[yukalele]

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

[yukalele]

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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!

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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…

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@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!

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@Andrew

Thanks Andrew, I really appreciated your comment. It’s been such fun getting this far with Ukuleke under the guidance of RC101!

@Joe150
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?

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Here is my own arrangemernt of Blackbird.

I have worked on the arrangement and made it cleaner – not my playing mind you!

[yukalele]

And here’s my adaptation

My adaption

[yukalele]

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

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It’s how I used to play it on the guitar, which wasn’t all my own work, but reworked by me for 4 strings.

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Hi @Kanique, that was really nice, thank you.

@Andrew

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?

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Hi everyone,

This month I chose Magic Waltz. Clearly this is too difficult for me, but I just fell in love with the tune – particularly after looking at several versions on YouTube, and here.

The first problem is that I just can’t remember it well enough to play the whole way through – so I’ve cheated and stitched together separate attempts at each melody to make one video. The joins are fairly obvious! (If that disqualifies me from the competition, that’s OK too.)

Second problem – it’s just too darn fast! OK, so I’ll try at 75% speed, but even then some of the changes defeated me.

Oh well, you gotta try these things…

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@jbmills07

Justin, my heart goes out to you in your sorrow. This community is with you to help you share your pain. Thank you for posting your beautiful song.

[yukalele]

Hi Everybody

I used this challenge to motivate me in getting to grips with Claw Hammer. Ive always found this difficult and have given up every time before getting anywhere.

I used Christophers excellent course this time (only discovered it this month!) and my goal was to play the Claw Hammer Etude, no matter how badly…

Well, I succeeded in playing it very badly, so I’ll score that as success.

Practice was the issue; not enough or consistently – but now I have got over the hurdle of actually getting the basics I will keep this up.

PS – I had a great excuse this month. I have been gifted a second grandson, a brother to my granddaughter!

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