I have been practicing Joy to the World for about a week almost every day now and I am finding this song to be rather difficult. The thing I am struggling most with is trying to strum at the same pace as my singing. It is very difficult to focus on strumming while I am singing the lyrics so I find myself singing the lyrics rather fast while focussing mostly on the strumming pattern. I am also finding it quite difficult to switch from G major to C major, from C major to F major, and from F major to G major. Because of this, I find myself getting offbeat a little bit and slowing down. I do not deem this to be the major issue of my playing though, it just will not be perfect. Overall, I am pretty proud of myself for my improvement because I can now play the whole song even though it may be a bit slow.

I am adding onto this post the day before the midterm is due to say I have seen some minor improvements in the past week on playing “Joy to the World”, although I am not completely confident that my playing is what I had anticipated in my goals. However, I am still quite proud of myself for spending a lot of time trying to complete this song and I know I have tried my best.

Overall, this experience so far has been great and it is nice to spend some time almost every night practicing the ukulele and not being on a screen (for once). After this post, I will submit my videos of “My Little Sunshine” and “Joy to the World”. Enjoy!