Further Song Reconsideration

It seems that I'm changing songs like there's no tomorrow. After days of practice, I've decided that it's best for me to change 'Sultans of Swing' to a song called 'Baby Blue' by Badfinger. The problem with 'Sultans of Swing' is that the instrumentals are too tricky. I've had a look at all the available TABs, and YouTube tutorials, but none of them are able to fully explain how to play the instrumentals, so I won't be able to play it fully. We have to perform an extract of the piece we are playing in class tomorrow, and I won't be able to do so considering the stage I'm at with 'Sultans of Swing'. I still can't play the fills in the right places, it's a bit of a hopeless piece for me. I've explained the issue to some people who are close to me, and they made a good point that this performance shouldn't be about playing the most technical piece I know, it should be about playing a good, meaningful piece of music that I won't mess up. 

It is for this reason that I have chosen 'Baby Blue'. It is a fantastic song, and has a great guitar line. One of my favourite things about this piece is that it requires the use of a capo, which changes the pitch and for me is more fun to play - I love using capos. I found out about the piece from the final scene of Breaking Bad , where the song was used to create an emotional atmosphere. It always does this for me now, and means a lot to me as I have a lot of good memories linked with it. The piece isn't too difficult to play, it is a chord heavy song, but doesn't use regular chords thankfully. Whilst the majority of the chords are traditional open chords such as D, C and G there are some different minor and major chords in there too. On top of these chords are fills which, unlike the fills in 'Sultans of Swing', are relatively easy to play and sound beautiful. An example of one of the fills can be seen below:

e|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------0-------0--1--0--1--0----------0------------------------------|
G|--------0-------0--0--0--0--0----------0------------------------------|
D|-----0----------0--0--0--0--0-------0----------------0----------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------0--2-----3--2--0-------|
E|--3----------3-------------------3----------3--------------------3----|
verse
e|---2--2--2-----2--2--2-----0--0--0----------------------------------|
B|---3--3--3-----3--3--3-----1--1--1----------------------------------|
G|---2--2--2-----2--2--2-----0--0--0-----------0-----------0----------|
D|---0--0--0-----0--0--0-----2--2--2--------2-----2-----0-----0-------|
A|---------------------------3--3--3-----3-----------2----------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|---1--1--1-----0--0--0----------------------------------------------|
B|---2--2--2-----1--1--1-----------0----------------------------------|
G|---3--3--3-----0--0--0-----------0----------------------------------|
D|---3--3--3-----2--2--2--------0-----------------0-------------------|
A|---------------3--3--3--------------------0--2-----3--2--0----------|
E|---------------------------3-----------3--------------------3-------|

The piece also includes a guitar solo, which isn't too difficult, but requires a lot of relatively fast hand movements. These aren't an issue, and will be fun to take on, it will be a good         challenge. Changing Sultans of Swing was something suggested to me by my dad, despite 

loving the song, there's no point in struggling to learn something and possibly failing to play  it well just because I like the song. 'Baby Blue' won't be as challenging, and it will most         likely be easier to find a backing track for it in comparison to 'Sultans of Swing'.

I am yet to decide whether or not I should try and sing on the piece. The rhythm isn't too complex so  theoretically I shouldn't have any problems with singing at the same time as playing - something I've always found to be difficult. To overcome this potential problem, I will try and play and sing at the    same time, if this it seems difficult at first - I can slow the tempo down as I play it, to make it a bit easier until I can actually put the guitar and vocals together.