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sorry, we’re traveling so we weren’t able to get the backing track.

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I missed a couple of challenge months because I dropped my Ukulele and it broke 🙁

A little out of practice so I went with an easy choice………and it was fun to do with piano!

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@lhamilton, what a great idea! Thanks for the tip.

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Here is my July entry. I told myself I would stand up to the challenge of playing and singing at the same time. I messed up the lyrics on this take but aside from the one hammer-on flub, this was my best playing take so here it is. Funny how much you rely on the dots on the fretboard – after having learned the piece, it was hard to capo up.

Lyrics, intention, chord shapes, transposing – there was a lot for the brain to process, LOL.

Great arrangement – really had fun with this.

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Andrew, I had asked you if this was okay that my son (DottieCtrain) and I submit this duet and have it count for both of our entries for this month. I had a hectic month so my son took the melody part.

Ignore the Outtakes later on – just had to keep a record of it for my own memory 🙂

Fun piece!

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Andrew, I have a question:

I am a premium member and my son (dottiectrain) is a regular member. If we learn the duet together and submit the same video, will it count towards our respective accounts?

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Premium member here but I already submitted my ‘backup’. This is the video I had wanted to submit.

Okay, a bit silly I know, but I had a lot of FUN doing it and roping in my family. Big props to those of you who submitted Blackbird this month playing while singing! I optimistically tell myself if I had another 2 weeks to practice diligently, I would be able to sing and play at the same time but I’m probably kidding myself! That’s hard!!

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Still working on the main video (I’m gonna take a stab at singing), but in case I miss the deadline, I’m pre-submitting a different take here.

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Wow, so much fun to work on with the backing track.
I was happy I got it up to 100% speed, though this was the best of 11 takes and not perfect by any means.

Now I need to work on technique to not have those extraneous sounds. I guess it’s just practice? Letting go of frets “quietly” and such? I’m not sure if you have a video giving pointers about how to be careful of extraneous sounds from your fret fingers….

Thank you RC!!

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What a great arrangement!

It was really difficult though. Had a hard time with a few of the chords and transitions.

I couldn’t figure out how Steven managed that Cm chord with three fingers though – no matter what I did, I couldn’t get all three fingers on there and get the A string to ring out, so I had to change it up….

Really fun, and will definitely keep working on this one!

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I went with Five Foot Two – enjoyed the whole strumming course to get there. Of course, couldn’t find the time to really practice those chord changes.

Sorry, autofocus got turned off on the camera.

Also, I was out of cell phone range this weekend and couldn’t watch online to learn the last couple of chords.

Oh well, so fun!

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Didn’t have as much time to work on this as I wanted – December is always crazy – but this is the best out of 30 takes. Finally got it up on YouTube after having tried with the soundcloud interim upload above – I hope it wills till count in that Christmas spirit;)

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ACK!

I’ve just recoded am having problems making the upload to soundloud (in the meantime while I cut out my good take on video).

Fail!!

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Killing Me Softly would be my vote, thanks

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