Thelma, Lorna, Lynn, Barry, Linda and Lana attended.
Some of the songs we revisited were Flowers on the Wall, Song for a Winters Night, This Train, Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Where Have All the Flowers Gone aka Soldier song (ask orca), Leaving on a Jet Plane, I'll See You in my Dreams, Moon River, Love Potion #9, Save the Last Dance for Me, Unchained Melody. We did struggle at times without our Leader-- Louise, but we had a few laughs as well.
- Lana
Here are some great resources on finger picking from Lana: - H
A decent article on learning the technique
Learning fingerpicking ukulele:
I like the progression that Guido follows-- one of my favourite teachers on the net
This is the guy who wrote Ukulele for Dummies
Mike Lynch is always good to watch and learn from-- I might start here---
There are others-- Stuart Fuchs, Aaron Kiem etc. I have Aaron Keim's book that I will bring next Wednesday for anyone to borrow.
Once you get used to the Travis Pick, you can go to other patterns-- the one that is quite common is the "every other" pattern 4-2-3-1-4-2-3-1
Another is "outside-inside" 4-1-3-2-4-1-3-2
For Hallelujah I use 4-3-2-1-2-3-- the 4 is the beginning of the next measure
After you learn the basics of hand position and different patterns it's practice, practice, practice
Uke can do it!!
- Lana
Note: I have added The Old Log Train to the blog. I have also added Lana's links to finger picking advice to our Practice Videos page. You can find the link on the sidebar. - Heather
Note: I have added The Old Log Train to the blog. I have also added Lana's links to finger picking advice to our Practice Videos page. You can find the link on the sidebar. - Heather
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