourglass but didn’t have much
time to master it due to trips away with family who didn’t want to hear me dink around
on the Uke! (their loss 😜)
Soooo, YESTERDAY, I watched my video from last year and it was very BAD with the timing.
I started relearning Haunted Uke yesterday and I feel it is 90% better than last year!
I didn’t have time to add filters and extra Uke parts but I’m mostly very happy with 2 days
work on this song! Thanks for the lesson Andrew!Yes, that stonewashed Bamboo is so pretty! I am leaving on Sept.10th for cruise in Europe (YAY) so if I can get one of the songs done and in this week, I’d love to enter. I am bringing a ukulele with me but I won’t have the time to record or go online. I may do the minor Blues Jam but I am loving all the other songs as well. The Blues Rock Riff and Summer Nights, especially. But, sadly, I have NO TIME! Have fun and Uke On!!🤙🏼🤘🏻
-MJI love this song “Fields Of Gold” arranged by Matt Dahlberg! I only have one HiG Ukulele but it was perfect for this song. I plug it into and amp so it would be louder. But it is hot here in NorCal so there is background “shushing” noise from my fan!
this has been another busy hard month with not enough time to really get this down but I will keep working on it.
I almost had it all memorized but my brain disconnects when the recording starts. 😩
I start the song, get half way and then I restarted it. ugh!
@Andrew- I know you will tell me to practice with the tab viewer, but sometimes it is so hard to practice with it! But I’m trying…😩@Andrew – thanks for the tip and encouragement! That G5 was the hardest chord transition in that whole piece. – MJ
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I was only able to work on this over the last 2 weeks. Almost memorized 😜.
I never got past the slow version, practicing with the Tab Viewer at 60% speed.
After the first video, I attached an attempt to go faster but without the Tab Viewer- LOTS more mistakes! My brain and fingers were tired!
