Never mind, I found them. Thank you!

For anyone reading this I’m only logging practice. Aldrine doesn’t consider having fun playing your ukulele practice. 😉

Yellow bird off an on all day. I can get through the song but it’s not clean enough for me yet.

Multi string D and E practice. This is going to take me awhile.

Uke 102 Week 1 Homework Day 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQfghUpfcgKd1daWkQ2eEdmWHM/view?usp=sharing

Oh! And freaking yellow bird.

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Watched Neal’s lesson last night
Uke 102 Week 1 homework for 30 minutes today
Yellow Bird twice
Friday Jam session

Did my Uke 102 Week homework tonight on my new Pono

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzQfghUpfcgKZDlraTl3MkpJWGc

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzQfghUpfcgKN1NIM21vcFhydHc

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzQfghUpfcgKSTNkaG1aT3ZKbkE

Walked into Dusty Strings Fremont District in Seattle as I wanted to handle some K Ukulele’s, Pono’s and Martins. I thought the Pono’s sounded better than the Martin’s and the Kamaka’s. This one sounded even better than the $2600 Kamaka. At $1050 I thought this was a great tenor to move me through intermediate play. Interesting in that Pono puts a wound C string on their tenor ukes. It gives it a rich tone and quality. Aldrine was right in how bright and loud sounding the Ko’olau design is compared to a Koa Kamaka.

My intent going into the store was to make Xmas suggestions. I was surprised when my wife asked which one I liked best and then walked it over to the counter. No gentlemen she doesn’t have any sisters. 😉

Uke 102 Week 1 Homework
Watching Bridging the Gap with Craig Chee – Working on C scale memory and speed. Short lesson that takes a while to complete.
haven’t protected Yellow Bird yet but want to move off it for awhile. Watched Mac the Knife and will begin learning it
Practiced multi string D to A with pinky mute

New Dexterity Test 9/18/17

Worm 2.5 (Respectable; but I question if all on test one and all of test 2 are clean) My experience is that people, including myself tend to over rate themselves
Strumming 20 ( I feel I over rated on 8/2) This 20 was solid. I found a mindset of speed makes a difference here
Picking 55 (Solid improvement!)
C Scale 6 (50% improvement. I had 3 misses I didn’t count)
Chord switching 52 (Dramatic Improvement)

Uke 102 Week 1 homework
Worked on C Scale memory and speed
Began working on Mack the Knife

Uke 102 Week 1 Homework
Worked on C Scale
Worked on Mack the Knife
Watched Wipe Out Video – May be a goo song for me to practice tremolo
Watched Matt’s new video on Brown Eye Girl – Played around a bit with the left hand finger technique he suggest but doesn’t use
Found and experimented with some stretches for my left Thumb that seem to be helping.

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Last night worked on left hand grip changes discussed in live coaching to address the pain in my left thumb. The new grip has forced me to move to more multi string chording (a good thing). Will start practice up again today. Will focus on getting ready for live mike and Uke 102 Week 2 homework this week.

Took wife out to dinner. Tried the UUU102 – Week 2 practice.just now. Feel guilty because I’m too drunk to meet Aldrine’s definition of practice tonight.

Practiced my secret open mic song instead, which I can play drunk if needed.

Cheers

Practiced Open Mic songs
UU 102 Week 2 homework

What I love about this program is that practice accumulates into something real. As I learn new thing I approach old songs in a different way.

Practiced Open Mic Song(s) Will begin daily 3 times through both tonight.
– Margarittaville will demonstrate strumming pattern, singing while strumming, a small amount of picking, and chunking.
– Mystery song will demonstrate multi-string D chord and its dexterity advantage over the 3 finger D chord

Started on UU 102 Week 2 homework then said, “hey, If I can learn to play the 3 arpeggio patterns I could alternatively apply that energy into 4 patterns that would make a song.” The song is “In my life” by Lennon and McCartney. Yeah those guys. I have pattern 1 down the intro. I almost have pattern 2 down. Pattern 3 will complete the song and Pattern 4 is twist on pattern 1 as the outro. Using the UU approach of break it into parts isolate and learn each part them put it all together I think I can pick this song before the en of October.

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I’m a bit distracted with the songs I’m now able to attempt with multi -string chords. I guess that’s a good thing right?
I have the 1st 3 bars of “In My Life” down. I’m close to having the next 5 bars down.