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Ugh, well I’ve been practicing all month and posted twice, but decided to do my final update tonight instead of morning practice time, so I could film in real clothes. I’m exhausted after a late night of work and have been increasing my messing up the more I try. So, not posting a final video tonight. Don’t know if past posting counts enough or no.
However, I learned the importance of playing with the tab viewer, because since my last post I noticed I was dropping chords. Like I said, I memorize (too fast I now know) songs when I go over the video and look at the music a couple times. But… then I make up the rhythm as I feel, ingrain bad habits and also apparently drop stuff out. So this has been a helpful learning experience that is going to make me better if I keep using the tools on this site, which is the goal. I have a year membership now and plan to keep at this for the next year consistently to see where I end up.
Thanks Andrew for all your work!
I have a tenor Oscar Schmidt and the sound was crap. It was my least favorite to play. The sound was quiet and dull. Zero resonance. It was new with Aquila strings, so I assumed it was because it’s heavy gloss and a generally heavy instrument. This weekend I switched to a set of Living Water fluorocarbon strings with a low G, in order to work on Bourrée for February.
Guess what…
I found the right strings for my tenor. It sounds wonderful (aside from the musician) and I will never go back.
I have Aquila on all my other ukes (up to 9 now and I’ve only played for 8 months) and I’ve tried reds and lavas to mix it up. My other ukes sound good too, so no issue with Aquila, but my tenor just needed something different I guess. I’m so glad it sounds good now, because it’s a gorgeous instrument.
Yay! I started the course over the weekend and this challenge fits into what I want to work on! Plus, nice uke!
On a side note, I just started looking at the course on reading music and was thinking an optional pdf download of course would be awesome. I’d like to open it up in kindle and be able to highlight, make flash cards, etc.
I’ve had the same issues, but sometimes I can get it to work. I haven’t figured out how yet. Sometimes it just happens. So weird.
Thanks for the answer Andrew and I would love to see that detailed plan someday. Sounds like a great idea.
Here’s me with another week of working on my timing with a new song. I probably should have chosen something with less strumming variation to work on timing, but too late now. It’s still not great, but improving. Any tips you have are welcome.
That sounds awesome guys. Have a great time. I will be waiting for a New England meet up one of these days.
I recorded a week of practicing Eastern Ukulele, from day One. My goal is to count when I practice and use the metronome, but I started with learning the song, working on stretching my fingers and playing barre chords. No rhythm here and that shows.
This is horrible, but improving. Next week I’m going to work on slowing down and staying in time… which sounds so boring, but I would like to be good at this ukulele thing, so it’s necessary.
Pardon the pajamas. <—- sounds like a good band name.
Hey Stephen,
I just came back to check feedback. Thanks to you and Andrew for doing that. It’s a lot of work to get through all of us I’m sure!
Wendy
Well, started on Eastern Uke and so far I think I will be lucky to play the first bar in a month. 😬😳
I don’t know if I’m still a beginner or a seasoned beginner, but I’ve been playing for 7 months (3-4 on here I think) and I have 5 RC101 songs memorized plus some basic strumming ones from before. I completed the beginner course and started the theory course. I’ve been playing Level 1. I usually memorize pretty quickly and then keep playing without listening to the original or looking at the music. Again, I just like playing.
My feedback is consistently about rhythm. I do know how to count and read music, but prefer to just play however I can/want and that shows.
My goal for this month is to practice with the site, listen to Andrew, use a metronome (gross) and actually count. I’m gonna go for Eastern Uke, because I like it, it sounds challenging, but it’s still level one. Hopefully, it’s hard enough that I learn something and easy enough I can learn it well enough to focus on the rhythm.
I practice at least an hour everyday. I’d like to spend half of it working on this song, counting and looping each section so I can play it in rhythm and comfortably.
