This is about 1 and a half weeks into the uke-ing and I am not gonna lie I’m feeling pretty good! This video above is me performing the intro picking and the intro chords to ā€œYou’re Beautifulā€ by James Blunt. This song is the first one I have chosen and attempted to pick and though it took practice I think I’ve finally gotten the ā€œharsh, rusty, angelicā€ sound James was trying to create. As you can hear I am still adjusting getting to my G chord as my little fingers still can’t process switching back and forth. Lately, I’ve been practicing switching from either an A or an F to the G to try to train my fingers into forming into position, yet it is still quite tricky for me. What you didn’t see videotaped was my attempt at signing ā€œYou’re Beautifulā€. Not gonna lie it didn’t go that well, however, I found this song easier then riptide, this might be because of the slower lyrics or because this one I can kinda cheat sing by strumming one chord per lyric (whoops). Speaking of strumming I’m this song I practiced a new strumming pattern of DDDUDU which sounded quite nice with the song. Ā Hopefully, soon I’ll be brave enough to videotape my attempts at singing but not today, unfortunately.