These past couple of weeks have been incredibly busy for everyone, and I have been struggling to find someone to sing and play with. After some asking around, I have found a couple of friends that I am going to play Riptide with. I am looking forward to the recording process, and know that it will be tricky to ensure that everyone is playing at the same tempo.
In terms of Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World I have been working incredibly hard to keep my tempo up, and executing my strumming accurately. When I am strumming as quickly as the song requires, I find that my hand is still struggling to follow what my brain is telling it to do, and my strumming can sometimes come out slightly messy. I hope that more practice will help my accuracy and flow.
Can’t Help Falling in Love has been both fun and slightly frustrating to practice. I am enjoying the fingerpicking, but the strumming for the bridge has been a slight struggle. I have never tried to incorporate dynamics into my playing, and the D-d-d-D-d-d patter has been difficult to execute. I have been working on playing through the bridge slowly, and then slowly speeding up the tempo, and I have found this process fairly helpful.
I am overall fairly happy with the progress that I have made over this semester, and I am excited to show you my growth in the upcoming video upload.