Bill Wightman
Senior Project Skills
22 May 2022
Week Two
Over the course of the last two weeks, I have gone from not being able to play any guitar to now almost fully knowing how to play two songs and have learned some basic skills. My days tend to consist of splitting it into two parts. One half of the day is dedicated to practicing singing and playing songs, and with the other half I watch beginner lessons on YouTube. All of the videos that I have watched have been by a youtuber called Marty Music. He has a playlist of beginner acoustic guitar lessons. All of the videos are in one place, and are very simple and easy to understand.
I am glad that I chose to do this as my project. I have tried a lot of different instruments lately, and I think guitar is what I want to focus on. Over the summer, I want to start going to open mic nights and play songs as I learn them. Eventually, I want to be able to write songs of my own. I have always loved to write poetry, and love playing music, so I think that it would be really cool to be able to combine these two interests. I also want to continue to improve my singing. I will not have the opportunity to continue vocal lessons, but plan to watch YouTube videos so that I can at least learn some exercises and tips.
My goal is to continue to practice for about an hour each day. On days that I am not in the mood to do so, I am going to pick up my guitar for 5 minutes, and then I will either want to continue, or if I do not want to then at least I did something that day and didn’t skip it. Sitting down and telling myself that I will do it for just five minutes will help me to not skip a day and then end up skipping a lot more days.
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