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Your arrangement wasn’t simple at all! It’s way more involved than my little interlude, and it sounds really good.
Lacrimosa would certainly be a challenge. I’m taking it a bit easy this month, because I have lots of work, so I’m doing Stranger Things again.
Thanks guys. Sorry to hijack the thread, though.
RC101 is slowly getting more singing stuff, so there should be some more singing challenges at some point. In the mean time, here is one that I did with @Tiff21 and @Lyndallk for a challenge a while ago.
Nah, never recorded it. I was going to, but then I got the flu and I forgot about it. It’s starting to come back to me now. Here is a snippet. That high note’s still a real struggle.
To be honest, that was just a little interlude for between sung verses, and I had to use my Bb-tuned uke to get it in a key that suits my voice. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to hit the high notes.
I remember working out an arrangement of this for low G a while back, but I forgot to write it down. It didn’t have so much movement on the neck, which made it easier to play, but didn’t have the same impact as those slides…
I don’t think there’s anything that I feel like I’ll never by able to do anymore. There are plenty of things that I still can’t do, but that’s only because I haven’t gotten around to learning them yet.
3 things I never thought I’d be able to do?
1. Strum and sing at the same time
2. Pick out a tune
3. Chunk
I’ve achieved all of them and then some!My biggest uke-piphany was before joining RC101. It was when I realised how meaningless strumming patterns were as long as you remember to strum down on the down beat and strum up on the up beat. From there, you can remove strums as you see fit and add things like fan strums and chunks on down beats if you want.
After joining RC101, it was when I finally managed to do harmonics consistently.
We have enough now that we have a 1 in 1 out policy. When we bought our last uke (the low G concert), we gave away the uke it replaced.