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12/19/2018 0 Comments Week 13: Final blog post!!!!!!!Well I ended up blogging 13 different blogs instead of blogging 12 as I thought was the plan but whatever. This week has been hard because my wrist is still bothering me and it hurts to strum. But I still worked through it while trying to strum with my wrist problems. This week has given me lots of anxiety because of school work and the reality that baseball season is coming soon it is really making me want to be at my highest level in order to make Davie baseball a better team all around. I have been putting a lot of time into getting better and stronger to benefit how far the baseball team goes during playoffs.
But anyway I have really enjoyed working with my family as they helped me practice and try to get better at the guitar. I hope to be able to continue playing the guitar as I hope to continue to like to play it. I started out with such high expectations and hopes for myself to succeed my goals with as if it would be easy. The whole overall goal was way harder and took way more dedication than what I really thought. But i still worked hard and enjoyed this project.
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12/16/2018 0 Comments week 12: second to last blogThe past few weeks I have been really busy reading and working on my project for the book inferno, but I still was able to squeeze in time to practice. The reality of this genius hour project really kicked hard. I had such high expectations and hope to accomplish my goals. As I am not able to meet my final goal. I can say that I at least put effort in this project and that is better than not even putting a attempt to something. I also hurt my right wrist playing baseball out in the cold weather yesterday. This made it hard to strum as I attempted to play. the guitar. Once my wrist starts feeling better I will continue to learn as me and my mom continue to have fun and frustrating times while trying to learn the guitar.I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog for the past 12 weeks, and I hope that you believe in what ever you are attempting to do and just put time and effort into it and you will enjoy what you are doing.
12/16/2018 0 Comments week 11: snow daysThis week I am backed up because of the snow days last week. We had snow from Sunday through Wednesday and still on Thursday, but we ended up going to school Thursday on a two hour delay. while it was snowing I did not practice my guitar playing which wasn't a smart thing on my idea. In the snow on the other hand I did have lots of fun. I went sledding down my drive way which is really steep and road behind the four wheeler on a sled as well. While it snowed it completely through me off while I just totally forgot about blogging and ended up getting a whole week behind which really makes it hard because now I have to blog twice in one week. I got very mad that West Forsyth didn't have school at all Thursday or Friday and we didn't even get a two hour delay Friday. Thursday ended up being a good day all the classes felt very short because of the three hour delay. As Friday was the total opposite each class went by so slow and it just felt like I was in school all day.
11/28/2018 0 Comments week 10 ; sick timeI am continuing the struggle of finding time to practice, but we still have a couple more weeks to go. This week I came home from school Friday and went strait to bed felling really bad. I was sick all day Saturday as well and on Sunday I started feeling better so I ended up going to school. But with this really sick weekend it made it really hard for me to completely practice. Mr barker has been assigning us to read this Dante's divine comedy 1 and 3 so far this week and annotate it and math is really kicking my butt and that really takes time out of us practicing for our genius our but not to much progress this week but I need to get a big move on if I want to accomplish my goals.
11/25/2018 0 Comments week:9 crazy weekThis week was the best week so far. Coming into this week I did not think I was going to get a lot of practice in but believe it or not I did. This week I started off celebrating thanksgiving Thursday. We played human size Foosball and I need some help on being able to forward a video to weebly because I have no idea how. I maybe partied to hard on thanksgiving but the next morning I was up in the deer stand while enjoying and adoring every second of Gods creation. I didn't see much while on the stand in the woods but I did see 2 deer, they were both does and I also saw lots of birds and squirrel. But when I came inside my dad made me a peanut butter sandwich and I went straight to the guitar and strummed for a while then I moved toward practice placing my hands with the right notes and then I went over to my neighbors house which he killed a doe that weighed around 140 pounds and helped him clean the deer out. While cleaning out the deer I did not enjoy as much but I did get to keep a little bit of the meat. On Saturday I also went hunting in the morning and in the afternoon and I saw a young buck and he was a 4 pointer and I had a open shot but I felt he was to young and he needed more year to get bigger and I just would not feel right killing such a young buck that could end up being a nice deer 2 years down the road. On Sunday I went to church in the morning and then watched NFL football all day which wast fun because the Panthers lost against the sea hawks and should have really won.
11/18/2018 0 Comments Week 8: four weeks leftThis weeks has been really crazy because baseball is starting up and I have been
going to their workouts. Football is over and I am really sad about that but now that baseball season is coming up I have Wednesdays off and I have been going home and hunting as much as I can now that I will be able to have some time off because football season is over. I am really feeling like I am falling away from really wanting to play the guitar and I keep wanting to be lazy but thanks to my amazing mom motivating me to get better or actually making me practice all the time. I also am really looking forward to next weeks schedule because we only have school on Monday and Tuesday and are off the rest of the week because of thanksgiving break. For thanksgiving I am going to go down to my grandparents house and there will be all my family and we do this every year and my cousins and uncles will be making a human size Foosball machine. Hope to have fun but I will have a lot of trouble throwing in guitar practice because I will be hunting a lot on prob all the days off of school. 11/7/2018 0 Comments week: 7 Time management.This week has not been near as busy as the past weeks thanks to Mr.Barker and not making us have a vocab because we are going to be switching over to grammar. Anyways I have been really busy watching lots of film for football because we really might not make it to layoffs this year if we do not beat East Forsyth which is the undefeated and really good we are not guaranteed a playoff spot. The thing that really is hard is that our starting quarterback is out of the game and eats forsyths defense is really good, basically there whole secondary is going d1 which is like big SEC and ACC colleges. So they will be very hard to beat but we all have to try to memorize everything they do so we are best prepared for when we play them this week. If we lose I will be happy because I will have down time to get stronger and faster and also be able to spend time on school work like this guitar genius hour project. But if we lose I will feel bad for the seniors because the season did not go anywhere close to the way they wanted it to go. But I really hope to be able to manage the time for my school work along with getting my athletic into my schedule. But toon into next week blog with more information about my song Wagon wheel coming together, thanks a lot for all the support and comfort have a great rest of the week ;))......
10/31/2018 0 Comments Week 6: ClusterThis week I have been very busy because it was around Halloween and we had a early release Tuesday and no school Wednesday. I would have more time if I was home but I was at my buddies house and then on Wednesday which is today which is Halloween today, I have to take my cousins trick or treating, but I am at my friends house typing this weebly blog maybe I should ask them if I could borrow a guitar, but then I thought to myself yeah right, there is no way the parents would want me to be playing because it is not something you can listen to for to long with out getting annoyed by, at least that's the case when I am playing.
One thing I want to talk about is how time consuming it is to learn to play the Guitar. I would have never know that it took so much time and focus into actually learning the guitar. I set the bar very high before starting my practice. I really didn't expect it to be so time consuming but it really takes focus while trying to play it also. It is supper hard to learn how to play in the living room of my house and I try but it is to loud in here especially after we eat super. I think I am going to start trying to learn the song wagon wheel by Darius Rucker. It is a country song and it is pretty known around Davie county. In order to learn how to play this song I need to put time into it and need to to work hard on it in order to have a good outcome. 10/24/2018 0 Comments Week 5: Repetition![]() This week I worked really hard mostly because my mom is going to Florida to visit her parents on Saturday so I am really trying to gain as much knowledge for when she will be gone. she will be gone for around a week at the least. I can still use the internet for any questions or my dad, but my dad doesn’t know a lot abot guitars but he does know more than I do. I am finding out that each week progresses of the guitar lessons get harder each week and it is also harder to find enough time to practice each week. My schedule is really tight right now because my math and English grade is not as high as I want it and I have football everyday after school and coming home after football and eating supper than doing math homework and it is already 8:30 and I still have to take a shower and I also have to clean my room every other day because of my clothes laying on the ground or my dresser being to unorganized or dirty. I am still pretty bad at strumming but it is definitely getting better. When I strum I just don’t have the feel for it as I want to. I watch my mom do it and it is smooth and looks so easy, but when I do it it’s just the total opposite of what my moms is like. But right now I am really focusing on G, C and D chords and that is only because most country songs just use these notes and I will probably end up learning a country song But I really believe I need to be fluent with strumming before and that just takes practice and means more time put into strumming. It is really easy to get frustrated when you want to be better than you are, but you have to just have to stick through and power through. Even though I am getting irritated it is important that I realize that I am making accomplishments and getting better. 10/18/2018 0 Comments week 4 picture |
Hello, welcome to my Genius Hour Blog! For the next twelve weeks I will be learning the basic cords of the guitar along with learning the techniques. My secondary goal is to play a song. I will be uploading a video or post pictures every week of my progress along with my blog posts.
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