Sooda Plays Three Songs on Guitar, Starting Over Whenever She Slipped

KAMITSUBAKI — Sooda of KAMITSUBAKI (1dPHENOMENON RECORD) spent the second half of an 83-minute stream on Oct. 28 singing three songs to her own acoustic guitar, and restarted each one whenever she made a mistake. She worked through the children’s song “Mori no Kuma-san,” Rime’s “Hyakunen” and “Suiryu no Rock.”

The first half hour was a *zatsudan*, or chat segment, built around food. Oden led to a confession that she can eat little of it beyond daikon radish and egg, and from there the talk moved to tomatoes and her cooking. She said she makes her own meals every day with five seasonings: consomme, salt and pepper, salt, ponzu and ketchup. Then she asked why anyone boils pasta when pasta and sauce cost about as much as a frozen meal. She called it a sensitive topic as chat pushed back, and said her favorite is carbonara. She then began setting up the guitar.

“If I mess up, I’ll start over as many times as it takes.” — Sooda, before her first song

She tuned up, said she was nervous, and promised to redo any song that went wrong. She said she chose “Mori no Kuma-san” because singing a nursery song lifts her mood when harder music wears her down, and she sang it a second time to warm up her voice. She also showed beginners a simple strumming approach: play the lowest note of the chord, then the second and third strings.

With a capo on, she moved to “Hyakunen,” restarted after a slip, and sang one chorus before stopping. She said she would come back with the full song after more practice. She spoke warmly about Rime’s singing and how the lyrics sink in slowly. “Suiryu no Rock” needed two full takes after a restart in the first. She joked that two takes might be her standard and that she could go as high as five, and she urged viewers to hear the original, which is built mostly on piano and drums.

Chat answered with rows of applause, and the stream drew 17 Super Chats. After the set, Sooda said playing in front of an audience had been good practice and that listening closely to the songs had made her like them more. She said she wants to do another guitar stream before signing off a little after the 79-minute mark.