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Here is my Aura Lee / Love Me Tender
Goal for this month is to try to have both kids learn it as well for triple submission.
Andrea
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Here comes my quick (or better sloooow) and dirty one shot handy video for Habanera. I am so sorry (really!) that I currently have no time to practice, so I can just deliver what I can play from the notes. I am sitting on suitcases for next business travel, this was my last action before sleeping 5 hours before the flight.
Andrea
P.S.: More important, the first 10 ukuleles from Ukulele Kids Club have reached Dortmund hospital and the music therapist told me how happy the first kids were. If anybody wants to donate for Germany just go to the donation page of Ukulele Kids Club and add “Germany” as a comment to the payment.
Hello,
I just need to “let it be” with this version for this month. New job, business travel without uke ahead, I had only very few time to practice. So here is my uncut one shot iPhone recording, the bird song hopefully distracts you from my errors:Best,
AndreaThank you for your guidance. I don’t think it is the Anuenue, at least for playing melodies she has a fantastic sound.
I guess because I heard the buzzing I tried to play softer and instead of being softer just with the right hand I also did not press enough with the left hand.I currently have no time to test out much and practice further but I think I need to focus on
– having nails cuts really short
– press harder (not too sure about that part, as I have in mind I watched a video from Matt a time ago saying press smarter not harder)
– put fingers very close to the frets
– move further away from the microphone when recording (it is only little buzzing in real, but was more disturbing in the recording)Andrea
@wongbrown: I had that unwanted sound problem as well for a very long time. I remember Andrew’s and nthibode’s tips lie in the left hand technique (they have videos on that) – I developed another approach that works totally fine for me – In cases where the lifting of the left hand chord shape does an unwanted sound, I just very slightly touch the strings with my right hand picking fingers at the moment directly before lifting off the left hand chord shape. Don’t press, just touch it super lightly. I do not know if this is an official technique but it is what works and now comes natural to me.
Happy picking,
AndreaI AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Here comes my Minuet in G, I chose an easy one this month as I am practicing very intensively another (passion) song. Still it was a good exercise to play in time with the baseline.
German members and friends: I have super good news, the Ukulele Kids Club will be available very shortly for German kids as well. I have finally found my first music therapist working in a huge hospital and connected her with the CEO of the UKC. The first group to start with will be kids with cancer and injured kids from Ukraine. I will let you and Andrew know in time (latest for xmas!) how to donate to DE if you wish to do so.
Thank you @Andrew 🙂 🙂 🙂 The change in timing in the second A section was intended, this should have been my rubato 😉
I am celebrating my entry #20 in a row with Steven’s beautiful arrangement of The Love Theme from Godfather. It would not be doable without following your tips on where to set which fingers in which order! Very helpful as always…
All the best,
Andrea@puppylovesuke: If you prefer smooth strings without squeaking I can highly recommend Worth strings Fluor-Carbon C-Series (clear strings).
I LOVE them for LowG (and high G) on my ANuenue, this should be the right version for a Baritone:
Worth Strings Saiten Fluoro-Carbon Bariton (CB 63)If you go to my Youtube you can compare them in tenor size at Low G in “Etude in E Minor” vs. High G “in “Kiss the Rain”.
I have also restringed my Enya with those strings (in High G), you can hear it in “Last Christmas”. With the same strings there is a huge difference which comes from the quality of the ukulele.Additional note on strings: I put again on the used LowG on the Anuenue, after I had it high G stringed for one month. Against discussions in internet – that works perfect!
Andrew might give more professional advice, but that is what works perfect for me.
Happy strumming,
AndreaThank you so much @melanieh, @gi_gi_ and @rebeca.
The most delighting compliment was coming from my little girl as she said “Dieses Lied ist sanft wie ein Regentropfen” – “This song is soft like a raindrop” – which is first of all the highest compliment she could give to Yiruma as composer, as she does not know what the song is called.
Have a nice weekend,
AndreaWouldn’t it be nice to play a Beach Boys song on a sweet pineapple?
As you might see I have problems holding it tightly as I normally play tenor with strap, where I can play this song flawlessly.
Still I decided to post this version to get advice and as I thought the song fits better to that uke. I am permanently tuning her for three days now, but she still gets out of tune also during playing one song. I hope this will get better or she will not be really usable.Andrea
Hi @xerxes, I would like to add to the suggestions above Cynthia Lin’s Ukulele tutorials. She is singing very beautiful and teaching you the chords and how to strum. So you can either just play along or also sing along (which is not so easy doing both in parallel). For me that was perfect for starting to play Ukulele 2 years (and 2 months) ago. But I’m super glad I found Rock Class 101 later, to learn all those fine techniques and especially how to play melodies / chord melodies as I am not a singer. I hope that helps, please, please do not be frustrated, Ukulele should be all about fun!!!
Andrea