Personalized Learning Project: Acoustic Guitar Update #4
Since my last blog post (video submission of my first song on the acoustic guitar), I have re-chosen my second song to increase the level of difficulty and demonstrate progress throughout my personalized musical journey on the acoustic guitar. After much deliberation and thought the second song I have chosen was Yellow Bird by Michel Mauleart Monton. This song was composed in 1957 and is quite unique as it is in the Key of A. Yellow Bird was a challenging song to find as there was not sheet music on the internet. Luckily, I was able to use the UVIC library as a resource and found sheet music for the song. I wrote out the sheet music and converted it into a way I would understand. (See images of sheet music below). The reason, I have decided to change from my original second song is because in Yellow Bird, I am able to learn two new chords: A and E and also learn a more difficult strumming pattern (down, down, up, drop hand, up, down). I will remain to play the D chord with fingers one and two, excluding finger three. As when I was born I was born with a rare hand condition where my fingers were stuck together, although this was corrected at a very young age. I do still struggle with bending my third finger a specific way. Therefore, this is one adaptation I will not be able to change. To begin learning this new piece, during the next week I will focus on learning the strumming pattern and also learning how to play my two new chords: A and E.
Images of Altered Sheet Music: (click link to open)