Double Bar Line (End of Week 5) | Post #5

Hello everyone, and welcome to the LAST POST BEFORE my PRESENTATION! First of all, I would like to apologize for not making a midweek post last week. I had a lot on my plate and I just never got around to writing the post. Don't think that I didn't practice though. I still practiced and played as much as the other weeks, I just did not document it as heavily. And in my defense, it would have been pretty dry compared to my other blogs since I spend most of the last week practicing the parts that had I already learned. It would have just been videos of me playing the same parts as earlier, just on faster tempos. Be honest, you wouldn't have watched it anyway.

🎸Da New Stuff and Da Old Stuff🎸

In addition to practicing the parts that I had already learned, I learned one last part of the song. I learned the second bridge of the song. Unlike the rest of the parts I learned, it is not hybrid picking. It is just strumming so it was not too hard to learn.

New Part

How it Sounds

Before I move on with the blog, there is something I must admit. Throughout the weeks of this journey, I learned a bit more than I was honest about. I would learn a little line here and there each week and it wasn't until a few days ago that I realized really how much I had learned. Well, it turns out that with the parts I learned, including repeated parts from earlier in the song, I learned everything up to the solo. That's 6 MINUTES of music!

I learned 3 Pages of Music!

It's absolutely bonkers looking back at everything that I learned. I hadn't realized how much time I really put in, and I am astonished by what I managed to accomplish. While most of this is not good enough to play live with pride, I am still excited about how much I was able to learn. Nice job Reed👍

As much as I would like to film a bunch of different videos of everything that I learned, I sadly do not have the time. I am right against the clock since tomorrow morning I have to leave to go the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) State Competition in Hershey, PA. I am going to be gone from tomorrow until 1:00 on Wednesday. That's a lot of time away from playing the guitar which will be a bummer. That time away from the guitar is also the reason why I ultimately decided to play a clip of my guitar playing at my presentation instead of playing live. I was just too afraid that I would be rusty and I would screw up if I tried playing live.

My Skills After the Hershey Trip

🎸Da Presentation🎸

For the deeper meaning of my presentation, I am going to focus on the idea of not judging yourself by comparing your sills to those of others. I do not want to reveal too much since that will spoil my presentation, so I think that is as much as I am going to reveal at this point in time. I was stuck between a few different possibilities for my deeper meaning, but a spontaneous conversation with Mr. Perlman helped me decided on this topic. We were discussing a bunch of great guitar players, some old and some really young (Like 8 years old), and the choice for the deeper message became obvious.

With the presentation quickly approaching, I must admit that I am very nervous. Wish me luck!

ps. If I bomb the presentation: Drop an "F" in the comment section.