Arcy
Strummin' in the Rain
At the beginning of the year RafterGirl posted a thread on 2020 New Years Goals . Whether you posted yours or not, how did you all do on achieving yours?
I hit most of mine - ironically, I hit the ones most affected by COVID before the lock downs, and the one missed the most should have been unaffected.
I'm going to roll over reuse my goals for next year: I'd like to push through on Ukulele Way alongside bass studies and finish off the instrument builds. I hope we'll get back to in-person groups by end of summer and I can work on playing with others.
I hit most of mine - ironically, I hit the ones most affected by COVID before the lock downs, and the one missed the most should have been unaffected.
Got it! Did a song at one of our last open mics before the shutdown.Performance:
Work up a song to the point where I can (and do) perform it at our local open mic.
Got it! 11 songs this year, and I hosted a season. Also had a few that quagmired and didn't make it to the uploadRecord 4 songs for Seasons of the Ukulele - I finished three in 2019 then quagmired on a bunch that I couldn't complete in a week.
Got it! Managed a couple of sessions before the lock down. Still need a lot of workPlay the UBass for the group that currently doesn't have a regular bass player. I did my first group bass effort on boxing day for a small group and it went ok.
Nope. I made some progress, but I concentrated more on piano and bass than uke. I did take a lot of what JH taught into creating my own chord-melody arrangements, and I should roll that back into the formal curriculum to figure out what I don't know I don't know.Learning:
Finish going through The Ukulele Way lessons. Aiming for a book a month, but I've got lots of room to slip that so long as I make consistent progress.
Fail. I did a lot of non-instrumental projects before getting smoked out this summer, and I started a few new ones, but I didn't complete the ones in progress. I redid the inlay on the almost-done one, but never got around to finishing the finish. D'oh. The second kit is still in its box. I have a licence-plate bari-body finished and four neck attempts in the rubbish bin. A purchased neck is ready to go on, but I may need a new fretboard since it's not quite the scale I'd planned (it may be OK though since I haven't placed the bridge). My upright washtub bass is nigh-finished - it's strung up and test played, and I soldered up a pickup-wiring harness this afternoon. All goes well it'll be finished before 2020 ends.Stuff:
Finish the ukulele kits I've been working on for over a year. The first is done except for finishing once the weather warms. The second may get started inside.
Fail. I didn't want to deal with people and didn't get anything listed before lock downs. I added two new instruments (a UBass & a bari) beyond the one that had been ordered last year but hadn't yet arrived.Get rid of the ukuleles I'm not playing. One uke and two guitars already out, but I still have two sopranos that I'm storing but not touching and a baritone that's being replaced on Friday.
I'm going to roll over reuse my goals for next year: I'd like to push through on Ukulele Way alongside bass studies and finish off the instrument builds. I hope we'll get back to in-person groups by end of summer and I can work on playing with others.