Song- Edelweiss

This week I chose to practice and perform Edelweiss. This has always been a song that I thought was so beautiful. Although it is a slow, ballad type song, it contains much quicker chord changes (as you can see my fingers are moving around super quickly). I played this song with a capo on the first fret. This allowed the song to be in the original key it was performed in. I did NOT play with a metronome this week for two reasons. First of all, it is a fairly short song and I feel like depending on how you want the song to feel, you can speed up and slow down at specific parts. Second of all, sometimes the metronome syncs me out. As soon as I hear the annoying clicking in my ear I get a little bit paranoid that I will be overtime and I become overly cautious about my speed (which can make my playing and singing more sloppy). I will hopefully use it again next week though:)

I think this piece was a bit more of a challenge for me (although still not too difficult). The other two pieces I have played for you so far I basically sight read and sang through (meaning it basically was a one-take situation). This song took a couple more tries to nail down. Personally, I think that my previous music abilities have allowed me to pick up chords and chord changes pretty easy. The only thing that I have found to be a little bit challenging so far is the F chord:/ Next week, I hope to incorporate and play a song that uses an F chord. This will give me a bit more practice with this chord so that I can use it smoothly in songs.

Here is the ultimate guitar chords I used: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/misc-musicals/the-sound-of-music-edelweiss-chords-2091795

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