Ó, Gyönyörű Szép — MERRY CHRISTMAS!
As you could read in the previous post, I invited you, dear ukulele players, to take part in a shared Christmas ukulele performance. I asked anyone with the time and enthusiasm to play — and sing — the song beginning Ó, gyönyörű szép, then send me the recording so that I could make a video in which we make music together virtually, since the pandemic situation did not allow us to meet and play together in person.
You did not have very much time, and some of the chord changes were not exactly aimed at complete beginners, so I was delighted that eight performances arrived, with mine becoming the ninth. An enormous thank-you goes to everyone who submitted a video, because a lot of work went into them.
So thank you to Mónika, Nóri, Orsi, Kinga, Evelin, Eszter, Gyuri and Béla for the enthusiastic strumming and singing, and to Dorottya Szert-Szabó for the beautiful image shown at the beginning and end of the video.
I do not want to add unnecessary words, so here is the video.
If you like the picture shown at the beginning and end of the video, you can also buy it as wall art from the Torzonborz webshop, where many other beautiful and unique products are available as well.
A project like this has a backstory, and while making it I naturally spent a lot of time working out what should go where and how everything should fit into the video. Writing all of that down would have taken quite a while, so instead I did something unusual: during an afternoon walk I made a little vlog about how the idea was born and how I edited the picture and audio material.
UPDATE (December 16, 2020): because of a small technical mishap (= my own incompetence ), two ukulele recordings were accidentally left out. A thousand apologies to the two Viktórias. I hope the following video makes up for it:
