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This month, I went with the 12-Bar Jazz Blues – EP009 for the challenge. I’ve always dreamed of playing in a group setting, so this felt like a great step in that direction. The toughest part for me right now is staying in sync with the band—especially during solos. If I mess up and lose the beat, it’s hard to find my way back in. I’d really appreciate any feedback or tips!
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Here is my rendition of Prelude in C, which I first learned three years ago. Since then, my chord transitions and dexterity have improved significantly, and I can now play it closer to the original tempo. I welcome any feedback!
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I love the idea to rewind and look back on my uke learning journey. For this challenge, I’m going to try and improve on my performance of Prelude in C by J.S. Bach. My last recorded performance was April 2022, almost 3 years ago. I’m hoping I can improve on tricky chords transitions and difficult full barre chords and the overall finesse for this piece. Game on :))
Thank you very very much RockClass 🙏 I feel very lucky to win this month and it will be my first Holo Holo Kanile’a in my prize collection. My previous winnings had bodies made from bamboos or wood but never plastic. I cant wait to get my hands on it.
Drum rolls 🥁 the color I am going for is black as a new black 😂
Hello RC101. So many great entries this month. Here’s my rendition of Magic Ukulele Waltz. Appreciate any feedback. Thank you 🙏😊
@andrew @gi_gi I appreciate your kind words and encouragements.
Here’s my performance of Mr. Sandman, my super stretched goal this month and final application of tapping harmonics technique. Looking back, it’s amazing to see how the structured online courses and a passionate community support makes learning fun and interesting. I feel like I have achieved my goal this month. Now I am gonna take a breather to relax and catch up with all of the amazing entries submitted this month. Thank you Rockclass!
Glad to hear everyone making good progress on their goals this month. I finished my harmonics course (highly recommended!) last week and able to play the capstone piece. Now I’m on my stretch goal to learn Mr Sandman. It has taken me many days to be able to work the harmonics with the tapping technique but it sounds amazing when I manage to get it pop. I am now onto learning the last 16 bars of Mr Sandman. There are some tricky chord shapes to master. Hoping I will be able to achieve minimum level of fluency for my performance this month. Cheers!
This month I’m going to take advantage of the harmonics course provided by RC101. I’m new to this technique and have been wanting to learn this technique properly for a while. I aim to work through all exercises and etude provided in the learning modules no later than the third week of the month and this should provide a good foundation for me to tackle the capstone piece. I will evaluate my progress and performance at end of each week and post questions if I’m stuck. The goal is to post my performance of the capstone piece and if time allows, the stretch goal would be to get started on learning Mr Sandman.
@otzepeng your furry friend is super cute…loved the performance and his tambourine. What a star ❤️👏
@jbmills07 congrats on winning the second time!!!
@andrew thank you for your feedback! Can’t wait to to start the new year with Rockclass.Happy Holidays again everyone!!!
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Hello Rockclass. This month I enjoyed learning Christopher’s jazzified arrangement of It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. I struggled memorizing the entire piece and I couldn’t really play and sing at the same time so I enlisted a reluctant house elf to sing the performance for me. There was a section of unintended improv at the of the bridge because I was blanking out 🙂 Here’s my rendition and happy holidays!
p.s. I donated $20 to UKC.
@The_Bumble_Bard Thank you for your tip. I see what your are saying. Playing with feel and not thinking about it. The instrument and me need to become one! The challenge is sometimes I feel my uke don’t listen to me 😂 cheers!
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Happy Thanksgiving Rockclass! I enjoyed learning Fingerpicking Etude no.22 by Evan. It’s such a beautiful melody. I would like to use more dynamics in my play but it’s been very challenging to do. Appreciate any tip you have. Thank you!
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Game of Throne Theme was the song that drew me to Rock class platform at the first place when I started learning Ukulele many years ago. It was way over my skill level to play then. I’m so glad it’s come full circle and I’m finally able to play this song in this month’s challenge.
@andrew I forgot to mention I am a premium member in my last post.