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Remembering Remembering Sunday

For this assignment (worth 1.5 stars), I had to revisit one of the first songs I learned on guitar. For this, I chose “Remembering Sunday” by All Time Low, my first full song on guitar.

I love this song because of the major seventh chords. This was from memory, which …

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Rockin’ Rockin’ Pet Store

This assignment, worth 3 stars, required me to record a solo vocal trio. I did this with “Rockin’ Rockin’ Pet Store” by The Mountain Goats.

Garageband, as usual, served as my recording software. I used guitar to keep my vocals on track. After recording all the parts, I realized …

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Music in a Trio

I was very skeptical about this assignment. I knew how much editing needed to be done to fuse the three tracks and that made me pause slightly. However, I couldn’t help but feel curious about the assignment. So, I decided to try it out. I chose one of my best …

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Blackbirds

This is the solo vocal trio assignment, worth 3 points.

I do a good bit of guitar playing and singing in my spare time, and I’d been listening to this classic today so I thought it might work well. I forgot how long the gaps in vocals are. That’s …

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Solo Vocal Trio

I’d like to start off by saying that this assignment really brought me completely out of my comfort zone. I’m more of an instrumental musician, so singing, let alone posting a song cover that’s open for anyone to hear, anytime, made me very hesitant to complete it.

But I also …

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