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What Child is This (Greensleeves)

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Though this tune is traditionally a waltz, this particular version is built in 4/4 time and jazzed up a bit. It's in the key of E minor, and features lots of blues notes as well as an "up the neck" version of the chorus.

Blues Key of E minor

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  1. Rita Alvarez ·

    Slowed the video to 50% and worked it a measure at a time. Two weeks in and it's coming. Patience is the lesson here as much as the notes.

  2. Hollis Barnett ·

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  3. Karen Doyle ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  4. Katie Clark Support ·

    Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.

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