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@cinichol No, it’s from Paul Auster’s novel Timbuktu.
My request for 2021: jazz, jazz, jazz. I’m a big jazz fan, and it’s also my favorite thing to play on the ukulele. So I’d be interested in anything related to jazz. Courses on chords, chord progressions, comping, scales, improvisation, but most of all, rockklass101 style solo ukulele arrangements of jazz songs, and especially jazz standards from the great american songbook. I know there’s some stuff out there on ukulele jazz, but it’s not much, and certainly not in the rockclass101 quality.
The ukulele is actually a perfect jazz instrument in my opinion, especially when compared to the guitar. Whenever I watch a jazz guitarist play, I almost always notice two things. First, they tend to play relatively high up the neck much of the time (as the bass player usually takes care of the lower frequencies), and second, they’re almost always busy muting two or three strings, they hardly ever strum five or six strings at once. Might as well play ukulele, is what crosses my mind then.
General feedback: I couldn’t be happier with the content and quality of rockclass101. What appeals to me most is that the majority of the content consists of high quality song arrangements, and that you get to learn new techiques by actually learning songs. The best and most fun way to learn for me is by practicing songs, not techniques.
I have to admit I’m a devoted high G afficionado, it’s what defines the ukulele sound to me. Low G is too close to the guitar sound for my taste. So for me it’s definitely a plus that the majority of arrangements are for high G.I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Here’s my entry for the November challenge. I ended up playing it a little faster than I really would have liked to for this piece. I’m somewhat new to recording myself and for some strange reason find it difficult to play really well while recording myself, I end up making mistakes I usually don’t make when practicing. Hope this effect will wear off as I get more accustomed to the process. Anyway, I guess I just wanted to get it over with after a dozen or so takes, so I kept this speedthrough version as my best recorded attempt.
