It has now been a week and a half since I started learning how to play the ukulele. My first goal was to 
learn how to tune my ukulele which turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I ended up using an app to help me tune my ukulele just so I could get used to how the strings sound when it is tuned, then possibly after midterm I will try again to tune it by ear. The first song that I am currently learning is Skinny Love by Bon Iver. The chords in this song are Am F and C in the verses and C G and F in the chorus. So far I have found the verses the easiest to play because of the chord progression. The chord Am naturally leads in the chord F which makes the transition pretty easy and the switch to C is fine as well because I am only using one finger to play the chord as opposed to two or three. The chorus on the other hand is a bit trickier because of the switch to G which take me a second to fully position myself and then it is a very quick switch to F which is also not the easiest transition. The strumming pattern in the song is a simple down down up up down up motion, I started slowly practicing the strumming pattern while initially learning the song and was able to find the rhythm of the strumming and keep up with it, and now I can strum it without hesitation.
I am finding at the moment that I am able to play the song from beginning to end slowly but my chord transitions are not as smooth as I would like them to be. I would also like to work on memorizing the chords with the lyrics so that I do not have to look down at my sheet the whole song. The liabilities that I have listed in my Musical growth template at the start of this assignment haven’t really been an issue as of yet and because I am aware that I have a busy schedule, I have been trying to organize my time better and put time aside to learn how to play the ukulele. I am very happy of the progress that I have made and cannot wait to learn more songs! I am really loving this instrument!
