This was a big week for me, as this week I decided to serve a mission for the next 2 years (aslong as it can be worked out logistically so I can be back for uni in 2022), and as such I figured that I wanted to do a piece that fit this idea this week. I chose the last goodbye by Billy Boyd from the hobbit movies as this piece to learn.
Whilst I didn’t chose this piece to learn anything new, an added bonus of choosing to learn this piece is that I learn the Dsus4 chord, which isn’t specifically required from the course but is a really nice sounding chord in my opinion so I think I will use it to colour other pieces with a D chord in it.
I don’t know if it is a testament to how much I have learnt or if the piece is rather simple but I found the piece fairly easy to play this week, with the Dsus4 chord being super simple to add in as it flowed very nicely from the C chord if I kept the G held down from the G chord into the C chord then into the D chord. The one issue I did have was with pitching the singing. I have no idea why but I really struggled in some bits to pitch the right note. I think if I spent more time focussing on the vocals it would have been ok but since that isn’t necesarry for the KAME course it’s something I want to focus on after semester is over, as I really like this song and would like to be able to both play it well and sing it well.
Hamish Reeves Music 