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I hope everyone is doing well. With the sad current events of racial injustice it’s kind of hard for me to focus on playing. Black lives do matter. Respect and love to everyone.
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I vote for Rainbow Connection. Of course my favorite Kermit song is It’s Not Easy Being Green… but the Ray Charles version. 🙂
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It’s been a while since the last time I posted to the monthly challenge. I have watched quite a few of them and I am always impressed by everyone’s posts
I hope everyone is healthy and staying safe.Rickey I have an app called Universal Tuner on my phone. It displays the octave number and a piano keyboard representation of the note plucked.
Jina, The uke is a EleUke Peanut CPE-BK. I recently got it because I have been traveling and needed a uke that I could easily stuff in a backpack and could play without bothering anyone else around. It is not acoustic so I either play with headphones or use a little mini amp. I recorded Jurassic using the amp but I could record directly from the headphone jack on the uke to my microphone jack on the phone using an adapter that splits the phones jack into microphone and headphone. That way nobody gets bothered if I record late at night. But I think the sound is better coming out of the amp.
The downside to this uke is that the action was way too high. I had to sand the saddle down a lot. Twice. And one of the tuner gears on my uke can be very difficult to turn. I may have just gotten a uke with a bad tuner gear.
One of the other positives I think is that the fret wires seem unusually high. That might mean you have to press down a little further but for me it makes the notes easier to sound clearer.Rickeymike, when I want to quickly verify what note I’m playing, I turn my tuner to chromatic mode and play the note and it says what note I just plucked.
Lisadmh, looks like an interesting app. I’ll try it out. Thanks.
Andrew, I totally get what you’re saying. Thankfully I found Jurassic Park theme relatively easy and even though it may not have been needed to be played with a metronome the rhythm would have benefited with keeping count in my head.
My goal is that in a couple years I can sound 1/10th as good as Matt.
Here is my PREMIUM MEMBER submissionThis submission is more for laughs than anything. My apologies to Queen Lili’uokalani and all Hawaiians that watch this. On a serious note and hope I’m not over sharing, My wife and I have taken my mother-in-law all over the Caribbean, Mexico and Hawaii. She is a great traveler. Never complains and is ready for any adventure. Her favorite trip was to Hawaii. Kauai, The Big Island and Oahu. Sadly today it was determined that she would be put on hospice. But TRYING to play this song keeps me thinking of her in better times. Mahalo
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After looking over the June challenges I dont think me and/or my “poo-kalele” can handle any of them. I’m in big trouble. 😀
It’s been a crazy month but I made it through with some level of completion. Not exactly happy with it. June is almost here and I’m already trying to figure out when I’ll be able to play/practice. If at all possible I’m taking the uke with me wherever I go this month.
Here is my PREMIUM MEMBER submission for May:
marion2017 I asked Andrew when I failed to be able to link my Youtube video. His response is to just copy the long url in the address bar of the web page into an empty line of your post.
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