In keeping with my plan to learn a song a week, I chose to learn Ain’t no Sunshine by Bill Withers this week. The original is fairly easy to play on guitar and didn’t really make me learn much, even though it sounds cool, so I decided to transpose it down a tone to G minor so I can practice my ‘new’ chords that I didn’t know before starting this semester, being G minor and C minor.
When I was practicing it this week, I found that even though there are no new chords I actually found it more challenging than most weeks since the last time I had to play G minor and C minor was in week 2 of the practice blog, and I had never played them before then.
To be honest, I wasn’t overly happy with the result of this weeks work. I don’t think the singing sounded particularly good with it and because I’m not overly familiar with the song I found pitching it to be hard. Obviously, seeing as I’m learning guitar not singing that isn’t the focus but even with the guitar playing I found it very hard to make smooth chord shifts between these unfamiliar feeling chords and frequently made small mistakes. In saying this, I learnt much more this week because I was challenged then the last few weeks so I think overall it was a succesful week, even if I’m not 100% happy with the end result.
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