birdiebert
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Hello fellow ukesters, nice to meet all of you, all the way from South East Asia. Signed up to this forum a long time back, but haven't said Hi~
A bit my background. I learned the organ from age 6 - 12, then changed to the piano from 13 - 16. But after that I stopped music because studies got in the way. Then soon I was studying abroad and couldn't lug a piano along with me and hence my interest in music kind of faded with the distance. Although I was never very good to begin with.
I'm 29 now and decided to reboot my journey with a portable instrument hence the ukulele. I've played for roughly 6 months and had a tad of guitar experience back in school, coupled with my music background I would say I'm not a beginner in music itself, but maybe a beginner to the uke.
However, I've reached this weird plateau where, since I don't have official structured training with the uke, I feel slightly lost in terms of progression. I can play several chords quite fluidly, and can do so with new chords if only I practiced them. But my interest isn't really in strumming but rather playing purely instrumental solo chord melodies, like how one would play a piece on the piano.
I'd spent the past month learning Corey Fujimoto's version of Canon in C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MxIeb-fwWk) and am about 70% of the way, barring a few sticky fingering changes, fluidity, and producing that smooth/clean sound. But this took me more than a month just for a single piece. This is with roughly 30 - 60 mins practice every weekday and 2 hours on saturday and sunday. Is that normal?
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So my question is, how should I progress? I find myself stuck on how to get better other than attacking harder than life pieces that takes ages for my fingers to get used to... Is taking a month to learn a piece like that normal?
Should I be working on learning different chord positions/inversions before jumping blindly into tabbed complicated sheets? Should I sign up for online lessons or something?
Thank you in advance.
A bit my background. I learned the organ from age 6 - 12, then changed to the piano from 13 - 16. But after that I stopped music because studies got in the way. Then soon I was studying abroad and couldn't lug a piano along with me and hence my interest in music kind of faded with the distance. Although I was never very good to begin with.
I'm 29 now and decided to reboot my journey with a portable instrument hence the ukulele. I've played for roughly 6 months and had a tad of guitar experience back in school, coupled with my music background I would say I'm not a beginner in music itself, but maybe a beginner to the uke.
However, I've reached this weird plateau where, since I don't have official structured training with the uke, I feel slightly lost in terms of progression. I can play several chords quite fluidly, and can do so with new chords if only I practiced them. But my interest isn't really in strumming but rather playing purely instrumental solo chord melodies, like how one would play a piece on the piano.
I'd spent the past month learning Corey Fujimoto's version of Canon in C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MxIeb-fwWk) and am about 70% of the way, barring a few sticky fingering changes, fluidity, and producing that smooth/clean sound. But this took me more than a month just for a single piece. This is with roughly 30 - 60 mins practice every weekday and 2 hours on saturday and sunday. Is that normal?
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So my question is, how should I progress? I find myself stuck on how to get better other than attacking harder than life pieces that takes ages for my fingers to get used to... Is taking a month to learn a piece like that normal?
Should I be working on learning different chord positions/inversions before jumping blindly into tabbed complicated sheets? Should I sign up for online lessons or something?
Thank you in advance.