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This is a little embarrassing. I actually wasn’t planning on posting yet, but once I get a song memorized I do a recording or two during practice, just to see where I am at. I liked how this one came out. I tried “mouth kazoo” for the first time (the embarrassing part) but it was fun and silly. Note to Andrew: please don’t use this one on social media. I don’t mind looking foolish in front of this lovely, supportive community but I prefer to keep it here.
I don’t know if this happens to anyone else, but when it gets to the end of the month and I hear all the the songs I didn’t work on, I now want to play them. At the end of last month I started working on Stand By Me. Today I just started working on If I Fell.
Here is the version of Here Comes the Sun I have been working on. I’m posting it here because it is too different from Andrew’s arrangement to submit to the challenge. I shortened it for this recording, but the original arrangement (by Fred Sokolow) fits the Beatles version exactly. I have been having fun playing along with the recording.
Thanks @abaluyot
I’ve been working on Stand By Me. I spent all my time last month working on In My Life. I couldn’t tackle two really hard tunes at once. I’m also working on a non Rockclass101 arrangement of Here Comes The Sun. It’s from a book of Beatles tunes arranged for ukulele I bought a few years ago and realized it was way above my ability. It’s cool I can now play some of these tunes.
Great job @deadbuggy ! I also have a Kala Waterman, but I’ve never made it sound so good.
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I will work on a new tune this month, but I already had recorded this one. I played a cigar box ukulele because the old timey sound fit the tune. The uke was a gift from my daughter. She had it custom made for me with poppies and lupine painted on it because they are my two favorite flowers. She told the woman making it I actually played ukulele and wasn’t just going to just hang it on a wall, so she took extra care to make it playable.
@lisadmh Very nice, loved the plucking and the backbeat. Has a great swing feel to it.
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This was the hardest thing I have ever played on ukulele. I tend to say that every time I learn a new piece here, I guess that means I keep challenging myself. After playing various instruments (mostly wind instruments) for many years, I have finally learned how to practice (play small parts at a time, play SLOWLY). It’s ironic, my late husband was a piano teacher and I heard him tell this to students for years. But if I was learning something new, I would play it close to full speed badly until I got it (sort of). He would be pleased I finally got the message. I hear his voice telling me to slow down when I start screwing up. The piece still needs work, but this is the cleanest recording I’ve got so far.
