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@Andrew: Oh, thank you! What an honor 🙂
@leb397 Oh, thank you for your nice comment, Louisa, that really means a lot to me 😉
Hi Andrew, here is my result for this month’s challenge which I happily accepted:
I hope you enjoy my medley composition as much as I do.
Congrats to all my peer’s great work!!!
This was the task I had set for myself in my first post:
1) Execution – I want to create a medley / mesh-uo of two songs that have the same chord progression and play it on the piano and on the ukulele and mix it together (obviously I cannot do both same time :-)). I want to do it in an improvisation style without having notes for it.
2) Application – I will practice and record the piano part first and record it with metronome so that piano and ukulele can be in sync later. Then I will practice to improvise with the ukulele to the piano part. I will need several iterations for it. What sounds better? Just strumming, playing the melody? I need to find out when trying.
3) Evaluation – Practice each day and make test recordings. Listen to it, improve. Do it again.
Best,
AndreaHi Andrew, here is my plan:
1) Execution – I want to create a medley / mesh-uo of two songs that have the same chord progression and play it on the piano and on the ukulele and mix it together (obviously I cannot do both same time :-)). I want to do it in an improvisation style without having notes for it.
2) Application – I will practice and record the piano part first and record it with metronome so that piano and ukulele can be in sync later. Then I will practice to improvise with the ukulele to the piano part. I will need several iterations for it. What sounds better? Just strumming, playing the melody? I need to find out when trying.
3) Evaluation – Practice each day and make test recordings. Listen to it, improve. Do it again.
Best,
AndreaI AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
I donated 50 USD to Ukulele Kids Club (Germany).
Here is my Aura Lee:
Merry xmas,
Andrea@Andrew: Thank you for this honor!
I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER.
Here is my take on Harmonizing Chords (at original tempo 125bpm).
Best,
AndreaI AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
I have just donated 50 EUR = 50,74 USD to the Ukulele Kids Club.
As I worked on a piano version of “All I Want for Christmas is You” (if you are interested you find it on my Youtube channel), I just did a slow playing from notes version of “I have a little Dreidel” to qualify for the challenge:
Merry Christmas to the uke world,
AndreaThank you for promoting the Ukulele Kids Club again. German folks (others welcome as well of course): I you donate to the Ukulele Kids Club and enter “Germany” in the comment of the payment, children in Dortmund hospital will benefit from your gift. The music therapist regularly gives me feedback how happy the kids are.
Bringing you in a little bit of Christmas mood for tomorrow’s new session:
I learned it without a tutorial last year, so please forgive all my mistakes.(That’s of course no challenge entry yet – but I promise already now, I won’t be singing…)
Best wishes,
AndreaI need to skip this month’ challenge, but I would like to take the opportunity to say thank you for what I have learned so far at Rock Class 101.
Why? I started playing piano again after pausing for several years and having been a classic by notes player in the past, I was now able to transfer my piano playing into free style and by ear/memory playing. Still a beginner there, but making progress and having lots of fun. I thought I have no talent for that type of playing, but I was just missing some basic concepts and really key for me was the circle of five lesson by Matt I listened to many, many month ago and his enthusiasm for music theory. Andrew, would you please pass on my huge thank you to him and to yourself for always encouraging us to play by memory.
I hope I can join the ukulele challenge again in October.
Best,
AndreaI AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Here is my Aura Lee / Love Me Tender
Goal for this month is to try to have both kids learn it as well for triple submission.
Andrea
I AM A PREMIUM MEMBER
Here comes my quick (or better sloooow) and dirty one shot handy video for Habanera. I am so sorry (really!) that I currently have no time to practice, so I can just deliver what I can play from the notes. I am sitting on suitcases for next business travel, this was my last action before sleeping 5 hours before the flight.
Andrea
P.S.: More important, the first 10 ukuleles from Ukulele Kids Club have reached Dortmund hospital and the music therapist told me how happy the first kids were. If anybody wants to donate for Germany just go to the donation page of Ukulele Kids Club and add “Germany” as a comment to the payment.