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@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.
Missed my last two challenges and really happy to get back to the challenge again.
Here’s my performance on Mika’s arrangement of Mad World. Still a bit more practice needed. I can’t believe the entire song is based on 2 variations of just Fm and B flat chords to create this beautiful melody.
Happy Easter everyone.
I can relate to the countless NG takes. I had so many NGs my left wrist is now hurting and need to take break so as not to risk getting RSI. Something new for me this month is I recorded my performance sitting down. (I have always played/recorded standing up). It felt a bit weird at first but I soon enjoyed the extra lap support.
@gi_gi you played beautifully. You should see my outtakes lol
@leb397 my condolences to your loss. Very nice tribute to your mum. I chose the same song this month.
@The_Bumble_Bard enjoyed your performance this month. You have so much creativity and what a beautiful love story.I’m just glad there are 31 days this month compared to February. Even with the extra days, I still felt short on time. Initially I wanted to challenge myself to learn the triple picking technique but bailed half way as it was taking more effort and didn’t want to risk not finishing this month. I will have to learn this another time.
Below is my rendition of Red is the Rose.
Enjoyed watching everyone’s performance.
@planetfink beautifully played.Like @planetfink, I chose Fly Me to the Moon for my challenge this month. Love the percussive slaps used in this arrangement.
I’m already struggling with this month’s challenge 😅 I have been spending way too much time browsing the RC songs catalog and there are more than 10 songs I want to learn and I keep changing my mind. I guess “free for all” is not free after all 😂
Bravo!!! This is such a talented group. I’m in awe of everyone’s musicianship.
@TBB: haha. loved Mattxim which I heed closely now 🙂
@gigi: thanks for the words of encouragement. Your Summertime performance is out of this world !!
@andrew: thanks for your advice on the areas to work on. Having a mid-month progress report and check-in really helps. Here’s my performance at 70 BPM.@TBB, thank you so much that means lot to me 🙂 In the remaining month, I’m hoping to hone in and practice each of the rough sections with a much slower tempo to help improve my consistency and accuracy before doing another take. As Matt often says, slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
@mark1256 thanks for the words of encouragement. This piece is really challenging but I love the high energy aspects of this tune. I’m going to slow down to 60bpm and work on getting consistency.