20% Blog #12 May 30, 2014

This past week I have practicing vigorously because I am planning to bring my guitar to school to present all of the work that I have put into this project. The songs that I am going to play are Emily- From First to Last, and Hey There Delilah- Plain White t's. Also just recently, I received my acoustic guitar from an online site called Musician's Friend. It is a Yamaha F335 Natural color with a red tortoiseshell pick guard.The advantage of having an acoustic guitar instead of an electric guitar is that it is much easier to hear the song since it is much louder without an amplifier. The electric guitar was OK, but the acoustic guitar is much more suited to my tastes because I don't like going over and plugging in my guitar whenever I feel like playing it. I am very nervous about presenting and I am pretty sure that I might mess up, but as the movie "The Sandlot" always says, " Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die....."

20% Blog #11 May 15, 2014

This week I have been practicing almost everyday, and I have started to learn a new song. The song is from a band named Incubus. This band used to be pretty famous back in 2009- 2011, but i guess their band broke up and the singer Brandon Boyd is on his own and he is making his own albums. However the song that I was learning is called "Pardon Me" by Incubus. I found this song while I was looking around on YouTube, and I really liked it because it is a little more difficult and the fact that I actually wanted to learn it makes me more determined to do so. Learning the Guitar is a great experience I think because it lets you do something productive in your past-time instead of watching TV whenever you have free time. Once you get past the part where you don't know any songs and your fingers get accustomed to the steel strings then it is so much more rewarding for every new song that you learn. Every song that you learn gives you a feeling of accomplishment and gives you an unquenchable thirst to learn more!

20% Blog #10 May 6, 2014

This week I have been practicing a lot because I have recently got a lot of inspiration to play the guitar. My inspiration comes from the idea that some day I will be able to play the guitar fluently and I will teach my kids to play guitar. This seems like a really inspiring way to practice guitar because I am doing it for myself and to make me a better person. Guitar is also a unique instrument, even though it has been played for thousands of years. It is different from other instruments like a trumpet, or a clarinet. This is because guitar requires determination to play it because of the strings that dig into your fingers. This is what makes most of the beginners quit trying to learn how to play. However once you get past this obstacle then it becomes much easier to actually learn and feel the music. Another reason it is unique is that  it takes lots of patience from the student to practice and practice and practice.... This is the reason that most people want to play the guitar but they quit trying to learn after it becomes to hard. The key to learning how to play the guitar is patience and determination, if you have these traits then nothing that the guitar throws at you can stop you from mastering it.