I'm hoping that I can present May 11th. I'm feeling very confident now and I think I'm ready. I'm finished with everything now, I just need time to work on my PowerPoint and figure out how I want to tell the audience about my experience. I'm wondering if I could use note cards, because I'm going to be really nervous and I don't want to leave anything out! I finished recording my final performance finally! After trying for an hour, I finally played one that I thought was really good. I'm so happy I took wise, it inspired me to do something I always wanted to do, and never thought I could. I will keep playing and taking lessons because theres so much more room for improvement :)
Monday, May 2, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
I decided to move my presentation otherwise It would have been today and I would not have been ready. I had a lot to do over spring break so I didnt have time to work on my project as much as I would have liked. I just needed more time to finish my interviews and get my powerpoint ready. I want to have a lot of time to practice what i'm going to say because I want it to be lengthy so I dont forget anything. It's also been really hard for me to find time to record my final song, because i'm still having a lot of trouble with the strumming and whenever I record I mess up. I was practicing for a while trying to get the perfect video, but I felt that none of them exceeded my expectations so i'm going to keep trying.
Friday, April 15, 2011
week before presentation ..
I'm so nervous! I'm working on my PowerPoint and getting everything ready but I don't feel comfortable giving the presentation in the time that I have left. I think I need more time to perfect things and make sure it's the best it can be. Going away over spring vacation is really stressing me out because I am not going to have any time to work on it! I think I'm going to move my presentation into May just to make sure everything is how it should be.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Problems :(
April 12, 2011
I finally learned my entire song, and obviously theres room for perfection so I'm still working on it. I got all the strumming patterns down but there is one big problem; I cant sing the chorus and play at the same time!!! At first I thought that it would take some practice after being able to play the whole song, but I practiced a lot and can only do it half the time. After practicing for an hour I was able to sing and play ONCE out of many tries. I had to concentrate really hard and be alone in my house to do so. I know that I will get nervous and mess up in front of an audience because it takes so much concentration towards the strumming patterns that I will lose it while singing. To solve my problem I decided that I should just record myself trying until I get it perfect, and show that recording during my presentation. This way, I wont loose concentration in front of an audience and not be able to play to my best ability!
About three weeks ago I recorded myself practising my song so I can show the audience how much I improved from then based on my final video.
I finally learned my entire song, and obviously theres room for perfection so I'm still working on it. I got all the strumming patterns down but there is one big problem; I cant sing the chorus and play at the same time!!! At first I thought that it would take some practice after being able to play the whole song, but I practiced a lot and can only do it half the time. After practicing for an hour I was able to sing and play ONCE out of many tries. I had to concentrate really hard and be alone in my house to do so. I know that I will get nervous and mess up in front of an audience because it takes so much concentration towards the strumming patterns that I will lose it while singing. To solve my problem I decided that I should just record myself trying until I get it perfect, and show that recording during my presentation. This way, I wont loose concentration in front of an audience and not be able to play to my best ability!
About three weeks ago I recorded myself practising my song so I can show the audience how much I improved from then based on my final video.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
AHHHH !
april 6, 2010
I am so frustrated right now!!! I pretty much know most of my song, obviously theres a lot of room for improvement and perfection. Whenever I sing along with it though I lose my strumming pattern and then I freeze and mess up! It's really frustrating because when I do it without singing I never mess up because I only have to think about one thing: strumming. It's really stressing me out because whenever I have to sing the chorus I lose the strumming pattern because its complex, and I get lost. I really dont know what to do to about this chorus because whenever I try and think I have the strumming down, I go to sing, and I cant remember the strumming pattern. This is not good!
I am so frustrated right now!!! I pretty much know most of my song, obviously theres a lot of room for improvement and perfection. Whenever I sing along with it though I lose my strumming pattern and then I freeze and mess up! It's really frustrating because when I do it without singing I never mess up because I only have to think about one thing: strumming. It's really stressing me out because whenever I have to sing the chorus I lose the strumming pattern because its complex, and I get lost. I really dont know what to do to about this chorus because whenever I try and think I have the strumming down, I go to sing, and I cant remember the strumming pattern. This is not good!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Thinking about how to Present
3/29/11
I'm trying to decide on how I'm going to present this and put it all together. I know that I'm going to have a bunch of slide shows but I need to figure out what I'm going to put in each one, and get creative with it. I know I want to start off by saying why guitar? I want people to get a feel of who I am, understand my passion for singing, and my desire for always wanting to play the guitar. Then maybe another slide about how I choose the right song for me to learn and play. Then a slide show showing a video of me within the first month of learning so everybody could see how I improved once I perform my song. I'm going to make another slide show talking about what were my weaknesses throughout this experience, and then another slide show about my strengths. I'm also thinking about what we were told in class, how you should interact with your audience. I was thinking about having one of my friends come up, and me trying to teach them how to play a chord so the audience could understand how weird it is to hold a guitar and strum that chord for the first time. Then of coarse i'm going to perform the song I worked on for two months, and how much I grew. I will also have another slide based on my research about copyrights that I blogged about before this. I'm still going to look more into that. I'm still brainstorming ideas, but i'm getting a real feel to how this project will turn out, and i'm feeling confident.
I'm trying to decide on how I'm going to present this and put it all together. I know that I'm going to have a bunch of slide shows but I need to figure out what I'm going to put in each one, and get creative with it. I know I want to start off by saying why guitar? I want people to get a feel of who I am, understand my passion for singing, and my desire for always wanting to play the guitar. Then maybe another slide about how I choose the right song for me to learn and play. Then a slide show showing a video of me within the first month of learning so everybody could see how I improved once I perform my song. I'm going to make another slide show talking about what were my weaknesses throughout this experience, and then another slide show about my strengths. I'm also thinking about what we were told in class, how you should interact with your audience. I was thinking about having one of my friends come up, and me trying to teach them how to play a chord so the audience could understand how weird it is to hold a guitar and strum that chord for the first time. Then of coarse i'm going to perform the song I worked on for two months, and how much I grew. I will also have another slide based on my research about copyrights that I blogged about before this. I'm still going to look more into that. I'm still brainstorming ideas, but i'm getting a real feel to how this project will turn out, and i'm feeling confident.
Copy Rights?
3/24/11
I've always wondered how it works when you want to take a popular song by a famous aritst, make it your own, and record it. I know that you get in trouble for doing it without permission so then how does it work? I researched information and found out that the right to record someone else's song is called "mechanical license", and you have to have one to do it otherwise its illegal. Usually its negoitated between the representatives of the copyright holder and the aritst of that song. If the negotiations fail, which is rare, the copyright contains provisions for a type of mechanical license called "compulsory licence" which gives anyone the right to record that song as long as notice is given to the songs copyright owners within 30 days after the recording is made and before it is distributed. This information can help me a lot in the future when I would like to make a demo cd.
I've always wondered how it works when you want to take a popular song by a famous aritst, make it your own, and record it. I know that you get in trouble for doing it without permission so then how does it work? I researched information and found out that the right to record someone else's song is called "mechanical license", and you have to have one to do it otherwise its illegal. Usually its negoitated between the representatives of the copyright holder and the aritst of that song. If the negotiations fail, which is rare, the copyright contains provisions for a type of mechanical license called "compulsory licence" which gives anyone the right to record that song as long as notice is given to the songs copyright owners within 30 days after the recording is made and before it is distributed. This information can help me a lot in the future when I would like to make a demo cd.
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