22Oct2025 - Wow! My six months of unstructured consolidation time for the first half of Grade 3 and review and consolidation of the first half of Grade 4 has gone by fast. I plan to record some Grade 3 songs for this half of consolidation and more next year. This year I am focusing on the grade 3 songs in the two beginner songbooks. Next year I will focus on the intermediate songbook grade 3 or beginner songs. I am planning to record a mixture of acoustic songs with singing snd electric guitar with backing tracks.
Here is a list of the songs that I plan to record:
Grade 3 consolidation songs - part 1
The highlighted starred or bulleted songs are my first choice and the others are runners up.
Acoustic
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California Dreaming (finishing up an AVOYP that I posted earlier)
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Sound of Silence
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Fast Car
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American Pie
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All You Need Is Love
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Wonderwall
Dust in the Wind
Wonderful Tonight
Wanted Dead or Alive
Heart Of Gold - I had consider this song in order to play the harmonica, but the G harmonica that I purchased had a bad draw reed and i need a lot more time to relearn how to play the harmonica after 45 years.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - this one needs to wait until I get better with Triads to play both parts and perhaps a little or the solo
Electric
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Fortunate Son (finishing up a song that I posted on AVOYP - redo with more practice and backing track)
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You Really Got Me
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Born Under a Bad Sign
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Summer of 69
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benetar
Venus - Shocking Blue - I may try to redo my cover on AVOYP with backing track if I have time
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Fly Away
Fade to Black
I’m not sure if I can make 10 recordings before the end of the year, since I am about 2 weeks behind the date I selected the songs last year. At least these ambitious goals will motivate me to record something and I will see what I can get done. 