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Hey Everybody! Here is my entry for the January challenge – Dream a Little Dream. Love the challenges, the learning, and the community. Hate the camera! Good luck to all!
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Here is my entry for the October Challenge… Moon River. Congrats to all and good luck!
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Hello Everybody! Here is my entry, Loke Lani. This was tough, good thing I had a lot of extra time to practice, working from home and all isolated – Never would have gotten through it otherwise. I know it can be a lot better and still needs lots of practice, but this is where I am at the end of the month and I’m just thrilled that I got through it. Keep up the good work all, I love seeing all the posts and great performances! And good luck on the contest! As always, many many thanks to the RockClass101 crew!
Matt
Congrats to Anne Godfrey!!! And a huge thank you to Andrew, Stephen, Matt, and everyone at Rock Class 101 for making this challenge happen.
Here’s my entry for the March 2020 Member Challenge. Waltz in C (no.2). Thanks so much for having these! Good luck everyone!
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Learning this was a great way to get into the season. While it’s not perfect, I know, I believe these challenges are helping me make some serious progress.
This was take 26, day 3… so it really comes to about take 76, after about 25 takes things would just start falling apart.
And as always – Thanks to Andrew and everyone at Rockclass 101! It’s been a great year! I’ve learned so much.
Happy Holidays to all!
MattP.S. I made a contribution to the Ukulele Kids Club, email sent to Andrew with the amount for the tally. Thanks to Andrew and everyone for supporting it.
What you’re seeing is called a Line Separator [Unicode Character U+2028]. How it displays depends entirely on the font being used: If the font is compliant, the character displays as a space. Otherwise it displays as that [or possibly some other] symbol. It’s one of many invisible encoding characters included when content is copied from other sources… especially web sites. This character only shows up on Window machines where empty spaces may be present at the end of a line. That’s why it doesn’t show up on your phone. Commonly this happens when you copy and paste from a .pdf document that was opened using Mac Computer with Preview.
There are all sorts of solutions, some simple, some complicated. Some involve adding scripts to your CSS.
IMO, probably best to just ignore it.
Andrew – Thank you so much for the compliment and encouragement. Great advice, I’ve been practicing by memory without the sheet music or the on-screen tab viewer and am trying to introduce a little rubato! It’s added a whole new level of enjoyment to playing this song. I just get so focused on trying to play through it without losing my place and maintaining a consistent tempo. I need to learn to play using a metronome. Thanks again. Matt
Hello Everyone! Here is my entry for November’s Challenge – Can’t Help Falling In Love.
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Not near as clean or fluid as I wish. I clearly miss some notes and there’s a lot of buzzing going on, so please excuse the flaws. I’m just happy that I was able to get through the whole thing (after a gazillion takes). This was fun! Thanks to Andrew and AJ, and everyone on RC101. There’s so much talent on this site, thank you all for your inspiration!
Matt
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Happy Halloween everybody! This was a very difficult challenge for me. Not anywhere near where I would like for it to be, but this will have to do – TIME’S UP!.
I tried to record a video performing in my Halloween costume for the bonus, but it was a complete fail. I’ll post a clip next. Thanks to everyone!
My daughter lives in Alpharetta, GA – Just north of Atlanta. I plan to visit her soon and work in a trip to Uke Republic while I’m there! Looking forward to it, might buy myself something real nice!
Yep, time’s up! Here’s my Kemp’s Jig for the August 2019 Member Challenge. This was tough for me, but fun and beneficial. I really wish it were cleaner, smoother, and more fluid, but I hope that will come with time and practice. And, I apologize for all the cat hair on my shirt. Shouldn’t have petted Charlie before recording.
I’m a premium member, if that still counts for the bonus entry.
Thanks for the suggestion miztaken! I just ordered a set of Flurocarbon Low G Living Water strings from Uke Republic.
You are correct in the progression of size: Soprano, Concert, Tenor and Baritone.
Tenor has less frets than a Baritone, but should be the same number of frets as the Concert –
Concert: full length of 23 inches, scale length of 15 inches, and between 15-20 frets.
Tenor: full length of 26 inches, scale length of 17 inches, and between 15-20 frets.
Baritone: full length of 30 inches, scale length of 19 inches, and at least 19 frets.
I have noticed that different makes and models vary on where on the fretboard the neck meets the body.Tenors have longer necks than the concert, and the frets are spaced out more. I don’t know how difficult it is to bounce back and forth between sizes.
One of the big things to consider that I can see is that Baritone ukuleles are tuned DGBE, like the last 4 strings of an acoustic guitar, so unless I’m mistaken, the uke tutorials here on RockClass101 will not directly translate. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.
