Filed Under 'Not B'

My old filing system, in my old office, was to put all the papers I thought I ought to hold on to in one of the desk drawers. Now I don't really have desk drawers, so I needed a new filing system. Thanks to John getting a hanging file box of one size and hanging files of another, I got a free hanging file box! Now my important papers are arranged by category.

I decided to try and learn even more Christmas songs on guitar because, theoretically, I can. I had been practicing about 8 songs, but have upped the number to (ha, I just counted and it's more than I thought) 17. One of the new songs is "Deck the Halls." You should check out the link because Wikipedia has the lyrics in Welsh!

Anyway, I discovered while I was practicing that this addition was maybe a little ambitious because it included two different four-finger chords. I have only gotten so far in my studies and "so far" means I pretty much only feel confident playing three(or fewer)-finger chords. Strangely enough, I had gotten attached to the song in my mangled attempt at playing it, so rather than cut it from the play list I decided to change the key.

Since it was originally in the key of F, I gave numbers to each of the notes in the F scale (starting with I) and then changed all the chords in the song into numbers. "Deck the Halls" calls for the following chords, I, V, V7, IIIm, VIm, II7, and IV. Notice that there are chords based off of notes I through VI of the scale. Since I haven't officially learned any of the B chords, I decided that should be the note to be excluded. There are no chords based on VII, and B is the seventh note of C scale, so my new version of "Deck the Halls" is in the key of C.

Now I just have to hope I can sing it 3 and a half steps higher or 2 and a half steps lower than it was written.