Jesus, Lover Of My Soul- The Original Backup Plan for Feb 2023

Has anyone noticed while reading my blogs that there’s been a consistent theme to my YouTubing life? In case I’ve been at all vague in these blogs, this is how it feels like for me: “HELP ME! I’M EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES AGAIN!!!”

I absolutely love music, composing, and acting out the stories of my songs. But when it comes to editing the audio and video, technical difficulties often show up and make it hard to complete my videos in time! I am not very tech savvy. I wouldn’t even have this website if it wasn’t for a friend and for Squarespace. (This blog is brought to you by Squarespace! JK, I’M actually paying Squarespace for this blog.) I am so glad that I didn’t listen to anyone in college who told me, “You could start your YouTube channel now.” I definitely wouldn’t have been able to deal with this added stress on top of all my music homework!

Well, technically I did feel inspired to start my first video just before my last two semesters of school. But if I hadn’t done that I wouldn’t have recorded last year’s January video in the basement of one of the school buildings, I wouldn’t have my Senior Recital on my channel, and I probably wouldn’t have that extra push to create some Jazzy accompaniment to my original song that ended up being my June video. Come to think of it, I had more technical difficulties AFTER I graduated. September and October had some last second problems, and my plans changed for my November video too. Even my blooper video was harder to put together than I thought it would be. So as the year 2022 was coming to an end, I was brainstorming a plan to make sure I was ahead of the game in 2023. Unfortunately, that plan fell apart by the end of January…

This is the part of the blog where I finally tell you about my technology problems I mentioned but didn’t explain in my blogs about my February and March videos. My original plans for the year was to get better recordings of my previous original songs and put the “official audio” videos on YouTube every other month. But before I got the chance to record I Truly Care About You as my February video, my guitar string snapped off! So I had to accept the fact that my plans needed rearranging. 

I thought back to last year’s March video where I combined two church hymns together, and decided that I would do the same thing for my February video this year. Jesus Lover of My Soul was introduced to me by my older brother when I was about to leave for my mission. He found a Cello and Piano arrangement for me to play in church. I hadn’t thought much about this Hymn after that until this moment of music craziness. This Hymn is about the love Jesus has for us, so I thought it was great for February. I decided that I would sing each vocal part of the Hymn (in my own range) at different times in the song. Yet for some reason I was having a hard time doing my vocal recordings, and I didn’t know what I should do for my video either. Then I suddenly had another music idea while I was playing my Ukulele one night…

TO BE CONTINUED…

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