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The double prize is awesome! I’m really excited about the upcoming low G lessons. Quick question: Do I have to include the vocal part of Moon for it to count towards the challenge, or can I just keep playing?

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Thanks Andrew – this is cool!
My two questions are:
Does the amount of gloss/finish on a uke affect the tone?
How does the shape or position of the sound hole affect the sound? Is a sound hole with an image a bad idea?

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Glad I managed to squeeze this post in – it’s been a long day of studying for school.

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You could also try putting a capo on the 5th fret of your baritone, then it will be tuned like a low G.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by zukulele.

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Welcome to RC101 Evan! I’ve been watching your Youtube channel for a long time – can’t believe that I actually get to learn from you now!

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Thanks Kanae926! Yes, I made my own endings for all the songs. Thank you so much Andrew for your support! It’s very encouraging.

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Here is my August entry:

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Awesome! I’ll definitely do that.

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Hi Andrew,
Congratulations on your sponsorship! I think all the changes for the next 6 months are pretty good. I hope to learn more and compose duet lessons (especially some in the pop genre) and songs with a looper tutorial (I ended buying the Ditto you recommended). Some baritone lessons would be really nice too. Also, I really like the picking style you used in the songs like Perfect and A Thousand Years; you were able to play the words of the song and pluck the background music as well. I don’t know what it’s called but I would like to learn how to arrange pieces like that. Thanks!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by zukulele.

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Thanks Andrew! I’ll definitely work on it.

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Hi Andrew, in the tutorial video you mentioned that you made an alternative piece because your soprano only went up to the 12th fret and the correct note was higher than that. It was the section right before the ending, where the song goes ‘I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again’, and it was the ‘a’ in ‘about’ that was higher than the soprano could go.

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I was unable to participate in the last two contests so I’m really glad that I had enough time to record my entry this week.

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I’ve been trying to teach my self triple picking with a thumb pick. Usually when I learn a technique I find a video of a simple song where it is being used so I can slowly imitate it. Unfortunately, the only videos I could find triple picking being used in are by the uke masters like Jake, Taimane, Honoka and Azita, and Aldrine; where they are going insanely fast and their fingers are flying across the fret board. Do you know of a song that uses this picking but is a little less fast on the fretting hand?
Thanks!

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Thanks nocnyptak and Andrew! I’m leaning towards the ditto because of the video above – I’ll post a recording when I get one.

[zukulele]

Thanks Andrew for your advice! I always try to apply what you say I could improve on in the next contest you have.

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