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I’m not usually a great fan of Uke events. The ones I’ve been to tent to be fairly disorganised and a bit amateur. Lots of listening to people do their thing before your 15 mins of fame.
However, a few people from my group raved about Galway, so my wife and I decided to go on holiday in Ireland and take in at least 1-2 days of the 4 day event.
In the end we stayed all 4 days!
Very professional organisation, in a fenced off area of a park right in the centre of Galway.
Lines of spontaneous uking with random and happy people and also open mike sessions. Fantastic workshops run by professions and good players. Fantastic evening concerts by pro groups, not just ukers but great singers and musicians, several quite famous.
Workshops covered everything. Finger style, Beyong Strumming, Song writing, Classical playing, Beat and Strum, Rock on Uke, you name it.
What really makes it though is Galway. Major Irish city, on the coast, tourist season. Everything open, every bar and restaurant busy, all with a live band or player of some sort. Every king of food.
But the people were so happy and friendly, no English snobbishness (I’m English!), no load mouthed yanks, no German towel grabbers. All such people were relaxed and happy.
Here’s a street musician
Here’s the final street party
I’ve just got back from two weeks in Ireland where I dropped by the Galway Ukulele Festival. What fun that was – the Irish really know what the Craic is!!! Since I was born there I now claim Irish citizenship by proxy…
But to the point, this month’s challenge is any song from the new course. Wow! What a fantastic course it looks like too! I’ve dipped here and there, but realise I will have do the whole course, which may well take me a couple of months or more. But it looks great. Well done Andrew and co.
I’ll be posting an entry this month for sure.
David
PS Met a few folks in Ireland who said they would consider RC101. Look out for Eric from DC!
Hi Andrew,
I forgot to donate! So I’ve corrected that and sent $50 via the non-us charity, ref RC101.
Have a great holiday season.
David
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To all my friends and coleagues at Rock Class, I wish you a very happy festive season and especially to the super talented team that makes this site so great.
Away in a Manger
No time this month so I picked the shortest one… which did not turn out to be the easiest!I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
When I saw La Gitanita I had to do it because I first learnt this in July 2020 and I wanted to see how I had improved since then. The answer is a fair bit – so thank you Andrew!!
Apologies for the missing fingers, but I had to use my phone to do the recording and forgot how narrow the screen is…
@andrew Thank you for your feedback and encouragement. As always you get me to focus on some key points for me to try and improve!
Such a good site, thank you!
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Another great set of challlenges and performances by you all (so far).
I chose In the Summertime this month. Really great varrangement and demonstration by Steven.
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Here’s my attempt at Duality.
I liked the story behind this composition and of course Evan makes it sound beautiful. I spent most of the month trying to master the accompaniment, but I couldnt get the Cmaj bar code shape at any speed (the minor was easier, but also slow), so I switched to the lead at the last minute – hence a bit unrehearsed.
Thanks for yet another great monthly challenge!
Thanks Andrew, I really appreciated your comment. It’s been such fun getting this far with Ukuleke under the guidance of RC101!
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You asked for tabs to Blackbird. I never expected that request and I’m honoured!I haven’t a clue how to do this other than pen and paper, but I’ll have a go. If I manage, on which forum should I post it?
Here is my own arrangemernt of Blackbird.
I have worked on the arrangement and made it cleaner – not my playing mind you!
In May 23 I played Andrew’s proper version of Blackbird and found it difficult in places.
Over Christmas and January this year I worked on trying to adapt the version I used to play on guitar back in the, er, past…
The guitar seems like a monster now I play Uke and my hand seems tiny!
Anyway, here are my two versions.
Andrew’s May 2023
Hi @Kanique, that was really nice, thank you.
I’m contemplating a second go at this, along with 20 others!, for the March 25 challenge.
Now I’m musical score dyslectic so rely on the tabs, but I do try to look at the score and I am getting better…
However, I’m confused by the score on Soundslice for St Jame’s Infirmary. The notes seem to be an octave too high?
Am I missing something or just being stupid?
