Chantelle

Heeeyyoo! My Name is Chantelle or Dolly (whichever you have the capasity to remember) and I'm in my last year of highschool. I love random things and listening/playing music, camping, and electronic music! I've NEVER taken guitar before so I'm not very good. Without any recollection of playing ability I hope to go from stumming to finger picking (Cat Stevens to Metallica). I do have a musical background and can already read sheet music -10 years of piano, 2 of violin. If you want to ask me a question you can, I don't bite hard. もちょっと、ギータルが好きです.

We learned a Spanish tango finger picking song and Something in the Air by Tom Petty. The Spanish song was easy and I memorised it right away. Mr. Mancell made a little mistake with the Something in the Air print off because the chord changes were in the wrong spot. I helped fix that so now I'm able to get through it and figure out a struming pattern.
 * Week 1:**

Completed playing the two songs assigned effectively and smoothly.
 * Week 2:**

Waiting to do my guitar test and learning a new piece of music - Brown Eyed Girl by Bruno Mars. On my own right now I'm continuing to practice Morning has Broken by Cat Stevens. The fast switching is pretty tough for me because my hands are small. :(
 * Week 3:**

Link to Morning has Broken : []

I've started practicing Brown Eyed Girl and it's going well, like Something in the Air it's quite an easy piece once you remember the pattern. I'm still working on Cat Stevens on my own, and hopefully by the end of this week I can preform it. I'm looking up another piece of music for after Cat Stevens by an Alternate/rock band. I have Believe by The Staind as my next choice, a mix between struming and finger picking.
 * Week 4:**

Link to Believe: []

Link to Tab: []

The class is doing a new song "Pumped up Kicks" by the forster people, since I've done this song for my playing test I'm going back to Believe by the Stand or Cat Stevens. I'm looking at one of the assignments that requires self-recording and an upload video of me playing the guitar at home. Something like that... Hopefully I'll have it posted by Saterday and I'll include a link to my youtube channel. I'm progressing in my ability to switch between chords and playing more clear notes. I'm still working on the finger picking because I still become confused and play the wrong string. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
 * Week 5:**

We're being tested on Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" this Friday. It's a mutual song that everyone in the class must play as a half-way point of learing the guitar. I'm slightly looking forward to it because I've listened to the tutorial for the intro and it looks like a challenge, but the song itself I'm not to fond of. Boo yah?
 * Week...6,7,8? March, 25:**

Links for intro- and song: [] [] []

I don't know what I'm doing this week in guitar. There are two optional song we can do, and one, "One Toy Soldier" seems interesting so I might play through it once to see if it sounds good. If not I might find the chords to "Belive" by the Stand or "Above and Below" by The Bravery. -More coming.
 * Week 9: **

I conclued that I preformed "Believe" by the Stand. And did a good job ^_^

In this two weeks we've been assigned 3 different songs, we have to do two bar-chords and finger picking. I'm doing "Tarzan"
 * Week 11,12: **

In the end I finger picked House of the Rising Sun. <3

For these weeks we had to learn Father and Son by Cat Stevens, and write our own song with lyrics. I have written my song and produced mataching chords, all I'm up to know is practicing.
 * Week...13,14:**

I'll also record it and maybe post it on youtube.


 * Here are my Lyrics :) **

Lover, I'm digging a mountain for you-

Lover, I'm digging a mountain for you-

With this big--- rusty spoon.

Lover, I'm digging this mountain for you-

I can't stand being so far apart from you-

I'll dig up for you a Togepi !!

Lover, I'm digging a mountain for you-

Lover, I'm digging a mountain for you-

With this big--- rusty spoon.

Lover, I'm climbing this mountain for you-

Being on the ground makes me so weak-

I can barley breathe--

Lover, I'm digging a mountain for you-

Lover, I'm digging a mountain for you-

With this big--- rusty spoon.

I'll conquer this mountain for only you-

For only you-

I'll dig this mountain before I die-

With this big rusty spoon-

For only you-

For only you-

For only you-

For lonely me.

We are doing Father and Son this Thursday by Cat Stevens, and looking up Jack Johnson "Times like these" and "Taylor" for the week after. I'm most likely going to learn "Above and Below" By the Bravery. Accoustic version of "Above and Below" []
 * Week 15:**

Here are the Chords; [] Here is the Melody; []

Last week I ended up not playing "Above and Below" Instead I played "Special Needs" By Placebo. It went really well considering my playing fright. This week I'm most likely playing "Upside down" By Jack Johnson. I'm not 100% sure yet but unless I can find a song tonight with 4 bar chords it's my pick. I may try and do "Above and Below" this week but things are too busy to be practicing at home. ああ. . . もいい. .
 * Week 16:**

We're doing a group play this week with no criteria, my group consists of 5. We don't know what song we're doing yet....
 * Week 17:**

-We ended up playing "Blackout" by Breathe Carolina, we did a great job and it sounded good. We did practice quiet a bit in order to perfect it because it took us a while to come up with our different parts.! Yay!

**Week 18**: I was away this week, but the required song week was "Stand by me", I have to preform it next week because unfortunetly I contracted the stomach flue on Wednesday and was away Thursday and Friday. I was able to practice the song over the weekend because thankfully I have a guitar at home. Wish me luck!@

It's my last week in guitar class. I'll be preforming two songs, makeup "Stand by me" and "Nothing else Matters" by Metallica- I'm sure how well it's going to go but I'll practice at home aswell as school. Since this is my last week in highscool also, I'm going to write a self review from the beginning of this chorus till now. Link to "Nothing Else Matters"; [] Links to Tab; [] []
 * Week 19: **

At the beginning of this Chorus I had never picked up a guitar since Grade 8 activities. I could only play simple tunes and no finger picking, bars, or variation. In the months spent in class I've learned fast transitions, names of chords, and memorized songs. I've been-able to broaden my playing ability in musical instruments aswell as gaining guitar writting skills such as song writting and sheet music writting. I've enjoyed this class thoroughly in the learning process aswell as the company of my peers who have made this class at times humorous and boring.

Thank you for teaching this class! Even though some students have been rude, overall I think the class was well put together for a varied skill level that students have, because not all of my peers learned at the same level!