Song- Here Comes the Sun Final!

This song ended up being a LOT of work taking into account both playing and editing! I ended up having to play and record different sections of the song separately. This is because it was almost impossible for me to successfully play the song through without mistakes. However, by piecing small chunks together, I made it sound like one take….. (thank you high school film editing class….). I recorded this on GarageBand. I think there were about 5 audio tracks that I edited and spliced together.

Then, I exported this file to IMovie when I was happy with it. From there, I filmed myself playing the song while listening to the track I had just made. I added this as a track to IMovie, cut the sound from the video, and aligned it to my sound recording. This took a bit of effort! HAHA! Finally, I edited this together and added an introduction slide, title, and image.

FYI: Since the video and audio were not taken at the same time, the video might not be perfectly aligned with the music track (but I promise everything you see and hear is me:))

I played the song with a capo in the third fret. I chose to play it here because it suited by voice best. Ultimate Guitar website suggested that I play it in the fifth fret, but that was too high (or low) for my voice. I think the third fret worked really well. I did not play this song with a metronome. I did try at first; however, I found it really difficult because I ended up playing some of the more difficult sections slower. This song features numerous of my “challenge chords” like F, C, and E7. It also includes several picking sections. I posted a break down of these “challenge sections” in a blog post last week. Like I mentioned before, I adapted this song from various resources (Ultimate Guitar, ukulele sheet music, etc. ) and make it my own. Overall, I am very happy with my results.