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Thanks so much for the help @gi_gi_ and @misterbones

I have been playing the ukulele on a daily basis for a little over two years now, and while my playing has improved a lot, I do find myself feeling like quite the novice when it comes to matters such as this. Being able to get advice from more experienced musicians than I is most appreciated.

So I do not have the broken strings any longer, but I am quite sure they each broke somewhere in the middle rather than the nut or saddle. I took off the A string tonight to examine the nut and saddle and both seemed pretty smooth to the touch. I did notice that the nut channel on the A string was a bit deeper than that on the other strings, but it did not feel rough or particularly sharp.

As for the string size, all of the string packets that I had were labelled on both the outer packaging for the set, and the inner packaging for the A string specifically, as being tenor sized. If they were mislabeled and actually strings for a smaller size ukulele I very much doubt that I would have been able to pick up on that.

Armed with some newfound confidence (courtesy of @misterbones ) that I am not just a total moron :), I decided to try to install a set of new fluorocarbons from a different manufacturer this evening, and was able to do so without any issues whatsoever. At this point I have to assume that, as @misterbones suggested, the three broken A strings were either (i) not actually tenor size; or (ii) all from a batch with some sort of manufacturing defect. I will reach out to manufacturer and inquire about the potential defect.

Thanks very much. Steve

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Here is my submission of Fingerpicking Etude no. 19. Such a wonderfully written, and hauntingly beautiful, piece of music.

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Happy holidays to all! Here is my submission of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen:

Thanks very much to @andrew and the entire RockClass 101 team for another year of great content. It has been a pleasure to continue to try to improve with the help of these fine instructors.

P.S. I made a $200 donation to The Ukulele Kids Club

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Here is my submission of Great Fairy Fountain. The Legend of Zelda video games series has been near and dear to my heart since I was a child, and learning this arrangement transported me back to the countless hours I have spent navigating Link through the various iterations of Hyrule.

@brettboy, my daughter and I really enjoyed your performance!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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Here is my submission of 4 More Spooky Melodies. This was a fun and (surprisingly) challenging piece to learn. I found myself having to spend quite a bit of time practicing the sixteenth note run in The Pharaoh’s Tomb, in particular, before I could play it to even a passable level. Thanks very much to @andrew for the wonderful composition. Happy Halloween!

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Here is my submission of La Donna è mobile. I really enjoyed learning this piece. I would have never thought I would have enjoyed playing an opera song, but I guess you never know until you try 🙂 Big thanks to RockClass 101 for expanding my musical horizons!

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Really fun challenge this month. Thanks so much! Still needs some fine tuning but alas, I am out of time.

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Here is my submission of Andante No. 2 from Opus 241. Thank you Andrew for the wonderful arrangement!

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Thank you Steven for the feedback. Much appreciated. That was indeed my foot tapping in the background. Perhaps I need to play on carpet to muffle that a bit 🙂

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Happy New Year to all! Here is my submission of Here Comes The Sun for the January 2022 Member Challenge. So much fun to play!

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Happy Holidays everyone and great playing! Here is my submission of My Favorite Things. This one was very challenging. I still have some work to do to really get this one down, but this was the best take that I could muster (out of many attempts).

A sincere thank you to Rock Class 101 for a wonderful year of learning and growing!

P.S. I made a $100 donation to The Ukulele Kids Club

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I think I bit off a little more than I could chew with this one, but the piece is beautiful and so much fun to play. Despite my best efforts, the best I could do before the end of the month was 75% speed.

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Thanks so much for the feedback @Andrew! Much appreciated! I do tend to struggle with maintaining the swung feel throughout an entire song. I will definitely give the single note approach a shot, and will run through the Swung Vs. Straight Rhythm lesson you recommend to try to dial it in. As for the strumming approach, I was never really fully cognizant of it before but now that you point it out I realize that I do tend to rely almost exclusively on the harsher nail strumming approach in my chord playing. I notice that in many of his lessons Matt will utilize the softer sounding fleshy thumb strum, and I will try incorporating that more into my playing in general, and particularly so with this piece.

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Here is my submission of Moon River for the October 2021 Member Challenge:

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