Everyone's heard the song Old MacDonald before. This song was slightly more difficult than the last one, since it requires a little more precision in the picking. The hardest part for me in this song was the "here a [noise], there a [noise], everywhere a [noise noise]" part of the song because it was hard to pick it quickly enough while also not making it sound sloppy. I thought about picking that in a two finger "walking" style, but later settled with just strumming it with a single finger for simplicity's sake. The rendition of Old MacDonald that I did was in the key of F and used standard ukulele tuning. I only played a single verse and chorus because playing the entire song would have gotten redundant very quickly and you can get the gist of it in about 30 seconds. After I recorded this I noticed that the ukulele is fairly out of tune, but I didn't bother to retune it because I had already uploaded it and it was my best take. One thing that I can still work on the the precision at which I fret the strings, because you can hear that my fingers sometimes unintentionally mute the surrounding strings, which doesn't sound particularly good. Overall, this week was a success. Next week I initially planned on doing Fly Me to the Moon, but it might take several weeks before I feel comfortable with that one, so it may come later down the road. I still have yet to play a song using chords, because I really wanted to make sure I had my picking technique down for another week.
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