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And here’s my Habanera. Now I understand why this is deemed advanced level. I never had to attempt nearly as many takes as this time to record just one minute of music, and still not completely happy with the result. So many subtleties, so many things to mess up, and it’s something different every time. The back and forth between triplet rhythm and dotted rhythm in the first part is just one of them, and probably the hardest nut to crack for me, especially as the triplet feels kind of counter-intuitive to me for some reason.
Anyway, here’s what I think is probably the best out of many, many attempts.
Also, I think I actually pulled a muscle in my back when I started practicing the stretch in the intro 🙂 But it was worth it, I can now do it effortlessly.I am a premium member.
Here’s my take on Let it be. Working on this right after A Fifth of Beethoven felt like a day at the spa. The one thing I noticed though is that while I found A Fifth of Beethoven surprisingly easy to memorize, I had a much harder time memorizing the Let it be arrangement, probably due to all those little variations in the recurring parts that are all so similar, but still different in every repeat.
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Of course it had to be A Fifth of Beethoven for me this month, as I’m always excited when I get a chance to play an arrangement with a full band backing track. And that’s also what poses the biggest challenge for me, as I’m not used to playing together with other intruments in time, so my main goal here was really to try and stay locked in with the band as much as possible. I did cheat a little by slowing down the tempo of the backing tack to 90%, that just made it easier for me to get into the groove without feeling rushed.
This worked for me: https://audiotrimmer.com/audio-speed-changer/
You can upload a soundfile, convert it to any speed you wish (without changing the pitch) and download the converted version.
I used it to create a 150% speed version of the backing track, as I thought at 100% it sounds a little bland. Just wait for my submission.
Nah, just kidding, I’m shooting for 90% right now. 100% is still just too much of a stretch for me.
@Shmu88 Yeah, I don’t think you (or anyone else for that matter) will do much better than that either, because that was absolutely perfect, so I don’t see how it would technically be possible to do any better.
Here’s my take on the Explorer, played on a budget low G tenor only used for emergencies such as rockclass101 challenges that call for low G, as I don’t really care much for the low G sound otherwise. But compositions such as this one might change my opinion. Eventually. Maybe.
It’s kind of funny to see how the fretboard is darkend from usage around the 7th to 10th fret, and nowhere else. That’s from Jailhouse Rock, the last Rockclass101 song I played that required low G, and the last time this uke has been played.@tonicm Unfortunately I’m not able to see your attachment, but if you’re referring to the 2xx3 in bar 5 and 6 of Ode to Joy, that’s neither a C chord nor an A minor chord, it’s an F chord. The full chord would be 2013, which is just another very common voicing of F major, in addition to the well knwon 2010. Since the middle two strings are not played, it’s shown as 2xx3 in the chord diagram, but if you wanted to play the full chord instead, it would be 2013, which is just stock F major, same as 2010.
The three notes of F major are F – A – C. When you play 2010, you play A – C – F – A. When you play 2013, you play A – C – F – C. The same three notes, just doubling the C instead of the A.
As the underlying harmony is F major, but the melody note is a C, the 2013 (or 2xx3) is the F major voicing of choice here.
All of this will be a lot clearer when you go through the music theory course.I’m not sure though if I would call the 0xx1 in the same bars F. To me that looks and sounds more like a C7. At least when I hum the melody and strum the full chords, a C7 works perfectly fine there.
Also the different parts in the tabulature are indicated as melodies A – B – C – D, while it really sounds and looks more like A – A – B – A to me.@seoulkim
Yes, your assumptions are correct. Infirmary is an old fashioned word for hospital, and St. James is the name of that hospital.
And yes, five foot two, eyes of blue pertains to a person of that height and eye color.@charles605 The time signature is missing, but from what’s written in the measure it appears to be 3/4 time. Also the key signature indicates G major (or E minor). The first quarter note is a double stop consisting of A and C. That’s E string 5th fret (ring finger) and A string 3rd fret (index finger), plucked simultaneously. Then a quarter pause. The third quarter is broken down into two eights, A and B. You need a low G in order to play this as written. It’s G string 2nd fret (index finger), followed by G string 4th fret (ring finger). The count is one (pluck E and A strings) – two (pause) – three (pluck G string) – and (pluck G string).
Tab should look somewhat like below. Hope this helps.3——–pause——x——x
5——–pause——x——x
x——–pause——x——x
x——–pause——2——4
Count: One Two Three andOne week into learning St. James Infirmary, an immortal classic I will most likely revisit for a lifetime to come, and learn something new every time I do.
I would love to see a continuation of the scales and modes explained live lessons. The first two lessons were excellent and laid the theoretical ground work by explaining what scales and modes are and how they are related. But that screams for a follow up that teaches how to apply this in real life. How do you find the right scales for any given chord porgression, and how do you use the scales to build a solo over the chord progression, etc. You could make a whole course out of this.
Also I like the idea about advanced percussion techniques a lot.
Finally, I loved the three band arrangements that came out this year (Jump, Jailhouse Rock, Motown Medley), and I’d love to see at least as many again next year. Learning and playing an intricate ukulele arrangement along with a backing track really is what takes your playing to the next level, besides being tons of fun.
