Day One: "A" - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)
Here's a Wikipedia article about the song. Notes One of my goals is to improve my singing over the course of the year spent recording these tunes. As you can hear, the bar is pretty low! I'm still recovering from a nasty bronchial infection, and my vocal folds are still irritated. For those of you who read music: The tune is supposed to swing. The two ways of notating swing rhythm, are straight eighth note and the dotted eighth/sixteenth combination. This song uses the latter. In the two measures that contain straight eighths, I performed them as written (even though none of the recordings I listened to did). The Beloffs often use the so-called "Hawaiian" D7 for ease of playing. With one exception, I opted to do the barred version. I also fretted the fourth string on E minor chords (i.e. playing B instead of G). I want to get better at using more of the fretboard, and the fingerings I chose to use for these two chords can be used all the way up (and down) it. I strugg...