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Hi Christopher,
Thanks for looking at my progress. Your comments are excellent and made today’s practice go much better. I’ll stick to that routine now!
Thanks
DavidClawhammer
Boy this is difficult! I’m managing 10 mins practice most days, but any longer in one session is a struggle.
I can do the first downstroke and hit any string while resting my thumb on the G string. Yeah!
When i try to add the second down strum it all goes wrong.
Then when i do the thumb pluck it either doesn’t sound at all or my index decides to do an up-pluck on first string.
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
― Newt GingrichAlso, keeping the wrist loose needs concentration.
EXECUTION
I’ll be working on the Claw Hammer technique on a ukulele. In general, I am a moderate intermediate player, but I’ve tried Claw Hammer briefly in the past and got nowhere.
My goal is to be able to play a basic piece, very slowly. I would like to target the Claw Hammer Etude on this site.
I hope to accomplish this by taking Christopher’s course – aiming at the beginning of lesson 4 where he teaches the Etude.
I aim to practice at least once a day for 15 mins, working my way through the course.APPLICATION
My goal is to be able to play the Etude, but I will try to play other songs using this technique, if I can at least do it.EVALUATION
Monitoring the practice schedule is most important for me. Also, I tend to drift into playing what I already know rather than focus on the next step!
Pacing the course so I reach module 4 is also important.
Ultimately, success would be being able to play the right hand smoothly, albeit slowly on any chord. If I can play the Etude that would be great.I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Hi Y’all
Long time since I’ve participated in the monthly challenges, but now I’m back!
Here’s a version of the Adam’s Family.
Hi @kaski85
Your YouTube video tells me it’s private so I can’t see it!
Hi and welcome Mika!
Greatly look forward to trying some of your lessons – maybe the easier ones!!
For me, RC101 is by far the best teaching site on the web and you couldn’t be joining a better team.
Hi Everyone
I just loved your spooky composition Littled Trouble in Big China!
So I decided it was a great Halloween theme tune…
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I had a very serious go at Rhythmic Blues this month, but it defeated me. Just couldn’t get a video take that was near acceptable (even at 75%). But I love playing it to myself in a locked room – brilliantly of course…
So I aborted and did a last minute take of Harmonising Chords. Apologies for the poor sound quality, my mic has failed and I had to use the PC mic.
@andrew. “I think this is my fav performance of yours to date!”
Wow, that is amazing, thank you!
Wouldn’t have got anywhere without RockClass and the team of pros who put together such awesome pieces with brilliant tuition.
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I had a go at Cissy Strut this month. Great piece to learn and try to play – thank you Andrew and Evan for arranging it!
Once I’d got the groove, I could keep up with the backing track (at 75%), but those muted strums are difficult to fit in without losing control of the fingers. So I faked my way though.
I did have a go at the solo, but tripped up on the triplets.
Really enjoyed trying to get this one down, thank you RC101!
Hi Andrew,
As ever, you’re feedback is very welcome. This month was not my best as the old fingers are suffering a touch of arthritis- but that’s not going to hold me back!
Looking forward to the May challenge.
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Love all the submissions – such a great community!
Etude #31.5 from me this month.
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Hi everybody!
I chose the Funk Riff – because it’s mini-lesson No 1 !
I find I can’t play it the way Andrew encourages us to, in that I bar my index finger on 5, rather than keep moving the index finger, dancing across the frets. Very difficult to do I found.
