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Please, please, please Kids, it’s the most fun of the four! And an extra please for not making it too hard 😀
Sometimes it works for me for a bit then freezes, go back to the previous page and then reload the page you want. You have more choices on a laptop/PC than on a smaller screen so it is better on a laptop. Synthetic mode is good for the metronome. Hope that helps 🙂
You’re welcome Betsy 🙂 I still haven’t managed to get this right but I’ll have to give the challenge a go this month as this is the tutorial which brought me to the site in the first place!
Good luck!Thanks anyway Becky, I appreciate the thought 😀
Andrew, I think I read all uke tab backwards, I’m left-handed. When I play my G string is at the top and the A string is at the bottom, when I look at tabs it’s the other way round and the A string is at the top.
I think that’s the right way for me because notes I think I’m playing are, mostly, the notes my tuner says I’m playing, I’ve always done it that way and none of my monthly member challenge feedback has said I’m playing an awful lot of wrong notes.
To me it seems like tab is written backwards for right-handeded people and the right way for me. Chord boxes at the top of song sheets and fretboard charts are some kind of mirror image madness that I can’t wrap my head around and I have left-handed versions.
On bar 2 of Aura Lee where the tab says string 4-1 0575 what are the notes? I thought it was AFBD from looking at the notes above it but the tab says open G. If it is meant to be an open A then why is the note so far below the stave instead of in the second space from the bottom, inside the stave like all of the other A notes learnt previously in the reading course?
My spacial awareness is shocking and I do struggle with whether something is backwards or not so I apologise if I’m being a numpty.
Thanks againHey, I think we are both misunderstanding my ? Lol. Turns out I don’t mean from bar 4. It’s bar 1 onwards, but for the underneath row of music, tab 8,5,5,5 sort of makes sense but for bar 2, tab 5,7,5,0 I read the notes as d,b,f,a so can’t see why it’s a zero on the last tab note which makes a G. I also have a second question – how do you know where to start building chords from, should you always start with one string,eg, g string?
ThanksHey Andrew
I’ve been working my way through the reading course. It’s great, thank you.
I’ve got to Aura Lee and now I’m completly lost. I got that bar 4 couldn’t be played using the fingering learnt in previous units because 2 of the notes would have been on the A string, I looked at the chord chart for other positions and the tab and could ‘kinda’ see why the tab had moved up so many frets. Then I tried to work out bar 5 … I thought the last note/lowest note on the stave was an A but the tab has an open G. What is going on?
I think I remember you wrote somewhere that you start building your finger position from the G string (or it might have been the A string!), is that relevant? I can’t find it anymore lol.
Thanks in advance 😁1. Execution. I would like to be able to play the first of the three warm up exercises and have it sounding similar to Andrew’s version. I am also going to learn the first 21/53 bars of Hans Zimmer’s You’re So Cool and have it sounding similar to how it should. This is one of my dream songs to play. The next part of the song has lots of similar chords to the first warm up exercise so hopefully this month’s practice will benefit next month’s practice 😀
2.Application. Practice most days, paying attention to finger position, transitions and rhythm. Break tasks into chunks and at least get the flow before moving on.
3. Evaluation. Listen to myself! Submit video near month end for feedback. Bask in the glory that is likely to follow.Tab for You’re So Cool:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5mja43b13otN1RBTTBObzItNzA/viewEnd of the Month Post
Aiming to sound “similar” might have been aiming a bit high! The first warm up exercise continues to be tricky. I’m trying hard with picado and can see it improving, correct strumming hand position still eludes me.
I forced myself to only learn small chunks at a time and focus on trickier bits so hopefully my practicing’s improved as well.First Warm Up Exercise
You’re So Cool First Part
