Day 3!

I recently upgraded and purchased a more expensive, concert ukulele, which has more frets, and has a bigger tone than a soprano.  We focused a lot today on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" because I want that to be the song we play for the final presentation.  I helped James work more with a pick today.  They can be helpful because when strumming with your hand for long periods of time, it can actually hurt; the pick also gives off a louder sound.  James also began to learn how to strum up AND down and is working on combining them smoothly.  The song stated before is an excellent song to practice this since the strumming pattern is consistent throughout almost the entire song, and is fairly intermediate.

We are on our way.

-Jack

10/23/12

Today we focused on Over the rainbow,  I learned a new chord, E minor 7.  Most of my individual practice now is focused on transitioning from F to the new chord.  I am also getting used to strumming with a pick.

-James Tollefsen

GOOGLE DAY 2

I learned call me maybe and part of stairway to heaven, also I practiced using a new felt pick,  For next time I plan to have learned Classico by Tenacious D

Day 2

Welcome once again, it's been awhile.

We finally had another google day today, but the different thing was: James purchased his own Ukulele (which coincidentally, is better then mine).  Today, since James knows the basics of the ukulele at this point, we just kind of tried different things.  The best way to get better now, is just to play all the time.  We learned the chorus for "Call me Maybe" which is all simple chords and the intro to "Stairway to Heaven" which is all actual fingering.  We made good progress, now James just needs to play a little bit every day.

-Jack

10/3/12

It even comes with its own coffin!