After receiving feedback on my midterm progress, I have improved in a few ways. First of all, I started using a new tuning website. The one I was using before used my laptop’s microphone to listen to each chord. The feedback I received encouraged me to tune my ukulele each time before I used it which I was doing, but it must not have been correct. Now, I am using a website where I choose a chord and it plays what that chord should sound like. This new way of tuning is more similar to how I would tune my instrument in band class. We would all play the same note while our teacher played it on the piano and we had to tune accordingly. This way definitely takes more advanced listening skills. Here is a link to the website I will use to tune my instrument from now on: https://ukutuner.com/.
The rest of the feedback for my midterm progress also suggested that I slow down my playing in order to make smoother transitions between chords. I have taken this into consideration while playing Row, Row, Row Your Boat and Hush Little Baby. I think that I was really focused on making the song actually sound cohesive rather than working more on the notes and pitches. Slowing down has also helped me play eighth notes and actually play the notes properly rather than just playing how I think the songs should sound. I hope that taking the feedback into consideration will help my overall skills for the final.