Full Band Fridays are always fun to record and share with CME’s YouTube audience—but during the darkest week all year, the CME House Band is taking the tempo a little slower and skipping a beat at the end of each measure with their take on a melancholy tune in 3/4 time. Reminding all of us to remember those whom we love most in our lives, even at our lowest—just as Smith writes in the song, “XO, mom”—here’s the CME House Band performing “Waltz #2 (XO)” by Elliott Smith, off of the late songwrite

7.7K views · 88 reactions | Waltz #2 by Elliott Smith #guitar #tutorial #guitarlesson #guitartutorial #elliottsmith #90smusic #altfolk | Jeremy Fisher | Facebook